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There is nothing futuristic about the age of artificial intelligence; it has already begun. In 2024, AI won two Nobel Prizes, one given to John…

  OpenAI said its services have been affected by an outage, hours after Meta experienced a social media blackout with its apps. According to DownDetector…

TikTok has filed an emergency request for an injunction to prevent its ban in the US, which is set to take effect next month. The ban stems from a US law requiring the app to be sold or face prohibition due to alleged ties to the Chinese government—a claim both TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance, deny.

UK start-ups still at the forefront of global innovation Despite the “doom and gloom” narrative and post-Budget fears looming over the UK’s start-up ecosystem, the country still…

EU Commission Intensifies Monitoring of TikTok During Romanian Elections Amidst Concerns of Foreign Interference As the Romanian elections unfold, the European Commission has ramped up…

The right-wing investor David Sacks is said to be working on two future issues in the Trump administration: artificial intelligence and currencies like Bitcoin. He…

What is it? (Vauxhall) The Frontera nameplate hasn’t been used on a Vauxhall since the original car went out of production way back in 2004.…

Jaguar once stood for elegance in car manufacturing. But the British car manufacturer, which is now relying entirely on electricity, is also throwing design traditions…

Elon Musk is asking a federal court to stop OpenAI from converting into a fully for-profit business.Attorneys representing Musk, his AI startup xAI, and former…

The Conversation | Academic rigour, journalistic flair The announcement of the artificial intelligence researchers John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton as this year’s Nobel laureates in…

Today, the Commission has launched a Trusted Investors Network bringing together a group of investors ready to co-invest in innovative deep-tech companies in Europe together with the…

Today, the Commission has revealed the winners of the 2024-25 European Capital of Innovation Awards (iCapital), celebrating a decade of recognising cities that lead the way in…

The European Commission has proposed a new digital portal that will make it easier for companies to temporarily send workers to other EU countries. This…

Australia’s government is set to introduce new legislation banning under-16s from social media. The PM announced that the proposed law, which will be tabled in parliament next week, is designed to reduce the “harm” caused by social media.

Apps that create deepfake nudes should be banned, says online safety group AI-powered “nudifying” apps which can create non-consensual explicit images of people, including children,…

‘I don’t have bruises, but he destroyed me’: Technology-enabled domestic abuse rises to unprecedented levels Jasminder* didn’t realise she was being abused until she left…

Children ‘doom scrolling’ on phones for hours a day causing widespread harm – MP Children who are “doom scrolling” for hours a day on smartphones…

Google threatened with break-up by US after its continued illegal practices. The US government says it is considering whether to ask a judge to break…

US judge orders Google to open app store to rivals A US federal judge has ruled that Google must allow rival Android apps onto its…

Armstrong understood that renewables would be cheaper energy sources in the long run compared to burning dirty coal, but his was essentially a lone voice. The presumed abundance of coal led to the commissioning of the world’s first coal power plant in 1882. The U.K.’s coal plants have since burned through 4.6 billion tonnes of coal, emitting 10.4Gt of CO2, stresses Dr Sim Evans, deputy editor of Carbon Brief.

CrowdStrike boss apologises for global IT outage On Tuesday, cybersecurity company CrowdStrike faced intense scrutiny in a US congressional hearing over its role in the…

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called on leading US tech companies to consider India as a prime destination for manufacturing and innovation. Modi met…

X users in Brazil gain access despite ongoing ban Some Brazilian users of X, the social media platform owned by Elon Musk, were able to…

Astrazeneca paves the way to develop AI GP AstraZeneca outlines AI-enabled TROP2 biomarker strategy for Daiichi ADC after limited lung cancer showing. AstraZeneca has used…

Facebook owner bans Russian state media networks Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has announced a global ban on several Russian state media networks, accusing…