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Teenagers each given a year’s probation after creating and spreading faked images of female classmates in south-west SpainA court in south-west Spain has sentenced 15 schoolchildren to a year’s probation for creating and spreading AI-generated images of their female peers in a case that prompted a debate on the harmful and abusive uses of deepfake technology.Police began investigating the matter last year after parents in the Extremaduran town of Almendralejo reported that faked nake

Parliament the most diverse by race and gender the country has ever seen, says Starmer, withthe largest cohort of LGBT+ MPs in the worldDowning Street has released a full version of what Keir Starmer said in his opening remarks to the metro mayors at their meeting this morning. It is not on the No 10 website, so I will post it here.Having this meeting four days after I was invited by the King to form a government is a real statement of intent on my part, on our part.Because as we have said over

Artificial intelligence is heralded as helping the NHS fight cancer. But some warn it’s a distraction from more urgent challenges• Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article hereWhat if AI isn’t that great? What if we’ve been overstating its potential to a frankly dangerous degree? That’s the concern of leading cancer experts in the NHS, who warn that the health service is obsessing over new tech to the point that it’s putti

US firm’s move, amid Beijing-Washington tensions, sparks rush to lure users to homegrown modelsAt the World AI Conference in Shanghai last week, one of China’s leading artificial intelligence companies, SenseTime, unveiled its latest model, SenseNova 5.5.The model showed off its ability to identify and describe a stuffed toy puppy (wearing a SenseTime cap), offered feedback on a drawing of a rabbit, and instantly read and summarised a page of text. According to SenseTime, SenseNova 5

Health service is at tipping point, say experts, and ‘novel solutions’ have been wrongly hypedThe NHS must concentrate on the basics of cancer treatment rather than the “magic bullets” of novel technologies and artificial intelligence, or risk the health of thousands of patients, experts have warned.In a paper published in the journal Lancet Oncology, nine leading cancer doctors and academics say the NHS is at a tipping point in cancer care with survival rates lagging beh