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Tech giant’s goal of reducing climate footprint at risk as it grows increasingly reliant on energy-hungry data centresGoogle’s goal of reducing its climate footprint is in jeopardy as it relies on more and more energy-hungry data centres to power its new artificial intelligence products. The tech giant revealed Tuesday that its greenhouse gas emissions have climbed 48% over the past five years.Google said electricity consumption by data centres and supply chain emissions were the pri

Human Rights Watch found links to 190 photos of kids that were scraped off internet without families’ consentGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastPhotos of Australian children have been included in the dataset used by several AI image-generating tools without the knowledge or consent of them or their families, research by Human Rights Watch (HRW) has found.An analysis of less than 0.0001% of the 5.85bn images contained in the Laion-5B dataset, used by se

Party appealed to engineering firms and management consultancies, requesting help with policy workMore than a dozen private sector lobbyists and consultants have been embedded in the shadow cabinet teams, after Labour approached businesses for help with shaping its policies.The party is understood to have sent out an appeal to private companies to send staff to assist it with policy work, particularly in complex areas such as artificial intelligence (AI). Continue reading...

Powerful new chips are on the way but there are questions over whether tech firm’s growth can be sustainedWhen Jensen Huang spoke at the Nvidia annual general meeting last week, he made no mention of a share price slide.The US chipmaker, buoyed up by its key role in the artificial intelligence boom, had briefly become the world’s most valuable company on 18 June but the crown slipped quickly. Nvidia shed about $550bn (£434bn) from the $3.4tn (£2.68tn) peak market value it