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Attack forces Chinese company to temporarily limit registrations as app becomes highest rated free app in USDeepSeek said its newly popular app was hit with a cyber-attack on Monday, which forced the Chinese company to temporarily limit registrations. The attack came after the DeepSeek AI assistant app soared to the top of Apple’s App Store, becoming the highest rated free app in the US, and climbed high in Google’s Play Store.On its status page, DeepSeek said it started to investiga

If AI triggers a revolution, it’s likely to come from people across the class divide, says David HardimanSimon Steyne argues that modern democracy is rooted in the working-class militancy which was made possible by the Industrial Revolution, and that in replacing human labour, artificial intelligence (AI) could undermine democracy (Letters, 19 January).Although such labour militancy was certainly important in this respect in Europe, it hardly accounts for the revolutions in the US in

Government intervention key to supporting businesses through transition, research by thinktank suggestsThe automation of millions of jobs will increase inequality in the UK unless the government intervenes to support small businesses and workers through the transition, according to a report into the future of work.Ministers need to act in the interest of those who will be made unemployed or whose jobs dramatically change, says the report by the Institute for the Future of Work (IFOW) thinktank,

The rock star called copyright ‘the absolute bedrock of artistic prosperity’, ahead of a vote on a bill granting AI companies easier access to musicians’ workElton John has backed Paul McCartney in criticising a proposed overhaul of the UK copyright system, and has called for new rules to prevent tech companies from riding “roughshod over the traditional copyright laws that protect artists’ livelihoods”.John has backed proposed amendments to the data (use and

White mail system handles ‘highly sensitive personal data’ and people not told it is processing their informationAI prototypes for UK welfare system dropped as officials lament ‘false starts’When your mailbag brims with 25,000 letters and emails every day, deciding which to answer first is daunting. When lurking within are pleas for help from some of the country’s most vulnerable people, the stakes only get higher.That is the challenge facing the Department for Work

Exclusive: Pilots for staff training, jobcentres and speeding up disability benefit payments not being taken up‘Serious concerns’ about DWP’s use of AI to read correspondence from benefit claimantMinisters have shut down or dropped at least half a dozen artificial intelligence prototypes intended for the welfare system, the Guardian has learned, in a sign of the headwinds facing Keir Starmer’s effort to increase government efficiency.Pilots of AI technology to enhance sta