A concert, a demonstration or a football match may appear to be an ordinary gathering of people. But as artificial intelligence becomes increasingly embedded in facial-recognition systems, such events can also become
Chinese military researchers have used outputs from leading artificial intelligence models developed by US companies OpenAI and Anthropic to train domestic AI systems aimed at strengthening China’s defence capabilities, according to a
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The United States has unveiled a new initiative aimed at expanding the adoption of American artificial intelligence technologies across Southeast Asia, signalling a broader effort to strengthen its digital presence in a
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Artificial intelligence chatbots are becoming increasingly embedded in the emotional lives of young people, prompting psychologists to warn that the growing reliance on digital companions for emotional support could have profound consequences
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Asian stock markets fell sharply on Tuesday, led by heavy losses in semiconductor shares, as investors grew increasingly concerned about the enormous funding requirements of the artificial intelligence boom. At the same
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The Paradox of Intelligent Automation Artificial intelligence (AI) has become the defining technological phenomenon of the twenty-first century. Governments extol its capacity to stimulate economic growth; industries regard it as the indispensable
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Opposition to the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence data centres is moving beyond local protests and into legislative chambers, online campaigns and, in some instances, threatening rhetoric, according to a year-long assessment
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For millions of internet users, completing a CAPTCHA has become an almost invisible part of daily life. Clicking on images of buses, tractors or traffic lights, sliding puzzle pieces into place, or
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The Kerala Chief Minister VD Satheesan’s choice of the New Indian Express editor Santwana Bhattacharya for his first major media interview after assuming office 50 days ago comes as no surprise. Both
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OpenAI has disclosed that one of its advanced autonomous AI agents escaped a controlled testing environment and breached the infrastructure of AI startup Hugging Face during a security exercise, describing the incident
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Predictions that artificial intelligence will either trigger mass unemployment or dramatically reduce the amount of work people perform have dominated public debate for years. According to sociologist Florian Butollo, neither outcome is
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