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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Robert Booth
The boss of OpenAI has claimed that Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has tried to poach his top artificial intelligence experts with “crazy” signing bonuses of $100m (£74m), as scramble for talent in the booming sector intensifies. Sam Altman spoke about the offers in a podcast on Tuesday, but they have not been confirmed by Meta. OpenAI, the company that developed ChatGPT, said it had nothing to add beyond its chief executive’s comments.
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Robert Booth
The Meta chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, called it “the most intelligent AI assistant that you can freely use”. But Barry Smethurst, 41, a record shop worker trying to travel by rail from Saddleworth to Manchester Piccadilly, does not agree. Waiting on the platform for a morning train that was nowhere to be seen, he asked Meta’s WhatsApp AI assistant for a contact number for TransPennine Express.
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Robert Booth
The genetic testing company 23andMe has been fined more than £2.3m for failing to protect the personal information of more than 150,000 UK residents after a large-scale cyberattack in 2023. Family trees, health reports, names and postcodes were among the sensitive data hacked from the California-based company.
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Robert Booth
Tony Cable, a former senior air crash investigator, has one piece of advice for Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, the sole survivor of the Air India plane disaster: “Buy a lottery ticket straight away.”The 40-year-old Briton walked away from the wreckage of flight AI171 after it crashed less than a minute after take-off from Ahmedabad to London on Thursday, killing 241 other passengers and crew and dozens more on the ground.
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Robert Booth
Men who engage in the online “manosphere” and the content of Andrew Tate are often able to express a “strong commitment to equal treatment and fairness”, according to research commissioned by Ofcom. Prompted by growing concerns about internet misogyny, researchers for the UK communications regulator followed the journeys of dozens of men through online content ranging from the US podcaster Joe Rogan to forums for “incels” (involuntary celibates).
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