London mayor Sadiq Khan blocks £50m Met police deal with Palantir
Sadiq Khan’s office said the Met risked becoming locking into Palantir’s technology. Photograph: Victoria Jones/PAView image in fullscreenSadiq Khan’s office…
ChatGPT and other AI bots made huge errors before Scottish election, study finds
Party campaign posters at a polling station in Edinburgh. A poll found 20% of voters surveyed had used AI chatbots…
Google DeepMind in talks with UK unions amid staff concern over US and Israel’s AI use
Several hundred workers at Google DeepMind’s London headquarters have voted to unionise. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/GettyView image in fullscreenSeveral hundred workers…
Musk v Altman: tech bros at war over OpenAI – The Latest
Musk v Altman: tech bros at war over OpenAI – The Latest A long and bitter legal battle between tech…
Jury hands victory to Sam Altman and OpenAI in battle with Elon Musk
Elon Musk and Sam Altman. Composite: Getty Images, ReutersView image in fullscreenElon Musk and Sam Altman. Composite: Getty Images, Reuters…
More than 100 UK datacentres plan to burn gas to generate electricity
There are 100GW of datacentre projects in the queue to connect to the National Grid, said Stuart Okin, the director…
What we learned from the cringey courtroom drama between Elon Musk and Sam Altman
Both Musk and Altman took the stand for hours, facing combative cross-examinations that painted them each as untrustworthy. Composite: AP/Photothek/GettyView…
One in seven prefer consulting AI chatbots to seeing a doctor, UK study shows
A quarter of the people who use chatbots for medical advice say they are influenced by long NHS waiting lists.…
Forget the AI job apocalypse. AI’s real threat is worker control and surveillance
For some, AI can help remove the drudgery from daily work. For many others, though, AI is not an assistant.…
I knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment | Micah Nathan
The problem wasn’t just the perfectly polished, yet mediocre prose. It’s what’s lost when we surrender the struggle to translate…