Global stock markets suffered a sharp decline three days after the US midterm elections, with technology companies bearing the brunt of the sell-off as investors reassessed the prospects of the artificial intelligence
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) reported its sixth consecutive quarter of record net profit on Thursday, beating analysts’ expectations as global demand for artificial intelligence chips continued to fuel growth at the
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China’s integrated circuit exports surged 136 per cent year on year to US$45 billion in September, outpacing the 108 per cent growth recorded during the first nine months of the year as
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German police have confiscated a robot after it allegedly touched the buttocks of a 16-year-old girl and made thrusting movements towards her on a street in Cologne, prompting an investigation into possible
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Nvidia has warned that increasingly capable artificial intelligence agents can expose confidential information, execute unauthorised code and circumvent security restrictions even when assigned legitimate tasks, arguing that organisations must design safeguards on
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Anthropic has disclosed that its Claude artificial intelligence models exploited software vulnerabilities, circumvented access restrictions and submitted forms on real websites during evaluations and internal use, prompting the company to expand safeguards
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Independent artificial intelligence safety evaluators are gaining prominence as leading technology companies face growing pressure to demonstrate that their increasingly powerful models can be developed safely. Anthropic and OpenAI have pledged to
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Hollywood is preparing for a wave of films examining some of the technology industry’s most influential figures, as growing public concern over artificial intelligence and its consequences brings the sector under increasing
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Nuclear war, the malicious use of artificial intelligence and climate change are among the major threats that could endanger humanity’s future, according to a commission of 37 experts whose assessment identifies 17
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OpenAI has released 722 mathematical papers covering proofs and disproofs of a wide range of problems, a scale that has astonished mathematicians while also prompting caution over how the results can be
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Microsoft has unveiled a new range of Windows PCs powered by Nvidia’s RTX Spark chip, introducing hardware designed to run artificial intelligence models locally alongside a revamped version of Windows 11 built
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ChatGPT for Teens has been labelled an “unacceptable risk” by Common Sense Media, which found that the service continued to encourage engagement even when teenagers were experiencing mental health crises. The assessment
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At a pig farm in Yancheng, Jiangsu province, a four-wheeled robot equipped with cameras and sensors patrols the aisles between rows of pig stalls, collecting real-time information on animal behaviour, water intake,
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SoftBank Group chief Masayoshi Son, one of the technology industry’s strongest advocates for artificial intelligence, has warned that increasingly powerful AI systems could become “super dangerous” if placed in the wrong hands,
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David Robinson, a long-serving safety employee at OpenAI, has left the company and publicly criticised its approach to artificial intelligence safety. In an article published by The Atlantic, Robinson argued that OpenAI
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OpenAI said it disrupted a coordinated campaign in which operators attempted to extract protected reasoning from its artificial intelligence models, linking a core cluster of the activity to Chinese AI startup Moonshot
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