The government has announced a “one app fits all” approach to paying for parking, to end what it calls the “scramble” to download multiple payment platforms that motorists currently face. Soon, drivers will be able to use any of the […]
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Imran Rahman-Jones Technology reporter Reuters A Norwegian man has filed a complaint after ChatGPT told him he had killed two of his sons and been jailed for 21 years. Arve Hjalmar Holmen has contacted the Norwegian Data Protection Authority and
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Global sales of smartwatches have fallen for the first time, new figures indicate, in large part due to a sharp decline in the popularity of market leader, Apple. Market research firm Counterpoint says 7% fewer of the devices were shipped
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Imran Rahman-Jones Technology reporter Getty OpenAI boss Sam Altman (left) and Microsoft boss Satya Nadella The UK competition watchdog has ended its investigation into the partnership between Microsoft and the maker of ChatGPT, OpenAI. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)
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Apple says it is working to fix its speech-to-text tool after some social media users found that when they spoke the word “racist” into their iPhones it typed it out as “Trump.” The tech giant has suggested the issue with
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French President Emmanuel Macron has used AI-generated deepfake videos to publicise the start of the AI Action Summit taking place in Paris. In a video posted on his social media accounts, Macron reacts to a montage of deepfaked videos of
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Imran Rahman-Jones Technology reporter Getty Images Four major artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are inaccurately summarising news stories, according to research carried out by the BBC. The BBC gave OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Copilot, Google’s Gemini and Perplexity AI content from the
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South Korea has accused Chinese AI startup DeepSeek of sharing user data with the owner of TikTok in China. “We confirmed DeepSeek communicating with ByteDance,” the South Korean data protection regulator told Yonhap News Agency. The country had already removed
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The former chief executive of Google is worried artificial intelligence could be used in a “Bin Laden scenario” or “rogue states” to “harm innocent people.” Eric Schmidt told the BBC: “The real fears that I have are not the ones
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Privacy campaigners have called Google’s new rules on tracking people online “a blatant disregard for user privacy.” Changes which come in on Sunday permit so-called “fingerprinting”, which allows online advertisers to collect more data about users including their IP addresses
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