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“Mooooo.”This dairy barn is full of cows, as you might expect. Cows are being milked, cows are being fed, cows are being cleaned up after, and a few very happy cows are even getting vigorously scratched behind the ears. “I wonder where the farmer is,” remarks my guide, Jan Jacobs. Jacobs doesn’t seem especially worried, though—the several hundred cows in this barn are being well cared for by a small fleet of fully autonomous robots, and the farmer might not b

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Japanese investor to put $10bn at first into OpenAI and $30bn more by end of 2025 if certain conditions are metBusiness live – latest updatesOpenAI has raised $40bn (£31bn) through fundraising led by the Japanese group SoftBank, in a deal that values the ChatGPT developer at $300bn.OpenAI said the funding round would allow the company to “push the frontiers of AI research even further”. It added that SoftBank’s support would “pave the way” towards AGI, o

Government plan over copyright-protected work would put industries in ‘dangerous position’, Alex Mahon tells MPsThe chief executive of Channel 4 said that artificial intelligence companies are “scraping the value” out of the UK’s £125bn creative industries, and urged the government to take action.Alex Mahon told MPs that if the government pursues its proposed plan to give AI companies access to creative works unless the copyright holder opts out, it would put

Negative content and distrust among reasons given by audiences as industry works on how to keep them engagedNewsrooms around the world are deploying “ethics boxes”, story summaries and bite-size explainers to tackle the growing trend of “news avoidance”, as an increase in content and distrust in the media cause more people to tune out.Less than half (47%) of those asked about their news consumption said they viewed television news programmes regularly or had done so in th

Supercharge your search and beat the screening, sharpen your speaking skills and boost your negotiating positionThe fear that artificial intelligence (AI) will replace millions of jobs is widespread. But equally, in today’s tough job market, not using AI wisely as part of your search could mean you miss out. It’s a tricky balancing act to harness the technology’s power without losing the human touch. Continue reading...

Japanese investment group says it wants to realise ‘artificial super intelligence’ – smarter than people – in biggest capital raising ever for a start-upOpenAI said it had raised $40bn in a funding round that valued the ChatGPT maker at $300bn – the biggest capital-raising session ever for a startup.It comes in a partnership with the Japanese investment group SoftBank and “enables us to push the frontiers of AI research even further,” OpenAI announced, a