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Anthropic has raised eyebrows by announcing it will ban users from "sustained and needless" abusive behaviour towards its AI.The Claude-maker said on Thursday it was updating its usage policy to let its tools end interactions where people are "cruel"...

Samsung Electronics says it expects a nine-fold surge in its quarterly profits compared with a year earlier, driven by surging demand for memory chips used in artificial intelligence (AI) data centres.The tech giant estimates that its operating profit for...

Blow's refusal to compromise on any aspect of the Order of the Sinking Star transcends its core design.The developer decided to make his own programming language, Jai, from scratch.He then used this, alongside a custom engine, to make the...

On social media, dozens of people have posted about receiving the message - confused as to what it means.Although the apparent extortion message has been issued directly to customers, it is addressed to Asos' data protection officer (DPO) and...

When the first day of the apple harvest rolled around in Washington State last year, the fruit was ripe and the pickers were ready – but the weather had other ideas."It was like 38C… it's not safe for people...

WhatsApp is introducing new parental controls for teenagers, as tech companies continue to come under pressure to provide more age-appropriate experiences for children.The social messaging app's new tools will give parents a range of options, such as being told...

OpenAI on Tuesday unveiled "dots," a new artificial intelligence (AI) assistant they say can proactively carry out tasks on a user's behalf.At its annual developer day in San Francisco, chief executive Sam Altman referred to "dots" as "remarkably capable,...

But there's a debate over what constitutes the best, and safest, sodium ion battery design. Plus, more than one, external US company working in this space has floundered in recent years, external.China leads the world in sodium ion battery...

The heads of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Hugging Face have told the UN that the current pace of artificial intelligence (AI) development, and the risks it poses to society, demands international coordination.Altman called for common risk evaluation standards, as did...

The cyber-abilities of the latest, most powerful AI models, called "frontier" models in AI jargon, can be a boon for cyber-defenders, but the same abilities can also be used for attack.Spotting weaknesses in systems, for example, is useful for...