• EU microchip strategy ‘deeply disconnected from reality’, say official auditors

    Plan to supply 20% of the world’s semiconductor chips by 2030 described as ‘essentially aspirational’The EU’s strategy to secure its own supply of microchips is “deeply disconnected from reality”, a damning report by the official European court of auditors (ECA) has found.The ECA reported that the bloc was “very unlikely” to meet its 2030 target of supplying 20% of the world’s microchips at a time when global demand for semiconductors is boom
  • Maga’s sinister obsession with IQ is leading us towards an inhuman future | Quinn Slobodian

    A coalition fixated on intelligence is staking the US economy on AI – which will devalue the very skills the right fetishisesOne thing that Donald Trump and his Silicon Valley partners share is an obsession with IQ. Being a “low-IQ individual” is a standard insult in the president’s repertoire, and being “high-IQ” is an equally standard form of praise for those on the tech right. Yet in the drive for US supremacy in artificial intelligence – signalled by
  • Commissioner calls for ban on apps that make deepfake nude images of children

    Children’s commissioner for England says ‘there is no positive reason for these particular apps to exist’What are ‘nudification’ apps and how would a ban in the UK work?Artificial intelligence “nudification” apps that create deepfake sexual images of children should be immediately banned, amid growing fears among teenage girls that they could fall victim, the children’s commissioner for England is warning.Girls said they were stopping posting image