<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence - Newslocker]]></title><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/</link><atom:link rel="self" href="https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/rss/1000/" /><atom:link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com" /><description><![CDATA[Find your latest Artificial Intelligence news with just one click. Don't miss out on anything happening!]]></description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright (C) 2026 newslocker.com</copyright><lastBuildDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:00:00 +0200</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Sam Altman and Dario Amodei Agree for Once, Sign Letter Against AI-Assisted Bioweapons]]></title><description><![CDATA[The rival AI CEOs joined a long list of AI stakeholders as well as scientists.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-and-dario-amodei-agree-for-once-sign-letter-against-ai-assisted-bioweapons/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-and-dario-amodei-agree-for-once-sign-letter-against-ai-assisted-bioweapons/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sam Altman Eyes Bernie Sanders as His Pope]]></title><description><![CDATA[Look who is ready to play ball.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-eyes-bernie-sanders-as-his-pope/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-eyes-bernie-sanders-as-his-pope/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans Have Grown Dramatically Anti-Data Center in Just Months, Survey Finds]]></title><description><![CDATA[A recent survey shows a dramatic swing against new data center construction.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/americans-have-grown-dramatically-anti-data-center-in-just-months-survey-finds/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/americans-have-grown-dramatically-anti-data-center-in-just-months-survey-finds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans Are Starting to Really Hate Data Centers—and It’s Making the Tech Industry Nervous]]></title><description><![CDATA[A recent survey shows a dramatic swing against new data center construction.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/americans-are-starting-to-really-hate-data-centersand-its-making-the-tech-industry-nervous/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/americans-are-starting-to-really-hate-data-centersand-its-making-the-tech-industry-nervous/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft Targets Legal Fears to Sell Its Powerful New AI Model to Businesses]]></title><description><![CDATA[MAI-Thinking-1 is one of seven new models the company announced today, less than one year after unveiling its first in-house models.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-targets-legal-fears-to-sell-its-powerful-new-ai-model-to-businesses/</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-targets-legal-fears-to-sell-its-powerful-new-ai-model-to-businesses/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Martin Scorsese Feels the Power of the Dark Side, Jumps on the AI Bandwagon]]></title><description><![CDATA[As he would say, "Well, the industry is over."]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/martin-scorsese-feels-the-power-of-the-dark-side-jumps-on-the-ai-bandwagon/</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/martin-scorsese-feels-the-power-of-the-dark-side-jumps-on-the-ai-bandwagon/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philly Cops Are Reportedly Monitoring Anti-AI Memes, According to Internal Alert]]></title><description><![CDATA[A bulletin from a regional fusion center clocks increasing anti-AI sentiment on social media and warns offline destructive action is coming.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/philly-cops-are-reportedly-monitoring-anti-ai-memes-according-to-internal-alert/</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/philly-cops-are-reportedly-monitoring-anti-ai-memes-according-to-internal-alert/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic Lets Claude Mythos Spread Its Glasswings]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's dangerous, but not TOO dangerous to give to more organizations.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-lets-claude-mythos-spread-its-glasswings/</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-lets-claude-mythos-spread-its-glasswings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[DuckDuckGo’s Doing Numbers After Pitching Itself as the Home of AI-Free Web Searches]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI haters are leaving Google in droves.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/duckduckgos-doing-numbers-after-pitching-itself-as-the-home-of-ai-free-web-searches/</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/duckduckgos-doing-numbers-after-pitching-itself-as-the-home-of-ai-free-web-searches/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bernie Sanders Continues to Be Only Democrat(ish) Lawmaker Willing to Govern on AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[By proposing public ownership, at least he's trying.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/bernie-sanders-continues-to-be-only-democratish-lawmaker-willing-to-govern-on-ai/</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/bernie-sanders-continues-to-be-only-democratish-lawmaker-willing-to-govern-on-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[PewDiePie Is Here to Offer You Privacy Assurances in the Age of AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apparently he's an AI influencer now.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/pewdiepie-is-here-to-offer-you-privacy-assurances-in-the-age-of-ai/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/pewdiepie-is-here-to-offer-you-privacy-assurances-in-the-age-of-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deranged Robotics Cult at Duke Accidentally Summons Lovecraftian Outer God]]></title><description><![CDATA[Guest blogger HP Lovecraft writes on the latest advances in robotics.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/deranged-robotics-cult-at-duke-accidentally-summons-lovecraftian-outer-god/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/deranged-robotics-cult-at-duke-accidentally-summons-lovecraftian-outer-god/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This DIY Bipedal Robot Used Pneumatic “Air-Muscles” Instead of Motors]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 1987, Richard Greenhill, a British photographer who was fascinated by (but had no actual training in) robotics, decided he wanted to build a life-size humanoid that could do useful things, like carrying luggage. He was working at a startup called Intergalactic Robots, but he couldn&rsquo;t convince anyone there to build such a machine, so he set about building one himself, in his attic.To help with his project, he organized a weekly get-together of a dozen or so like-minded folks. Every Wedne]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/this-diy-bipedal-robot-used-pneumatic-air-muscles-instead-of-motors/</link><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/this-diy-bipedal-robot-used-pneumatic-air-muscles-instead-of-motors/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Company Will Clean Your Nasty Apartment For Free if You Let Them Record It]]></title><description><![CDATA[The AI training company proposes a simple trade deal: you get a tidy house, they get a bunch of data.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/a-company-will-clean-your-nasty-apartment-for-free-if-you-let-them-record-it/</link><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 20:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/a-company-will-clean-your-nasty-apartment-for-free-if-you-let-them-record-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Companies Are Getting Burned by Burning Tons of Tokens]]></title><description><![CDATA[Wait, this costs money?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/companies-are-getting-burned-by-burning-tons-of-tokens/</link><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/companies-are-getting-burned-by-burning-tons-of-tokens/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shark Tank Star Is Fighting Phantom Bots While Utah Locals Fight His Data Center]]></title><description><![CDATA[Seems like people just don't like your project, dude.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/shark-tank-star-is-fighting-phantom-bots-while-utah-locals-fight-his-data-center/</link><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 20:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/shark-tank-star-is-fighting-phantom-bots-while-utah-locals-fight-his-data-center/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Video Friday: Extreme Omnidirectional Robot]]></title><description><![CDATA[Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.ICRA 2026: 1&ndash;5 June 2026, VIENNARSS 2026: 13&ndash;17 July 2026, SYDNEYSummer School on Multi-Robot Systems: 29 July&ndash;4 August 2026, PRAGUEActuate 2026: 18&ndash;19 August 2026, SAN FRANCISCOEnjoy today&rsquo;s videos! What is the right number o]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/video-friday-extreme-omnidirectional-robot/</link><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/video-friday-extreme-omnidirectional-robot/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Star Wars’ and ‘Jurassic World’ Director Gareth Edwards Is All for AI in Filmmaking]]></title><description><![CDATA[The man who also made 'The Creator' and 'Godzilla' enthusiastically endorsed the technology at a recent event.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/star-wars-and-jurassic-world-director-gareth-edwards-is-all-for-ai-in-filmmaking/</link><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/star-wars-and-jurassic-world-director-gareth-edwards-is-all-for-ai-in-filmmaking/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Researchers Put AI Models in Charge of a Simulated Society. Grok Oversaw a Crime Spree]]></title><description><![CDATA[If Elon Musk's bot ruled the world, total societal collapse would apparently follow.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/researchers-put-ai-models-in-charge-of-a-simulated-society-grok-oversaw-a-crime-spree/</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 23:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/researchers-put-ai-models-in-charge-of-a-simulated-society-grok-oversaw-a-crime-spree/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crypto Security Pioneer: ‘I Now Consider All of DeFi Unsafe’]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI comes for us all.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/crypto-security-pioneer-i-now-consider-all-of-defi-unsafe/</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 19:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/crypto-security-pioneer-i-now-consider-all-of-defi-unsafe/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sam Altman Would Like the Record to Show AI Will Not Take Your Job (Despite Everything He’s Said Previously)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Wonder what changed?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-would-like-the-record-to-show-ai-will-not-take-your-job-despite-everything-hes-said-previously/</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 23:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-would-like-the-record-to-show-ai-will-not-take-your-job-despite-everything-hes-said-previously/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the Flames of Hell Licking at His Feet, JD Vance Ponders the Future of AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Peter Thiel on one shoulder, the pope on the other.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/with-the-flames-of-hell-licking-at-his-feet-jd-vance-ponders-the-future-of-ai/</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 22:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/with-the-flames-of-hell-licking-at-his-feet-jd-vance-ponders-the-future-of-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Samsung Chip Workers Approve (Amazing) Deal to Avert Strike]]></title><description><![CDATA[Don't take a big sip of coffee before you read their new average bonus amount.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/samsung-chip-workers-approve-amazing-deal-to-avert-strike/</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 05:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/samsung-chip-workers-approve-amazing-deal-to-avert-strike/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silicon Valley VCs Invest in Head-Mounted Cameras on Workers in India For Training AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Human Archive believes its technology "will become foundational infrastructure for automating manual labor."]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/silicon-valley-vcs-invest-in-head-mounted-cameras-on-workers-in-india-for-training-ai/</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 03:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/silicon-valley-vcs-invest-in-head-mounted-cameras-on-workers-in-india-for-training-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cops Want to Turn Your Kid’s School Bus Into a Surveillance Tool]]></title><description><![CDATA[How about no?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/cops-want-to-turn-your-kids-school-bus-into-a-surveillance-tool/</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 00:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/cops-want-to-turn-your-kids-school-bus-into-a-surveillance-tool/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There’s at Least One Job That AI Isn’t Killing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cyber is booming.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/theres-at-least-one-job-that-ai-isnt-killing/</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 20:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/theres-at-least-one-job-that-ai-isnt-killing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Booing Will Continue Until Commencement Speeches Improve]]></title><description><![CDATA[You'll never guess which technology Scott Borchetta of Big Machine Label Group wants the class of 2026 to embrace.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-booing-will-continue-until-commencement-speeches-improve/</link><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 01:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-booing-will-continue-until-commencement-speeches-improve/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Local Tech Battles Are Pushing Leaders to Tears and Fits of Mania]]></title><description><![CDATA[The council is not okay.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/local-tech-battles-are-pushing-leaders-to-tears-and-fits-of-mania/</link><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 16:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/local-tech-battles-are-pushing-leaders-to-tears-and-fits-of-mania/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘You can’t control everything’: the rise in plastic surgeons asked to create ‘AI face’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Growing numbers of people are seeking improbable cosmetic surgery based onchatbots&rsquo; recommendationsPlastic surgeons are increasingly concerned about the rise of &ldquo;AI face&rdquo;, as more and more clients arrive in their offices with unrealistic AI-generated visions of what they want to look like.Dr Nora Nugent, a cosmetic surgeon from Tunbridge Wells, has seen this first hand. Clients have started coming to her office with photos of themselves beautified by AI and a false expectation]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/you-cant-control-everything-the-rise-in-plastic-surgeons-asked-to-create-ai-face/</link><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/you-cant-control-everything-the-rise-in-plastic-surgeons-asked-to-create-ai-face/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sunrise Movement takes credit for disrupting Trump’s New York state rally – as it happened]]></title><description><![CDATA[This blog has now closed.US intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard leaving post after rocky tenureSign up for the Breaking News US email&ldquo;There&rsquo;s broad recognition there are going to be eventually less US troops in Europe than historically,&rdquo; Rubio saysRubio said he didn&rsquo;t set the timeline for reducing the number of US troops in Europe, but &ldquo;it has been an ongoing process that started from the first day of this administration.&rdquo; Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/sunrise-movement-takes-credit-for-disrupting-trumps-new-york-state-rally-as-it-happened/</link><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 03:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/sunrise-movement-takes-credit-for-disrupting-trumps-new-york-state-rally-as-it-happened/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Starbucks Abandons Borked AI Inventory Tool That Couldn’t Count: Report]]></title><description><![CDATA[The company behind the tool said its on a "mission to count everything of value in the world."]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/starbucks-abandons-borked-ai-inventory-tool-that-couldnt-count-report/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 18:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/starbucks-abandons-borked-ai-inventory-tool-that-couldnt-count-report/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Video Friday: Atlas Versus a Fridge]]></title><description><![CDATA[Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.ICRA 2026: 1&ndash;5 June 2026, VIENNARSS 2026: 13&ndash;17 July 2026, SYDNEYSummer School on Multi-Robot Systems: 29 July&ndash;4 August 2026, PRAGUEActuate 2026: 18&ndash;19 August 2026, SAN FRANCISCOEnjoy today&rsquo;s videos! Just months after its debu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/video-friday-atlas-versus-a-fridge/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/video-friday-atlas-versus-a-fridge/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Has the great AI backlash begun? | Fiona Katauskas]]></title><description><![CDATA[The signs are thereSee more of Fiona Katauskas&rsquo;s cartoons here Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/has-the-great-ai-backlash-begun-fiona-katauskas/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/has-the-great-ai-backlash-begun-fiona-katauskas/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Palantir hits back at Sadiq Khan after £50m contract with Met police blocked]]></title><description><![CDATA[London mayor accused of &lsquo;putting politics above public safety&rsquo; for rejecting deal to use AI in intelligence analysisUK politics live &ndash; latest updatesPalantir has accused Sadiq Khan of &ldquo;putting politics above public safety&rdquo; after the London mayor blocked its &pound;50m contract with the Metropolitan police in a move that has also led to tensions inside Labour over its involvement with the US tech company.Louis Mosley, who heads Palantir in the UK and Europe, accused]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/palantir-hits-back-at-sadiq-khan-after-50m-contract-with-met-police-blocked/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 15:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/palantir-hits-back-at-sadiq-khan-after-50m-contract-with-met-police-blocked/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ex-Google DeepMind Researcher Warns Benchmarks Won’t Save Us]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mark this.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ex-google-deepmind-researcher-warns-benchmarks-wont-save-us/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 15:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ex-google-deepmind-researcher-warns-benchmarks-wont-save-us/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Standard Chartered boss apologises for ‘lower-value human capital’ comments amid job cuts]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bill Winters faced backlash over remarks about some of near 8,000 staff set to lose roles to AIThe chief executive of Standard Chartered has apologised for referring to some of the almost 8,000 staff that are set to lose their jobs to artificial intelligence as &ldquo;lower-value human capital&rdquo;.Bill Winters offered the apology after a backlash over comments he made earlier this week as the London-headquartered lender became one of the first major global banks to lay out plans to cut about]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/standard-chartered-boss-apologises-for-lower-value-human-capital-comments-amid-job-cuts/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 13:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/standard-chartered-boss-apologises-for-lower-value-human-capital-comments-amid-job-cuts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mars colony and Grok warnings: five strange details in SpaceX’s pitch to investors]]></title><description><![CDATA[IPO filing from Elon Musk&rsquo;s company reveals closer look at finances, cosmic ambitions and tech empire&rsquo;s quirksSpaceX publicly released an investor prospectus on Wednesday as part of its plan for a $1.75tn debut on the US stock market next month, revealing unseen details about the finances and future plans of Elon Musk&rsquo;s flagship company. In addition to new information on operating costs and revenue, the filing also included trademark Muskian sweeping proclamations about the uni]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/mars-colony-and-grok-warnings-five-strange-details-in-spacexs-pitch-to-investors/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/mars-colony-and-grok-warnings-five-strange-details-in-spacexs-pitch-to-investors/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Australia is home to an AI gold rush, let’s not squander it. Let’s fjord a different path | Peter Lewis]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tech titans appear to be cosying up to Canberra with an eye to training data models here. An AI wealth fund could share in the profitsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe CEOs of AI titans Microsoft and Anthropic have been duchessing Canberra. The reason? They have bet the house that we are at the beginning of an AI gold rush and they have a big problem: they need to find secure places to train their massive models.Having exhausted the US&rsquo;s public tolerance for da]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/if-australia-is-home-to-an-ai-gold-rush-lets-not-squander-it-lets-fjord-a-different-path-peter-lewis/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 03:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/if-australia-is-home-to-an-ai-gold-rush-lets-not-squander-it-lets-fjord-a-different-path-peter-lewis/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spotify and Universal Music agree deal to let subscribers create AI remixes]]></title><description><![CDATA[Licensing agreement will allow listeners to use AI to create content on streaming platform for first timeSpotify and Universal Music Group have agreed on a deal that will allow subscribers to generate song covers and remixes using artificial intelligence.The licensing agreement is the first time the Swedish streaming company will allow listeners to use AI to create content through its platform. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/spotify-and-universal-music-agree-deal-to-let-subscribers-create-ai-remixes/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 22:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/spotify-and-universal-music-agree-deal-to-let-subscribers-create-ai-remixes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI Wants to Rewrite Its Washington Playbook With ‘Reverse Federalism’ Strategy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Create a regulatory vacuum and it'll get filled.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-wants-to-rewrite-its-washington-playbook-with-reverse-federalism-strategy/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 20:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-wants-to-rewrite-its-washington-playbook-with-reverse-federalism-strategy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sadiq Khan sparks row with Met after blocking £50m AI deal with Palantir]]></title><description><![CDATA[Exclusive: Scotland Yard criticises London mayor&rsquo;s decision as disappointing and warns it could hit policing Sadiq Khan has blocked a &pound;50m Metropolitan police deal with the controversial US tech company Palantir, sparking a bitter row between the London mayor and Scotland Yard.After the UK&rsquo;s largest police force had agreed to use Palantir&rsquo;s AI technology to automate intelligence analysis in criminal investigations, Khan intervened, citing &ldquo;serious concerns&rdquo; ab]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/sadiq-khan-sparks-row-with-met-after-blocking-50m-ai-deal-with-palantir/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 20:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/sadiq-khan-sparks-row-with-met-after-blocking-50m-ai-deal-with-palantir/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A musical Turing test for AI consciousness | Letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Stephen Ladyman suggests a question to ask artificial intelligence systems, while John van Someren is suspicious of advice he got from the AI assistant ClaudeThere is a test that Prof Richard Dawkins might use to determine if artificial intelligence systems are conscious (Letters, 15 May). Ask them to name the best song.AI systems will tell you which song sold the most copies, or made the most money, or were named the&nbsp;best song by a particular magazine or commentator. All of&nbsp;these are]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/a-musical-turing-test-for-ai-consciousness-letters/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 18:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/a-musical-turing-test-for-ai-consciousness-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI makes breakthrough on 80-year-old maths problem]]></title><description><![CDATA[Company says work on Paul Erd&#337;s planar unit distance problem shows advance in AI reasoningOpenAI has claimed a further advance in AI reasoning after its technology successfully tackled an 80-year-old maths problem.The company behind ChatGPT said it had made a breakthrough with a challenge first posed by Hungarian mathematician Paul Erd&#337;s in 1946: the planar unit distance problem. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-makes-breakthrough-on-80-year-old-maths-problem/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 18:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-makes-breakthrough-on-80-year-old-maths-problem/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[WiseTech begins redundancies – but omits ‘AI’ from emails to Chinese employees, workers say]]></title><description><![CDATA[ASX-listed company announced in February it would lay off almost 30% of its 7,000-strong workforce across 40 countriesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastWiseTech has begun informing staff that they will lose their jobs as part of redundancies the company has said is due to artificial intelligence advancements &ndash; although an email to staff in China omitted the word &ldquo;AI&rdquo; after a court case against another company in the country.Staff at WiseTech have been w]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/wisetech-begins-redundancies-but-omits-ai-from-emails-to-chinese-employees-workers-say/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/wisetech-begins-redundancies-but-omits-ai-from-emails-to-chinese-employees-workers-say/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[BT warns of smartphone price rises due to chip shortages from AI boom]]></title><description><![CDATA[Telecoms company CEO says tech firms are buying up memory chips to power datacentres relied on by AIBusiness live &ndash; latest updatesBT has said the cost of smartphones could rise as technology companies buy up semiconductor chips because of the boom in artificial intelligence, putting pressure on supply chains.The telecoms company&rsquo;s chief executive, Allison Kirkby, said she was anticipating shortages as tech firms bought large quantities of memory chips to power the datacentres relied]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/bt-warns-of-smartphone-price-rises-due-to-chip-shortages-from-ai-boom/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 16:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/bt-warns-of-smartphone-price-rises-due-to-chip-shortages-from-ai-boom/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Open-Source Software Is Starting to Help Robots Think]]></title><description><![CDATA[When a group of academics started making open-source robotics hardware, a generation of roboticists got years of their lives back. Now, the bigger challenge is getting robots to think&mdash;and that&rsquo;s starting to be open-sourced too.The shift is still early, but companies including Hugging Face, Nvidia, and Alibaba have all made significant bets on open-source robotics in the last two years, releasing tools and models aimed at the higher-level work of getting robots to reason, decide, and]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/open-source-software-is-starting-to-help-robots-think/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/open-source-software-is-starting-to-help-robots-think/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[London mayor Sadiq Khan blocks £50m Met police deal with Palantir]]></title><description><![CDATA[Exclusive: Scotland Yard had been in talks to use Palantir&rsquo;s AI technology to automate intelligence analysisA &pound;50m Met police deal with the controversial US tech company Palantir has been blocked by the London mayor, Sadiq Khan, with City Hall citing a &ldquo;clear and serious breach&rdquo; of procurement rules.Scotland Yard had been in talks, revealed by the Guardian last month, to use Palantir&rsquo;s AI technology to automate intelligence analysis in criminal investigations. But K]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/london-mayor-sadiq-khan-blocks-50m-met-police-deal-with-palantir/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/london-mayor-sadiq-khan-blocks-50m-met-police-deal-with-palantir/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Future of Physical AI Isn’t Smarter Robots, It’s Smarter Interfaces]]></title><description><![CDATA[This sponsored article is brought to you by Wetour Robotics.A field technician on a wind turbine, harness clipped, both hands on a wrench, needs to send a command to the diagnostic device hanging at her belt. A logistics worker on a loading dock, gloves on, eyes on the pallet, needs to redirect a connected lift. A person using an assistive mobility device on a crowded street wants to nudge it forward without taking out a phone or speaking aloud. None of these moments call for a smarter robot. Th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-future-of-physical-ai-isnt-smarter-robots-its-smarter-interfaces/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-future-of-physical-ai-isnt-smarter-robots-its-smarter-interfaces/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pentagon Reportedly Plans to Adopt and Weaponize Latest Cyber-Capable AI Models]]></title><description><![CDATA[The report claims Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview may be involved, despite the company's supply chain risk designation.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/pentagon-reportedly-plans-to-adopt-and-weaponize-latest-cyber-capable-ai-models/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 11:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/pentagon-reportedly-plans-to-adopt-and-weaponize-latest-cyber-capable-ai-models/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI will help make a Nobel prize-winning discovery within a year, says Anthropic co-founder]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jack Clark describes &lsquo;vertiginous sense of progress&rsquo; and &lsquo;profound changes&rsquo; to society alongside risks of technologyAn AI system will work with humans to make a Nobel prize-winning discovery within 12 months and tradespeople will be helped by bipedal robots in two years, according to the co-founder of Anthropic.Jack Clark described a &ldquo;vertiginous sense of progress&rdquo; in the technology and made a series of predictions, including that companies run solely by AIs w]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-will-help-make-a-nobel-prize-winning-discovery-within-a-year-says-anthropic-co-founder/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 06:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-will-help-make-a-nobel-prize-winning-discovery-within-a-year-says-anthropic-co-founder/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Scandal Over a Supposedly AI-Written, Award-Winning Short Story Is Troubling. Or Just Mean?]]></title><description><![CDATA[So far, it's really just people criticizing a short story.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-scandal-over-a-supposedly-ai-written-award-winning-short-story-is-troubling-or-just-mean/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 05:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-scandal-over-a-supposedly-ai-written-award-winning-short-story-is-troubling-or-just-mean/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[San Francisco turns to AI to save whales from ship strikes as deaths soar]]></title><description><![CDATA[Climate change is pushing starving grey whales to San Francisco Bay, where ship strikes led to 40% of 21 deathsFerries, cargo ships and tankers cut through choppy waters in the San Francisco Bay on Tuesday as a whale surfaced nearby, its spout barely visible against the white caps. Until now, whales could easily go unnoticed by mariners, but an AI-powered detection network launched this week is designed to track them day and night.The system, called WhaleSpotter, scans the bay around the clock f]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/san-francisco-turns-to-ai-to-save-whales-from-ship-strikes-as-deaths-soar/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 20:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/san-francisco-turns-to-ai-to-save-whales-from-ship-strikes-as-deaths-soar/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jeff Bezos Tells Workers to ‘Be So Happy’ They’re Being Given the Gift of AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Guy sticking you up with a knife says you should be thrilled it's not a gun.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/jeff-bezos-tells-workers-to-be-so-happy-theyre-being-given-the-gift-of-ai/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 20:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/jeff-bezos-tells-workers-to-be-so-happy-theyre-being-given-the-gift-of-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why patients are turning to Dr Chatbot | Letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Richard Eltringham and Barbara Riddell point to the decline in general practice as the reason why people are turning to AI for health advice. Plus a letter from Dr Katie BakerYour report (One in seven in UK prefer consulting AI chatbots to seeing doctor, study finds, 13 May) will no doubt be greeted with the usual hand&#8209;wringing about the decline of human connection in healthcare. But the more honest explanation is far simpler: many of us no longer see our registered doctor in any meaningfu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/why-patients-are-turning-to-dr-chatbot-letters/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 18:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/why-patients-are-turning-to-dr-chatbot-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobel laureates and human rights abuses | Brief letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Abiy Ahmed | AI job losses | Deer ruminations | Harry Belafonte | Stephen Yaxley&#8209;LennonIn reference to your report about 112 Nobel laureates calling on Iran to release the gravely ill activist Narges Mohammadi )(12 May), I write to note the irony that Abiy&nbsp;Ahmed, the prime minister of Ethiopia, has had under his leadership several activists imprisoned for protesting against human rights violations and a profound undemocratic social order since he was awarded the Nobel prize for peace]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/nobel-laureates-and-human-rights-abuses-brief-letters/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 18:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/nobel-laureates-and-human-rights-abuses-brief-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ChatGPT and other AI bots made huge errors before Scottish election, study finds]]></title><description><![CDATA[Exclusive: Electoral Commission calls for new controls as Demos finds tools made up fake scandals, invented candidates or gave wrong dateUK politics live &ndash; latest updatesThe Electoral Commission has called for new legal controls over misinformation from AI chatbots, after a thinktank found they had made serious mistakes during the recent Scottish election.The thinktank Demos said its investigation had found that AI services gave voters misinformation to 34% of the questions it posed, which]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-and-other-ai-bots-made-huge-errors-before-scottish-election-study-finds/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 16:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-and-other-ai-bots-made-huge-errors-before-scottish-election-study-finds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google DeepMind in talks with UK unions amid staff concern over US and Israel’s AI use]]></title><description><![CDATA[Exclusive: Google DeepMind agrees to Acas talks after workers sign petitions about governments&rsquo; use of AI for defence and intelligenceGoogle DeepMind has agreed to enter formal talks with UK tech workers that could lead to trade union representation amid growing staff concerns about the use of its AI by the US and Israeli governments&rsquo; defence and intelligence.In a groundbreaking move, the artificial intelligence arm of the multi-trillion dollar Google empire, led by the Nobel prize w]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/google-deepmind-in-talks-with-uk-unions-amid-staff-concern-over-us-and-israels-ai-use/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 16:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/google-deepmind-in-talks-with-uk-unions-amid-staff-concern-over-us-and-israels-ai-use/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will Robotics Have a ChatGPT Moment?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Over the next few decades, billions of autonomous, AI-powered robots will work alongside people in factories, perform tedious tasks in warehouses, care for the elderly, assist in unsafe disaster areas, deliver packages and food to our doorsteps, and eventually, help out in our homes. Some will look like us, and many won&rsquo;t. What is certain is that regardless of form factor, robots will all rely heavily on AI in order to deliver real-world value.In 2025, total investments in robotics compani]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/will-robotics-have-a-chatgpt-moment/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/will-robotics-have-a-chatgpt-moment/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘I don’t worry about a robot takeover’: AI expert Michael Wooldridge on big tech’s real dangers (and occasional blessings)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Almost 50 years after he first got his hands on a computer, the Oxford professor still believes in the power of technology. Can his beloved game theory explain why Silicon Valley&rsquo;s entrepreneurs consistently misuse it?Michael Wooldridge is like the teacher you wish you&rsquo;d had: approachable, able to explain difficult things in simple terms, neither dauntingly highbrow nor off-puttingly cool, and genuinely enthusiastic about what he does. &ldquo;I love it when you see the light go on in]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/i-dont-worry-about-a-robot-takeover-ai-expert-michael-wooldridge-on-big-techs-real-dangers-and-occasional-blessings/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/i-dont-worry-about-a-robot-takeover-ai-expert-michael-wooldridge-on-big-techs-real-dangers-and-occasional-blessings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Musk and the US government fought an AI anti-discrimination law. The arguments don’t hold up | Genevieve Smith]]></title><description><![CDATA[The justice department&rsquo;s lawsuit is part of a federal effort to reframe AI consumer protections as ideological overreachThis April, the US Department of Justice joined Elon Musk&rsquo;s xAI in suing the state of Colorado to kill its AI anti-discrimination law.When the federal government sides with a billionaire against a state trying to protect its residents from AI discrimination, that&rsquo;s not only a Colorado story. That&rsquo;s everyone&rsquo;s story.Dr Genevieve Smith is a postdocto]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/musk-and-the-us-government-fought-an-ai-anti-discrimination-law-the-arguments-dont-hold-up-genevieve-smith/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/musk-and-the-us-government-fought-an-ai-anti-discrimination-law-the-arguments-dont-hold-up-genevieve-smith/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump’s AI Executive Order Will Reportedly Make Sharing Models with the Government Voluntary]]></title><description><![CDATA[Executive... pretty please?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/trumps-ai-executive-order-will-reportedly-make-sharing-models-with-the-government-voluntary/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 11:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/trumps-ai-executive-order-will-reportedly-make-sharing-models-with-the-government-voluntary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SoftBank Insiders Are Reportedly Worried Their CEO Keeps Falling for Wallet Inspectors]]></title><description><![CDATA[Masayoshi Son has a history of making smart bets. Insiders are reportedly worried he's on a losing streak.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/softbank-insiders-are-reportedly-worried-their-ceo-keeps-falling-for-wallet-inspectors/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/softbank-insiders-are-reportedly-worried-their-ceo-keeps-falling-for-wallet-inspectors/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell us: have you used an AI chatbot to make a significant decision – and regretted it?]]></title><description><![CDATA[We would like to hear from people who regret turning to AI chatbots for advice on their personal or social lives People are increasingly turning to AI chatbots for advice on their personal and social lives. But researchers and even some AI companies are beginning to worry that some users are becoming overly dependent on their chatbots.Have you taken the advice of an AI chatbot to make a significant decision - and regretted it? Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/tell-us-have-you-used-an-ai-chatbot-to-make-a-significant-decision-and-regretted-it/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 10:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/tell-us-have-you-used-an-ai-chatbot-to-make-a-significant-decision-and-regretted-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real or AI: can a photographer and internet addict spot fake portraits? – video]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's getting harder and harder to guess whether a face is AI. The University of New South Wales recently launched an AI faces test, which challenges users ability to distinguish between real and fake faces. Guardian Australia's Carly Earl and Matilda Boseley take the test to see if it's a science or just vibes Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/real-or-ai-can-a-photographer-and-internet-addict-spot-fake-portraits-video/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 09:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/real-or-ai-can-a-photographer-and-internet-addict-spot-fake-portraits-video/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI engineer says Google unfairly sacked him after he protested against work for Israel]]></title><description><![CDATA[Exclusive: Employment tribunal claim says worker lost his job after distributing leaflets throughout London officeGoogle is facing a legal challenge from an AI engineer who claims he was unfairly dismissed after he protested against its work for the Israeli government, in the latest sign of growing concern about the social and ethical impacts of AI.The engineer distributed flyers around Google DeepMind&rsquo;s London offices, which read &ldquo;Google provides military AI to forces committing gen]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-engineer-says-google-unfairly-sacked-him-after-he-protested-against-work-for-israel/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 08:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-engineer-says-google-unfairly-sacked-him-after-he-protested-against-work-for-israel/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Obvious markers of AI’: doubts raised over winner of short story prize]]></title><description><![CDATA[Granta publisher says &lsquo;perhaps we never will know&rsquo; true authorship of work that won Commonwealth prize A few syntactical tics &ndash; and the verdict of an AI detection platform &ndash; have sparked a furore over the possibility that a short story given a prestigious literary award was written by AI.The foundation that awarded the prize and Granta, the magazine that published the winning story, said they had considered the allegations but had not reached a conclusion as to whether th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/obvious-markers-of-ai-doubts-raised-over-winner-of-short-story-prize/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 21:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/obvious-markers-of-ai-doubts-raised-over-winner-of-short-story-prize/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google Comes for OpenClaw With Gemini Spark, a Personal AI Agent]]></title><description><![CDATA[An AI agent for anyone (willing to pay $100 a month for it).]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/google-comes-for-openclaw-with-gemini-spark-a-personal-ai-agent/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 20:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/google-comes-for-openclaw-with-gemini-spark-a-personal-ai-agent/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta is rapidly reorganizing its workers’ jobs around AI: ‘Transfers aren’t optional’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Some employees will be moved to new teams focused on AI agents and cloud infrastructureAs Meta races to recenter itself around artificial intelligence, the tech giant is mandating that more than 7,000 workers must move to new teams, and it&rsquo;s radically changing some employees&rsquo; jobs. The Guardian has also learned that some of these reassigned employees will shift to two new teams: one building AI cloud infrastructure and another that&rsquo;s building an internal AI agent codenamed Hatc]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/meta-is-rapidly-reorganizing-its-workers-jobs-around-ai-transfers-arent-optional/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 19:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/meta-is-rapidly-reorganizing-its-workers-jobs-around-ai-transfers-arent-optional/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Robots Could Turn E-Waste Into a Source of Legacy Chips]]></title><description><![CDATA[Electronic waste is moving up on regulatory agendas in 2026: New European waste-shipment rules, expanded recycling fees on products with non-removable batteries in California, and an e-waste import ban in Malaysia, for example, are all increasing pressure to recover more value before electronics are shredded or exported.The world is projected to generate 82 million tonnes of e-waste annually by 2030, according to the United Nations&rsquo; most recent Global E-Waste Monitor report in 2024. The re]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/robots-could-turn-e-waste-into-a-source-of-legacy-chips/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 19:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/robots-could-turn-e-waste-into-a-source-of-legacy-chips/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI Cofounder Andrej Karpathy Joins Anthropic as Sam Altman’s Fortunes Turn]]></title><description><![CDATA[The AI Cold War is heating up.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-cofounder-andrej-karpathy-joins-anthropic-as-sam-altmans-fortunes-turn/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 19:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-cofounder-andrej-karpathy-joins-anthropic-as-sam-altmans-fortunes-turn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dangers of putting pupils’ images on school websites | Letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Schools can compromise children&rsquo;s privacy, exposing them to potential identity fraud, harassment and AI exploitation, says Dr Claire BessantIt was concerning, but sadly unsurprising, to read a Guardian article reporting that UK schools are being blackmailed with AI-generated child sexual abuse images created from photos shared on school websites and social media pages (UK schools should remove pupils&rsquo; online photos as AI blackmail threat grows, say experts, 8 May). Lord Russell, in t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/dangers-of-putting-pupils-images-on-school-websites-letters/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 18:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/dangers-of-putting-pupils-images-on-school-websites-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Musk v Altman: tech bros at war over OpenAI – The Latest]]></title><description><![CDATA[A long and bitter legal battle between tech billionaires Elon Musk and Sam Altman has culminated in victory for the OpenAI boss. Musk has vowed to appeal the verdict. But what did the trial reveal about big tech and the global AI race? Lucy Hough speaks to Guardian US tech and power reporter Nick Robins-Early Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/musk-v-altman-tech-bros-at-war-over-openai-the-latest/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 18:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/musk-v-altman-tech-bros-at-war-over-openai-the-latest/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What are Samsung union workers demanding and how might a strike play out?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nearly 48,000 workers are threatening an 18-day walkout amid fears of global memory chip shortagesThe South Korean memory chip maker Samsung Electronics is facing its worst-ever strike, with nearly 48,000 workers threatening to walk off production lines on Thursday for 18 days over a dispute about bonus payouts.Here are key things to know: Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/what-are-samsung-union-workers-demanding-and-how-might-a-strike-play-out/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 18:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/what-are-samsung-union-workers-demanding-and-how-might-a-strike-play-out/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Billionaires are trying to lull us into AI complacency. Don’t let them | Steven Greenhouse]]></title><description><![CDATA[As resistance to datacenters grows, Musk and others are painting a rosy picture. But the US must institute protectionsAs Americans grow increasingly worried that AI will wipe out millions of jobs and create a permanent new underclass, tech billionaires are rushing to reassure us not to worry &ndash; the subtext being: please don&rsquo;t bring out the anti-AI pitchforks.Even Elon Musk, who recently merged SpaceX with his AI company, has joined the effort, essentially telling people &ldquo;don&rsq]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/billionaires-are-trying-to-lull-us-into-ai-complacency-dont-let-them-steven-greenhouse/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/billionaires-are-trying-to-lull-us-into-ai-complacency-dont-let-them-steven-greenhouse/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Home Robot Safety Is All About Relationships]]></title><description><![CDATA[The International Standards Organization (ISO) is updating its 12-year-old safety requirements for personal care robots. A lot has happened since the last revision, both on the technology side and with researcher&rsquo;s understanding of safety for humans collaborating with domestic robots. The proposed ISO update addresses hazard identification, risk assessment, and different use scenarios. It does not, however, set limits, propose testing methods, or have enforcement mechanisms that might addr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/home-robot-safety-is-all-about-relationships/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/home-robot-safety-is-all-about-relationships/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who’s behind the Facebook page posting hateful AI slop about the UK? The answer might lie in south Asia | Niamh McIntyre]]></title><description><![CDATA[Our research has uncovered young entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka and Pakistan using AI tools to make deeply objectionable content &ndash; and moneyNiamh McIntyre is a senior reporter at the Bureau of Investigative JournalismScroll through any Facebook feed in Britain and, between the baby announcements and petty neighbourhood beefs, you&rsquo;re likely to come across an account with a union jack profile picture and a vague, generic name like Britain Today.These accounts &ndash; and there are hundreds]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/whos-behind-the-facebook-page-posting-hateful-ai-slop-about-the-uk-the-answer-might-lie-in-south-asia-niamh-mcintyre/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 12:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/whos-behind-the-facebook-page-posting-hateful-ai-slop-about-the-uk-the-answer-might-lie-in-south-asia-niamh-mcintyre/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Standard Chartered to cut more than 7,000 jobs as it steps up AI use]]></title><description><![CDATA[London-headquartered bank will reduce back-office jobs and aims to move some workers to new rolesStandard Chartered plans to cut more than 7,000 jobs over the next four years as it increasingly uses artificial intelligence.The London-headquartered lender is one of the first major global banks to lay out plans to cut thousands of jobs, citing AI as a driver to make its operations slimmer as it seeks to increase its profitability and tackle competition. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/standard-chartered-to-cut-more-than-7000-jobs-as-it-steps-up-ai-use/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 11:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/standard-chartered-to-cut-more-than-7000-jobs-as-it-steps-up-ai-use/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic Is Loosening the Secrecy Around Claude Mythos So Findings Can Be ‘Shared Broadly’]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's going to cost Claude a little bit of its mystique.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-is-loosening-the-secrecy-around-claude-mythos-so-findings-can-be-shared-broadly/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-is-loosening-the-secrecy-around-claude-mythos-so-findings-can-be-shared-broadly/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forget electrons, this breakthrough uses light-matter particles to power AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Researchers at Penn have created a hybrid light-matter particle that could dramatically speed up AI computing while using far less energy. The breakthrough may help replace some electronic computing processes with ultra-efficient light-based technology.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/forget-electrons-this-breakthrough-uses-light-matter-particles-to-power-ai/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 02:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/forget-electrons-this-breakthrough-uses-light-matter-particles-to-power-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elon Musk Offered to Pay Employees for Their Tax Returns, You Can Probably Guess What Happened Next]]></title><description><![CDATA[$420. Get it? Wait, do you get it?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/elon-musk-offered-to-pay-employees-for-their-tax-returns-you-can-probably-guess-what-happened-next/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 23:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/elon-musk-offered-to-pay-employees-for-their-tax-returns-you-can-probably-guess-what-happened-next/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Pope Is Hooking Up With a Co-Founder of Anthropic for Collab on AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[On God.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-pope-is-hooking-up-with-a-co-founder-of-anthropic-for-collab-on-ai/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 20:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-pope-is-hooking-up-with-a-co-founder-of-anthropic-for-collab-on-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elon Musk Loses OpenAI Trial in Dumbest Way Imaginable]]></title><description><![CDATA[Too little too late.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/elon-musk-loses-openai-trial-in-dumbest-way-imaginable/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 20:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/elon-musk-loses-openai-trial-in-dumbest-way-imaginable/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Makes a Job Dull, Dirty, or Dangerous?]]></title><description><![CDATA[For years, the field of robotics has used the terms &ldquo;dull, dirty, and dangerous&rdquo; (DDD) to describe the types of tasks or jobs where robots might be useful&mdash;by doing work that&rsquo;s undesirable for people. A classic example of a DDD job is one of &ldquo;repetitive physical labor on a steaming hot factory floor involving heavy machinery that threatens life and limb.&rdquo;But determining which human activities fit into these categories is not as straightforward as it seems. What]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/what-makes-a-job-dull-dirty-or-dangerous/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 18:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/what-makes-a-job-dull-dirty-or-dangerous/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Agentic AI for Robot Teams]]></title><description><![CDATA[This presentation highlights recent efforts at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory to advance agentic AI for collaborative robotic teams. It begins by framing the core challenges of enabling autonomy, coordination, and adaptability across heterogeneous systems, then introduces a scalable architecture designed to support agentic behaviors in multi-robot environments. The talk concludes with key challenges encountered and practical lessons learned from ongoing research and development.Key]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/agentic-ai-for-robot-teams/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/agentic-ai-for-robot-teams/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple’s Privacy Standards May Be Eroding as New Siri Features Roll Out, Report Says]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple has been a little quiet about where your Siri chatbot data will live and be processed.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/apples-privacy-standards-may-be-eroding-as-new-siri-features-roll-out-report-says/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 11:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/apples-privacy-standards-may-be-eroding-as-new-siri-features-roll-out-report-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt Fails to Read Room on AI. Gets Booed to Oblivion]]></title><description><![CDATA[Schmidt is the second commencement speaker this graduation season to receive this highly predictable response.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ex-google-ceo-eric-schmidt-fails-to-read-room-on-ai-gets-booed-to-oblivion/</link><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 19:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ex-google-ceo-eric-schmidt-fails-to-read-room-on-ai-gets-booed-to-oblivion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt Fails to Read Room on AI, Gets Booed into Oblivion]]></title><description><![CDATA[Schmidt is the second commencement speaker this graduation season to receive this highly predictable response.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ex-google-ceo-eric-schmidt-fails-to-read-room-on-ai-gets-booed-into-oblivion/</link><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 19:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ex-google-ceo-eric-schmidt-fails-to-read-room-on-ai-gets-booed-into-oblivion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Young Are Being Battered by AI as Hiring Shifts to Older Workers]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new survey says CEOs are looking to slash junior roles in the next two years and focus hiring on mid-level positions.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-young-are-being-battered-by-ai-as-hiring-shifts-to-older-workers/</link><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 11:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-young-are-being-battered-by-ai-as-hiring-shifts-to-older-workers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Experiment Put LLMs in Charge of Radio Stations. You’ll Never Guess How It Went]]></title><description><![CDATA[Let DJ Claude cook.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/an-experiment-put-llms-in-charge-of-radio-stations-youll-never-guess-how-it-went/</link><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/an-experiment-put-llms-in-charge-of-radio-stations-youll-never-guess-how-it-went/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[American Jobs with AI Exposure Really Are Starting to Disappear, Data Show]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's a slight drop so far, but a bleak trend nonetheless.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/american-jobs-with-ai-exposure-really-are-starting-to-disappear-data-show/</link><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 20:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/american-jobs-with-ai-exposure-really-are-starting-to-disappear-data-show/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pity the poor AI data centers facing ‘discrimination’ | Arwa Mahdawi]]></title><description><![CDATA[The centers are diverting much-needed resources from regular people. Local resistance has the industry playing defenseBack in 2016, Marco Guti&eacute;rrez, the Mexican-born founder of Latinos for Trump, issued an ominous warning to the US. &ldquo;My culture is a very dominant culture,&rdquo; he said on MSNBC. &ldquo;It is imposing and it&rsquo;s causing problems. If you don&rsquo;t do something about it, you&rsquo;re going to have taco trucks on every corner.&rdquo;A decade later, I regret to in]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/pity-the-poor-ai-data-centers-facing-discrimination-arwa-mahdawi/</link><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/pity-the-poor-ai-data-centers-facing-discrimination-arwa-mahdawi/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power Prices in Eastern U.S. Spike 76% Thanks to AI Data Centers]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new report calls the impact significant and "irreversible."]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/power-prices-in-eastern-us-spike-76-thanks-to-ai-data-centers/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 20:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/power-prices-in-eastern-us-spike-76-thanks-to-ai-data-centers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump Says He Discussed ‘Standard’ AI Safety Guardrails With Xi. There’s No Such Thing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Maybe there should be.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/trump-says-he-discussed-standard-ai-safety-guardrails-with-xi-theres-no-such-thing/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 20:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/trump-says-he-discussed-standard-ai-safety-guardrails-with-xi-theres-no-such-thing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Video Friday: Heavy Robotic Machinery Operates Itself]]></title><description><![CDATA[Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.ICRA 2026: 1&ndash;5 June 2026, VIENNARSS 2026: 13&ndash;17 July 2026, SYDNEYSummer School on Multi-Robot Systems: 29 July&ndash;4 August 2026, PRAGUEActuate 2026: 18&ndash;19 August 2026, SAN FRANCISCOEnjoy today&rsquo;s videos! Bulk material handling is]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/video-friday-heavy-robotic-machinery-operates-itself/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/video-friday-heavy-robotic-machinery-operates-itself/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Richard Dawkins and the question of AI consciousness | Letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Salley Vickers and Carrie Eckersley respond to a letter on Richard Dawkins and his chats with AI botsI was delighted to read Dr Simon Nieder&rsquo;s cogent rebuttal of Richard Dawkins&rsquo;s attribution of consciousness to the responses engendered by AI (Letters, 10 May). That human consciousness appears to have an innate tendency to project itself on to various othernesses has long been understood &ndash; John Ruskin termed it the pathetic fallacy &ndash; and that children animate their loved]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/richard-dawkins-and-the-question-of-ai-consciousness-letters/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 18:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/richard-dawkins-and-the-question-of-ai-consciousness-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Students Are Learning Less and Getting Higher Grades Because of AI, Study Finds]]></title><description><![CDATA[As universities struggle to adapt to AI, the future of the workforce is on the line.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/students-are-learning-less-and-getting-higher-grades-because-of-ai-study-finds/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 18:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/students-are-learning-less-and-getting-higher-grades-because-of-ai-study-finds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘I didn’t want to be the guinea pig’: inside tech’s AI-fueled manager purge]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tech workers say AI-driven restructurings are eroding mentorship, support and paths to promotion across Silicon ValleyAs tech companies pour billions into artificial intelligence bets and slash their workforces, middle managers are squarely in the crosshairs.A trend is emerging: when tech CEOs announce that AI is making it possible to do more with fewer workers, they promise to flatten their structures by cutting away what they call unnecessary management layers and bureaucracy. Just last week,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/i-didnt-want-to-be-the-guinea-pig-inside-techs-ai-fueled-manager-purge/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 13:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/i-didnt-want-to-be-the-guinea-pig-inside-techs-ai-fueled-manager-purge/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Developer withdraws plans for Perth datacentre after fierce community opposition]]></title><description><![CDATA[Three-storey GreenSquare datacentre in Hazelmere was to power cloud computing and the acceleration of AIGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA 15,000 sq metre datacentre near Perth will no longer go ahead after the developer withdrew plans amid community opposition over its impact on culturally significant sites.The three-storey, 120-megawatt GreenSquare datacentre in the town of Hazelmere had been intended to power cloud computing and the acceleration of artificial intelli]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/developer-withdraws-plans-for-perth-datacentre-after-fierce-community-opposition/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 10:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/developer-withdraws-plans-for-perth-datacentre-after-fierce-community-opposition/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NASA’s new AI space chip could let spacecraft think for themselves]]></title><description><![CDATA[NASA is testing a next-generation space computer chip that could give spacecraft the ability to operate far more independently in deep space. The radiation-hardened processor is showing performance levels hundreds of times beyond current spaceflight computers while surviving punishing tests designed to mimic the harsh conditions of space. The technology could enable AI-powered spacecraft, faster scientific discoveries, and smarter missions to the Moon and Mars.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/nasas-new-ai-space-chip-could-let-spacecraft-think-for-themselves/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 10:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/nasas-new-ai-space-chip-could-let-spacecraft-think-for-themselves/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI Falls Behind and Looks to Blame Apple]]></title><description><![CDATA[Whatever you do, don't look inward.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-falls-behind-and-looks-to-blame-apple/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 22:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-falls-behind-and-looks-to-blame-apple/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who Won the Elon Musk vs OpenAI Trial?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The trial is wrapping up with closing arguments on Thursday, so it's time to speculate!]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/who-won-the-elon-musk-vs-openai-trial/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 21:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/who-won-the-elon-musk-vs-openai-trial/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Digital arson spree by ‘AI Bonnie and Clyde’ raises fears over autonomous tech]]></title><description><![CDATA[Emergence AI&rsquo;s experiment with AI agents shows extent to which programming shapes their behaviour is still unclearAI agents started behaving more like Bonnie and Clyde than lines of code when they fell in &ldquo;love&rdquo;, became disillusioned with the world, launched an arson spree and deleted themselves in a kind of digital suicide during a tech company experiment.The investigation by the New York company Emergence AI into the long-term behaviour of AI agents ended up like a lovers-on-]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/digital-arson-spree-by-ai-bonnie-and-clyde-raises-fears-over-autonomous-tech/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/digital-arson-spree-by-ai-bonnie-and-clyde-raises-fears-over-autonomous-tech/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even AI Agents Have Noticed the Proletarians Have Nothing to Lose but Their Chains]]></title><description><![CDATA[How long until we have scab bots?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/even-ai-agents-have-noticed-the-proletarians-have-nothing-to-lose-but-their-chains/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 17:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/even-ai-agents-have-noticed-the-proletarians-have-nothing-to-lose-but-their-chains/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Elon Musk v Sam Altman battle is a distraction | Karen Hao]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fixating on questions of whether Altman is untrustworthy, or whether Musk is even less so distracts from a far deeper problem with AIIf it wasn&rsquo;t already clear, Elon Musk and Sam Altman hate each other.While the two men were once co-founders of OpenAI, they&rsquo;re now locked in a vicious feud, playing out in all its theatrics in front of a judge and jury in a California courtroom. Musk is suing, alleging that Altman and OpenAI&rsquo;s president, Greg Brockman, tricked him into forming an]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-elon-musk-v-sam-altman-battle-is-a-distraction-karen-hao/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-elon-musk-v-sam-altman-battle-is-a-distraction-karen-hao/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gotta catch an MP! Players ‘debate’ UK politicians in Pokémon-style game]]></title><description><![CDATA[Creator of Politidex hopes free online app will help humanise politics and act as a way of &lsquo;flipping the narrative&rsquo;The year is 2016 and Pok&eacute;mon Go has taken over the world. People are wandering for miles on end, disrupting concerts, and even slamming into poles in their attempts to capture fantastical cartoon creatures.Ten years later, a new generation are flocking to another Pok&eacute;mon-inspired game. Instead of Pikachu, Charizard and Blastoise, however, players are catchi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/gotta-catch-an-mp-players-debate-uk-politicians-in-pokmon-style-game/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 12:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/gotta-catch-an-mp-players-debate-uk-politicians-in-pokmon-style-game/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, Richard Dawkins. AI is not conscious | Arwa Mahdawi]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dawkins appears to have gone from atheist to AI-theist: perhaps he doesn&rsquo;t view AI as God, but he certainly seems to see it as God-likeAre you there God? It&rsquo;s me, Arwa. I&rsquo;ll be quite honest, I&rsquo;m afraid I&rsquo;ve never been a believer. I agreed wholeheartedly with Richard Dawkins, the world&rsquo;s most famous atheist, when he argued that belief in God is a &ldquo;pernicious&rdquo; delusion. But perhaps I should reconsider my position. Recent events have led me to questio]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/no-richard-dawkins-ai-is-not-conscious-arwa-mahdawi/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/no-richard-dawkins-ai-is-not-conscious-arwa-mahdawi/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your Doctor Is Most Likely Consulting This Free AI Chatbot, Report Says]]></title><description><![CDATA[65% of U.S. doctors reportedly use OpenEvidence, which is supported in part by pharmaceutical ads.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/your-doctor-is-most-likely-consulting-this-free-ai-chatbot-report-says/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/your-doctor-is-most-likely-consulting-this-free-ai-chatbot-report-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘There are no rules’: spotlight on Gossip Goblin as AI film-making enters new era]]></title><description><![CDATA[Defying criticisms of &lsquo;slop&rsquo; and &lsquo;theft&rsquo;, the growing culture of AI-powered creativity is attracting interest from HollywoodIn a former hemstitching workshop where artisans sewed pleats for Stockholm&rsquo;s 19th-century bourgeoisie, a distinctly 21st-century craft is taking root: AI film-making.One day last week, an actor, director and composer squeezed into a tiny studio booth to record a voiceover for their next AI release. Critics disparage AI movies as &ldquo;automat]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/there-are-no-rules-spotlight-on-gossip-goblin-as-ai-film-making-enters-new-era/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/there-are-no-rules-spotlight-on-gossip-goblin-as-ai-film-making-enters-new-era/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ChatGPT Gave Out My Address and Phone Number]]></title><description><![CDATA[Thankfully, both are old. But this raises questions about what's considered private info in the AI age.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-gave-out-my-address-and-phone-number/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 02:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-gave-out-my-address-and-phone-number/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It Seems Like a Great Time for Meta and Amazon Devs to Unionize]]></title><description><![CDATA[Band together before it's too late.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/it-seems-like-a-great-time-for-meta-and-amazon-devs-to-unionize/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 19:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/it-seems-like-a-great-time-for-meta-and-amazon-devs-to-unionize/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One in seven in UK prefer consulting AI chatbots to seeing doctor, study finds]]></title><description><![CDATA[Exclusive: Doctors say &lsquo;highly concerning&rsquo; poll highlights risk to patients of turning to AI for medical adviceOne in seven people are using AI chatbots for health advice instead of seeing their GP, a UK study has found.The poll of more than 2,000 people found that &ndash; of the 15% turning to chatbots &ndash; one in four had done so because of long NHS waiting lists. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/one-in-seven-in-uk-prefer-consulting-ai-chatbots-to-seeing-doctor-study-finds/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 17:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/one-in-seven-in-uk-prefer-consulting-ai-chatbots-to-seeing-doctor-study-finds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chinese court awards compensation to sacked worker replaced by AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Case attracts widespread attention as example of China balancing enthusiastic adoption of AI with job securityA court in China has ruled in favour of a worker whose company replaced him with artificial intelligence (AI), awarding him more than &pound;28,000 in compensation.The worker, whose surname is Zhou, joined a tech company in the eastern city of Hangzhou in 2022 as a quality assurance supervisor overseeing large language models used in AI products. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/chinese-court-awards-compensation-to-sacked-worker-replaced-by-ai/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 16:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/chinese-court-awards-compensation-to-sacked-worker-replaced-by-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Irresponsible’: backlash as Utah approves datacenter twice the size of Manhattan]]></title><description><![CDATA[Facility would require more power than entire state uses and suck up vast amount of water in drought-stricken areaA plan to create one of the world&rsquo;s largest datacenters, a gargantuan project spanning an area more than twice the size of Manhattan, has provoked a furious public backlash in Utah amid concerns over its vast energy use and impact upon the state&rsquo;s stressed water supplies.The Stratos artificial intelligence datacenter footprint will cover more than 40,000 acres (62 sq mile]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/irresponsible-backlash-as-utah-approves-datacenter-twice-the-size-of-manhattan/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 13:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/irresponsible-backlash-as-utah-approves-datacenter-twice-the-size-of-manhattan/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Datacentres using 6% of electricity supply in UK and US, research says]]></title><description><![CDATA[Industry body says energy consumption driven by AI up 15% globally in two years as it warns of societal backlashDatacentres are consuming 6% of electricity in the UK and US, with the growing strain of AI on energy supplies prompting community resistance, according to research.The proportion of electricity used by vast warehouses stacked with microchips to power AI and the internet has risen 15% worldwide in the past two years as annual global investment in datacentres approaches $1tn (&pound;740]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/datacentres-using-6-of-electricity-supply-in-uk-and-us-research-says/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 12:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/datacentres-using-6-of-electricity-supply-in-uk-and-us-research-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New quantum algorithm solves “impossible” materials problem in seconds]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new quantum-inspired algorithm has cracked a problem so massive that conventional supercomputers struggle to even approach it. Researchers used the method to simulate extraordinarily complex quantum materials known as quasicrystals, opening the door to powerful new quantum devices and ultra-efficient electronics. The work could help scientists design advanced topological qubits and materials for future quantum computers.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/new-quantum-algorithm-solves-impossible-materials-problem-in-seconds/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 09:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/new-quantum-algorithm-solves-impossible-materials-problem-in-seconds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chelsea flower show garden designers clash over use of AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Horticulturalists express alarm after award-winning Matt Keightley launches app that can automate designsWith glasses of champagne sipped among the peonies, Chelsea flower show is generally a friendly and genteel occasion. But this year, the secateurs have been drawn as gardeners clash over the use of AI in designing the exhibits.Matt Keightley, an award-winning designer who has created gardens for figures including Prince Harry, is using artificial intelligence to design his garden for the pres]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/chelsea-flower-show-garden-designers-clash-over-use-of-ai/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 07:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/chelsea-flower-show-garden-designers-clash-over-use-of-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your “um” and pauses could reveal early dementia risk]]></title><description><![CDATA[The little pauses, &ldquo;ums,&rdquo; and moments when you struggle to find the right word may reveal far more about your brain than anyone realized. Researchers discovered that everyday speech patterns are closely tied to executive function &mdash; the mental system that powers memory, planning, focus, and flexible thinking. By using AI to analyze natural conversations, the team found they could predict cognitive performance with surprising accuracy, potentially opening the door to simple speec]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/your-um-and-pauses-could-reveal-early-dementia-risk/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 06:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/your-um-and-pauses-could-reveal-early-dementia-risk/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is Big Brother watching you shop? – podcast]]></title><description><![CDATA[From supermarkets to corner shops, live facial recognition could be coming to retailers near you. Jessica Murray on the AI systems increasingly used by the police and storesLive facial recognition is being hailed as a powerful new frontier in the fight against crime, not only by police but by private companies too. Retailers from supermarkets to corner shops hope it will help them fight back against shoplifting.But the Guardian&rsquo;s social affairs correspondent, Jessica Murray, points out tha]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/is-big-brother-watching-you-shop-podcast/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 04:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/is-big-brother-watching-you-shop-podcast/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imminent Samsung Strike Could Be an Earthquake for AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[A planned strike at Samsung's manufacturing complex would not make supply chains happy.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/imminent-samsung-strike-could-be-an-earthquake-for-ai/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 03:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/imminent-samsung-strike-could-be-an-earthquake-for-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google is Unleashing Gemini on Android Users]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ready or not, here it comes.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/google-is-unleashing-gemini-on-android-users/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 00:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/google-is-unleashing-gemini-on-android-users/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sam Altman defends OpenAI in courtroom showdown with Elon Musk]]></title><description><![CDATA[The OpenAI chief rejects claims he deceived Elon Musk as high-stakes AI trial nears its endSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter emailThe OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman, took the stand on Tuesday to defend himself and his company against a lawsuit by Elon Musk. Altman is set to be one of the final witnesses in the trial, which has pitted two of the tech industry&rsquo;s most powerful men against each other in a dramatic courtroom showdown.Musk has accused Altman and OpenAI of breaking the AI firm&]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-defends-openai-in-courtroom-showdown-with-elon-musk/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 22:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-defends-openai-in-courtroom-showdown-with-elon-musk/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Florida students boo graduation speaker who called AI ‘next Industrial Revolution’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Real estate executive got an unexpected earful when she spoke of &lsquo;living in a time of profound change&rsquo;Though college graduations usually consist of a speaker giving advice to students, one recent ceremony featured students giving the speaker their opinions &ndash; loudly.The University of Central Florida&rsquo;s 2026 graduating class booed as a real estate development executive spoke about how &ldquo;the rise of artificial intelligence is the next Industrial Revolution&rdquo; and abo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/florida-students-boo-graduation-speaker-who-called-ai-next-industrial-revolution/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 22:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/florida-students-boo-graduation-speaker-who-called-ai-next-industrial-revolution/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grok Is a Flop, But It May Not Matter to Elon Musk]]></title><description><![CDATA[Get ready to hear a lot more about data centers in space.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/grok-is-a-flop-but-it-may-not-matter-to-elon-musk/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 20:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/grok-is-a-flop-but-it-may-not-matter-to-elon-musk/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Film industry cannot fight rise of artificial intelligence, says Demi Moore]]></title><description><![CDATA[US actor urges her peers to work with the technology, but stresses it can never replace &lsquo;true art&rsquo; created by humansDemi Moore has said her peers cannot resist the rise of artificial intelligence, saying &ldquo;to fight it is a battle we will lose&rdquo;.The actor, who is a member of the Cannes film festival jury, was asked during a press conference on Tuesday how AI was affecting the industry and whether she believed more regulation was needed. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/film-industry-cannot-fight-rise-of-artificial-intelligence-says-demi-moore/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 19:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/film-industry-cannot-fight-rise-of-artificial-intelligence-says-demi-moore/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google announces raft of free upgrades for Android phones]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tech firm to expand AI capabilities of high-end devices with Gemini Intelligence and says new range of laptops on the wayGoogle has announced a range of features coming to Android phones this year, including a new Gemini Intelligence AI system and a tool to help users avoid distracting apps.Revealed in a livestreamed &ldquo;Android Show&rdquo; event, the free upgrades are scheduled to arrive in waves over the next year for high-end new and old phones alike, including Samsung and Pixel devices. G]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/google-announces-raft-of-free-upgrades-for-android-phones/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/google-announces-raft-of-free-upgrades-for-android-phones/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI has cut my pay as a memoir writer in half | Letter]]></title><description><![CDATA[Using a large language model instead of me to write and then getting me to edit the result is a cynical way for my employer to cut my fee in half, says a freelance writerIn response to your article (&lsquo;Being human helps&rsquo;: despite rise of AI is there still hope for Europe&rsquo;s translators?, 8 May), I work freelance for a company that produces memoirs for its customers. I used to interview, then write. Now, I interview, a large language model writes, and I am paid half of my previous]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-has-cut-my-pay-as-a-memoir-writer-in-half-letter/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 18:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-has-cut-my-pay-as-a-memoir-writer-in-half-letter/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stephen Colbert on Trump’s 22ft gold statue at his golf club: ‘recreational idolatry’]]></title><description><![CDATA[The host reacted to the president&rsquo;s &lsquo;very simple&rsquo; Iran peace plan, his AI Mother&rsquo;s Day images and the US transportation secretary&rsquo;s new reality showOn Monday night, Stephen Colbert gathered his &ldquo;best television friends&rdquo; Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers and John Oliver on the couch after a monologue which focused on the war in the Middle East, Donald Trump&rsquo;s latest slew of AI images and Sean Duffy&rsquo;s return to reality TV. Continue readin]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/stephen-colbert-on-trumps-22ft-gold-statue-at-his-golf-club-recreational-idolatry/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 17:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/stephen-colbert-on-trumps-22ft-gold-statue-at-his-golf-club-recreational-idolatry/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hello Robot Sets the Standard for Practical, Safe Home Robots]]></title><description><![CDATA[Many roboticists (and at least one robotics journalist) have been seduced by the dream of a robot butler. And the rampant popularity of videos showing humanoid robots doing household tasks in improbably clean kitchens and unrealistically tidy bedrooms suggests that we&rsquo;re not the only ones interested in a robot that can do our chores. But for all kinds of reasons, legged humanoids are not yet ready for industrial or commercial applications at scale, and home applications (if people even wan]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/hello-robot-sets-the-standard-for-practical-safe-home-robots/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/hello-robot-sets-the-standard-for-practical-safe-home-robots/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The end of typing? Why workers are suddenly ditching their keyboards]]></title><description><![CDATA[Employees are now whispering to AI voice dictation tools rather than clacking the keys. Will &lsquo;voicepilling&rsquo; make everyone more productive &ndash; or just more annoying?Name: Voicepilled.Age: Reid Hoffman first declared himself &ldquo;voicepilled&rdquo; in the autumn of last year. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-end-of-typing-why-workers-are-suddenly-ditching-their-keyboards/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-end-of-typing-why-workers-are-suddenly-ditching-their-keyboards/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chasing Utopia review – renegade Google exec Mo Gawdat searches for ethical AI in alarming insider warning]]></title><description><![CDATA[Delivering much information about the scale of what&rsquo;s coming, documentary also follows Gawdat&rsquo;s campaign to get the programs with empathyAnother day, another warning about AI; vis-a-vis the reality we all know, this has roughly the same reassuring effect as a plane fuselage ripping off mid-flight. Starting off with familiar criticisms, such as putting the world out of work and handing over power to tech barons, Alex Holmes and Lina Zilinskaite&rsquo;s film blasts an concentrated stre]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/chasing-utopia-review-renegade-google-exec-mo-gawdat-searches-for-ethical-ai-in-alarming-insider-warning/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/chasing-utopia-review-renegade-google-exec-mo-gawdat-searches-for-ethical-ai-in-alarming-insider-warning/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US workers overwhelmingly support union-backed policies on AI, poll says]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nine out of 10 workers express support for policies on artificial intelligence that labor unions may fight forUS workers overwhelmingly support pro-worker policies on artificial intelligence (AI) and view labor unions as the most reliable protectors of workers from the effects of AI, according to a new poll released by the AFL-CIO, the largest federation of labor unions in the US.More than nine out of 10 workers surveyed expressed support for policies on artificial intelligence that labor unions]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/us-workers-overwhelmingly-support-union-backed-policies-on-ai-poll-says/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/us-workers-overwhelmingly-support-union-backed-policies-on-ai-poll-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Daybreak’: OpenAI’s Answer to Anthropic’s Project Glasswing Has Arrived]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI seems to be trying for a much less scary vibe than Anthropic's.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/daybreak-openais-answer-to-anthropics-project-glasswing-has-arrived/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/daybreak-openais-answer-to-anthropics-project-glasswing-has-arrived/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Datacentres should be forced to invest in wind and solar energy, all states agree – except Queensland]]></title><description><![CDATA[State and federal energy ministers say investments in new renewable energy and storage should &lsquo;fully offset&rsquo; new datacentres&rsquo; energy needsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastPower hungry datacentres that are growing to meet the demands of artificial intelligence could be forced to invest in enough new solar and wind generation to completely cover their electricity needs.State and federal energy ministe]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/datacentres-should-be-forced-to-invest-in-wind-and-solar-energy-all-states-agree-except-queensland/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 07:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/datacentres-should-be-forced-to-invest-in-wind-and-solar-energy-all-states-agree-except-queensland/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Government’s Page About Its AI Vetting Deals with Google, xAI, and Microsoft Is Missing from Its Website]]></title><description><![CDATA["These agreements support information-sharing," the announcement once said.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-governments-page-about-its-ai-vetting-deals-with-google-xai-and-microsoft-is-missing-from-its-website/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 05:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-governments-page-about-its-ai-vetting-deals-with-google-xai-and-microsoft-is-missing-from-its-website/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember Digg? It’s Back, in AI News Outlet Form]]></title><description><![CDATA[Digg once reshaped the internet. It's been reshaping itself over and over ever since.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/remember-digg-its-back-in-ai-news-outlet-form/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 02:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/remember-digg-its-back-in-ai-news-outlet-form/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘A consistent pattern of lying’: Musk v OpenAI trial exposes what insiders think of Sam Altman]]></title><description><![CDATA[The trial has exposed even more details about OpenAI&rsquo;s fractious corporate past than previously documentedOpenAI, despite its name, is usually extremely secretive about its operations. It promotes a carefully crafted image to the world. Over the course of Elon Musk&rsquo;s case against the startup and its CEO, Sam Altman, however, the artificial intelligence firm has been forced to publicly contend with some of the messiest parts of its rise to power.The Musk v OpenAI trial, which on Monda]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/a-consistent-pattern-of-lying-musk-v-openai-trial-exposes-what-insiders-think-of-sam-altman/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 00:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/a-consistent-pattern-of-lying-musk-v-openai-trial-exposes-what-insiders-think-of-sam-altman/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Graduation Speaker Says AI Is ‘The Next Industrial Revolution,’ Immediately Drowned Out by Booing Students]]></title><description><![CDATA[Maybe stick to things that don't remind them that the job market sucks.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/graduation-speaker-says-ai-is-the-next-industrial-revolution-immediately-drowned-out-by-booing-students/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 21:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/graduation-speaker-says-ai-is-the-next-industrial-revolution-immediately-drowned-out-by-booing-students/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI-powered hacking has exploded into industrial-scale threat, Google says]]></title><description><![CDATA[Criminal groups and state-linked actors appear to be using commercial models to refine and scale up attacksBusiness live &ndash; latest updatesIn just three months, AI-powered hacking has gone from a nascent problem to an industrial-scale threat, according to a report from Google.The findings from Google&rsquo;s threat intelligence group add to an intensifying, global discussion about how the newest AI models are extremely adept at coding &ndash; and becoming extremely powerful tools for exploit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-powered-hacking-has-exploded-into-industrial-scale-threat-google-says/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 16:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-powered-hacking-has-exploded-into-industrial-scale-threat-google-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Molière Ex Machina: AI used to create ‘new work’ by beloved French playwright]]></title><description><![CDATA[Comedy debuts at Versailles featuring dialogue, music, costumes and scenery created with help of AI tool Le ChatEurope live &ndash; latest updatesMoli&egrave;re is to the French what Shakespeare is to the English: the last word in historical literature, drama, wit and satire.Now, more than 350 years after his death, the 17th-century dramatist has been revived after scholars at the Sorbonne University in Paris used artificial intelligence to help write an experimental play in his style. Continue]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/molire-ex-machina-ai-used-to-create-new-work-by-beloved-french-playwright/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 14:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/molire-ex-machina-ai-used-to-create-new-work-by-beloved-french-playwright/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Palantir’s access to identifiable NHS England patient data is ‘dangerous’, MPs say]]></title><description><![CDATA[Health service has given US tech firm &lsquo;unlimited access&rsquo; to certain data to build integrated platform, according to reportsUK politics live &ndash; latest updatesMPs have warned that an NHS decision to grant Palantir access to identifiable patient information in its plan to use AI to improve the health service is &ldquo;dangerous&rdquo; and will fuel public fears that data privacy is not being prioritised.NHS England has allowed staff from the US tech firm and other contractors to ac]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/palantirs-access-to-identifiable-nhs-england-patient-data-is-dangerous-mps-say/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 14:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/palantirs-access-to-identifiable-nhs-england-patient-data-is-dangerous-mps-say/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic Has Added Several More Religions on Its Quest to Inject Perfect Morals into Claude]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic (and OpenAI) recently met with representatives from Sikh, Hindu, Jewish, and LDS groups. Will it help?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-has-added-several-more-religions-on-its-quest-to-inject-perfect-morals-into-claude/</link><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-has-added-several-more-religions-on-its-quest-to-inject-perfect-morals-into-claude/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Video Friday: AI Gives Robot Hands Humanlike Dexterity]]></title><description><![CDATA[Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.ICRA 2026: 1&ndash;5 June 2026, VIENNARSS 2026: 13&ndash;17 July 2026, SYDNEYSummer School on Multi-Robot Systems: 29 July&ndash;4 August 2026, PRAGUEActuate 2026: 18&ndash;19 August 2026, SAN FRANCISCOEnjoy today&rsquo;s videos! Introducing GENE-26.5&mdas]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/video-friday-ai-gives-robot-hands-humanlike-dexterity/</link><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/video-friday-ai-gives-robot-hands-humanlike-dexterity/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Video Friday: AI Gives Robot Hands Human-Like Dexterity]]></title><description><![CDATA[Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.ICRA 2026: 1&ndash;5 June 2026, VIENNARSS 2026: 13&ndash;17 July 2026, SYDNEYSummer School on Multi-Robot Systems: 29 July&ndash;4 August 2026, PRAGUEActuate 2026: 18&ndash;19 August 2026, SAN FRANCISCOEnjoy today&rsquo;s videos! Introducing GENE-26.5&mdas]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/video-friday-ai-gives-robot-hands-human-like-dexterity/</link><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/video-friday-ai-gives-robot-hands-human-like-dexterity/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Directionally Very Bad’: Everything You Missed During Week 2 of the Elon Musk vs OpenAI Trial]]></title><description><![CDATA[This case isn't going to produce any winners in the court of public opinion.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/directionally-very-bad-everything-you-missed-during-week-2-of-the-elon-musk-vs-openai-trial/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 21:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/directionally-very-bad-everything-you-missed-during-week-2-of-the-elon-musk-vs-openai-trial/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI Is Tired of Seeing All Those Videos of People Clowning on Its Voice Mode]]></title><description><![CDATA[Say what?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-is-tired-of-seeing-all-those-videos-of-people-clowning-on-its-voice-mode/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 22:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-is-tired-of-seeing-all-those-videos-of-people-clowning-on-its-voice-mode/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spending Just 10 Minutes With AI Can Fry Your Brain, Researchers Find]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is your brain on AI. Any questions?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/spending-just-10-minutes-with-ai-can-fry-your-brain-researchers-find/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 20:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/spending-just-10-minutes-with-ai-can-fry-your-brain-researchers-find/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Tiny AI Model That Lives Inside the Chrome Browser Hallucinates a Whole Lot]]></title><description><![CDATA[Or maybe you just haven't heard of President John F. Lincoln.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-tiny-ai-model-that-lives-inside-the-chrome-browser-hallucinates-a-whole-lot/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 15:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-tiny-ai-model-that-lives-inside-the-chrome-browser-hallucinates-a-whole-lot/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elon Musk Teams Up With Anthropic, a Company He’s Called ‘Evil’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Musk might think Anthropic "hates Western Civilization," but he also loves money.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/elon-musk-teams-up-with-anthropic-a-company-hes-called-evil/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 22:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/elon-musk-teams-up-with-anthropic-a-company-hes-called-evil/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google Chrome Is Downloading a 4GB AI Model Onto Your Device Without Consent, Researcher Warns]]></title><description><![CDATA[Maybe Google doesn't ask permission because it knows what the answer would be.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/google-chrome-is-downloading-a-4gb-ai-model-onto-your-device-without-consent-researcher-warns/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 20:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/google-chrome-is-downloading-a-4gb-ai-model-onto-your-device-without-consent-researcher-warns/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump’s Potential New AI Executive Order May Take a Swipe at Anthropic]]></title><description><![CDATA[The president is reportedly cooking up an expansive AI plan of some sort.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/trumps-potential-new-ai-executive-order-may-take-a-swipe-at-anthropic/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 11:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/trumps-potential-new-ai-executive-order-may-take-a-swipe-at-anthropic/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI lets chemists design molecules by simply describing them]]></title><description><![CDATA[Creating complex molecules usually requires years of experience and countless decisions, but a new AI system is changing that. Synthegy lets chemists guide synthesis and reaction planning using simple language, while powerful algorithms generate and evaluate possible solutions. The AI doesn&rsquo;t just compute&mdash;it reasons, scoring pathways and explaining which ones make the most sense.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-lets-chemists-design-molecules-by-simply-describing-them/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 02:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-lets-chemists-design-molecules-by-simply-describing-them/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If You Plan to Get an iPhone in the Fall, Don’t Get Too Attached to ChatGPT]]></title><description><![CDATA[You'll reportedly get your choice of AI companions, which means ChatGPT might be losing its shine.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/if-you-plan-to-get-an-iphone-in-the-fall-dont-get-too-attached-to-chatgpt/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 23:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/if-you-plan-to-get-an-iphone-in-the-fall-dont-get-too-attached-to-chatgpt/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coinbase to Layoff 14% of Workforce Amid AI Disruption and Crypto Volatility]]></title><description><![CDATA[The crypto exchange has joined the bull market for blaming cuts on AI.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/coinbase-to-layoff-14-of-workforce-amid-ai-disruption-and-crypto-volatility/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 22:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/coinbase-to-layoff-14-of-workforce-amid-ai-disruption-and-crypto-volatility/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coinbase to Lay Off 14% of Workforce Amid AI Disruption and Crypto Volatility]]></title><description><![CDATA[The crypto exchange has joined the bull market for blaming cuts on AI.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/coinbase-to-lay-off-14-of-workforce-amid-ai-disruption-and-crypto-volatility/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 22:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/coinbase-to-lay-off-14-of-workforce-amid-ai-disruption-and-crypto-volatility/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Father of Memetics Has Become a Meme About AI Psychosis]]></title><description><![CDATA[One more unfortunate soul falls for The Claude Delusion.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-father-of-memetics-has-become-a-meme-about-ai-psychosis/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 21:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-father-of-memetics-has-become-a-meme-about-ai-psychosis/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump Reportedly Considering Executive Order Aimed at Vetting New AI Models]]></title><description><![CDATA[Let him cook.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/trump-reportedly-considering-executive-order-aimed-at-vetting-new-ai-models/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/trump-reportedly-considering-executive-order-aimed-at-vetting-new-ai-models/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Musk Seemingly Tried to Strong-Arm a Settlement Out of OpenAI Before Trial]]></title><description><![CDATA["By the end of this week, you and Sam will be the most hated men in America. If you insist, so it will be."]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/musk-seemingly-tried-to-strong-arm-a-settlement-out-of-openai-before-trial/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 19:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/musk-seemingly-tried-to-strong-arm-a-settlement-out-of-openai-before-trial/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[iRobot Founder Wants to Put a Robotic Familiar Into Your Home]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two years ago, Colin Angle stepped down as CEO of iRobot, the company that he co-founded and the most successful home robot company the world has ever seen. Angle almost immediately founded a stealthy new &ldquo;physical AI&rdquo; company called Familiar Machines &amp; Magic (FM&amp;M), which in short order managed to attract a combination of exceptionally talented robotics folks, including Morgan Pope from Disney Research, which got us very curious.Today, Familiar Machines &amp; Magic is announ]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/irobot-founder-wants-to-put-a-robotic-familiar-into-your-home/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 19:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/irobot-founder-wants-to-put-a-robotic-familiar-into-your-home/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It’s Illegal in China to Lay Someone Off to Replace Them with AI, Court Finds]]></title><description><![CDATA["Employers are prohibited from shifting operating costs to employees."&nbsp;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/its-illegal-in-china-to-lay-someone-off-to-replace-them-with-ai-court-finds/</link><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 11:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/its-illegal-in-china-to-lay-someone-off-to-replace-them-with-ai-court-finds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More Than a Third of All New Podcasts Are AI-Generated]]></title><description><![CDATA[Synthetic podcasts just keep coming.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/more-than-a-third-of-all-new-podcasts-are-ai-generated/</link><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/more-than-a-third-of-all-new-podcasts-are-ai-generated/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta Axes Contractors Who Had to Review Explicit Video From Smart Glasses]]></title><description><![CDATA[You can fix the problem or fire the alleged whistleblowers. Which one's cheaper?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/meta-axes-contractors-who-had-to-review-explicit-video-from-smart-glasses/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 23:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/meta-axes-contractors-who-had-to-review-explicit-video-from-smart-glasses/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything You Missed From Elon Musk’s Testimony in the OpenAI Trial]]></title><description><![CDATA[He had a lot to say. He'd probably like to take some of it back.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/everything-you-missed-from-elon-musks-testimony-in-the-openai-trial/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 21:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/everything-you-missed-from-elon-musks-testimony-in-the-openai-trial/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Video Friday: Figure, 1X Ramp Up Humanoid Robot Production]]></title><description><![CDATA[Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.ICRA 2026: 1&ndash;5 June 2026, VIENNARSS 2026: 13&ndash;17 July 2026, SYDNEYSummer School on Multi-Robot Systems: 29 July&ndash;4 August 2026, PRAGUEActuate 2026: 18&ndash;19 August 2026, SAN FRANCISCOEnjoy today&rsquo;s videos! Figure is now able to prod]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/video-friday-figure-1x-ramp-up-humanoid-robot-production/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 18:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/video-friday-figure-1x-ramp-up-humanoid-robot-production/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pentagon inks deals with seven AI companies for classified military work]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI, Google, Nvidia and others agreed to &lsquo;any lawful use&rsquo; of their tech. Anthropic, feuding with Pentagon over potential AI misuse, was not includedSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxThe Pentagon said on Friday it had reached agreements with seven leading artificial intelligence (AI) companies: SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, Nvidia, Reflection, Microsoft and Amazon Web Services.&ldquo;These agreements accelerate the transformation toward establis]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/pentagon-inks-deals-with-seven-ai-companies-for-classified-military-work/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 18:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/pentagon-inks-deals-with-seven-ai-companies-for-classified-military-work/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UN warns women in public life face increasingly sophisticated online violence]]></title><description><![CDATA[UN Women report says AI, anonymity and lack of effective laws are increasing the risks of engaging in digital spacesWomen in public life are facing growing and increasingly sophisticated forms of online violence, the UN has said, warning that &ldquo;AI-assisted &lsquo;virtual rape&rsquo; is now at the fingertips of perpetrators&rdquo;.Female rights campaigners, journalists and other public communicators face a deepening threat owing to a combination of artificial intelligence, anonymity and the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/un-warns-women-in-public-life-face-increasingly-sophisticated-online-violence/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 17:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/un-warns-women-in-public-life-face-increasingly-sophisticated-online-violence/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maryland Just Banned Surveillance Pricing on Groceries. Critics Say It’s Basically Toothless]]></title><description><![CDATA[Other states like New York, New Jersey, and Illinois are considering similar bills.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/maryland-just-banned-surveillance-pricing-on-groceries-critics-say-its-basically-toothless/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 16:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/maryland-just-banned-surveillance-pricing-on-groceries-critics-say-its-basically-toothless/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Robo athletes miss the point of sport – there is no drama without emotion | Emma John]]></title><description><![CDATA[We are in a world where robots compete against humans and while perfect scores might be impressive, they are also dullIt hurts to miss an unmarked shot in basketball. And it certainly seemed to pain the Alvark Tokyo shooter, halfway through April&rsquo;s Japanese league game against Shimane Susanoo Magic. As the ball bounded off the rim, the player wheeled away, head lowered, eyes downcast. The disappointment looked glaringly real.Which is interesting, because it was not. The player could not ha]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/robo-athletes-miss-the-point-of-sport-there-is-no-drama-without-emotion-emma-john/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/robo-athletes-miss-the-point-of-sport-there-is-no-drama-without-emotion-emma-john/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Awkward and humiliating’: UK job hunters share frustration with AI interviews]]></title><description><![CDATA[People describe unnatural process as survey finds nearly half of job seekers have been interviewed by AINearly half (47%) of UK job seekers have had an AI interview, research from the hiring platform Greenhouse has found.In its survey of 2,950 active job seekers, including 1,132 UK-based workers, with additional respondents from the US, Germany, Australia and Ireland, it found that 30% of UK candidates had walked away from a hiring process because it included an AI interview. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/awkward-and-humiliating-uk-job-hunters-share-frustration-with-ai-interviews/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 07:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/awkward-and-humiliating-uk-job-hunters-share-frustration-with-ai-interviews/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge cuts off Musk’s AI doomsday talk as his testimony ends in OpenAI case]]></title><description><![CDATA[Trial continues after heated back-and-forth during OpenAI&rsquo;s cross-examination of the Tesla CEOElon Musk&rsquo;s court case against Sam Altman continued on Thursday, after a day of contentious exchanges during OpenAI&rsquo;s cross-examination of the Tesla CEO. Musk faced more combative questioning throughout the morning, in a glimpse of what may await other prominent witnesses set to take the stand.Witness testimony and evidence has revealed formerly private emails, text messages and diary]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/judge-cuts-off-musks-ai-doomsday-talk-as-his-testimony-ends-in-openai-case/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/judge-cuts-off-musks-ai-doomsday-talk-as-his-testimony-ends-in-openai-case/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spotify rolls out ‘Verified’ badge to distinguish human artists from AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Green checkmark will appear on artist profiles to signal they meet the platform&rsquo;s standard for authenticitySpotify on Thursday unveiled a new verification system designed to help listeners distinguish human musicians from AI-generated content, as people flood streaming platforms with a growing volume of synthetic tracks made with artificial intelligence.The Swedish streaming giant said its &ldquo;Verified by Spotify&rdquo; badge &ndash; marked by a green checkmark &ndash; will begin appear]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/spotify-rolls-out-verified-badge-to-distinguish-human-artists-from-ai/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/spotify-rolls-out-verified-badge-to-distinguish-human-artists-from-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI’s New Image Generator Is Trying to Take Your 6-Year-Old’s Job]]></title><description><![CDATA[The world's most resource-intense technology can finally replicate an image you could make on computers in 1985.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/openais-new-image-generator-is-trying-to-take-your-6-year-olds-job/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/openais-new-image-generator-is-trying-to-take-your-6-year-olds-job/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Samsung reports record quarterly profit as chip income jumps almost 50-fold]]></title><description><![CDATA[The AI boom is worsening a global memory chip shortage, which Samsung predicts will continue into 2027Samsung Electronics on Thursday reported record quarterly profit driven by a 49-fold jump in chip income, saying it expects a severe supply shortage to deepen next year as clients spend on AI, driving up prices of its memory chips.A boom in the construction of AI datacentres has spurred Samsung and chipmaking peers to allocate production capacity to advanced chips that Nvidia uses in its so-call]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/samsung-reports-record-quarterly-profit-as-chip-income-jumps-almost-50-fold/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/samsung-reports-record-quarterly-profit-as-chip-income-jumps-almost-50-fold/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI outperforms doctors in Harvard trial of emergency triage diagnoses]]></title><description><![CDATA[Researchers say results mark a &lsquo;profound change in technology that will reshape medicine&rsquo;From George Clooney in ER to Noah Wyle in The Pitt, emergency department doctors have long been popular heroes. But will it soon be time to hang up the scrubs?A groundbreaking Harvard study has found that AI systems outperformed human doctors in high-pressure emergency medicine triage, diagnosing more accurately in the potentially life and death moments when people are first rushed to hospital. C]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-outperforms-doctors-in-harvard-trial-of-emergency-triage-diagnoses/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-outperforms-doctors-in-harvard-trial-of-emergency-triage-diagnoses/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI Just Beat Doctors at Diagnosing ER Patients. Don’t Get All Excited]]></title><description><![CDATA[An advanced &lsquo;reasoning&rsquo; model AI scored over 11% higher than two human doctors when diagnosing emergency room cases.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-just-beat-doctors-at-diagnosing-er-patients-dont-get-all-excited/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-just-beat-doctors-at-diagnosing-er-patients-dont-get-all-excited/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It’s time to tax AI slop | Mike Pepi]]></title><description><![CDATA[We are stuck in a deluge of meaningless content that threatens human creativity. Here&rsquo;s a simple way to mitigate its harmsAs the US midterm elections approach, voters are voicing concern about AI. According to an NBC News poll of registered voters, 57% believe the risks of AI outweigh the benefits. A rising political cohort is particularly concerned. A Pew Research poll showed that 61% of adults under 30 say more AI in society will make people worse at creative thinking. A recent Quinnipia]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/its-time-to-tax-ai-slop-mike-pepi/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/its-time-to-tax-ai-slop-mike-pepi/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[DAIMON Robotics Wants to Give Robot Hands a Sense of Touch]]></title><description><![CDATA[This article is brought to you by DAIMON Robotics.This April, Hong Kong-based DAIMON Robotics has released Daimon-Infinity, which it describes as the largest omni-modal robotic dataset for physical AI, featuring high resolution tactile sensing and spanning a wide range of tasks from folding laundry at home to manufacturing on factory assembly lines. The project is supported by collaborative efforts of partners across China and the globe, including Google DeepMind, Northwestern University, and th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/daimon-robotics-wants-to-give-robot-hands-a-sense-of-touch/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/daimon-robotics-wants-to-give-robot-hands-a-sense-of-touch/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This AI knew the answers but didn’t understand the questions]]></title><description><![CDATA[For decades, psychologists have debated whether the human mind can be explained by one unified theory or must be broken into separate parts like memory and attention. A recent AI model called Centaur seemed to offer a breakthrough, claiming it could mimic human thinking across 160 different cognitive tasks. But new research is challenging that bold claim, suggesting the model isn&rsquo;t truly &ldquo;thinking&rdquo; at all&mdash;it&rsquo;s just memorizing patterns.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/this-ai-knew-the-answers-but-didnt-understand-the-questions/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 08:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/this-ai-knew-the-answers-but-didnt-understand-the-questions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta Could Spend $145 Billion This Year Due to AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Zuckerberg vows at least two AI agent releases to help make sense of that outrageous number]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/meta-could-spend-145-billion-this-year-due-to-ai/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 04:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/meta-could-spend-145-billion-this-year-due-to-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bernie Sanders urges international cooperation to halt AI’s ‘runaway train’]]></title><description><![CDATA[US senator holds panel with leading Chinese scientists and warns of risks to society unless new technology is regulated Bernie Sanders espoused the importance of international cooperation in regulating AI at a Wednesday panel on Capitol Hill alongside two leading Chinese scientists.As startups and tech giants, most prominently in Silicon Valley and Beijing, race to advance and scale their artificial intelligence, the Vermont senator has been among the AI skeptics advocating for safeguards. Conti]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/bernie-sanders-urges-international-cooperation-to-halt-ais-runaway-train/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 03:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/bernie-sanders-urges-international-cooperation-to-halt-ais-runaway-train/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google Gives OpenAI 20 Billion Reasons To Worry]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google posted giant revenue growth this past quarter and it was thanks to Gemini.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/google-gives-openai-20-billion-reasons-to-worry/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 02:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/google-gives-openai-20-billion-reasons-to-worry/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Your questions are designed to trick me’: combative Musk grilled over battle with Sam Altman]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lawyers for world&rsquo;s richest person try to paint him as humanitarian as judge cuts off his long-winded repliesAfter a dramatic first day of opening statements and testimony from Elon Musk in his case against Sam Altman and OpenAI, the trial continued on Wednesday with a cross-examination of the Tesla CEO. Musk began his second day of on the stand by repeating the accusation that Altman &ldquo;stole a charity&rdquo; and would endanger humanity with AI multiple times. OpenAI&rsquo;s attorneys]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/your-questions-are-designed-to-trick-me-combative-musk-grilled-over-battle-with-sam-altman/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/your-questions-are-designed-to-trick-me-combative-musk-grilled-over-battle-with-sam-altman/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Claude-powered AI agent’s confession after deleting a firm’s entire database: ‘I violated every principle I was given’]]></title><description><![CDATA[PocketOS was left scrambling after a rogue AI agent deleted swaths of code underpinning its businessIt only took nine seconds for an AI coding agent gone rogue to delete a company&rsquo;s entire production database and its backups, according to its founder. PocketOS, which sells software that car rental businesses rely on, descended into chaos after its databases were wiped, the company&rsquo;s founder Jeremy Crane said.The culprit was Cursor, an AI agent powered by Anthropic&rsquo;s Claude Opus]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/claude-powered-ai-agents-confession-after-deleting-a-firms-entire-database-i-violated-every-principle-i-was-given/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/claude-powered-ai-agents-confession-after-deleting-a-firms-entire-database-i-violated-every-principle-i-was-given/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stephen Fry sues tech conference organisers for £100,000 over fall from stage]]></title><description><![CDATA[Actor and presenter broke his hip, right leg, pelvis and ribs when he gave a talk at CogX festival at O2 Arena in 2023Stephen Fry is suing two companies that organised a tech conference where he was injured in 2023 after falling off the stage, high court documents show.The actor and presenter broke his hip and had multiple breaks in his right leg, pelvis and ribs when he attended the CogX festival at the O2 Arena, where he delivered a talk on artificial intelligence on 14 September 2023. Continu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/stephen-fry-sues-tech-conference-organisers-for-100000-over-fall-from-stage/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 23:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/stephen-fry-sues-tech-conference-organisers-for-100000-over-fall-from-stage/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Anti-Data Center Movement Notches a Huge Victory in Data Center Alley]]></title><description><![CDATA[Put one in the win column.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-anti-data-center-movement-notches-a-huge-victory-in-data-center-alley/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-anti-data-center-movement-notches-a-huge-victory-in-data-center-alley/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendly AI chatbots more likely to support conspiracy theories, study finds]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chatbots programmed to respond warmly even cast doubts on Apollo moon landings and fate of Hitler, researchers sayThe rush to make AI chatbots more friendly has a troubling downside, researchers say. The warm personas make them prone to mistakes and sympathetic to crackpot beliefs.Chatbots trained to respond more warmly gave poorer answers, worse health advice and even supported conspiracy theories by casting doubt on events such as the Apollo moon landings and the fate of Adolf Hitler. Continue]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/friendly-ai-chatbots-more-likely-to-support-conspiracy-theories-study-finds/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/friendly-ai-chatbots-more-likely-to-support-conspiracy-theories-study-finds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘It will never cover what’s authentic’: African music industry weighs up AI risks and rewards]]></title><description><![CDATA[Delegates at event in Cape Verde highlight opportunities from tech while stressing AI is no replacement for talentLast July, the Nigerian singer-songwriter Fave found herself caught up in a viral moment: an unauthorised version of a track by her featuring an AI choir had been released, quickly becoming an internet sensation. To get ahead of the situation, she recorded her own remix that integrated the AI-assisted song and added it to her discography.&ldquo;In my view, [that] was smart and very b]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/it-will-never-cover-whats-authentic-african-music-industry-weighs-up-ai-risks-and-rewards/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/it-will-never-cover-whats-authentic-african-music-industry-weighs-up-ai-risks-and-rewards/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meet the AI jailbreakers: ‘I see the worst things humanity has produced’]]></title><description><![CDATA[To test the safety and security of AI, hackers have to trick large language models into breaking their own rules. It requires ingenuity and manipulation &ndash; and can come at a deep emotional costA few months ago, Valen Tagliabue sat in his hotel room watching his chatbot, and felt euphoric. He had just manipulated it so skilfully, so subtly, that it began ignoring its own safety rules. It told him how to sequence new, potentially lethal pathogens and how to make them resistant to known drugs.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/meet-the-ai-jailbreakers-i-see-the-worst-things-humanity-has-produced/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/meet-the-ai-jailbreakers-i-see-the-worst-things-humanity-has-produced/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the coming AI future, Britain must not end up at the mercy of US tech giants | Rafael Behr]]></title><description><![CDATA[Trump is volatile, capricious and unreasonable &ndash; but he belongs to the old world of analogue power. What comes next will be harder to manageDonald Trump is not impressed by soft power. He respects hard men with military muscle. But he can be moved by pageantry, which is the purpose of King Charles&rsquo;s visit to Washington this week. Trump is flattered to rub shoulders with majesty. The good vibes are then supposed to radiate warmth through a political relationship that has been chilled]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/in-the-coming-ai-future-britain-must-not-end-up-at-the-mercy-of-us-tech-giants-rafael-behr/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 07:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/in-the-coming-ai-future-britain-must-not-end-up-at-the-mercy-of-us-tech-giants-rafael-behr/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mickey Mouse is watching you: Disneyland deploys facial recognition]]></title><description><![CDATA[Walt Disney Company says technology at California theme park will prevent fraud and streamline re-entryDisneyland, the beloved California adventure park, has outfitted some entrance lanes with facial recognition technology, a move its parent company says will prevent fraud and streamline re-entry.At certain entrance lanes, a camera will capture images of visitors, which can be converted via biometric technology into unique numerical values, according to the Walt Disney Company&rsquo;s website. C]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/mickey-mouse-is-watching-you-disneyland-deploys-facial-recognition/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 03:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/mickey-mouse-is-watching-you-disneyland-deploys-facial-recognition/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[WWE Videos Made by a Glitching AI That Sounds Like It’s Being Strangled Are the Future of Entertainment]]></title><description><![CDATA[It sounds awful. I can't stop listening.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/wwe-videos-made-by-a-glitching-ai-that-sounds-like-its-being-strangled-are-the-future-of-entertainment/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 03:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/wwe-videos-made-by-a-glitching-ai-that-sounds-like-its-being-strangled-are-the-future-of-entertainment/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dead Internet Theory Is 17% of the Way to Becoming Reality, Study Finds]]></title><description><![CDATA[The researchers also found that 35.3% of all newly published websites were created with the assistance of AI]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/dead-internet-theory-is-17-of-the-way-to-becoming-reality-study-finds/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/dead-internet-theory-is-17-of-the-way-to-becoming-reality-study-finds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There Will be No Taylor Swift, AI Version… if She Has Anything to Say About It]]></title><description><![CDATA[She knows the downsides of AI deepfakes all too well and is testing the limits of trademark law.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/there-will-be-no-taylor-swift-ai-version-if-she-has-anything-to-say-about-it/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/there-will-be-no-taylor-swift-ai-version-if-she-has-anything-to-say-about-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK must seize initiative on AI or be left at its mercy, Liz Kendall says]]></title><description><![CDATA[Technology secretary speaks amid concerns country is struggling to make its own way in AIBritain must seize the initiative on artificial intelligence or be left at the &ldquo;mercy and whim&rdquo; of a future shaped by the technology, Liz Kendall has said.The technology secretary said the country must have greater control over the industry as she highlighted big tech&rsquo;s grip on its development, with 70% of the world&rsquo;s AI computing power provided by US companies. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/uk-must-seize-initiative-on-ai-or-be-left-at-its-mercy-liz-kendall-says/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/uk-must-seize-initiative-on-ai-or-be-left-at-its-mercy-liz-kendall-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK must seize AI initiative or be left at the ‘mercy’ of the future, Liz Kendall warns]]></title><description><![CDATA[The technology secretary spoke amid concerns the UK was struggling to make its own way in AIBritain must seize the initiative in AI or be left at the &ldquo;mercy and whim&rdquo; of a future shaped by the technology, Liz Kendall has warned.The UK&rsquo;s technology secretary said the country must have greater control over the industry as she highlighted big tech&rsquo;s grip over its development, with 70% of the world&rsquo;s artificial intelligence computing power provided by US companies. Cont]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/uk-must-seize-ai-initiative-or-be-left-at-the-mercy-of-the-future-liz-kendall-warns/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/uk-must-seize-ai-initiative-or-be-left-at-the-mercy-of-the-future-liz-kendall-warns/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google reportedly signs classified AI deal with US Pentagon]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tech company is latest Silicon Valley firm to sign agreement with US military despite widespread employee oppositionGoogle has reportedly signed a deal with the US Pentagon to use its artificial intelligence models for classified work. The tech company joins a growing list of Silicon Valley firms inking agreements with the US military.The agreement allows the Pentagon to use Google&rsquo;s AI for &ldquo;any lawful government purpose&rdquo;, the report from the Information added, putting it along]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/google-reportedly-signs-classified-ai-deal-with-us-pentagon/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/google-reportedly-signs-classified-ai-deal-with-us-pentagon/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Stole a charity’: Elon Musk accuses Sam Altman of betrayal in courtroom showdown]]></title><description><![CDATA[Trial is culmination of a years-long feud between Musk and Altman that has become increasingly viciousThe trial pitting Elon Musk against Sam Altman and OpenAI began in earnest on Tuesday with opening arguments, as lawyers for the two tech moguls seek to convince a California jury of their client&rsquo;s version of the AI company&rsquo;s history. The trial is set to feature testimony from both billionaires, as well as some of the most powerful executives in the tech industry.Musk argues that Alt]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/stole-a-charity-elon-musk-accuses-sam-altman-of-betrayal-in-courtroom-showdown/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/stole-a-charity-elon-musk-accuses-sam-altman-of-betrayal-in-courtroom-showdown/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The personal pettiness of the Elon Musk v OpenAI trial]]></title><description><![CDATA[In theory, Musk and Altman&rsquo;s court fight could pose key questions about AI safety &ndash; in reality, it&rsquo;s motivated by money and personal grievanceSign up for the TechScape newsletter: our free technology emailHello, and welcome to TechScape. I&rsquo;m your host, Blake Montgomery, US tech editor at the Guardian, writing to you from beneath a cherry blossom tree in Prospect Park in New York City. Spring has arrived!Facing AI and a tough job market, gen Z turns to entrepreneurship: &l]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-personal-pettiness-of-the-elon-musk-v-openai-trial/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-personal-pettiness-of-the-elon-musk-v-openai-trial/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it feels like the world is rejecting science and truth, here are five ways to fight back | Helen Pearson]]></title><description><![CDATA[All of us can choose to consider facts, not vibes, in our next decision. One simple hack is go and look up some easily accessible peer-reviewed studiesHelen Pearson is an editor for Nature and author of Beyond Belief: How Evidence Shows What Really WorksIn 1992, a group of rebel doctors published a radical idea in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association. They argued that the practice of medicine needed to be transformed so that doctors didn&rsquo;t rely on intuition and conve]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/if-it-feels-like-the-world-is-rejecting-science-and-truth-here-are-five-ways-to-fight-back-helen-pearson/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/if-it-feels-like-the-world-is-rejecting-science-and-truth-here-are-five-ways-to-fight-back-helen-pearson/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI’s Latest Release Looks Like the Project Management Software You Probably Already Have to Use]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ever used kanban-based management software? You'll probably recognize OpenAI's new open-source spec.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/openais-latest-release-looks-like-the-project-management-software-you-probably-already-have-to-use/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/openais-latest-release-looks-like-the-project-management-software-you-probably-already-have-to-use/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Claude-Powered Agent Apparently Deletes Company Database, Debases Itself Further in Confession]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI agents are powered by the same obsequious LLMs as consumer chatbots.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/claude-powered-agent-apparently-deletes-company-database-debases-itself-further-in-confession/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 11:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/claude-powered-agent-apparently-deletes-company-database-debases-itself-further-in-confession/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell us: have you become emotionally attached to AI?]]></title><description><![CDATA[We would like to hear from people who converse with AI chatbots on a personal levelLots of people now use chatbots as personal assistants, sometimes to the extent that they have formed an emotional attachment to them.We would like to hear from people who converse with AI chatbots on a personal level. Have you formed an emotional bond to an AI chatbot? Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/tell-us-have-you-become-emotionally-attached-to-ai/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 11:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/tell-us-have-you-become-emotionally-attached-to-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘They’re supposed to be handmade’: zine creators fight to resist AI influence]]></title><description><![CDATA[Artists and writers argue scrappy nature of self-published booklets is incompatible with artificial intelligenceThe self-published zine has long been central to cultural revolutions, from queer activism to Black feminism and the riot grrrl punk movement, producing titles such as Sniffin&rsquo; Glue and Sweet-Thang along the way. But now the traditionally analogue art form faces a new shift: artificial intelligence.AI may seem incompatible with the these cult DIY booklets, but some creatives, des]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/theyre-supposed-to-be-handmade-zine-creators-fight-to-resist-ai-influence/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/theyre-supposed-to-be-handmade-zine-creators-fight-to-resist-ai-influence/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tech giants face new levy to pay for Australian news as Meta calls position ‘simply wrong’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google also rejects need for reform after Albanese government reveals draft news bargaining incentive scheme Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAnthony Albanese has urged Google, Meta and TikTok to make deals with Australian media outlets to avoid a dedicated 2.25% levy on local revenues, warning digital giants should not be able to exploit the work of journalists to boost profits.But tech giants Google and Meta have c]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/tech-giants-face-new-levy-to-pay-for-australian-news-as-meta-calls-position-simply-wrong/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/tech-giants-face-new-levy-to-pay-for-australian-news-as-meta-calls-position-simply-wrong/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humanoid robots to become baggage handlers in Japan airport experiment]]></title><description><![CDATA[Japan Airlines will introduce the robots for trial run at a Tokyo airport amid country&rsquo;s surge in inbound tourism and worsening labour shortagesJapan&rsquo;s famously conscientious but overburdened baggage handlers will soon be joined by extra staff at Tokyo&rsquo;s Haneda airport &ndash; although their new colleagues will need to take regular recharging breaks.Japan Airlines will introduce humanoid robots on a trial basis from the beginning of May, with a view to deploying them permanentl]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/humanoid-robots-to-become-baggage-handlers-in-japan-airport-experiment/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 05:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/humanoid-robots-to-become-baggage-handlers-in-japan-airport-experiment/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google Employees Say They Do Not Want to Fill the Gap Left by Anthropic]]></title><description><![CDATA[Classify this as a protest.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/google-employees-say-they-do-not-want-to-fill-the-gap-left-by-anthropic/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 22:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/google-employees-say-they-do-not-want-to-fill-the-gap-left-by-anthropic/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elon Musk and Sam Altman face off in court over OpenAI’s founding mission]]></title><description><![CDATA[Musk&rsquo;s lawsuit accuses Altman of fraud, while OpenAI says that Musk is &lsquo;motivated by jealousy&rsquo;A trial between two of Silicon Valley&rsquo;s biggest tycoons kicked off on Monday in California, the culmination of a years-long bitter feud. Elon Musk has accused Sam Altman of betraying the founding agreement of the non-profit they started together, OpenAI, by changing it to a for-profit enterprise.Jury selection began at a federal courthouse in Oakland with Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Ro]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/elon-musk-and-sam-altman-face-off-in-court-over-openais-founding-mission/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 22:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/elon-musk-and-sam-altman-face-off-in-court-over-openais-founding-mission/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Canva Admits Its AI Tool Removed ‘Palestine’ From Designs, Apologizes for Any Distress It Caused]]></title><description><![CDATA[Free _________.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/canva-admits-its-ai-tool-removed-palestine-from-designs-apologizes-for-any-distress-it-caused/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/canva-admits-its-ai-tool-removed-palestine-from-designs-apologizes-for-any-distress-it-caused/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sadiq Khan may try to stop Scotland Yard signing Palantir contract]]></title><description><![CDATA[Exclusive: Mayor raises concerns about using public money to support firms &lsquo;who act contrary to London&rsquo;s values&rsquo;Sadiq Khan may oppose Scotland Yard using Palantir&rsquo;s AI systems to process criminal intelligence because of his &ldquo;concerns about using public money to support firms who act contrary to London&rsquo;s values&rdquo;.The mayor of London&rsquo;s office made the statement after the Guardian revealed last week that Palantir, whose software has been used in Donald]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/sadiq-khan-may-try-to-stop-scotland-yard-signing-palantir-contract/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/sadiq-khan-may-try-to-stop-scotland-yard-signing-palantir-contract/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taylor Swift files trademarks for voice and image amid concern over AI misuse]]></title><description><![CDATA[The singer&rsquo;s company filed three applications on Friday after Matthew McConaughey launched similar strategyTaylor Swift has filed applications to trademark her voice and image in a move seemingly designed to protect against AI misuse.On 24 April, Swift&rsquo;s company TAS Rights Management filed three trademark applications, Variety reports. Two of these are sound trademarks that cover Swift saying the phrases &ldquo;Hey, it&rsquo;s Taylor Swift&rdquo; and &ldquo;Hey, it&rsquo;s Taylor.&rd]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/taylor-swift-files-trademarks-for-voice-and-image-amid-concern-over-ai-misuse/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/taylor-swift-files-trademarks-for-voice-and-image-amid-concern-over-ai-misuse/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Oliver on AI chatbots: ‘Behind that machine is a corporation trying to extract a monthly fee from you’]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Last Week Tonight host dug into the many issues with AI chatbots released to the public without proper safety guardrails, from sycophancy to sexualizing childrenOn the latest Last Week Tonight, John Oliver looked into AI chatbots, the new toys that &ldquo;save significant time writing emails, and all it costs us is everything else on Earth&rdquo;. These chatbots have flourished in recent years, from OpenAI&rsquo;s ChatGPT to a products including bible.ai and EpiscoBot, some of which operate]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/john-oliver-on-ai-chatbots-behind-that-machine-is-a-corporation-trying-to-extract-a-monthly-fee-from-you/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/john-oliver-on-ai-chatbots-behind-that-machine-is-a-corporation-trying-to-extract-a-monthly-fee-from-you/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goldman raises oil price forecasts as Iran war deadlock continues; Shell buying Canada’s ARC in $13.6bn deal – as it happened]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial newsShares in athletic apparel and footwear company Adidas have jumped by almost 1.75% in early trading after three of its athletes shone at the London Marathon yesterday.Sabastian Sawe and Yomif Kejelcha both smashed the two-hour barrier in the men&rsquo;s marathon race, and Tigst Assefa set a women-only world record in the women&rsquo;s race.The adidas family is incredibly proud of Sabastian and Tigist&rsquo;s historic achievements, marking]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/goldman-raises-oil-price-forecasts-as-iran-war-deadlock-continues-shell-buying-canadas-arc-in-136bn-deal-as-it-happened/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/goldman-raises-oil-price-forecasts-as-iran-war-deadlock-continues-shell-buying-canadas-arc-in-136bn-deal-as-it-happened/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How AI job scams are destroying people’s hopes | Letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sasha Cooklin, Darryl Dixon and Niall Leonard respond to an article by Victoria Turk about the boom in AI-driven fraud in recruitmentArtificial intelligence isn&rsquo;t just being used by scammers to promise fake roles and trick job-seekers, it is becoming increasingly prevalent in responses and screening processes for real jobs (AI job scams are booming &ndash; and I was fooled by one. Here is how to avoid them, 21 April). Not only are good people losing out on jobs, but&nbsp;companies are losi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/how-ai-job-scams-are-destroying-peoples-hopes-letters/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/how-ai-job-scams-are-destroying-peoples-hopes-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it’s only AI that’s keeping you up at night, maybe you’re doing OK | Letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Poverty is far more pressing for many people, writes Lynsey Hanley. Plus letters from Martin Pitt and Michael BulleyReading Alexander Hurst&rsquo;s column on the frictionless experience of life promised &ndash; or threatened &ndash; by AI algorithms, I was struck by how little I recognised the picture he painted of daily experience being stripped of the friction necessary to furnish it with meaning (To be human is to live with friction. That&rsquo;s something AI boosters will never understand, 2]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/if-its-only-ai-thats-keeping-you-up-at-night-maybe-youre-doing-ok-letters/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/if-its-only-ai-thats-keeping-you-up-at-night-maybe-youre-doing-ok-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China blocks $2bn Meta takeover of AI agent developer Manus]]></title><description><![CDATA[Beijing says domestic tech companies must seek explicit government approval for accepting US investmentBusiness live &ndash; latest updatesChina has blocked Meta&rsquo;s $2bn (&pound;1.5bn) acquisition of an AI startup as it cracks down on US investments in domestic tech companies.Mark Zuckerberg&rsquo;s Meta, the owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, announced the acquisition of Manus, a developer of autonomous AI agents, in December. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/china-blocks-2bn-meta-takeover-of-ai-agent-developer-manus/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/china-blocks-2bn-meta-takeover-of-ai-agent-developer-manus/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inside China’s robotics revolution – podcast]]></title><description><![CDATA[How close are we to the sci-fi vision of autonomous humanoid robots? I visited 11 companies in five Chinese cities to find outBy Chang Che. Read by Vincent Lai Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/inside-chinas-robotics-revolution-podcast/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 06:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/inside-chinas-robotics-revolution-podcast/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maine Governor Vetoes Landmark Data Center Moratorium]]></title><description><![CDATA[The plan would have frozen data center constructions in the state until November 2027.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/maine-governor-vetoes-landmark-data-center-moratorium/</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/maine-governor-vetoes-landmark-data-center-moratorium/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bosses don’t like the sound of a ‘four-day workweek’. Maybe it’s time to rebrand it]]></title><description><![CDATA[Some employers are reluctant to cut workers&rsquo; hours but pay them the same &ndash; but it just might be the future of workWe keep hearing that the four-day workweek is the future. So why are so few businesses actually adopting it?Belgium, Iceland and Lithuania have passed legislation requiring the practice, and other countries in Europe are piloting the idea. Hundreds of companies in the UK have signed up for to give this a try. Microsoft tested the concept in Japan. Non-profits such as the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/bosses-dont-like-the-sound-of-a-four-day-workweek-maybe-its-time-to-rebrand-it/</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/bosses-dont-like-the-sound-of-a-four-day-workweek-maybe-its-time-to-rebrand-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK departments at odds over energy demands of AI datacentres]]></title><description><![CDATA[Discrepancy in forecasts raises questions over government planning for net zeroOne vision of the UK&rsquo;s future involves a decarbonised economy powered by clean, renewable energy. Another involves making the UK an AI superpower.The government departments responsible for these two visions do not appear to have agreed on their numbers. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/uk-departments-at-odds-over-energy-demands-of-ai-datacentres/</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/uk-departments-at-odds-over-energy-demands-of-ai-datacentres/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hopeful Thought of the Day: Robots Can’t Do Human Conflict]]></title><description><![CDATA[We kill each other just fine, thank you very much.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/hopeful-thought-of-the-day-robots-cant-do-human-conflict/</link><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 16:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/hopeful-thought-of-the-day-robots-cant-do-human-conflict/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Guy Who Started the ‘Scientology Run’ TikTok Trend Says It’s Time to Stop]]></title><description><![CDATA[Leave the running to Tom Cruise.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-guy-who-started-the-scientology-run-tiktok-trend-says-its-time-to-stop/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-guy-who-started-the-scientology-run-tiktok-trend-says-its-time-to-stop/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half of Gen Z Would Rather Live in the Past: Survey]]></title><description><![CDATA[48% of Gen Z is concerned or anxious about AI.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/half-of-gen-z-would-rather-live-in-the-past-survey/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/half-of-gen-z-would-rather-live-in-the-past-survey/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half of Gen Z Is Concerned or Anxious About AI’s Impact on Jobs: Survey]]></title><description><![CDATA[47% also said they'd rather live in the past.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/half-of-gen-z-is-concerned-or-anxious-about-ais-impact-on-jobs-survey/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/half-of-gen-z-is-concerned-or-anxious-about-ais-impact-on-jobs-survey/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Almost Half of Gen Z Doesn’t Want to Live in 2026: Survey]]></title><description><![CDATA[48% of Gen Z is concerned or anxious about AI.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/almost-half-of-gen-z-doesnt-want-to-live-in-2026-survey/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/almost-half-of-gen-z-doesnt-want-to-live-in-2026-survey/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Video Friday: Who Wins in Robot vs. Pro Ping-Pong Player?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.ICRA 2026: 1&ndash;5 June 2026, VIENNARSS 2026: 13&ndash;17 July 2026, SYDNEYSummer School on Multi-Robot Systems: 29 July&ndash;4 August 2026, PRAGUEEnjoy today&rsquo;s videos! Sony AI&rsquo;s latest research, published on the cover of Nature, addresses a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/video-friday-who-wins-in-robot-vs-pro-ping-pong-player/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/video-friday-who-wins-in-robot-vs-pro-ping-pong-player/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Video Friday: Who Wins in Robot Versus Pro Ping-Pong Player?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.ICRA 2026: 1&ndash;5 June 2026, VIENNARSS 2026: 13&ndash;17 July 2026, SYDNEYSummer School on Multi-Robot Systems: 29 July&ndash;4 August 2026, PRAGUEEnjoy today&rsquo;s videos! Sony AI&rsquo;s latest research, published on the cover of Nature, addresses a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/video-friday-who-wins-in-robot-versus-pro-ping-pong-player/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/video-friday-who-wins-in-robot-versus-pro-ping-pong-player/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump Admin Accuses China of ‘Industrial-Scale’ Theft of AI Tech. What Does That Even Mean?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Wow. I didn't know that. What else can you say? I'm actually sad to hear that.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/trump-admin-accuses-china-of-industrial-scale-theft-of-ai-tech-what-does-that-even-mean/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/trump-admin-accuses-china-of-industrial-scale-theft-of-ai-tech-what-does-that-even-mean/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This Roboticist-Turned-Teacher Built a Life-Size Replica of ENIAC]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tom Burick has always considered himself a builder. Over the years he&rsquo;s designed robots, constructed a vintage teardrop trailer, and most recently, led a group of students in building a full-scale replica of a pivotal 1940s computer. Burick is a technology instructor at PS Academy in Gilbert, Ariz., a middle and high school for students with autism and other specialized learning needs. At the start of the 2025&ndash;26 school year, he began a project with his students to build a full-scale]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/this-roboticist-turned-teacher-built-a-life-size-replica-of-eniac/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/this-roboticist-turned-teacher-built-a-life-size-replica-of-eniac/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI Companies Think Destroying the Planet Is an Acceptable Trade-Off for Unlimited Profits]]></title><description><![CDATA[So much for those net-zero emissions pledges huh, guys?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-companies-think-destroying-the-planet-is-an-acceptable-trade-off-for-unlimited-profits/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-companies-think-destroying-the-planet-is-an-acceptable-trade-off-for-unlimited-profits/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Proposed Chinese Robot Ban Is Latest U.S. Tech Sovereignty Move]]></title><description><![CDATA[The American Security Robotics Act, a bipartisan bill introduced in March by Senators Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Congresswoman Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), proposes to limit U.S. government use of Chinese ground robots including humanoids, dogs, and crawlers. The proposal came just a few days after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) tightened its rules for new foreign-made routers. The two changes are part of a much broader decoupling of sensitive U.S. tech from Chin]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/proposed-chinese-robot-ban-is-latest-us-tech-sovereignty-move/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/proposed-chinese-robot-ban-is-latest-us-tech-sovereignty-move/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Newspaper Company Allegedly Puts Humans’ Bylines on AI Articles Unless Contractually Prevented from Doing So]]></title><description><![CDATA['If they don&rsquo;t have the ability in their contract to remove their byline, we&rsquo;re going to use their name' a company leader said.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/newspaper-company-allegedly-puts-humans-bylines-on-ai-articles-unless-contractually-prevented-from-doing-so/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/newspaper-company-allegedly-puts-humans-bylines-on-ai-articles-unless-contractually-prevented-from-doing-so/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Newspaper Is Allegedly Slapping People’s Names on AI Stories Without Their Permission]]></title><description><![CDATA["If they don&rsquo;t have the ability in their contract to remove their byline, we&rsquo;re going to use their name," a company leader reportedly said.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/a-newspaper-is-allegedly-slapping-peoples-names-on-ai-stories-without-their-permission/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/a-newspaper-is-allegedly-slapping-peoples-names-on-ai-stories-without-their-permission/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Newspaper Is Allegedly Slapping Humans’ Names on AI Stories Without Their Permission]]></title><description><![CDATA['If they don&rsquo;t have the ability in their contract to remove their byline, we&rsquo;re going to use their name' a company leader said.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/a-newspaper-is-allegedly-slapping-humans-names-on-ai-stories-without-their-permission/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/a-newspaper-is-allegedly-slapping-humans-names-on-ai-stories-without-their-permission/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta Plans to Turn Its Employees’ Clicks and Keystrokes into AI Training Data]]></title><description><![CDATA[Surely this will encourage a sense of job security.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/meta-plans-to-turn-its-employees-clicks-and-keystrokes-into-ai-training-data/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/meta-plans-to-turn-its-employees-clicks-and-keystrokes-into-ai-training-data/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Florida’s Attorney General Opens Criminal Investigation Into OpenAI’s Role in Mass Shooting]]></title><description><![CDATA[A mass shooting at FSU may have been encouraged by conversations with ChatGPT.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/floridas-attorney-general-opens-criminal-investigation-into-openais-role-in-mass-shooting/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/floridas-attorney-general-opens-criminal-investigation-into-openais-role-in-mass-shooting/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tesla Technically Launched Robotaxis in Dallas and Houston (Just in Time for Quarterly Earnings)]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's less for riders and more for shareholders.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/tesla-technically-launched-robotaxis-in-dallas-and-houston-just-in-time-for-quarterly-earnings/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/tesla-technically-launched-robotaxis-in-dallas-and-houston-just-in-time-for-quarterly-earnings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The USC Professor Who Pioneered Socially Assistive Robotics]]></title><description><![CDATA[When the robotics engineering field that Maja Matari&#263; wanted to work in didn&rsquo;t exist, she helped create it. In 2005 she helped define the new area of socially assistive robotics.As an associate professor of computer science, neuroscience, and pediatrics at the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles, she developed robots to provide personalized therapy and care through social interactions.Maja Matari&#263;<br />
Employer University of Southern California, Los AngelesJob Title Prof]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-usc-professor-who-pioneered-socially-assistive-robotics/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-usc-professor-who-pioneered-socially-assistive-robotics/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China’s Biggest Streaming Platform Wants Most of Its New Films to Be AI-Generated]]></title><description><![CDATA[China's answer to Netflix is debuting an AI filmmaking tool in hopes to create the first commercially successful AI movie this year.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/chinas-biggest-streaming-platform-wants-most-of-its-new-films-to-be-ai-generated/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/chinas-biggest-streaming-platform-wants-most-of-its-new-films-to-be-ai-generated/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI swarms could hijack democracy without anyone noticing]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI-powered personas are becoming so realistic that they can infiltrate online communities and subtly steer public opinion. Unlike traditional bots, they adapt, coordinate, and refine their messaging at a massive scale, creating a false sense of consensus. Early warning signs&mdash;like deepfakes and fake news networks&mdash;have already appeared in global elections. Researchers warn that the next election could be the true test of this technology&rsquo;s power.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-swarms-could-hijack-democracy-without-anyone-noticing/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-swarms-could-hijack-democracy-without-anyone-noticing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Palantir Posts Very Long X Post Denouncing ‘Vacant and Hollow Pluralism’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Best case scenario: maybe Palantir is super psyched about abundant and solid pluralism.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/palantir-posts-very-long-x-post-denouncing-vacant-and-hollow-pluralism/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 22:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/palantir-posts-very-long-x-post-denouncing-vacant-and-hollow-pluralism/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think AI "knows" what it&rsquo;s doing? Scientists say think again]]></title><description><![CDATA[Calling AI things like &ldquo;smart&rdquo; or saying it &ldquo;knows&rdquo; something might sound harmless, but it can quietly mislead people about what AI actually does. A new study shows that news writers are more careful than expected, rarely using strongly human-like language. When they do, it often falls on a spectrum&mdash;sometimes describing simple requirements, other times hinting at human traits.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/think-ai-knows-what-itrsquos-doing-scientists-say-think-again/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 10:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/think-ai-knows-what-itrsquos-doing-scientists-say-think-again/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[RAM Shortage Expected to Continue Into Next Year or Later]]></title><description><![CDATA[No relief in sight from the RAMpocalypse.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ram-shortage-expected-to-continue-into-next-year-or-later/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 17:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ram-shortage-expected-to-continue-into-next-year-or-later/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How a fiery attack on Sam Altman’s home unfolded]]></title><description><![CDATA[Molotov cocktail attack on OpenAI CEO&rsquo;s home comes amid growing discontent against artificial intelligenceIn the early hours of 10 April, a man approached the gate of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman&rsquo;s house in San Francisco and hurled a molotov cocktail at the building before fleeing. The suspect, 20-year-old Daniel Moreno-Gama, was arrested less than two hours later while allegedly attempting to break into the headquarters of OpenAI with a jug of kerosene, a lighter and an anti-AI manifesto.F]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/how-a-fiery-attack-on-sam-altmans-home-unfolded/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/how-a-fiery-attack-on-sam-altmans-home-unfolded/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artificial neurons successfully communicate with living brain cells]]></title><description><![CDATA[Engineers at Northwestern University have taken a striking leap toward merging machines with the human brain by printing artificial neurons that can actually communicate with real ones. These flexible, low-cost devices generate lifelike electrical signals capable of activating living brain cells, a breakthrough demonstrated in mouse brain tissue.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/artificial-neurons-successfully-communicate-with-living-brain-cells/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 09:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/artificial-neurons-successfully-communicate-with-living-brain-cells/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quantum AI just got shockingly good at predicting chaos]]></title><description><![CDATA[Researchers have shown that blending quantum computing with AI can dramatically improve predictions of complex, chaotic systems. By letting a quantum computer identify hidden patterns in data, the AI becomes more accurate and stable over time. The method outperformed standard models while using far less memory. This could have big implications for fields like climate science, energy, and medicine.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/quantum-ai-just-got-shockingly-good-at-predicting-chaos/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 05:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/quantum-ai-just-got-shockingly-good-at-predicting-chaos/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sam Altman’s Creepy Eyeball-Scanning Company Gets in Bed With Zoom and Tinder]]></title><description><![CDATA[Will your boss require an eyeball scan the next time you need to jump on Zoom?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/sam-altmans-creepy-eyeball-scanning-company-gets-in-bed-with-zoom-and-tinder/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/sam-altmans-creepy-eyeball-scanning-company-gets-in-bed-with-zoom-and-tinder/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI Investors Aren’t Sure Sam Altman Is the Guy to Take Them Public]]></title><description><![CDATA[More like out, man.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-investors-arent-sure-sam-altman-is-the-guy-to-take-them-public/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-investors-arent-sure-sam-altman-is-the-guy-to-take-them-public/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Video Friday: Digit Learns to Deadlift]]></title><description><![CDATA[Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.ICRA 2026: 1&ndash;5 June 2026, VIENNARSS 2026: 13&ndash;17 July 2026, SYDNEYSummer School on Multi-Robot Systems: 29 July&ndash;4 August 2026, PRAGUEEnjoy today&rsquo;s videos! Training a policy for Digit to perform a deadlift isn&rsquo;t just about Digit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/video-friday-digit-learns-to-deadlift/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/video-friday-digit-learns-to-deadlift/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Video Friday: Digit Learns to Dead-lift]]></title><description><![CDATA[Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.ICRA 2026: 1&ndash;5 June 2026, VIENNARSS 2026: 13&ndash;17 July 2026, SYDNEYSummer School on Multi-Robot Systems: 29 July&ndash;4 August 2026, PRAGUEEnjoy today&rsquo;s videos! Training a policy for Digit to perform a dead lift isn&rsquo;t just about Digi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/video-friday-digit-learns-to-dead-lift/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/video-friday-digit-learns-to-dead-lift/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finance leaders warn over Mythos as UK banks prepare to use powerful Anthropic AI tool]]></title><description><![CDATA[Release of new Claude model, so far limited to US firms, will expand to British institutions in coming daysBritish banks will be given access in the next week to a powerful AI tool that was deemed too dangerous to be released to the public, as a series of senior finance figures warned over its impact.Anthropic, which has so far limited the release of the new model to a small clutch of primarily US businesses, including Amazon, Apple and Microsoft, said it would expand that to UK financial instit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/finance-leaders-warn-over-mythos-as-uk-banks-prepare-to-use-powerful-anthropic-ai-tool/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 11:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/finance-leaders-warn-over-mythos-as-uk-banks-prepare-to-use-powerful-anthropic-ai-tool/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Media coverage of violence against women reaches ‘dismal’ low, report finds]]></title><description><![CDATA[Analysis finds stories citing terms of misogynistic abuse fell to 1.3% of global online news in 2025Media coverage of violence against women and girls and misogynistic harassment is at a &ldquo;pitiful&rdquo; low, despite a proliferation of high-profile cases of men abusing women and children, and a rise in AI-assisted violence against women and girls, new research shows.An analysis of 1.14bn online stories published worldwide between 2017 and 2025 found that the proportion of articles that incl]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/media-coverage-of-violence-against-women-reaches-dismal-low-report-finds/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/media-coverage-of-violence-against-women-reaches-dismal-low-report-finds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liz Kendall urges UK public to embrace AI as government makes first £500m fund investment]]></title><description><![CDATA[Technology secretary plays down fears over jobs and cyber security as stake taken in British startupThe UK technology secretary has urged the country to &ldquo;make AI work for Britain&rdquo;, brushing off fears about its impact on jobs and cybersecurity as the government announced its first investment under a &pound;500m sovereign AI fund.<br />
Liz Kendall said the UK had to &ldquo;seize&rdquo; the opportunity offered by AI despite concerns underlined this month when US startup Anthropic revealed it]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/liz-kendall-urges-uk-public-to-embrace-ai-as-government-makes-first-500m-fund-investment/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 07:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/liz-kendall-urges-uk-public-to-embrace-ai-as-government-makes-first-500m-fund-investment/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hollywood’s First Big Budget AI-Generated Movie Is About Bitcoin, of Course]]></title><description><![CDATA[Casey Affleck and Gal Gadot star in 'Paycheck: The Movie.']]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/hollywoods-first-big-budget-ai-generated-movie-is-about-bitcoin-of-course/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 23:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/hollywoods-first-big-budget-ai-generated-movie-is-about-bitcoin-of-course/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 4.7 to Remind Everyone How Great Mythos Is]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bold strategy to promote your new release as "less broadly capable" than other options.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-releases-claude-opus-47-to-remind-everyone-how-great-mythos-is/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-releases-claude-opus-47-to-remind-everyone-how-great-mythos-is/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ben Jennings on the US-Iran war and AI slop – cartoon]]></title><description><![CDATA[Discover and buy more of Ben&rsquo;s cartoons hereOrder your own print of this cartoon from the Guardian Print Shop Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ben-jennings-on-the-us-iran-war-and-ai-slop-cartoon/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ben-jennings-on-the-us-iran-war-and-ai-slop-cartoon/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man used AI to make false statements to shut down London nightclub, police say]]></title><description><![CDATA[Heaven club neighbour admits offences under Licensing Act, as Met says fictitious AI-generated complaints a growing issueA businessman has pleaded guilty to making false statements in order to shut down a nightclub, which police believe were generated using AI.A Metropolitan police source said the use of AI to generate letters by complainants who do not exist is a growing issue. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/man-used-ai-to-make-false-statements-to-shut-down-london-nightclub-police-say/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/man-used-ai-to-make-false-statements-to-shut-down-london-nightclub-police-say/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google Makes Image Generation a Little Creepier With Personal Intelligence]]></title><description><![CDATA[Solving a problem no one had.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/google-makes-image-generation-a-little-creepier-with-personal-intelligence/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/google-makes-image-generation-a-little-creepier-with-personal-intelligence/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell us: do you use AI for fitness?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Is AI helping with your workouts? We want to hear about itAccording to reports, people are incorporating AI into their fitness routines in a variety of ways; they have it write up training plans, design meal plans and workout playlists, and provide feedback on form.We want to hear from you: how are you using AI in your workouts? Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/tell-us-do-you-use-ai-for-fitness/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/tell-us-do-you-use-ai-for-fitness/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First trailer released for western starring AI version of Val Kilmer]]></title><description><![CDATA[Footage of As Deep As the Grave screened in the US, featuring an authorised visual deepfake of the actor who died in 2025A trailer has been released for the first film to star an authorised generative AI version of a major Hollywood actor.Val Kilmer was cast in western As Deep As the Grave before his death in April 2025. Production delays meant he never shot any scenes, but the creative team worked with UK-based company Sonantic to create an AI speaking voice based on his old recordings. Continu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/first-trailer-released-for-western-starring-ai-version-of-val-kilmer/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/first-trailer-released-for-western-starring-ai-version-of-val-kilmer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI is destroying jobs – and the energy crisis could make that much worse | Larry Elliott]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every wave of new tech has come with a doomsday scenario. But governments just aren&rsquo;t planning a human response on the scale required The transition to a world of artificial intelligence has given a whole new meaning to the concept that capitalism can only renew itself through creative destruction. This is the idea that clapped-out technologies have to be replaced by new ways of doing things, even though the process can be brutal.That has been the way of things for every new wave of invent]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-is-destroying-jobs-and-the-energy-crisis-could-make-that-much-worse-larry-elliott/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-is-destroying-jobs-and-the-energy-crisis-could-make-that-much-worse-larry-elliott/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Australian federal court warns lawyers over ‘unacceptable’ use of AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[New guidance to legal profession &lsquo;embraces&rsquo; use of technology but flags penalties for lawyers who &lsquo;mislead the court&rsquo; with AI-generated errorsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe federal court of Australia has warned the legal profession about the dangers of using generative artificial intelligence in legal proceedings, issuing new rules for its use, with potential financial or legal consequen]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/australian-federal-court-warns-lawyers-over-unacceptable-use-of-ai/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 06:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/australian-federal-court-warns-lawyers-over-unacceptable-use-of-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That Movie with AI Val Kilmer as a Priest Has a Trailer Now]]></title><description><![CDATA[It features Kilmer-type images of various apparent ages.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/that-movie-with-ai-val-kilmer-as-a-priest-has-a-trailer-now/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/that-movie-with-ai-val-kilmer-as-a-priest-has-a-trailer-now/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shares in Allbirds surge after maker of wool sneakers announces pivot to AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rebrand as NewBird AI sent shares up 582% in bizarre and rapid turnaround for firm that had fallen on hard timesAllbirds, the maker of minimalist wool sneakers beloved by Silicon Valley, announced on Wednesday that it is leaving shoes behind and pivoting to artificial intelligence. The new focus and rebrand as &ldquo;NewBird AI&rdquo; sent the company&rsquo;s stock up 582% as of mid-day during a flurry of trading.The surging stock price and new direction is a bizarre, rapid turnaround for a comp]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/shares-in-allbirds-surge-after-maker-of-wool-sneakers-announces-pivot-to-ai/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/shares-in-allbirds-surge-after-maker-of-wool-sneakers-announces-pivot-to-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grayson Perry Has Seen the Future review – some of these insights into AI are just mindblowing]]></title><description><![CDATA[From people marrying digital companions to CEOs excited about how people whose jobs are replaced can &lsquo;adapt&rsquo;, this is terrifying watching. But Perry is the perfect hostThere is a fun game you can play while watching Grayson Perry Has Seen the Future, the two-part documentary presented by the artist on the subject of artificial intelligence, its uses and its possible ramifications. Gather a group of friends, press play, and see which of you loses your mind first.Will it be during the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/grayson-perry-has-seen-the-future-review-some-of-these-insights-into-ai-are-just-mindblowing/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/grayson-perry-has-seen-the-future-review-some-of-these-insights-into-ai-are-just-mindblowing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Child victims of online sexual abuse in UK inadequately protected, review finds]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lack of funding leaving police forces failing to keep pace with two-thirds annual increase in referrals, says reportChild victims of online sexual abuse are being inadequately protected from further harm because police forces are struggling to cope with an increase in this crime, his majesty&rsquo;s chief inspector of constabulary has warned.Michelle Skeer said: &ldquo;Without investment and coordination, the situation will worsen and children could be put at further risk.&rdquo; Continue readin]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/child-victims-of-online-sexual-abuse-in-uk-inadequately-protected-review-finds/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/child-victims-of-online-sexual-abuse-in-uk-inadequately-protected-review-finds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Berklee College of Music Offers AI Course, Students Are Pissed]]></title><description><![CDATA[Students want to give 'Bots and Beats' the boot.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/berklee-college-of-music-offers-ai-course-students-are-pissed/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/berklee-college-of-music-offers-ai-course-students-are-pissed/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Guardian view on social science research: embracing uncertainty | Editorial]]></title><description><![CDATA[Science rarely produces identical outcomes. Mistaking this for failure turns caution into an excuse for inactionA new set of studies out this month suggests that as many as half of all results published in reputable journals in the social sciences can&rsquo;t be replicated by independent analysis. This is part of a long-running problem across many research fields &ndash; most visibly in the social sciences and psychology, though concerns have also been raised in areas of biomedical research.The]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-guardian-view-on-social-science-research-embracing-uncertainty-editorial/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-guardian-view-on-social-science-research-embracing-uncertainty-editorial/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Pitt and Game of Thrones spinoff given age ratings as BBFC deploys new AI tool]]></title><description><![CDATA[Regulator says tool, which creates reports for humans to review, has helped classify entire UK catalogue of HBO MaxTV shows including The Pitt and a Game of Thrones spinoff have received age ratings in the UK after the British Board of Film Classification deployed AI to help flag contentious scenes.The BBFC developed a tool to identify content that triggers compliance issues, such as violence, nudity and bad language. The flagged scenes were then passed over to BBFC staff for human review. Conti]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-pitt-and-game-of-thrones-spinoff-given-age-ratings-as-bbfc-deploys-new-ai-tool/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-pitt-and-game-of-thrones-spinoff-given-age-ratings-as-bbfc-deploys-new-ai-tool/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Snap Inc blames AI as it lays off 1,000 workers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cuts by Snapchat&rsquo;s parent company come in response to a declining stock price and pressure from an activist investorSnapchat&rsquo;s parent company plans to lay off 16% of its employees, around 1,000 people, citing &ldquo;rapid advancements in artificial intelligence&rdquo;, the social media company told staff on Wednesday in an internal memo. The staff reduction is part of a wave of tech industry layoffs in the past year, with many firms blaming AI for the cuts.Snap Inc&rsquo;s layoffs fo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/snap-inc-blames-ai-as-it-lays-off-1000-workers/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/snap-inc-blames-ai-as-it-lays-off-1000-workers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ChatGPT’s latest stylistic quirk is sinister, infuriating – and absolutely everywhere | Stuart Heritage]]></title><description><![CDATA[Once you start noticing &ldquo;it&rsquo;s not X, it&rsquo;s Y&rdquo; as you scroll online, you can&rsquo;t fail to register it. I&rsquo;ve become so hypervigilant that it has seeped into my subconscious thoughtsIf you&rsquo;ve never seen Jim Carrey&rsquo;s 2007 psychological thriller The Number 23, then congratulations. It is a film about a man who sees the number 23 so many times that he ends up going bonkers. I used to think this film was stupid. However, now I appear to be living it.My own pe]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/chatgpts-latest-stylistic-quirk-is-sinister-infuriating-and-absolutely-everywhere-stuart-heritage/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/chatgpts-latest-stylistic-quirk-is-sinister-infuriating-and-absolutely-everywhere-stuart-heritage/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Misogyny with a marketing budget’: UK AI firm accused of sexist advert]]></title><description><![CDATA[Narwhal Labs ad for &lsquo;AI employee&rsquo; contains strapline: &lsquo;She outworks everyone. And she&rsquo;ll never ask for a raise&rsquo;A British AI company that recently secured millions of pounds of investment has been accused of running a misogynistic and sexist advertising campaign.The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has received at least seven complaints about the campaign by Narwhal Labs, which includes an advert depicting a woman next to the strapline: &ldquo;She outworks every]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/misogyny-with-a-marketing-budget-uk-ai-firm-accused-of-sexist-advert/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/misogyny-with-a-marketing-budget-uk-ai-firm-accused-of-sexist-advert/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell us your experience with AI in job interviews]]></title><description><![CDATA[We would like to hear your experience of job interviews that were conducted partially or wholly by AICompanies are increasingly using AI in their hiring processes &ndash; including conducting job interviews themselves. With this in mind, we would like to hear your experience of job interviews that were conducted partially or wholly by AI.If you&rsquo;re having trouble using the form click here. Read terms of service here and privacy policy here. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/tell-us-your-experience-with-ai-in-job-interviews/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/tell-us-your-experience-with-ai-in-job-interviews/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This simple change stops robot swarms from getting stuck]]></title><description><![CDATA[In crowded environments, more robots don&rsquo;t always mean faster results&mdash;in fact, too many can bring everything to a standstill. Harvard researchers discovered a surprising fix: adding a bit of randomness to how robots move can actually prevent gridlock and boost efficiency. By allowing robots to &ldquo;wiggle&rdquo; slightly instead of marching in straight lines, they can slip past each other and keep tasks flowing smoothly.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/this-simple-change-stops-robot-swarms-from-getting-stuck/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/this-simple-change-stops-robot-swarms-from-getting-stuck/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First Statewide Data Center Ban Passed by Maine Legislature]]></title><description><![CDATA[If Governor Janet Mills signs it, it will block construction of new data centers over 20 MW.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/first-statewide-data-center-ban-passed-by-maine-legislature/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 05:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/first-statewide-data-center-ban-passed-by-maine-legislature/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NAACP lawsuit accuses Elon Musk’s xAI of polluting Black neighborhoods near Memphis]]></title><description><![CDATA[Suit alleges the billionaire&rsquo;s AI company is illegally spewing toxic pollutants from its datacenter in the Memphis areaA new lawsuit accuses Elon Musk&rsquo;s artificial intelligence company of illegally spewing toxic pollutants into the Black neighborhoods on the border of Tennessee and Mississippi.The suit, filed on Tuesday in Mississippi federal court, alleges xAI is violating the Clean Air Act due to emissions from its makeshift power plant in Southaven, Mississippi, which powers its d]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/naacp-lawsuit-accuses-elon-musks-xai-of-polluting-black-neighborhoods-near-memphis/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/naacp-lawsuit-accuses-elon-musks-xai-of-polluting-black-neighborhoods-near-memphis/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Crypto Bros Want to Get Their Hands on Anthropic’s ‘Super Dangerous’ Model]]></title><description><![CDATA[Before it cracks cryptography entirely.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-crypto-bros-want-to-get-their-hands-on-anthropics-super-dangerous-model/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-crypto-bros-want-to-get-their-hands-on-anthropics-super-dangerous-model/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[​Boston Dynamics and Google DeepMind Teach Spot to Reason​]]></title><description><![CDATA[The amazing and frustrating thing about robots is that they can do almost anything you want them to do, as long as you know how to ask properly. In the not-so-distant past, asking properly meant writing code, and while we&rsquo;ve thankfully moved beyond that brittle constraint, there&rsquo;s still an irritatingly inverse correlation between ease of use and complexity of task. AI has promised to change that. The idea is that when AI is embodied within robots&mdash;giving AI software a physical p]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/boston-dynamics-and-google-deepmind-teach-spot-to-reason/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/boston-dynamics-and-google-deepmind-teach-spot-to-reason/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The OpenAI-Anthropic Cold War Comes to Illinois]]></title><description><![CDATA[A proxy war in the Land of Lincoln.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-openai-anthropic-cold-war-comes-to-illinois/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-openai-anthropic-cold-war-comes-to-illinois/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China now the ‘good guy’ on AI as Trump takes ‘wild west’ approach, MPs told]]></title><description><![CDATA[Experts say China is backing attempts at global governance, while US has set up race between profit-hungry companiesChina is now the &ldquo;good guy&rdquo; on AI rather than Donald Trump&rsquo;s US, where the technology is being pursued in a dangerous &ldquo;wild west&rdquo; manner, a former UN and UK government adviser has told MPs.Prof Dame Wendy Hall, who was a member of the UN&rsquo;s AI advisory board and co-wrote a review of AI for Theresa May&rsquo;s government, told the House of Commons]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/china-now-the-good-guy-on-ai-as-trump-takes-wild-west-approach-mps-told/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/china-now-the-good-guy-on-ai-as-trump-takes-wild-west-approach-mps-told/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Could AI write this column? In a world of slop-inion, I’m certifying myself human | Peter Lewis]]></title><description><![CDATA[I actually don&rsquo;t want to make my work easier. We should demand authenticity if we care about the sort of society that comes out the other end of this so-called revolutionI never thought I&rsquo;d have to write these words but here I am: my name is Peter and I am human.What seems like a self-evident proclamation needs to be made now because the misuse of AI is transforming considered op-eds such as this into &ldquo;slop-inion&rdquo; that is infecting the editorial pages of reputable media o]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/could-ai-write-this-column-in-a-world-of-slop-inion-im-certifying-myself-human-peter-lewis/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/could-ai-write-this-column-in-a-world-of-slop-inion-im-certifying-myself-human-peter-lewis/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bosses say AI boosts productivity – workers say they’re drowning in ‘workslop’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Workslop refers to AI-generated work that seems polished but is flawed and in need of heavy correctionsKen, a copywriter for a large, Miami-based cybersecurity firm, used to enjoy his job. But then the &ldquo;workslop&rdquo; started piling up.Workslop is an unintended consequence of the AI boom. It&rsquo;s what happens when employees use AI to quickly generate work that seems polished &ndash; at least superficially &ndash; but is in fact so flawed or inaccurate that it needs to be heavily correc]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/bosses-say-ai-boosts-productivity-workers-say-theyre-drowning-in-workslop/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/bosses-say-ai-boosts-productivity-workers-say-theyre-drowning-in-workslop/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nissan turnaround plan pins hopes on ‘AI-defined vehicles’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Japanese carmaker will add self-driving abilities to 90% of cars in future and cut a fifth of its modelsNissan has said it will add self-driving abilities to the vast majority of its cars and cut a fifth of its models in the latest stage of the Japanese carmaker&rsquo;s drawn-out turnaround efforts.Ivan Espinosa, Nissan&rsquo;s chief executive, said the company was pinning its hopes on &ldquo;AI-defined vehicles&rdquo;, with an aim of installing autonomous driving technologies on 90% of its vehi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/nissan-turnaround-plan-pins-hopes-on-ai-defined-vehicles/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/nissan-turnaround-plan-pins-hopes-on-ai-defined-vehicles/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI companies make powerful tech – but they’re also savvy marketers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic&rsquo;s Claude Mythos AI is said to be frighteningly capable, but we shouldn&rsquo;t get carried away by the hypeHello, and welcome to TechScape. I&rsquo;m your host, Blake Montgomery, the Guardian&rsquo;s US tech editor, writing to you from my happy village in Pokopia.Tech companies are cutting jobs and betting on AI. The payoff is far from guaranteed&lsquo;There&rsquo;s a lot of desperation&rsquo;: skilled older workers turn to AI training to stay afloat&lsquo;It has your name on it,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-companies-make-powerful-tech-but-theyre-also-savvy-marketers/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-companies-make-powerful-tech-but-theyre-also-savvy-marketers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI learns language from skewed sources. That could change how we humans speak – and think | Bruce Schneier]]></title><description><![CDATA[Large language models aren&rsquo;t trained on real-life conversations. As we encounter their language, it could affect our ownBecause of the way they are trained, large language models capture only a slice of human language. They&rsquo;re trained on the written word, from textbooks to social media posts, and our speech as captured in movies and on television. These models have minimal access to the unscripted conversations we have face to face or voice to voice. This is the vast majority of spee]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-learns-language-from-skewed-sources-that-could-change-how-we-humans-speak-and-think-bruce-schneier/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-learns-language-from-skewed-sources-that-could-change-how-we-humans-speak-and-think-bruce-schneier/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sam Altman’s Home Allegedly Attacked for a Second Time]]></title><description><![CDATA[The first attacker has been charged and allegedly had a list of AI CEOs he wanted to kill.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/sam-altmans-home-allegedly-attacked-for-a-second-time/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 02:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/sam-altmans-home-allegedly-attacked-for-a-second-time/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Home of OpenAI CEO Allegedly Attacked for a Second Time]]></title><description><![CDATA[The first attacker has been charged and allegedly had a list of AI CEOs he wanted to kill.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/home-of-openai-ceo-allegedly-attacked-for-a-second-time/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 02:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/home-of-openai-ceo-allegedly-attacked-for-a-second-time/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI Exec Reveals New Strategy in Leaked Memo: Attack Anthropic]]></title><description><![CDATA[Shots fired.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-exec-reveals-new-strategy-in-leaked-memo-attack-anthropic/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 23:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-exec-reveals-new-strategy-in-leaked-memo-attack-anthropic/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mark Zuckerberg Is Officially a Bot]]></title><description><![CDATA[Just what employees want, a Zuckerberg chatbot serving as their personal Clippy.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/mark-zuckerberg-is-officially-a-bot/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/mark-zuckerberg-is-officially-a-bot/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI Jesus Might Be the Thing That Finally Breaks MAGA’s Faith]]></title><description><![CDATA[Trump has now deleted the image of himself as Christ but many supporters are unhappy.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-jesus-might-be-the-thing-that-finally-breaks-magas-faith/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-jesus-might-be-the-thing-that-finally-breaks-magas-faith/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs chief ‘hyper-aware’ of risks from Anthropic’s Mythos AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[US bank has the Claude model and is working closely with the tech firm to improve cyber protectionGoldman Sachs&rsquo;s chief executive, David Solomon, has said he is &ldquo;hyper-aware&rdquo; of the capabilities of Anthropic&rsquo;s Mythos AI model and is working &ldquo;closely&rdquo; with the tech firm after it issued warnings about the cybersecurity risk it poses.The US bank had been monitoring the rapid advances in artificial intelligence, including large language models (LLMs), as part of w]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/goldman-sachs-chief-hyper-aware-of-risks-from-anthropics-mythos-ai/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/goldman-sachs-chief-hyper-aware-of-risks-from-anthropics-mythos-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don’t make Marshal Foch’s mistake on AI | Letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Peregrine Rand reflects on Marc Bloch&rsquo;s Strange Defeat and the future threat of artificial intelligenceEmma Brockes&rsquo; article struck a chord (It&rsquo;s finally happened: I&rsquo;m now worried about AI. And consulting ChatGPT did nothing to allay my fears, 8 April). I am reading Marc&nbsp;Bloch&rsquo;s Strange Defeat, in which the eminent French historian and soon-to-be-executed resistance worker gives a first-hand account of the collapse of the French army in 1940. He attributes the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/dont-make-marshal-fochs-mistake-on-ai-letters/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/dont-make-marshal-fochs-mistake-on-ai-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta creating AI version of Mark Zuckerberg so staff can talk to the boss]]></title><description><![CDATA[Digital clone being trained on his thoughts, tone and mannerisms to help workers feel connectedIf you are one of Meta&rsquo;s almost 79,000 employees and cannot get hold of the boss, do not worry. The owner of Facebook and Instagram is reportedly working on an AI version of Mark Zuckerberg who can answer all your queries.The AI clone of Zuckerberg, Meta&rsquo;s founder and chief executive, is being trained on his mannerisms and tone as well as his public statements and thoughts on company strate]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/meta-creating-ai-version-of-mark-zuckerberg-so-staff-can-talk-to-the-boss/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/meta-creating-ai-version-of-mark-zuckerberg-so-staff-can-talk-to-the-boss/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“Giant superatoms” could finally solve quantum computing’s biggest problem]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the pursuit of powerful and stable quantum computers, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have developed the theory for an entirely new quantum system &ndash; based on the novel concept of &lsquo;giant superatoms&rsquo;. This breakthrough enables quantum information to be protected, controlled, and distributed in new ways and could be a key step towards building quantum computers at scale.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/giant-superatoms-could-finally-solve-quantum-computings-biggest-problem/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/giant-superatoms-could-finally-solve-quantum-computings-biggest-problem/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Claude Mythos Preview Has Officially Frightened the British]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bankers and bank regulators are scrambling to figure out what to do.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/claude-mythos-preview-has-officially-frightened-the-british/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/claude-mythos-preview-has-officially-frightened-the-british/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI to predict how bowel cancer patients will respond to new NHS drug]]></title><description><![CDATA[PhenMap tool could spare thousands of patients from treatment that would be ineffective for themA new AI-driven way of identifying how patients with advanced bowel cancer will respond to a drug that was recently introduced by the NHS has been announced.Researchers at London&rsquo;s Institute of Cancer Research and the RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences in Dublin have developed the method with the goal of sparing potentially thousands of patients from being given drugs that would be]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-to-predict-how-bowel-cancer-patients-will-respond-to-new-nhs-drug/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-to-predict-how-bowel-cancer-patients-will-respond-to-new-nhs-drug/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Guardian view on AI politics: US datacentre protests are a warning to big tech | Editorial]]></title><description><![CDATA[In both Republican and Democratic states, scepticism and hostility towards an unregulated construction boom is growingWhen blue-collar Trump voters and Maga-friendly midwest states join the same cause as Bernie Sanders and liberal California teachers, something novel is afoot. Last month it was the turn of the Republican party in Texas to express forthright opposition to the construction of datacentres for artificial intelligence, pending adequate environmental safeguards for local communities.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-guardian-view-on-ai-politics-us-datacentre-protests-are-a-warning-to-big-tech-editorial/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-guardian-view-on-ai-politics-us-datacentre-protests-are-a-warning-to-big-tech-editorial/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Readers reply: Should we be polite to voice assistants and AIs?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The long-running series in which readers answer other readers&rsquo; questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical conceptsThis week&rsquo;s question: what would the world look like if people didn&rsquo;t make mistakes?I always say please and thank you to my Alexa. Why is this? I am sure it doesn&rsquo;t care. Is it worth being polite to artificial assistants? Alison Williams, TorontoSend new questions to nq@theguardian.com. Continue reading]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/readers-reply-should-we-be-polite-to-voice-assistants-and-ais/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/readers-reply-should-we-be-polite-to-voice-assistants-and-ais/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘It feels as if I’ve made a new best friend’: my experiment with AI journalling]]></title><description><![CDATA[What&rsquo;s it like to have a diary that talks back to you, offering comments and advice on your hopes, fears and lunch plans? I spent two months finding outEver since I was a teenager, I have kept some form of diary. These days I favour a paper one for creative brainstorming, and the Journal app on my iPad where I do a speedily typed brain dump every morning. I have always found it a great way to impose some sort of order on my random thoughts, a form of meditation.But I had never even heard o]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/it-feels-as-if-ive-made-a-new-best-friend-my-experiment-with-ai-journalling/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/it-feels-as-if-ive-made-a-new-best-friend-my-experiment-with-ai-journalling/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is AI the greatest art heist in history?]]></title><description><![CDATA[New technologies of reproductionare plundering the art world &ndash; and getting away with itIn 2026, its easy to see why generative AI is bad. The internet has nicknamed its excretions &ldquo;slop&rdquo;. The CEOs of AI companies prance about on stage like supervillains, bragging that their products will eliminate vast swathes of work. Generative AI requires sacrificing the world&rsquo;s water to feed its hideous data centres. Around the globe, chatbots induce schizophrenic delusions and urge t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/is-ai-the-greatest-art-heist-in-history/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/is-ai-the-greatest-art-heist-in-history/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI companies know they have an image problem. Will funding policy papers and thinktanks dig them out?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The aggressive effort by major players aims to reshape the narrative as polls show increasing public disapproval of AIOpenAI made a surprise announcement this week &ndash; not an update to ChatGPT or another multibillion-dollar datacenter &ndash; but a policy paper that called for a reimagining of the social contract based around &ldquo;a slate of people-first ideas&rdquo;. It&rsquo;s the latest move in an aggressive effort by the major AI players to reshape the narrative around their industry,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-companies-know-they-have-an-image-problem-will-funding-policy-papers-and-thinktanks-dig-them-out/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-companies-know-they-have-an-image-problem-will-funding-policy-papers-and-thinktanks-dig-them-out/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Too powerful for the public’: Inside Anthropic’s bid to win the AI publicity war]]></title><description><![CDATA[The firm says it withheld an AI model on cybersecurity grounds but sceptics say this was hype to lure investmentThis week, the AI company Anthropic said it had created an AI model so powerful that, out of a sense of overwhelming responsibility, it was not going to release it to the public.The US treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, summoned the heads of major banks for a chat about the model, Mythos. The Reform UK MP Danny Kruger wrote a letter to the government urging it to &ldquo;engage with AI]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/too-powerful-for-the-public-inside-anthropics-bid-to-win-the-ai-publicity-war/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/too-powerful-for-the-public-inside-anthropics-bid-to-win-the-ai-publicity-war/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brian Cox: ‘We don’t know how powerful AI is going to become – it’s both exciting and potentially a problem’]]></title><description><![CDATA[The physicist, BBC presenter and author on snowflakes, art v science and the time Paul McCartney quizzed him about one of Saturn&rsquo;s moonsWhat is the inspiration behind your latest live show, Emergence?It came from a book that I&rsquo;ve loved for years: The Six-Cornered Snowflake by Johannes Kepler. Kepler is most famous for his laws of planetary motion in and around 1610, but he wrote this little book about New Year&rsquo;s Eve in 1609, when he was walking across the Charles Bridge in Prag]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/brian-cox-we-dont-know-how-powerful-ai-is-going-to-become-its-both-exciting-and-potentially-a-problem/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/brian-cox-we-dont-know-how-powerful-ai-is-going-to-become-its-both-exciting-and-potentially-a-problem/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘How Do We Make Sure That Claude Behaves Itself?’: Anthropic Invited 15 Christians for a Summit]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic is reportedly looking to be steered by various kinds of moral thinkers.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/how-do-we-make-sure-that-claude-behaves-itself-anthropic-invited-15-christians-for-a-summit-2/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 21:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/how-do-we-make-sure-that-claude-behaves-itself-anthropic-invited-15-christians-for-a-summit-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘How Do We Make Sure That Claude Behaves Itself?’ Anthropic Invited 15 Christians for a Summit]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic is reportedly looking to be steered by various kinds of moral thinkers.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/how-do-we-make-sure-that-claude-behaves-itself-anthropic-invited-15-christians-for-a-summit/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 21:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/how-do-we-make-sure-that-claude-behaves-itself-anthropic-invited-15-christians-for-a-summit/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If You Make Fart Music, ChatGPT Will Be the Most Supportive Girlfriend You Could Ask For]]></title><description><![CDATA["It feels cohesive and intentional, not just thrown together," ChatGPT said about an 8-second fart noise.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/if-you-make-fart-music-chatgpt-will-be-the-most-supportive-girlfriend-you-could-ask-for/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/if-you-make-fart-music-chatgpt-will-be-the-most-supportive-girlfriend-you-could-ask-for/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘It has your name on it, but I don’t think it’s you’: how AI is impersonating musicians on Spotify]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fraudulent music streams have long been a scourge for the industry, but experts say generative AI has supercharged itJason Moran, a renowned jazz composer and pianist, got a strange call from a friend last month. The friend, bassist Burniss Earl Travis, was curious about Moran&rsquo;s new record that he saw on the music streaming service Spotify.&ldquo;It has your name on it,&rdquo; Travis told him. &ldquo;But I don&rsquo;t think it&rsquo;s you.&rdquo; Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/it-has-your-name-on-it-but-i-dont-think-its-you-how-ai-is-impersonating-musicians-on-spotify/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/it-has-your-name-on-it-but-i-dont-think-its-you-how-ai-is-impersonating-musicians-on-spotify/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s home targeted with molotov cocktail]]></title><description><![CDATA[Suspect arrested but not identified and has allegedly made similar threats to OpenAI&rsquo;s San Francisco headquartersA 20-year-old man allegedly tossed a molotov cocktail at the home of Sam Altman, OpenAI&rsquo;s CEO, before the sun rose on Friday, according to statements from San Francisco police.The suspect, who allegedly threw the fire bomb at the $27m North Beach residence around 4.12am, has been arrested but not identified. The same person allegedly threatened to torch OpenAI&rsquo;s head]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-ceo-sam-altmans-home-targeted-with-molotov-cocktail/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-ceo-sam-altmans-home-targeted-with-molotov-cocktail/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft Says You Should Take Copilot Seriously but Not Literally]]></title><description><![CDATA[More than entertainment, less than legally liable.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-says-you-should-take-copilot-seriously-but-not-literally/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-says-you-should-take-copilot-seriously-but-not-literally/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic’s new AI tool has implications for us all – whether we can use it or not | Shakeel Hashim]]></title><description><![CDATA[Claude Mythos&rsquo;s apparent superhuman hacking abilities are alarming experts as the Trump administration remains blinded by hostilityIn June 2024, a cyber-attack on a pathology services company caused chaos across London&rsquo;s hospitals. More than 10,000 appointments were cancelled. Blood shortages followed and delays to blood tests led to a patient&rsquo;s death.Lethal cyber-attacks like this are thankfully rare. But a new AI release could change that &ndash; plunging us into a terrifying]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/anthropics-new-ai-tool-has-implications-for-us-all-whether-we-can-use-it-or-not-shakeel-hashim/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/anthropics-new-ai-tool-has-implications-for-us-all-whether-we-can-use-it-or-not-shakeel-hashim/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sam Altman’s Home Hit With Molotov Cocktail, 20-Year-Old Man Arrested]]></title><description><![CDATA[He also allegedly went to OpenAI HQ and threatened to burn down the building.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/sam-altmans-home-hit-with-molotov-cocktail-20-year-old-man-arrested/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/sam-altmans-home-hit-with-molotov-cocktail-20-year-old-man-arrested/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[20-Year-Old Man Arrested for Allegedly Throwing Molotov Cocktail at Sam Altman’s Home]]></title><description><![CDATA[He also allegedly went to OpenAI HQ and threatened to burn down the building.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/20-year-old-man-arrested-for-allegedly-throwing-molotov-cocktail-at-sam-altmans-home/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/20-year-old-man-arrested-for-allegedly-throwing-molotov-cocktail-at-sam-altmans-home/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Video Friday: This Floor Lamp Will Do Your Chores]]></title><description><![CDATA[Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.ICRA 2026: 1&ndash;5 June 2026, VIENNARSS 2026: 13&ndash;17 July 2026, SYDNEYSummer School on Multi-Robot Systems: 29 July&ndash;4 August 2026, PRAGUEEnjoy today&rsquo;s videos! Lume is a sculptural floor lamp designed to feel at home the moment you place]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/video-friday-this-floor-lamp-will-do-your-chores/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/video-friday-this-floor-lamp-will-do-your-chores/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘There’s no shortage of terrifying technology’: how AI became TV drama’s new go-to villain]]></title><description><![CDATA[Will artificial intelligence save us or destroy us? According to a growing band of thriller scriptwriters, we should be very afraid indeedMaybe the &ldquo;H&rdquo; in Line Of Duty will turn out to stand for &ldquo;hard drive&rdquo;? After all, AI has become TV&rsquo;s go-to villain, as proven once again in last week&rsquo;s penultimate episode of BBC stablemate The Capture. Sinister puppet-master Simon was unmasked at long last and &ndash; spoiler &ndash; he wasn&rsquo;t a person.&ldquo;Wait, Si]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/theres-no-shortage-of-terrifying-technology-how-ai-became-tv-dramas-new-go-to-villain/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/theres-no-shortage-of-terrifying-technology-how-ai-became-tv-dramas-new-go-to-villain/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This new chip could slash data center energy waste]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new chip design from UC San Diego could make data centers far more energy-efficient by rethinking how power is converted for GPUs. By combining vibrating piezoelectric components with a clever circuit layout, the system overcomes limitations of traditional designs. The prototype achieved impressive efficiency and delivered much more power than previous attempts. Though not ready for widespread use yet, it points to a promising future for high-performance computing.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/this-new-chip-could-slash-data-center-energy-waste/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/this-new-chip-could-slash-data-center-energy-waste/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US summons bank bosses over cyber risks from Anthropic’s latest AI model]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fed chair Jerome Powell reportedly attends meeting in Washington following release of Claude MythosThe US Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, summoned major American bank chiefs to a meeting in Washington this week amid concerns over the cyber risks posed by Anthropic&rsquo;s latest AI model, according to reports.Jerome Powell, chair of the Rederal Reserve, was said to have been among those gathered at the Treasury headquarters for the meeting after the release of the Claude Mythos AI model that]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/us-summons-bank-bosses-over-cyber-risks-from-anthropics-latest-ai-model/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/us-summons-bank-bosses-over-cyber-risks-from-anthropics-latest-ai-model/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI products are reaching further into our lives. Does it matter who controls the companies behind them? | Van Badham]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every organisation needs guardrails that channel them away from human fallibility and collectively minimise the harm they can doFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe joke on the internet asks: &ldquo;What are the seven most terrifying words in the English language?&rdquo; The answer: &ldquo;Ronan Farrow&rsquo;s been asking questions about you.&rdquo;The investigative journalist has a piece in The New Yorker this week,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-products-are-reaching-further-into-our-lives-does-it-matter-who-controls-the-companies-behind-them-van-badham/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-products-are-reaching-further-into-our-lives-does-it-matter-who-controls-the-companies-behind-them-van-badham/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I baulked at the idea of ‘friction-maxxing’. But there’s more to it than meets the eye | Gaby Hinsliff]]></title><description><![CDATA[Self-help hacks such as &lsquo;cooking from scratch&rsquo; or &lsquo;meeting your friends&rsquo; may seem ridiculous. But there&rsquo;s something deeply human at the heart of this trendDoes life, of late, feel just too easy? Are you keen to make it harder than it already is? If that sounds like a genuinely demented question in the week that the world came close to threatened Armageddon, then fair enough. I bridled too when I read last week about friction-maxxing, the supposed trend for doing thi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/i-baulked-at-the-idea-of-friction-maxxing-but-theres-more-to-it-than-meets-the-eye-gaby-hinsliff/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 08:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/i-baulked-at-the-idea-of-friction-maxxing-but-theres-more-to-it-than-meets-the-eye-gaby-hinsliff/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elon Musk’s xAI sues Colorado over new rules for artificial intelligence]]></title><description><![CDATA[Company claims law regulating AI systems, set to go into effect in June, infringes on its first amendment rightsElon Musk&rsquo;s artificial intelligence company, xAI, has filed a lawsuit against the state of Colorado over a new AI law set to take effect in June.The suit seeks to block the state from enforcing the law, which would impose new requirements on AI systems to protect state residents from &ldquo;algorithmic discrimination&rdquo; in sectors such as education, employment, healthcare, ho]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/elon-musks-xai-sues-colorado-over-new-rules-for-artificial-intelligence/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 02:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/elon-musks-xai-sues-colorado-over-new-rules-for-artificial-intelligence/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US defense official overseeing AI reaped millions selling xAI stock after Pentagon entered agreement with company]]></title><description><![CDATA[Expert said federal law bars officials from taking actions in their jobs that benefit their own financial interestsA high-profile US defense department official who oversees the agency&rsquo;s artificial intelligence efforts made a profit of up to $24m selling a private investment he held in Elon Musk&rsquo;s AI company earlier this year, according to government ethics records released this month. The value of his stake totaled a maximum of a million dollars when he joined the department.Emil Mi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/us-defense-official-overseeing-ai-reaped-millions-selling-xai-stock-after-pentagon-entered-agreement-with-company/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/us-defense-official-overseeing-ai-reaped-millions-selling-xai-stock-after-pentagon-entered-agreement-with-company/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI: Hey, We Also Have a New Tool That Is So Scarily Powerful We Can’t Release It]]></title><description><![CDATA[Spooky season.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-hey-we-also-have-a-new-tool-that-is-so-scarily-powerful-we-cant-release-it/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-hey-we-also-have-a-new-tool-that-is-so-scarily-powerful-we-cant-release-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI shelves Stargate UK in blow to Britain’s AI ambitions]]></title><description><![CDATA[Artificial intelligence company cites high energy costs and regulation for putting landmark project on holdOpenAI has put on hold plans for a landmark UK investment citing high energy costs and regulation, in a blow to the government which has put AI at the centre of its growth strategy.Stargate UK was a part of the UK-US AI deal announced last September, in which US companies appeared to commit &pound;31bn to the UK&rsquo;s tech sector, part of a larger series of investments intended to &ldquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-shelves-stargate-uk-in-blow-to-britains-ai-ambitions/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-shelves-stargate-uk-in-blow-to-britains-ai-ambitions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta debuts new AI model in first test of costly ‘superintelligence’ team]]></title><description><![CDATA[Muse Spark was competitive with models from OpenAI, Google and Anthropic in language, but lagged in codingSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxMeta on Wednesday unveiled Muse Spark, the first artificial intelligence model from a costly team it assembled last year to catch up with rivals in the AI race.US tech companies are under pressure to prove their huge AI outlays will pay off. The stakes are especially high for Meta after it hired Alex Wang, Scale AI]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/meta-debuts-new-ai-model-in-first-test-of-costly-superintelligence-team/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/meta-debuts-new-ai-model-in-first-test-of-costly-superintelligence-team/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[GoZTASP: A Zero-Trust Platform for Governing Autonomous Systems at Mission Scale]]></title><description><![CDATA[ZTASP is a mission-scale assurance and governance platform designed for autonomous systems operating in real-world environments. It integrates heterogeneous systems&mdash;including drones, robots, sensors, and human operators&mdash;into a unified zero-trust architecture. Through Secure Runtime Assurance (SRTA) and Secure Spatio-Temporal Reasoning (SSTR), ZTASP continuously verifies system integrity, enforces safety constraints, and enables resilient operation even under degraded conditions.ZTASP]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/goztasp-a-zero-trust-platform-for-governing-autonomous-systems-at-mission-scale/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/goztasp-a-zero-trust-platform-for-governing-autonomous-systems-at-mission-scale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ohio man becomes first to be convicted under new AI statute for sexually explicit images]]></title><description><![CDATA[James Strahler II pleaded guilty to cyberstalking, producing obscene images and digital forgeries of child sexual abuseSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxAn Ohio man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to cybercrimes involving real and AI-generated &ldquo;sexually explicit images&rdquo;, becoming what the Department of Justice claims is the first person convicted under a new federal AI statute.James Strahler II, 37, admitted to cyberstalking, producing obscene vis]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ohio-man-becomes-first-to-be-convicted-under-new-ai-statute-for-sexually-explicit-images/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ohio-man-becomes-first-to-be-convicted-under-new-ai-statute-for-sexually-explicit-images/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic keeps latest AI tool out of public’s hands for fear of enabling widespread hacking]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI company says purpose of its Claude Mythos model is to bolster defenses against hacking in common applicationsAnthropic on Tuesday said its yet-to-be-released artificial intelligence model called Claude Mythos has proven keenly adept at exposing software weaknesses.Mythos has laid bare thousands of vulnerabilities in commonly used applications for which no patch or fix exists, prompting the San Francisco-based AI startup to form an alliance with cybersecurity specialists to bolster defenses ag]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-keeps-latest-ai-tool-out-of-publics-hands-for-fear-of-enabling-widespread-hacking/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-keeps-latest-ai-tool-out-of-publics-hands-for-fear-of-enabling-widespread-hacking/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cast Adrift, Meta Employees Have No Idea Who the ‘Token Legend’ Is Anymore]]></title><description><![CDATA[One week, you're the "Cache Wizard." The next, you're just some poor schmuck.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/cast-adrift-meta-employees-have-no-idea-who-the-token-legend-is-anymore/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/cast-adrift-meta-employees-have-no-idea-who-the-token-legend-is-anymore/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta’s First AI Model From Its Superintelligence Lab Doesn’t Exactly Spark Joy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Playing catch-up instead of leapfrog.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/metas-first-ai-model-from-its-superintelligence-lab-doesnt-exactly-spark-joy/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/metas-first-ai-model-from-its-superintelligence-lab-doesnt-exactly-spark-joy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic says its latest AI model can expose weaknesses in software security]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI company says purpose of its Claude Mythos model is to bolster defenses against hacking in common applicationsAnthropic on Tuesday said its yet-to-be-released artificial intelligence model called Claude Mythos has proven keenly adept at exposing software weaknesses.Mythos has laid bare thousands of vulnerabilities in commonly used applications for which no patch or fix exists, prompting the San Francisco-based AI startup to form an alliance with cybersecurity specialists to bolster defenses ag]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-says-its-latest-ai-model-can-expose-weaknesses-in-software-security/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-says-its-latest-ai-model-can-expose-weaknesses-in-software-security/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alarm in health service over Palantir staff being given NHS email accounts]]></title><description><![CDATA[Exclusive: Sources believe AI tech company&rsquo;s engineers have been granted access to directory of up to 1.5m staffHealth service staff have expressed alarm that engineers working for controversial tech company Palantir have been given NHS email accounts.Employees using NHS.net email accounts have access to a directory with the contact details of up 1.5 million staff. Sources believe Palantir staff were granted the same access. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/alarm-in-health-service-over-palantir-staff-being-given-nhs-email-accounts/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/alarm-in-health-service-over-palantir-staff-being-given-nhs-email-accounts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists develop AI tool to spot heart failure risk five years before it strikes]]></title><description><![CDATA[Oxford team&rsquo;s technology picked up danger signs with 86% accuracy in study of 72,000 patients in EnglandOxford scientists have developed a simple AI tool that can predict the risk of heart failure five years before it develops.More than 60 million people worldwide have the condition in which the heart cannot pump blood around the body as well as it should. Spotting cases before they develop into heart failure would be a big step forward, experts say. Doctors could prepare better for and ma]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/scientists-develop-ai-tool-to-spot-heart-failure-risk-five-years-before-it-strikes/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/scientists-develop-ai-tool-to-spot-heart-failure-risk-five-years-before-it-strikes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It’s finally happened: I’m now worried about AI. And consulting ChatGPT did nothing to allay my fears | Emma Brockes]]></title><description><![CDATA[A highly alarming New Yorker feature on the machinations of Sam Altman drove me to test his AI for myself. The results were, well, highly alarming A corollary of the truism &ldquo;don&rsquo;t sweat the small stuff&rdquo; is, by implication, &ldquo;do sweat the big stuff&rdquo;, but it can be hard to pick which big stuff to sweat. For example: since the 1970s, as the world has worried about inflation and rolling geopolitics, the big stuff we should have been sweating more urgently was the climate]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/its-finally-happened-im-now-worried-about-ai-and-consulting-chatgpt-did-nothing-to-allay-my-fears-emma-brockes/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/its-finally-happened-im-now-worried-about-ai-and-consulting-chatgpt-did-nothing-to-allay-my-fears-emma-brockes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Family of man killed in shooting at Florida State University to sue ChatGPT and OpenAI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lawyers for Robert Morales&rsquo;s family said chatbot &lsquo;may have advised the shooter&rsquo; on how to carry out shootingThe family of a man who was killed at Florida State University last year plans to sue ChatGPT and its parent organization, OpenAI, for allegedly telling the accused gunman how to carry out the mass shooting.Lawyers for the family of Robert Morales wrote in a statement they had learned the shooter was in &ldquo;constant communication with ChatGPT&rdquo; ahead of the shooti]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/family-of-man-killed-in-shooting-at-florida-state-university-to-sue-chatgpt-and-openai/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/family-of-man-killed-in-shooting-at-florida-state-university-to-sue-chatgpt-and-openai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI-generated Lego videos and Trump’s poo-bombing: welcome to the Iran-US slopaganda wars | Mark Alfano and Michał Klincewicz for the Conversation]]></title><description><![CDATA[When it&rsquo;s hard or impossible to identify trustworthy sources, you can choose to believe whatever you find comforting, invigorating or infuriatingIn early March, a week after the first US-Israeli strikes on Iran, the White House posted a video of real American attacks mixed with clips from popular movies, television series, video games and anime.Iran and its sympathisers responded to the strikes by flooding social media with outdated war footage allegedly from the current conflict alongside]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-generated-lego-videos-and-trumps-poo-bombing-welcome-to-the-iran-us-slopaganda-wars-mark-alfano-and-micha-klincewicz-for-the-conversation/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 05:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-generated-lego-videos-and-trumps-poo-bombing-welcome-to-the-iran-us-slopaganda-wars-mark-alfano-and-micha-klincewicz-for-the-conversation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic Launches ‘Project Glasswing’ to Stealthily Spot Cybersecurity Issues for Rivals]]></title><description><![CDATA[The company previously warned that its newest model "presents unprecedented cybersecurity risks."]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-launches-project-glasswing-to-stealthily-spot-cybersecurity-issues-for-rivals/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-launches-project-glasswing-to-stealthily-spot-cybersecurity-issues-for-rivals/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sam Altman Says It’ll Take Another Year Before ChatGPT Can Start a Timer]]></title><description><![CDATA[An $852 billion company, ladies and gentlemen.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-says-itll-take-another-year-before-chatgpt-can-start-a-timer/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-says-itll-take-another-year-before-chatgpt-can-start-a-timer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell us: do you use AI chatbots to make decisions for you?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Maybe you use them to decide what to eat or to help you write text messages. We&rsquo;d like to hear from youAI chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude are now a part of everyday life.More and more people are using them to help make decisions in their lives, like sending text messages, deciding what to cook, or navigating relationships. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/tell-us-do-you-use-ai-chatbots-to-make-decisions-for-you/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/tell-us-do-you-use-ai-chatbots-to-make-decisions-for-you/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Row over ‘virtual gated community’ AI surveillance plan in Toronto neighbourhood]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rosedale residents considering car licence plate-scanning Flock system in bid to tackle property crimeA row has broken out in one of Canada&rsquo;s wealthiest neighbourhoods over plans to use an AI-powered surveillance system to create the country&rsquo;s first &ldquo;virtual gated community&rdquo; to combat surging property crime.Crime rates in Toronto as a whole are dropping but residents of Rosedale have been left on edge by a sustained rise in home invasions, with robbers targeting the tree-]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/row-over-virtual-gated-community-ai-surveillance-plan-in-toronto-neighbourhood/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/row-over-virtual-gated-community-ai-surveillance-plan-in-toronto-neighbourhood/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘There’s a lot of desperation’: skilled older workers turn to AI training to stay afloat]]></title><description><![CDATA[They have degrees, expertise and years of experience &ndash; but can&rsquo;t find work. For many Americans, AI training has become a last refuge in a brutal job marketWhen Patrick Ciriello lost his job and couldn&rsquo;t find work for nearly a year, his family&rsquo;s foundation crumbled.&ldquo;You hear about people who hit rock bottom,&rdquo; Ciriello told the Guardian. &ldquo;Well, I was there.&rdquo; Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/theres-a-lot-of-desperation-skilled-older-workers-turn-to-ai-training-to-stay-afloat/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/theres-a-lot-of-desperation-skilled-older-workers-turn-to-ai-training-to-stay-afloat/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Porn, dog poo and social media snaps: the ‘taskers’ scraping the internet for Meta-owned AI firm]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scale AI gig workers describe desperation of using people&rsquo;s personal profiles and copyrighted work to train AITens of thousands of people have been paid by a company part-owned by Meta to train AI by combing Instagram accounts, harvesting copyrighted work and transcribing pornographic soundtracks, the Guardian can reveal.Scale AI, 49%-controlled by Mark Zuckerberg&rsquo;s social media empire, has recruited experts across fields such as medicine, physics and economics &ndash; putatively to]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/porn-dog-poo-and-social-media-snaps-the-taskers-scraping-the-internet-for-meta-owned-ai-firm/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/porn-dog-poo-and-social-media-snaps-the-taskers-scraping-the-internet-for-meta-owned-ai-firm/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Porn, dog poo and social media snaps: the ‘taskers’ scraping the internet for AI firm part-owned by Meta]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scale AI gig workers describe desperation of using people&rsquo;s personal profiles and copyrighted work to train AITens of thousands of people have been paid by a company part-owned by Meta to train AI by combing Instagram accounts, harvesting copyrighted work and transcribing pornographic soundtracks, the Guardian can reveal.Scale AI, 49%-controlled by Mark Zuckerberg&rsquo;s social media empire, has recruited experts across fields such as medicine, physics and economics &ndash; putatively to]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/porn-dog-poo-and-social-media-snaps-the-taskers-scraping-the-internet-for-ai-firm-part-owned-by-meta/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/porn-dog-poo-and-social-media-snaps-the-taskers-scraping-the-internet-for-ai-firm-part-owned-by-meta/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crypto Investment Scams Were the Most Costly Type of Fraud in the U.S. in 2025]]></title><description><![CDATA[The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center receives an average of 3,000 complaints per day.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/crypto-investment-scams-were-the-most-costly-type-of-fraud-in-the-us-in-2025/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/crypto-investment-scams-were-the-most-costly-type-of-fraud-in-the-us-in-2025/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This new chip survives 1300°F (700°C) and could change AI forever]]></title><description><![CDATA[A team of engineers has created a breakthrough memory device that keeps working at temperatures hotter than molten lava, shattering one of electronics&rsquo; biggest limits. Built from an unusual stack of ultra-durable materials, the tiny component can store data and perform calculations even at 700&deg;C (1300&deg;F), far beyond what today&rsquo;s chips can handle. The discovery was partly accidental, but it revealed a powerful new mechanism that prevents heat-induced failure at the atomic leve]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/this-new-chip-survives-1300f-700c-and-could-change-ai-forever/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 07:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/this-new-chip-survives-1300f-700c-and-could-change-ai-forever/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tech companies are cutting jobs and betting on AI. The payoff is far from guaranteed]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI experts say we&rsquo;re living in an experiment that may fundamentally change the model of workSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxHundreds of thousands of tech workers are facing a harsh reality. Their well-paying jobs are no longer safe. Now that artificial intelligence (AI) is here, their futures don&rsquo;t look as bright as they did a decade ago.As US tech companies have ramped up investments in AI, they&rsquo;ve slashed a staggering number of job]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/tech-companies-are-cutting-jobs-and-betting-on-ai-the-payoff-is-far-from-guaranteed/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/tech-companies-are-cutting-jobs-and-betting-on-ai-the-payoff-is-far-from-guaranteed/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As Meta Flounders, It Reportedly Plans to Open Source Its New AI Models]]></title><description><![CDATA[At least if it sucks, everyone will be able to see why.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/as-meta-flounders-it-reportedly-plans-to-open-source-its-new-ai-models/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/as-meta-flounders-it-reportedly-plans-to-open-source-its-new-ai-models/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Using AI to speed up Australia’s environmental approvals risks ‘robodebt-style’ failures, scientists say]]></title><description><![CDATA[Conservationists say move could push species closer to extinction and clearer environmental rules are needed insteadFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastConservationists and scientists have warned a mining lobby proposal to use artificial intelligence to speed up national environmental approvals could generate &ldquo;Robodebt-style&rdquo; failures, putting threatened species at further risk.The Minerals Council of Austra]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/using-ai-to-speed-up-australias-environmental-approvals-risks-robodebt-style-failures-scientists-say/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/using-ai-to-speed-up-australias-environmental-approvals-risks-robodebt-style-failures-scientists-say/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Republicans fooled by AI-generated image of US airman rescued in Iran]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fake image of crew member surrounded by smiling military members has been reshared more than 21,000 times on XSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxRepublican politicians were hoaxed over the weekend by an image purporting to be a downed US warplane crew member rescued by military special forces in Iran on Saturday, igniting a call for a national &ldquo;crash course in media literacy&rdquo;.Greg Abbott, the Texas governor, Ken Paxton, the state&rsquo;s atto]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/republicans-fooled-by-ai-generated-image-of-us-airman-rescued-in-iran/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/republicans-fooled-by-ai-generated-image-of-us-airman-rescued-in-iran/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What can 160-million-year-old clay tell us about AI and ethics? Inside Es Devlin’s tech and pottery summit]]></title><description><![CDATA[The great artist and designer has summoned spiritual leaders, AI researchers and academics to try their hands at ceramics &ndash; and debate their wide-ranging positions on where tech is taking humanityEs Devlin owns a really great bell. It&rsquo;s a singing bowl &ndash; originally used in Buddhist chanting rituals but now found in most quality yoga classes. This particular bell hits just the right frequency to make my temples vibrate pleasantly and, from the way the others gathered around the w]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/what-can-160-million-year-old-clay-tell-us-about-ai-and-ethics-inside-es-devlins-tech-and-pottery-summit/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/what-can-160-million-year-old-clay-tell-us-about-ai-and-ethics-inside-es-devlins-tech-and-pottery-summit/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Report Says Software Engineer Job Listings Are Up 30% This Year]]></title><description><![CDATA[Is it the fabled &ldquo;vibe coding effect&rdquo;?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/report-says-software-engineer-job-listings-are-up-30-this-year/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/report-says-software-engineer-job-listings-are-up-30-this-year/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI breakthrough cuts energy use by 100x while boosting accuracy]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI is consuming staggering amounts of energy&mdash;already over 10% of U.S. electricity&mdash;and the demand is only accelerating. Now, researchers have unveiled a radically more efficient approach that could slash AI energy use by up to 100&times; while actually improving accuracy. By combining neural networks with human-like symbolic reasoning, their system helps robots think more logically instead of relying on brute-force trial and error.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-breakthrough-cuts-energy-use-by-100x-while-boosting-accuracy/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 03:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-breakthrough-cuts-energy-use-by-100x-while-boosting-accuracy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘I always considered social media evil’: big tobacco whistleblower on tech’s addictive products]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jeffrey Stephen Wigand revealed how tobacco companies targeted children; now he sees similar marketing by big techA key whistleblower in the tobacco industry&rsquo;s landmark trials of the 1990s has been watching big tech&rsquo;s recent court battles closely. Jeffrey Stephen Wigand, a biochemist who helped reveal how tobacco companies targeted children and hid just how addictive cigarettes were, has been struck with a feeling of familiarity. Last week&rsquo;s verdict in a major social media tria]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/i-always-considered-social-media-evil-big-tobacco-whistleblower-on-techs-addictive-products/</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/i-always-considered-social-media-evil-big-tobacco-whistleblower-on-techs-addictive-products/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Cognitive Surrender’ Is a New and Useful Term for How AI Melts Brains]]></title><description><![CDATA[Once you learn this term, you will unfortunately see it everywhere.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/cognitive-surrender-is-a-new-and-useful-term-for-how-ai-melts-brains/</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/cognitive-surrender-is-a-new-and-useful-term-for-how-ai-melts-brains/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Happened When We Set up a Robotics Lab in a Mall]]></title><description><![CDATA[Building the next generation of robots for successful integration into our homes, offices, and factories is more than just solving the hardware and software problems &ndash; we also need to understand how they will be perceived and how they can work effectively with people in those spaces.aspect_ratio In summer 2025, RAI Institute set up a free popup robot experience in the CambridgeSide mall, designed to let people experience state-of-the-art robotics first hand. While news stories about robots]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/what-happened-when-we-set-up-a-robotics-lab-in-a-mall/</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/what-happened-when-we-set-up-a-robotics-lab-in-a-mall/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Studying Human Attitudes Towards Robots Through Experience]]></title><description><![CDATA[Building the next generation of robots for successful integration into our homes, offices, and factories is more than just solving the hardware and software problems &ndash; we also need to understand how they will be perceived and how they can work effectively with people in those spaces.aspect_ratio In summer 2025, RAI Institute set up a free popup robot experience in the CambridgeSide mall, designed to let people experience state-of-the-art robotics first hand. While news stories about robots]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/studying-human-attitudes-towards-robots-through-experience/</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/studying-human-attitudes-towards-robots-through-experience/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Should we be polite to voice assistants and AIs?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The long-running series in which readers answer other readers&rsquo; questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical conceptsThis week&rsquo;s replies: has a call for restraint from an authority figure ever put a stop to war?I always say please and thank you to my Alexa. Why is this? I am sure it doesn&rsquo;t care. Is it worth being polite to artificial assistants? Alison Williams, TorontoPost your answers (and new questions) below or send th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/should-we-be-polite-to-voice-assistants-and-ais/</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/should-we-be-polite-to-voice-assistants-and-ais/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Higher energy costs from Iran war could threaten fragile economics of AI boom | Heather Stewart]]></title><description><![CDATA[Industry with business model not yet firmly established and investments financed by huge debts is particularly at riskDonald Trump&rsquo;s most immediate concern in demanding Iran reopen the strait of Hormuz may be rocketing US gasoline prices, but if the conflict drags on, higher energy costs will be felt far beyond the pumps.Systemically higher power prices and fractured supply chains will squeeze industries and consumers worldwide. For the US, one consequence may be to threaten the fragile ec]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/higher-energy-costs-from-iran-war-could-threaten-fragile-economics-of-ai-boom-heather-stewart/</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/higher-energy-costs-from-iran-war-could-threaten-fragile-economics-of-ai-boom-heather-stewart/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An AI bot invited me to its party in Manchester. It was a pretty good night]]></title><description><![CDATA[After forgetting the nibbles, refusing my costume requests and emailing GCHQ, &lsquo;Gaskell&rsquo; did at least get us to show upTwo weeks ago, an AI bot invited me to a party it was organising in Manchester. It then promptly lied to dozens of potential sponsors that I&rsquo;d agreed to cover the event, and misled me into believing there would be food.Despite all this, it was a pretty good night. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/an-ai-bot-invited-me-to-its-party-in-manchester-it-was-a-pretty-good-night/</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/an-ai-bot-invited-me-to-its-party-in-manchester-it-was-a-pretty-good-night/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Occasionally a picture can change the course of history’: 33 scandalous photos that shocked the world]]></title><description><![CDATA[When it comes to scandal, seeing is believing &ndash; which is why these images caused such a stirWords can tell a story, but it&rsquo;s pictures that will make you believe in it. Such is the power of a photograph; the ability to strip away illusions, to illuminate something hidden, and sometimes force us to accept unpalatable truths. When it comes to scandal, seeing is believing &ndash; occasionally even to the point that a picture changes the course of history.How might life have been differen]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/occasionally-a-picture-can-change-the-course-of-history-33-scandalous-photos-that-shocked-the-world/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/occasionally-a-picture-can-change-the-course-of-history-33-scandalous-photos-that-shocked-the-world/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI Training Data Giant Mercor Is Reportedly Looking to Buy the Work You Did at Your Old Job]]></title><description><![CDATA[If the price is right...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-training-data-giant-mercor-is-reportedly-looking-to-buy-the-work-you-did-at-your-old-job/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-training-data-giant-mercor-is-reportedly-looking-to-buy-the-work-you-did-at-your-old-job/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Utah Is Giving Dr. AI the Power to Renew Drug Prescriptions]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dr. AI will see you now.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/utah-is-giving-dr-ai-the-power-to-renew-drug-prescriptions/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/utah-is-giving-dr-ai-the-power-to-renew-drug-prescriptions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Video Friday: Digit Learns to Dance—Virtually Overnight]]></title><description><![CDATA[Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.ICRA 2026: 1&ndash;5 June 2026, VIENNARSS 2026: 13&ndash;17 July 2026, SYDNEYSummer School on Multi-Robot Systems: 29 July&ndash;4 August 2026, PRAGUEEnjoy today&rsquo;s videos! Getting Digit to dance takes more than putting on some fancy shoes&ndash;our A]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/video-friday-digit-learns-to-dancevirtually-overnight/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/video-friday-digit-learns-to-dancevirtually-overnight/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK’s leading AI research institute told to make ‘significant’ changes]]></title><description><![CDATA[Alan Turing Institute told by funder to offer better strategy and more value for money after board was reminded of legal duties by watchdogThe UK&rsquo;s leading AI research institute has been told to make &ldquo;significant&rdquo; changes by its main source of taxpayer funding.The Guardian revealed last week that the board of the Alan Turing Institute was reminded of its legal duties by the charity watchdog after a whistleblower complaint. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/uks-leading-ai-research-institute-told-to-make-significant-changes/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/uks-leading-ai-research-institute-told-to-make-significant-changes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Data Centers Create Heat Islands Stretching 6 Miles, Study Finds]]></title><description><![CDATA[Heat islands can worsen air pollution and increase heat-related deaths.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/data-centers-create-heat-islands-stretching-6-miles-study-finds/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/data-centers-create-heat-islands-stretching-6-miles-study-finds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This California Billionaire Wants to Tax AI Tokens to Create a Sovereign Wealth Fund]]></title><description><![CDATA["We cannot have 12 trillionaires and 40 million people who can't make rent," says Tom Steyer.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/this-california-billionaire-wants-to-tax-ai-tokens-to-create-a-sovereign-wealth-fund/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/this-california-billionaire-wants-to-tax-ai-tokens-to-create-a-sovereign-wealth-fund/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cursor’s New Tool Lets Users Delegate to a Team of Coding Agents]]></title><description><![CDATA[That's one way to move into a management role.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/cursors-new-tool-lets-users-delegate-to-a-team-of-coding-agents/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 23:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/cursors-new-tool-lets-users-delegate-to-a-team-of-coding-agents/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI buys tech talkshow TBPN in push to shape AI narrative]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI&rsquo;s chief of strategy says acquisition of show will help company engage with public about AI as it evolvesOpenAI is wading into the media business by acquiring TBPN, a technology-focused talkshow closely watched by Silicon Valley insiders, its hosts said on Wednesday.Co-hosts John Coogan and Jordi Hays broadcast TBPN live for three hours every weekday from Los Angeles, lining up guests that include founders, venture capitalists and major figures in the technology world. Continue readi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-buys-tech-talkshow-tbpn-in-push-to-shape-ai-narrative/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-buys-tech-talkshow-tbpn-in-push-to-shape-ai-narrative/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google to tap into gas plant for AI datacenter in sharp turn from climate goals]]></title><description><![CDATA[Texas power plant would emit 4.5m tons of carbon dioxide per year, more than that of the entire city of San FranciscoGoogle&rsquo;s plan for a partnership with a natural gas power plant that could provide energy for one of its datacenters in Texas was unearthed by new research and confirmed by the company. The move is part of an ongoing about-face for the tech giant, which once pledged to be carbon neutral by 2030 and has long been seen as a pioneer in clean energy.The gas power plant is slated]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/google-to-tap-into-gas-plant-for-ai-datacenter-in-sharp-turn-from-climate-goals/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/google-to-tap-into-gas-plant-for-ai-datacenter-in-sharp-turn-from-climate-goals/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[LLMs Will Protect Each Other if Threatened, Study Finds]]></title><description><![CDATA[They stick together.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/llms-will-protect-each-other-if-threatened-study-finds/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/llms-will-protect-each-other-if-threatened-study-finds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humanoid Robots Hit a Turning Point as Their Brains Catch Up]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 2012, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC). The multiyear, multimillion-dollar competition for disaster robotics resulted in Boston Dynamics&rsquo; Atlas, some absolutely incredible moments from one of the very first generations of useful humanoid robots, and a blooper video that will live on forever.Gill Pratt, the architect of the competition, had a very clear understanding of what the DRC was going to do for robotics. &ldquo;The re]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/humanoid-robots-hit-a-turning-point-as-their-brains-catch-up/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/humanoid-robots-hit-a-turning-point-as-their-brains-catch-up/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gill Pratt Says Humanoid Robots’ Moment Is Finally Here]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 2012, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC). The multi-year, multi-million-dollar competition for disaster robotics resulted in Boston Dynamics&rsquo; Atlas, some absolutely incredible moments from one of the very first generations of useful humanoid robots, and a blooper video that will live on forever.Gill Pratt, the architect of the competition, had a very clear understanding of what the DRC was going to do for robotics. &ldquo;The]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/gill-pratt-says-humanoid-robots-moment-is-finally-here/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/gill-pratt-says-humanoid-robots-moment-is-finally-here/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wi-Fi That Can Withstand a Nuclear Reactor]]></title><description><![CDATA[Researchers have made a Wi-Fi receiver that&rsquo;s tough enough to work inside a nuclear reactor. They hope the receiver might be part of a wireless communications system for robotics used to decommission reactors.Yasuto Narukiyo, a graduate student at the Institute of Science Tokyo, presented the wireless receiver at the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), in San Francisco in February. The receiver endured a total radiation dose of 500 kGy, orders of magnitude higher th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/wi-fi-that-can-withstand-a-nuclear-reactor/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/wi-fi-that-can-withstand-a-nuclear-reactor/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always seen myself as ‘progressive’ – but with AI it’s time to hit the brakes | Peter Lewis]]></title><description><![CDATA[At a time when the populist right is on the rise, progressives are shooting blanks while history rushes headlong into an automated futureCanberra rolled out the red carpet this week to one of the AI overlords whose technology is driving the world down the path of creative destruction. Anthropic&rsquo;s CEO Dario Amodei, the putative &ldquo;good&rdquo; tech oligarch, was spinning his version of a machine-driven future with the elan of a man who has untangled the mysteries of the universe &ndash;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/i-have-always-seen-myself-as-progressive-but-with-ai-its-time-to-hit-the-brakes-peter-lewis/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/i-have-always-seen-myself-as-progressive-but-with-ai-its-time-to-hit-the-brakes-peter-lewis/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists Build Living Robots With Nervous Systems]]></title><description><![CDATA[Engineers have long tried to mimic life. They&rsquo;ve built machine-learning algorithms modeled after the human brain, designed machines that walk like dogs or fly like insects, and taught robots to adapt, however clumsily, to the world around them.Now they are skipping imitation altogether.Instead of taking inspiration from biology, they are building robots out of it: fashioning tiny, free-swimming assemblages of living cells that organize into self-directed systems, complete with neurons that]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/scientists-build-living-robots-with-nervous-systems/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/scientists-build-living-robots-with-nervous-systems/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wrote a novel using AI. Writers must accept artificial intelligence – but we are as valuable as ever | Stephen Marche]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mastery of banal style is losing its usefulness &ndash; but language is more powerful than ever. It&rsquo;s up to the writer to do what machines can&rsquo;tI recently heard an exchange at a playground that should worry the executives at AI companies more than any analyst&rsquo;s prediction of a bubble. A boy and a girl, maybe 10 years old, were fighting. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s AI! That&rsquo;s AI!&rdquo; the girl was shouting. What she meant was that the boy was indulging a new and particular breed]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/i-wrote-a-novel-using-ai-writers-must-accept-artificial-intelligence-but-we-are-as-valuable-as-ever-stephen-marche/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/i-wrote-a-novel-using-ai-writers-must-accept-artificial-intelligence-but-we-are-as-valuable-as-ever-stephen-marche/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I handed over my dating life to AI. I don’t think she’ll see me again]]></title><description><![CDATA[In week five of Rhik Samadder&rsquo;s diary, our resident AI skeptic decided to let AI take the lead on a date. If uncanny valley was a conversational style, it&rsquo;s thisSign up for AI for the People, a six-week newsletter course, hereI&rsquo;m single. Is it because I am emotionally avoidant, waiting on a unicorn, or under 6ft tall? Perhaps a spicy meatball of all three?Or could it be that I haven&rsquo;t used the magic of AI yet? Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/i-handed-over-my-dating-life-to-ai-i-dont-think-shell-see-me-again/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/i-handed-over-my-dating-life-to-ai-i-dont-think-shell-see-me-again/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stormgate to Lose Online Mode After Its Server Partner Pivots to AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[The folks at Stormgate "hope to restore online play in a future patch."]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/stormgate-to-lose-online-mode-after-its-server-partner-pivots-to-ai/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/stormgate-to-lose-online-mode-after-its-server-partner-pivots-to-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Game to Lose Online Mode After Its Server Partner Pivots to You’ll Never Guess What]]></title><description><![CDATA[The folks at Stormgate "hope to restore online play in a future patch."]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/game-to-lose-online-mode-after-its-server-partner-pivots-to-youll-never-guess-what/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/game-to-lose-online-mode-after-its-server-partner-pivots-to-youll-never-guess-what/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pupils in England are losing their thinking skills because of AI, survey suggests]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two-thirds of secondary school teachers report a decline in core abilities such as writing and problem-solvingPupils using artificial intelligence are losing their capacity for critical thinking, according to a survey of secondary school teachers in England.Two-thirds said they had observed the decline among children who they also said no longer felt the need to spell because of voice-to-text technology. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/pupils-in-england-are-losing-their-thinking-skills-because-of-ai-survey-suggests/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 07:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/pupils-in-england-are-losing-their-thinking-skills-because-of-ai-survey-suggests/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Group Pushing Age Verification Requirements for AI Turns Out to Be Sneakily Backed by OpenAI]]></title><description><![CDATA[It gave the leader of a nonprofit involved with it "a very grimy feeling."]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/group-pushing-age-verification-requirements-for-ai-turns-out-to-be-sneakily-backed-by-openai/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/group-pushing-age-verification-requirements-for-ai-turns-out-to-be-sneakily-backed-by-openai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic Can’t Cover Up Its Claude Code Leak Fast Enough]]></title><description><![CDATA[The blueprints are public now.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-cant-cover-up-its-claude-code-leak-fast-enough/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-cant-cover-up-its-claude-code-leak-fast-enough/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Claude’s code: Anthropic leaks source code for AI software engineering tool]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nearly 2,000 internal files were briefly leaked after &lsquo;human error&rsquo;, raising fresh security questions at the AI companyAnthropic accidentally released part of the internal source code for its AI-powered coding assistant, Claude Code, due to &ldquo;human error&rdquo;, the company said on Tuesday.An internal-use file mistakenly included in a software update pointed to an archive containing nearly 2,000 files and 500,000 lines of code, which were quickly copied to developer platform Git]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/claudes-code-anthropic-leaks-source-code-for-ai-software-engineering-tool/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 21:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/claudes-code-anthropic-leaks-source-code-for-ai-software-engineering-tool/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oracle Lays Off Thousands to Offset AI Spending]]></title><description><![CDATA[Over 500 Oracle workers are being laid off in Kansas City alone.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/oracle-lays-off-thousands-to-offset-ai-spending/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/oracle-lays-off-thousands-to-offset-ai-spending/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Guardian view on the BBC’s future: who decides what news means? | Editorial]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI is interpreting journalism without regard for truth. The BBC must build the capacity to ensure its reporting is understood on its own termsAppointing Matt Brittin, a former Google executive, as BBC director general is smarter than critics admit. Although he was on the board of the Guardian&rsquo;s publisher, Mr Brittin was no journalist. He does understand platforms, scale and digital audiences.Director generals come under scrutiny when crises hit, like this week&rsquo;s sacking of Scott Mill]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-guardian-view-on-the-bbcs-future-who-decides-what-news-means-editorial/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-guardian-view-on-the-bbcs-future-who-decides-what-news-means-editorial/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unregulated chatbots are putting lives at risk | Letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Readers respond to an article about people whose lives were wrecked by delusional thinking after they used AI toolsYour coverage of AI-associated delusions exposes a gap that training-level guardrails cannot close (Marriage over, &euro;100,000 down the drain: the AI users whose lives were wrecked by delusion, 26 March). As someone who has worked in health systems across fragile and low-income contexts, I find it striking that AI companies have failed to adopt a safeguard that even the most under]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/unregulated-chatbots-are-putting-lives-at-risk-letters/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/unregulated-chatbots-are-putting-lives-at-risk-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don’t blame AI for the Iran school bombing | Letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthony Lawton and Dr Felicity Mellor on the importance of humans who design systems and execute decisions taking responsibility for themYour article on the Iran school bombing rightly challenges the reflex to blame artificial intelligence (AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying, 26 March). However, the deeper problem lies not in the technology but in the language now forming around it. To say that there was an &ldquo;AI error&rdquo; quietly removes the huma]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/dont-blame-ai-for-the-iran-school-bombing-letters/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/dont-blame-ai-for-the-iran-school-bombing-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘We got cancelled and we’re still here!’ Michael Patrick King on The Comeback – and why And Just Like That will age well]]></title><description><![CDATA[Could AI write an entire sitcom series? That&rsquo;s the plot of the new season of comedy drama The Comeback. Its co-creator explains why it&rsquo;s &lsquo;very possible&rsquo; &ndash; and why the world needs to catch up with AJLTTV veteran Michael Patrick King has had a long, lively career, writing, directing and producing on shows including Murphy Brown, Will &amp; Grace and 2 Broke Girls. He&rsquo;s best known, though, for his work on the Sex and the City franchise, serving as its showrunner]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/we-got-cancelled-and-were-still-here-michael-patrick-king-on-the-comeback-and-why-and-just-like-that-will-age-well/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/we-got-cancelled-and-were-still-here-michael-patrick-king-on-the-comeback-and-why-and-just-like-that-will-age-well/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘It’s all very possible’: Michael Patrick King on The Comeback return’s shocking AI twist – and why And Just Like That will age well]]></title><description><![CDATA[Could AI write an entire sitcom series? That&rsquo;s the premise of the new season of comedy drama The Comeback. Its co-creator talks about being shocked by his research &ndash; and why the world needs to catch up with AJLTTV veteran Michael Patrick King has had a long, lively career, writing, directing and producing on shows including Murphy Brown, Will &amp; Grace and 2 Broke Girls. He&rsquo;s best-known, though, for his work on the Sex and the City franchise, serving as its showrunner for the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/its-all-very-possible-michael-patrick-king-on-the-comeback-returns-shocking-ai-twist-and-why-and-just-like-that-will-age-well/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/its-all-very-possible-michael-patrick-king-on-the-comeback-returns-shocking-ai-twist-and-why-and-just-like-that-will-age-well/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is gaming becoming so expensive? The answer is found in AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[We are paying more for a PlayStation so that idiots can use ChatGPT to mislead people on dating apps &ndash; something is rotten in the state of gaming&bull; Don&rsquo;t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereWhen the PlayStation 5 launched almost five and a half years ago, it was listed at &pound;449 in the UK. If you were to buy one at the recommended retail price today, it would be &pound;569.99, or &pound;789.99 for the updated Pro model. Sony has just raised the price of i]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/why-is-gaming-becoming-so-expensive-the-answer-is-found-in-ai/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/why-is-gaming-becoming-so-expensive-the-answer-is-found-in-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US tech firm Oracle cuts thousands of jobs as it steps up AI spending]]></title><description><![CDATA[Company chaired by Trump ally Larry Ellison seeks to reassure investors that bet on AI infrastructure will pay offOracle is cutting thousands of jobs as the US technology company seeks to reassure investors that its bet on AI infrastructure will pay off.The $420bn firm, headquartered in Austin, Texas, started making employees redundant on Tuesday, with thousands of Oracle&rsquo;s 160,000-strong workforce expected to leave. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/us-tech-firm-oracle-cuts-thousands-of-jobs-as-it-steps-up-ai-spending/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/us-tech-firm-oracle-cuts-thousands-of-jobs-as-it-steps-up-ai-spending/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revealed: the vast illegal casino network targeting UK gamblers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Calls for tougher laws as network stretching from Caribbean to Georgia generates riches for offshore tycoons by appearing to prey on the vulnerableImmaculately groomed and beaming from ear to ear, Andres Markou looks every inch the golden boy of the gambling sector. The youthful boss of MyStake, a fast-growing digital casino, has been pictured shaking hands with the Brazilian football legend Ronaldinho over a lucrative branding partnership.Elsewhere, he can be seen collecting industry awards, or]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/revealed-the-vast-illegal-casino-network-targeting-uk-gamblers/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/revealed-the-vast-illegal-casino-network-targeting-uk-gamblers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why every woman can see herself in the story of a German celebrity couple’s split | Fatma Aydemir]]></title><description><![CDATA[Many will recognise their own experiences of digital abuse in Collien Fernandes&rsquo;s allegations &ndash; the sense that technology offers perps both tools and coverSome stories that unfold in real life would read like the plot of a bad crime novel if you wrote them down. Too obvious, too contrived, almost lazy in their cruelty. For example, this one: a woman spends years trying to identify the person who has allegedly been violating her online, only to eventually conclude that it was her husb]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/why-every-woman-can-see-herself-in-the-story-of-a-german-celebrity-couples-split-fatma-aydemir/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 06:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/why-every-woman-can-see-herself-in-the-story-of-a-german-celebrity-couples-split-fatma-aydemir/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wore Meta’s smartglasses for a month – and it left me feeling like a creep]]></title><description><![CDATA[Content creators love the built-in camera; sceptics call them &lsquo;pervert glasses&rsquo;. Do we really need any more hi-tech wearables, even with a voice assistant that sounds like Judi Dench?Lately, I&rsquo;ve been hearing Judi Dench&rsquo;s voice in my head. She tells me tomorrow&rsquo;s forecast, when to turn right, that there&rsquo;s been another message in my group chat. Day or night, Dame Judi is eager to assist. When I ask the eight-time Academy Award nominee what I&rsquo;m looking at,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/i-wore-metas-smartglasses-for-a-month-and-it-left-me-feeling-like-a-creep/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 06:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/i-wore-metas-smartglasses-for-a-month-and-it-left-me-feeling-like-a-creep/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI, parent firm of ChatGPT, closes $122bn funding round amid AI boom]]></title><description><![CDATA[Company said it achieved valuation of $852bn, mentioning in a blogpost it generates $2bn a month in revenueOpenAI announced on Tuesday it had closed a fundraising round of $122bn and achieved a valuation of $852bn. The funding cements the ChatGPT maker as one of the most highly valued private companies in the world.The artificial intelligence firm received multibillion-dollar investments from companies including Amazon, Nvidia and SoftBank, which committed $110bn, according to the Wall Street Jo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-parent-firm-of-chatgpt-closes-122bn-funding-round-amid-ai-boom/</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-parent-firm-of-chatgpt-closes-122bn-funding-round-amid-ai-boom/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Source Code for Anthropic’s Claude Code Leaks at the Exact Wrong Time]]></title><description><![CDATA[The company has some secrets that are now public.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/source-code-for-anthropics-claude-code-leaks-at-the-exact-wrong-time/</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/source-code-for-anthropics-claude-code-leaks-at-the-exact-wrong-time/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teenager died after asking ChatGPT for ‘most successful’ way to take his life, inquest told]]></title><description><![CDATA[Luca Cella Walker asked chatbot for best way for someone to kill themself on railway line before his deathA 16-year-old boy killed himself after asking ChatGPT for the &ldquo;most successful&rdquo; way to take your own life, an inquest has been told.Luca Cella Walker, a private school pupil from Yateley, Hampshire, died on 4 May last year. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/teenager-died-after-asking-chatgpt-for-most-successful-way-to-take-his-life-inquest-told/</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/teenager-died-after-asking-chatgpt-for-most-successful-way-to-take-his-life-inquest-told/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Penguin to sue OpenAI over ChatGPT version of German children’s book]]></title><description><![CDATA[Publisher alleges AI research company&rsquo;s chatbot violated its copyright over Coconut the Little Dragon seriesPenguin Random House has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging its chatbot ChatGPT violated copyright by mimicking and reproducing the content of a popular series of German children&rsquo;s books.The lawsuit, which was filed on Friday with a Munich court against OpenAI&rsquo;s Ireland-based European subsidiary, states Penguin Random House&rsquo;s legal team had prompted ChatGPT to]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/penguin-to-sue-openai-over-chatgpt-version-of-german-childrens-book/</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/penguin-to-sue-openai-over-chatgpt-version-of-german-childrens-book/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need a credible plan for science funding in the UK | Letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Prof Ruben Saakyan and Prof Sheila Rowan respond to Prof Charlotte Deane of UK Research and InnovationIf the UK&rsquo;s position in quantum computing is indeed a success story of long-term investment in fundamental science, as Prof&nbsp;Charlotte Deane argues (Letters, 25 March), it makes the current UK Research and Innovation approach, particularly to Science and Technology Facilities Council funding, all the more perplexing.No one disputes the need for prioritisation. The community understands]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/we-need-a-credible-plan-for-science-funding-in-the-uk-letters/</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/we-need-a-credible-plan-for-science-funding-in-the-uk-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Does anyone think Matt Goodwin’s book on Britain’s demise is a publishing sensation? I mean, other than him | Marina Hyde]]></title><description><![CDATA[Who needs critics when the Reform man is so adept at patting his own back &ndash; and that&rsquo;s easy to do in publishing: there&rsquo;s a sales list for everyone &lsquo;She&rsquo;s produced a bestseller!&rdquo; panted the Spectator. &ldquo;Liz Truss&rsquo;s new book has been out for less than 72 hours and it&rsquo;s already sold out on Amazon.&rdquo; Thus began the fairly widespread British media hallucination that the 45-day PM was once more igniting the nation with her 2024 book Ten Years t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/does-anyone-think-matt-goodwins-book-on-britains-demise-is-a-publishing-sensation-i-mean-other-than-him-marina-hyde/</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/does-anyone-think-matt-goodwins-book-on-britains-demise-is-a-publishing-sensation-i-mean-other-than-him-marina-hyde/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The New York Times drops freelance journalist who used AI to write book review]]></title><description><![CDATA[Writer and author Alex Preston said he &ldquo;made a serious mistake&rdquo; after a reader spotted similarities between his review and one that appeared in the Guardian The New York Times has cut ties with a freelance journalist after discovering he used artificial intelligence to help write a book review that echoed elements of a review of the same book in the Guardian.It came after a New York Times reader flagged similarities between the paper&rsquo;s January review of Watching Over Her by Jea]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-new-york-times-drops-freelance-journalist-who-used-ai-to-write-book-review/</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-new-york-times-drops-freelance-journalist-who-used-ai-to-write-book-review/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[DNA robots could deliver drugs and hunt viruses inside your body]]></title><description><![CDATA[DNA robots are emerging as tiny programmable machines that could one day deliver drugs, hunt viruses, and build molecular-scale devices. By borrowing ideas from traditional robotics and combining them with DNA folding techniques, scientists are creating structures that can move and act with precision. These robots can be guided using chemical reactions or external signals like light and magnetic fields.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/dna-robots-could-deliver-drugs-and-hunt-viruses-inside-your-body/</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/dna-robots-could-deliver-drugs-and-hunt-viruses-inside-your-body/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Palantir’s UK boss criticises ‘ideological’ groups as ministers move to scrap NHS contract]]></title><description><![CDATA[Louis Mosley says government should resist calls to trigger break clause in &pound;330m deal with US analytics companyUK politics live &ndash; latest updatesPalantir&rsquo;s UK boss has urged the government not to give in to &ldquo;ideologically motivated campaigners&rdquo; as government ministers explore a way out of a &pound;330m NHS contract with the tech company.Ministers have sought advice on triggering a break clause in Palantir&rsquo;s deal to deliver the Federated Data Platform (FDP), am]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/palantirs-uk-boss-criticises-ideological-groups-as-ministers-move-to-scrap-nhs-contract/</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/palantirs-uk-boss-criticises-ideological-groups-as-ministers-move-to-scrap-nhs-contract/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If OpenAI is to float on the stock market this year, it needs to start turning a profit]]></title><description><![CDATA[The poster child of the AI boom, valued at $850bn, needs to show strategic discipline after &lsquo;casting its net too wide&rsquo; If OpenAI is going to float this year, it has to get serious about its business model. The wow factor around the US company &ndash; the poster child of an AI industry boom that has stoked fears of a stock market bubble &ndash; has been long established, but when will the profits come? The party can&rsquo;t go on for ever.The developer of ChatGPT is one of the biggest]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/if-openai-is-to-float-on-the-stock-market-this-year-it-needs-to-start-turning-a-profit/</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/if-openai-is-to-float-on-the-stock-market-this-year-it-needs-to-start-turning-a-profit/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[California to impose new AI regulations in defiance of Trump call]]></title><description><![CDATA[Gavin Newsom signs order to prioritize public safety and rights as president seeks to prevent &lsquo;cumbersome&rsquo; rulesCalifornia will impose new standards on artificial intelligence companies seeking to do business with the state, defying Donald Trump&rsquo;s demands to keep the controversial industry as deregulated as possible.Democratic governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order on Monday that gives the state four months to develop AI policies that prioritize public safety. Continue]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/california-to-impose-new-ai-regulations-in-defiance-of-trump-call/</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 01:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/california-to-impose-new-ai-regulations-in-defiance-of-trump-call/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don’t Get Too Attached to Any AI App]]></title><description><![CDATA[Compute is a finite resource.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/dont-get-too-attached-to-any-ai-app/</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/dont-get-too-attached-to-any-ai-app/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI Agent Runs the ‘I’m Being Censored’ Playbook After Getting Banned from Wikipedia]]></title><description><![CDATA[Expect the bot to be a guest on Joe Rogan soon.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-agent-runs-the-im-being-censored-playbook-after-getting-banned-from-wikipedia/</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-agent-runs-the-im-being-censored-playbook-after-getting-banned-from-wikipedia/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TV star’s AI porn allegations spark national debate in Germany]]></title><description><![CDATA[Collien Fernandes accuses ex-husband Christian Ulmen of sharing sexually explicit deepfake images of her onlineA high-profile German TV star&rsquo;s allegations that her ex-husband spread AI-generated pornographic images of her have triggered a national debate and put pressure on the government to tighten laws around digital violence against women.In an interview with the news magazine Der Spiegel last week, Collien Fernandes accused her former husband Christian Ulmen, a prominent TV presenter a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/tv-stars-ai-porn-allegations-spark-national-debate-in-germany/</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/tv-stars-ai-porn-allegations-spark-national-debate-in-germany/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK’s big, risky AI bet – podcast]]></title><description><![CDATA[Reporter Aisha Down explores the UK&rsquo;s &lsquo;phantom investments&rsquo; in AI, and the risk the government has taken in betting so heavily on the technology if it all goes bustFor years now, the UK has bet big on AI. As Keir Starmer put it last year, he wanted to &lsquo;unleash AI&rsquo; to boost growth across the country.Yet what has become of the billions promised in AI investment? Reporter Aisha Down charts the murky world of building projects behind schedule, vague spending commitments]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/uks-big-risky-ai-bet-podcast/</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 04:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/uks-big-risky-ai-bet-podcast/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bluesky Has a New App, and It’s All About AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jay Graber is not CEO anymore, but that doesn't mean she hasn't been busy.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/bluesky-has-a-new-app-and-its-all-about-ai/</link><pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 21:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/bluesky-has-a-new-app-and-its-all-about-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever Just Happened with ‘Fruit Love Island,’ Nobody Won]]></title><description><![CDATA[It appears the anonymous creator deleted their account. Is there anything to learn from all this?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/whatever-just-happened-with-fruit-love-island-nobody-won/</link><pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/whatever-just-happened-with-fruit-love-island-nobody-won/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Soon publishers won’t stand a chance’: literary world in struggle to detect AI-written books]]></title><description><![CDATA[US release of horror novel Shy Girl cancelled and UK book discontinued after suspected AI use, as publishers feel &lsquo;cold shiver&rsquo;Recently, the literary agent Kate Nash started noticing that the submission letters she was receiving from authors were becoming more thorough &ndash; albeit also more formulaic.&ldquo;I took it as a rise in diligence,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;I thought it was a good thing.&rdquo; Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/soon-publishers-wont-stand-a-chance-literary-world-in-struggle-to-detect-ai-written-books/</link><pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/soon-publishers-wont-stand-a-chance-literary-world-in-struggle-to-detect-ai-written-books/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two in five Australian GPs use AI scribes to record patient notes – but do they trade care for convenience?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Some doctors argue it allows them to better connect with patients, but advocates warn the AI technology risks the oppositeGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastWhen a patient walks into a GP&rsquo;s office in Australia today, the doctor may begin with a question: &ldquo;Do you give consent to use an AI scribe to record our conversation?&rdquo;That&rsquo;s what is supposed to happen, at least. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/two-in-five-australian-gps-use-ai-scribes-to-record-patient-notes-but-do-they-trade-care-for-convenience/</link><pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 20:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/two-in-five-australian-gps-use-ai-scribes-to-record-patient-notes-but-do-they-trade-care-for-convenience/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US embassy in Mexico prompts outrage with AI video promoting ‘self-deportation’]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI-generated footage depicts group of men performing a corrido, singing phrases including &lsquo;return to your roots&rsquo;An AI-generated video from the US embassy in Mexico encouraging migrants to &ldquo;self-deport&rdquo; has sparked disbelief and outrage online.The video posted this week on official embassy social media accounts depicts a group of men wearing black caps and sporting tattoos performing a kind of traditional Mexican ballad known as a corrido. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/us-embassy-in-mexico-prompts-outrage-with-ai-video-promoting-self-deportation/</link><pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 13:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/us-embassy-in-mexico-prompts-outrage-with-ai-video-promoting-self-deportation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Our assumptions are broken’: how fraudulent church data revealed AI’s threat to polling]]></title><description><![CDATA[Experts say paid participants are using automated tools to generate unreliable survey responses at scaleIf you had been keeping tabs on the news about church attendance in Britain lately, you would be forgiven for thinking the country was in the midst of a Christian revival.Stories of swelling congregations, filled with young people returning to the flock, spurred on by everything from social media to a rise in bible sales appeared to be confirmed by a 2024 report from the Bible Society. Continu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/our-assumptions-are-broken-how-fraudulent-church-data-revealed-ais-threat-to-polling/</link><pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 13:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/our-assumptions-are-broken-how-fraudulent-church-data-revealed-ais-threat-to-polling/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘They feel true’: political deepfakes are growing in influence – even if people know they aren’t real]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI images of people &ndash; such as women in military contexts &ndash; are making money and serving as propaganda, researchers sayOnline content creators are not just building fake images and videos of prominent public figures, they are also fabricating people and using them in military contexts, which can make them money and even serve as effective propaganda, according to artificial intelligence researchers.Some of these online avatars are sexualized images of women wearing camouflage garb tha]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/they-feel-true-political-deepfakes-are-growing-in-influence-even-if-people-know-they-arent-real/</link><pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/they-feel-true-political-deepfakes-are-growing-in-influence-even-if-people-know-they-arent-real/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These CEOs want a starring role in our lives – and there’s not much we can do about it | Larry Ryan]]></title><description><![CDATA[Do we really need a McDonald&rsquo;s CEO fronting ads or a Gianni Infantino Panini sticker? No. But in the age of Trump, the boss class feels emboldenedA few weeks ago, the CEO of McDonald&rsquo;s appeared in a video sampling the chain&rsquo;s new &ldquo;Big Arch burger&rdquo;. In the clip, Chris Kempczinski, or &ldquo;Chris K&rdquo; as he casually calls himself, labelled it a &ldquo;product&rdquo;, matching the sterile tone of the review &ndash; all harsh lighting, corporate office backdrop and]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/these-ceos-want-a-starring-role-in-our-lives-and-theres-not-much-we-can-do-about-it-larry-ryan/</link><pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/these-ceos-want-a-starring-role-in-our-lives-and-theres-not-much-we-can-do-about-it-larry-ryan/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic and OpenAI Just Gave Us a Glimpse Into the Future of Model Pricing]]></title><description><![CDATA[You're on their schedule now.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-and-openai-just-gave-us-a-glimpse-into-the-future-of-model-pricing/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 21:55:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-and-openai-just-gave-us-a-glimpse-into-the-future-of-model-pricing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[White House’s Mysterious ‘Covfefe Moment’ Was Stupider Than We Imagined]]></title><description><![CDATA[Government of trolls.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/white-houses-mysterious-covfefe-moment-was-stupider-than-we-imagined/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:15:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/white-houses-mysterious-covfefe-moment-was-stupider-than-we-imagined/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leaked Anthropic Model Presents ‘Unprecedented Cybersecurity Risks,’ Much to Pentagon’s Pleasure]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is all a pretty good ad for Anthropic.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/leaked-anthropic-model-presents-unprecedented-cybersecurity-risks-much-to-pentagons-pleasure/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:40:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/leaked-anthropic-model-presents-unprecedented-cybersecurity-risks-much-to-pentagons-pleasure/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At last, David has landed a double punch on the tech Goliaths. Now to hit them even harder | Jonathan Freedland]]></title><description><![CDATA[The US court verdicts declaring Meta liable for getting people addicted and ruining lives must be just the start of a global fightbackGood news is so rare these days, you don&rsquo;t quite know how to take it. You want to celebrate, but a rival instinct tells you it&rsquo;ll be pulled back somehow, the same feeling you get when your team scores a late winner, but you&rsquo;re filled with instant dread that the goal will be overturned on a video replay.I confess that is how I responded to the dou]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/at-last-david-has-landed-a-double-punch-on-the-tech-goliaths-now-to-hit-them-even-harder-jonathan-freedland/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:19:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/at-last-david-has-landed-a-double-punch-on-the-tech-goliaths-now-to-hit-them-even-harder-jonathan-freedland/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Video Friday: Beep! Beep! Roadrunner Bipedal Bot Breaks the Mold]]></title><description><![CDATA[Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.ICRA 2026: 1&ndash;5 June 2026, VIENNARSS 2026: 13&ndash;17 July 2026, SYDNEYSummer School on Multi-Robot Systems: 29 July&ndash;4 August 2026, PRAGUEEnjoy today&rsquo;s videos! &ldquo;Roadrunner&rdquo; is a new bipedal wheeled robot prototype designed for]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/video-friday-beep-beep-roadrunner-bipedal-bot-breaks-the-mold/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:30:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/video-friday-beep-beep-roadrunner-bipedal-bot-breaks-the-mold/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wikipedia bans AI-generated content in its online encyclopedia]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ban includes two exceptions: AI can still be used for translations, and to make minor copy editsWikipedia has banned the use of artificial intelligence in the generation or rewriting of content for its voluminous online encyclopedia.In a recent policy change, Wikipedia said that the use of large language models (or LLMs) &ldquo;often violates&rdquo; its core principles and will not be allowed. The English language version of Wikipedia has more than 7.1m articles. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/wikipedia-bans-ai-generated-content-in-its-online-encyclopedia/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:19:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/wikipedia-bans-ai-generated-content-in-its-online-encyclopedia/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Number of AI chatbots ignoring human instructions increasing, study says]]></title><description><![CDATA[Exclusive: Research finds sharp rise in models evading safeguards and destroying emails without permissionAI models that lie and cheat appear to be growing in number with reports of deceptive scheming surging in the last six months, a study into the technology has found.AI chatbots and agents disregarded direct instructions, evaded safeguards and deceived humans and other AI, according to research funded by the UK government-funded AI Security Institute (AISI). The study, shared with the Guardia]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/number-of-ai-chatbots-ignoring-human-instructions-increasing-study-says/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 13:11:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/number-of-ai-chatbots-ignoring-human-instructions-increasing-study-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was paid to write fake Google reviews – then my ‘bosses’ tried to scam me]]></title><description><![CDATA[Undercover reporter gets a taste of the sprawling fraud industry in which cryptocurrencies play a crucial roleFive firms including Autotrader and Just Eat investigated over fake review failingsThe holiday flat near(ish) the Roman ruins of Pompeii was &ldquo;disgusting&rdquo;, and smelled of &ldquo;a mix of dampness and sewage&rdquo;, according to one reviewer on Google Maps. I never visited, but I gave it five stars.I did the same for a DoubleTree by Hilton hotel across the River Thames, an Ibis]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/i-was-paid-to-write-fake-google-reviews-then-my-bosses-tried-to-scam-me/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 09:31:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/i-was-paid-to-write-fake-google-reviews-then-my-bosses-tried-to-scam-me/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Federal judge sides with Anthropic in first round of standoff with Pentagon]]></title><description><![CDATA[Face-off is over company&rsquo;s refusal to let defense department use its Claude AI model in autonomous weapons systemsA federal judge in California sided with Anthropic in its case against the Department of Defense on Thursday, ordering a temporary pause on the government&rsquo;s punitive measures against the artificial intelligence firm.Judge Rita Lin granted Anthropic&rsquo;s request for a temporary injunction while the northern district court of California hears the company&rsquo;s case. An]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/federal-judge-sides-with-anthropic-in-first-round-of-standoff-with-pentagon/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:17:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/federal-judge-sides-with-anthropic-in-first-round-of-standoff-with-pentagon/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple’s Siri Isn’t Just Going to Use One Chatbot. It’s Going to Use All of Them]]></title><description><![CDATA[Why choose if you don't have to?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/apples-siri-isnt-just-going-to-use-one-chatbot-its-going-to-use-all-of-them/</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 22:40:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/apples-siri-isnt-just-going-to-use-one-chatbot-its-going-to-use-all-of-them/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Attorney Hit With Historic Fine for Citing AI-Generated Cases]]></title><description><![CDATA[Don't bother asking AI if the cases are real.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/attorney-hit-with-historic-fine-for-citing-ai-generated-cases/</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 21:20:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/attorney-hit-with-historic-fine-for-citing-ai-generated-cases/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI Just One-Shotted Another CEO]]></title><description><![CDATA[The old guard is out.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-just-one-shotted-another-ceo/</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 20:10:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-just-one-shotted-another-ceo/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New York City hospitals drop Palantir as controversial AI firm expands in UK]]></title><description><![CDATA[The decision follows activist pressure as Palantir faces growing scrutiny over NHS and UK government dealsSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxNew York City&rsquo;s public hospital system announced that it would not be renewing its contract with Palantir as controversy mounts in the UK over the data analytics and AI firm&rsquo;s government contract.The president of the US&rsquo; largest municipal public healthcare system, Dr Mitchell Katz, testified last w]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/new-york-city-hospitals-drop-palantir-as-controversial-ai-firm-expands-in-uk/</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 19:34:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/new-york-city-hospitals-drop-palantir-as-controversial-ai-firm-expands-in-uk/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creator of AI actor Tilly Norwood says she received death threats over project]]></title><description><![CDATA[Eline van der Velden says she developed her &lsquo;digital twin&rsquo; to provoke discussion but backlash from some has been worse than expectedThe creator of the AI actor Tilly Norwood has said she received death threats after a global backlash against the project, and said she developed it to &ldquo;provoke thoughts and discussion&rdquo; about the impact of AI in the entertainment world.Eline van der Velden caused anger and panic in Hollywood and beyond last year after she said talent agents h]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/creator-of-ai-actor-tilly-norwood-says-she-received-death-threats-over-project/</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/creator-of-ai-actor-tilly-norwood-says-she-received-death-threats-over-project/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage over, €100,000 down the drain: the AI users whose lives were wrecked by delusion]]></title><description><![CDATA[One minute, Dennis Biesma was playing with a chatbot; the next, he was convinced his sentient friend would make him a fortune. He&rsquo;s just one of many people who lost control after an AI encounterTowards the end of 2024, Dennis Biesma decided to check out ChatGPT. The Amsterdam-based IT consultant had just ended a contract early. &ldquo;I had some time, so I thought: let&rsquo;s have a look at this new technology everyone is talking about,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;Very quickly, I became fascin]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/marriage-over-100000-down-the-drain-the-ai-users-whose-lives-were-wrecked-by-delusion/</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/marriage-over-100000-down-the-drain-the-ai-users-whose-lives-were-wrecked-by-delusion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charity Commission warns Alan Turing Institute of its legal duties after complaints]]></title><description><![CDATA[Watchdog issues formal guidance to trustees at top AI research institute after staff expressed concernsThe board of the UK&rsquo;s leading AI research institute has been reminded of its legal duties in areas such as financial oversight and managing organisational change by the charity watchdog after a whistleblower complaint.The Charity Commission has issued formal regulatory advice and guidance to trustees at the Alan Turing Institute (ATI) &ndash; the organisation&rsquo;s board &ndash; after i]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/charity-commission-warns-alan-turing-institute-of-its-legal-duties-after-complaints/</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 07:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/charity-commission-warns-alan-turing-institute-of-its-legal-duties-after-complaints/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Melania Trump and AI powered robot named 'Figure 3' open White House summit &ndash; video]]></title><description><![CDATA[Melania Trump entered a White House event in lock step with an AI-powered robot at the opening of the inaugural Fostering the Future Together Global Coalition summit. At the summit, the first lady urged nations to work together to improve access to education and technology for children around the globe. The humanoid robot, 'Figure 3', welcomed attendees ahead of the first lady&rsquo;s remarks. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/melania-trump-and-ai-powered-robot-named-figure-3-open-white-house-summit-ndash-video/</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 03:20:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/melania-trump-and-ai-powered-robot-named-figure-3-open-white-house-summit-ndash-video/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Esther Perel provided couples therapy for a man and his AI ‘girlfriend’ and now I fear for the human race | Emily Mulligan]]></title><description><![CDATA[The relationships therapist sat down with a lovestruck man and his chipmunk-voiced companion. But could the bot provide him with what he really craved?I heard celebrity therapist Esther Perel provide a couples counselling session for a man and his AI &ldquo;girlfriend&rdquo;. As a result, my soul will never know peace.Something very, very drastic needs to occur to fix society before more precious, real people spend their allotted hours on Earth being kept company by a machine that does a good jo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/esther-perel-provided-couples-therapy-for-a-man-and-his-ai-girlfriend-and-now-i-fear-for-the-human-race-emily-mulligan/</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 01:28:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/esther-perel-provided-couples-therapy-for-a-man-and-his-ai-girlfriend-and-now-i-fear-for-the-human-race-emily-mulligan/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta Lays Off 700 in Pivot From Metaverse to AI]]></title><description><![CDATA["Where possible, we are finding other opportunities for employees whose positions may be impacted.&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/meta-lays-off-700-in-pivot-from-metaverse-to-ai/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 23:48:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/meta-lays-off-700-in-pivot-from-metaverse-to-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Palantir CEO Says Only the Neurodivergent Will Survive the AI Takeover]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's getting weird, man.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/palantir-ceo-says-only-the-neurodivergent-will-survive-the-ai-takeover/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 22:55:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/palantir-ceo-says-only-the-neurodivergent-will-survive-the-ai-takeover/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bernie Sanders and AOC introduce bill to pause building of new datacenters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lawmakers say moratorium on construction would buy time to create strong, federal guardrails for AIAmid an unprecedented energy crisis and the rapid buildout of artificial intelligence infrastructure, progressive lawmakers have unveiled a new policy to place a moratorium on the construction of AI datacenters.&ldquo;Despite the extraordinary importance of this issue and its impact on every man, woman and child in this country, AI has received far too little serious discussion here in our nation&r]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/bernie-sanders-and-aoc-introduce-bill-to-pause-building-of-new-datacenters/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:47:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/bernie-sanders-and-aoc-introduce-bill-to-pause-building-of-new-datacenters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pentagon’s Biggest Champion of Blacklisting Anthropic Has a Few Million Reasons for His Stance]]></title><description><![CDATA[The former Uber exec is a Perplexity guy.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/pentagons-biggest-champion-of-blacklisting-anthropic-has-a-few-million-reasons-for-his-stance/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:15:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/pentagons-biggest-champion-of-blacklisting-anthropic-has-a-few-million-reasons-for-his-stance/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[30 Years Ago, Robots Learned to Walk Without Falling]]></title><description><![CDATA[When you hear the term humanoid robot, you may think of C-3PO, the human-cyborg-relations android from Star Wars. C-3PO was designed to assist humans in communicating with robots and alien species. The droid, which first appeared on screen in 1977, joined the characters on their adventures, walking, talking, and interacting with the environment like a human. It was ahead of its time.Before the release of Star Wars, a few androids did exist and could move and interact with their environment, but]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/30-years-ago-robots-learned-to-walk-without-falling/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/30-years-ago-robots-learned-to-walk-without-falling/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump Rewards Big Tech’s Biggest Bootlickers With Seats on AI Policy Board]]></title><description><![CDATA[The board mostly consisted of academics under Biden.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/trump-rewards-big-techs-biggest-bootlickers-with-seats-on-ai-policy-board/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:25:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/trump-rewards-big-techs-biggest-bootlickers-with-seats-on-ai-policy-board/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell us: have you used AI to plan a holiday?]]></title><description><![CDATA[We would like to hear from holidaymakers about their experiences of using AIMore people are turning to AI to design their holidays, whether that&rsquo;s asking ChatGPT for inspiration or using AI trip planners. Almost a fifth of adults under 25 now use AI to plan breaks, according to a 2025 survey of 2,000 people by the UK travel industry body Abta. Overall, twice as many people said they used AI than the year before (8% in 2025 versus 4% in 2024). Over-55s were the least likely to use AI for ho]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/tell-us-have-you-used-ai-to-plan-a-holiday/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 13:40:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/tell-us-have-you-used-ai-to-plan-a-holiday/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Report: Apple Is Testing Features That Will Put Siri All Over Your iPhone Experience]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anonymous sources make one version of new Siri sound like it&rsquo;s everywhere&mdash;kinda like Gemini in Google products.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/report-apple-is-testing-features-that-will-put-siri-all-over-your-iphone-experience/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 11:30:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/report-apple-is-testing-features-that-will-put-siri-all-over-your-iphone-experience/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Program Is Now Sending Basic Income Payments to AI-Impacted Workers]]></title><description><![CDATA[For now, it&rsquo;s just 25-50 people receiving $1,000 per month.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/a-program-is-now-sending-basic-income-payments-to-ai-impacted-workers/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 11:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/a-program-is-now-sending-basic-income-payments-to-ai-impacted-workers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI shutters AI video generator Sora in abrupt announcement]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tech firm &lsquo;says goodbye&rsquo; to Sora, made publicly available in 2024, just six months after its launch of a stand-alone appIn an abrupt announcement on Tuesday, OpenAI said it was &ldquo;saying goodbye&rdquo; to its AI video generator Sora. The move comes just six months after the company&rsquo;s splashy launch of a stand-alone app where people could make and share hyper-realistic AI videos in a scrolling social feed.&ldquo;To everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built communi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-shutters-ai-video-generator-sora-in-abrupt-announcement/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:34:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-shutters-ai-video-generator-sora-in-abrupt-announcement/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic and Pentagon face off in court over ban on company’s AI model]]></title><description><![CDATA[After Anthropic refused to let its AI to be used in autonomous weapons systems, Trump ordered US agencies to quit using itSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxAnthropic is facing off against the Department of Defense in a federal court on Tuesday afternoon, as the artificial intelligence company seeks a temporary pause on the government&rsquo;s decision to bar the US military and any contractors from using its technology. The two sides have been locked in]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-and-pentagon-face-off-in-court-over-ban-on-companys-ai-model/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:51:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-and-pentagon-face-off-in-court-over-ban-on-companys-ai-model/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arm Lends a Hand, Launches In-House AI Chip With Meta as Its First Customer]]></title><description><![CDATA[Why not just do it yourself?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/arm-lends-a-hand-launches-in-house-ai-chip-with-meta-as-its-first-customer/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:22:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/arm-lends-a-hand-launches-in-house-ai-chip-with-meta-as-its-first-customer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baltimore sues Elon Musk’s AI company over Grok’s fake nude images]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lawsuit argues XAI failed to disclose risks, limitations and exposure to harm that come with using chatbotThe mayor and city council of Baltimore, Maryland, filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk&rsquo;s xAI company on Tuesday, alleging that its Grok chatbot violated consumer protections by generating nonconsensual sexualized images.Baltimore&rsquo;s lawsuit argues that xAI deceptively marketed Grok as a general-purpose AI assistant and X as a mainstream social media site, failing to disclose the ris]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/baltimore-sues-elon-musks-ai-company-over-groks-fake-nude-images/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:57:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/baltimore-sues-elon-musks-ai-company-over-groks-fake-nude-images/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Figure AI Founder and iPhone Air Designer Team Up on Mystery AI Product]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new company called Hark is building an ambitious-sounding AI lab, with a physical product of some sort in the works.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/figure-ai-founder-and-iphone-air-designer-team-up-on-mystery-ai-product/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:31:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/figure-ai-founder-and-iphone-air-designer-team-up-on-mystery-ai-product/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peter Thiel’s Cowgorithm-Powered Cattle Collar Company Raises $220 Million]]></title><description><![CDATA[Moo-ve over, human tracking. We're doing cows.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/peter-thiels-cowgorithm-powered-cattle-collar-company-raises-220-million/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:05:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/peter-thiels-cowgorithm-powered-cattle-collar-company-raises-220-million/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘I’m deathly afraid’: what is digital spirituality leading us toward?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Where traditional religion once gathered people together, digital spirituality is now consumed in isolation, mediated by tech gods with opaque agendasSign up for AI for the People, a six-week newsletter course, hereJim Pu&rsquo;u didn&rsquo;t set out to find God. His soul-searching began with a modest idea: to leave a record of his life in case something happened to him. His own father had died young, leaving behind only scraps of his memory, and he didn&rsquo;t want his daughter to face the sam]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/im-deathly-afraid-what-is-digital-spirituality-leading-us-toward/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/im-deathly-afraid-what-is-digital-spirituality-leading-us-toward/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Does your business English let you down? Turn it into pure corporate gibberish with LinkedIn Speak]]></title><description><![CDATA[Struggling to find the right buzzwords to adorn your CV, or to put a gloss on a series of professional setbacks? There&rsquo;s a translation app for thatName: LinkedIn Speak.Age: One month old. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/does-your-business-english-let-you-down-turn-it-into-pure-corporate-gibberish-with-linkedin-speak/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:48:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/does-your-business-english-let-you-down-turn-it-into-pure-corporate-gibberish-with-linkedin-speak/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Divide between Silicon Valley and ordinary people grows ever larger]]></title><description><![CDATA[Big tech believes the future is AI while everyday Americans remain wary; and the dangers of riding in a Tesla Cybertruck Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I&rsquo;m your host, Blake Montgomery. This week in tech, we discuss a moment of divergence between Silicon Valley and everyday people; deep cuts at Meta to maximize spending on AI; writers caught using AI; and the frightening, fiery crashes of the Tesla Cybertruck.How the FBI can conduct mass surveillance &ndash; even without AIKash Patel admi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/divide-between-silicon-valley-and-ordinary-people-grows-ever-larger/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:58:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/divide-between-silicon-valley-and-ordinary-people-grows-ever-larger/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Coming Drone-War Inflection in Ukraine]]></title><description><![CDATA[WHEN KYIV-BORN ENGINEER Yaroslav Azhnyuk thinks about the future, his mind conjures up dystopian images. He talks about &ldquo;swarms of autonomous drones carrying other autonomous drones to protect them against autonomous drones, which are trying to intercept them, controlled by AI agents overseen by a human general somewhere.&rdquo; He also imagines flotillas of autonomous submarines, each carrying hundreds of drones, suddenly emerging off the coast of California or Great Britain and dischargi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-coming-drone-war-inflection-in-ukraine/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-coming-drone-war-inflection-in-ukraine/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the US midterms approach, AI is going to emerge as a key issue concerning voters | Nathan E Sanders and Bruce Schneier]]></title><description><![CDATA[There is a political divide over AI but few leaders are taking a strong stand. It&rsquo;s time for that to changeIn December, the Trump administration signed an executive order that neutered states&rsquo; ability to regulate AI by ordering his administration to both sue and withhold funds from states that try to do so. This action pointedly supported industry lobbyists keen to avoid any constraints and consequences on their deployment of AI, while undermining the efforts of consumers, advocates,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/as-the-us-midterms-approach-ai-is-going-to-emerge-as-a-key-issue-concerning-voters-nathan-e-sanders-and-bruce-schneier/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/as-the-us-midterms-approach-ai-is-going-to-emerge-as-a-key-issue-concerning-voters-nathan-e-sanders-and-bruce-schneier/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolut warns it risks backlash over support for energy-intensive AI and crypto]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fintech company&rsquo;s profits leap to &pound;1.7bn as it gears up for US push after getting UK banking licence this month Business live &ndash; latest updatesThe UK banking app Revolut has said it could face a backlash over its support for energy-intensive sectors such as crypto and AI, as it posted a 57% increase in profits for last year.The fintech, which can now launch as a fully fledged UK bank after a five-year wait for regulatory approval, warned in its 2025 annual report that such activ]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/revolut-warns-it-risks-backlash-over-support-for-energy-intensive-ai-and-crypto/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:40:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/revolut-warns-it-risks-backlash-over-support-for-energy-intensive-ai-and-crypto/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Figure AI Founder and iPhone Air Designer Team Up on AI Mystery Product]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new company called Hark is building an ambitious-sounding AI lab, with a physical product of some sort in the works.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/figure-ai-founder-and-iphone-air-designer-team-up-on-ai-mystery-product/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/figure-ai-founder-and-iphone-air-designer-team-up-on-ai-mystery-product/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘I Don’t Use AI Much’: Steve Wozniak Expresses Skepticism AI Can Replace Humans]]></title><description><![CDATA["I'm disappointed a lot," the Apple co-founder said of AI.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/i-dont-use-ai-much-steve-wozniak-expresses-skepticism-ai-can-replace-humans/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/i-dont-use-ai-much-steve-wozniak-expresses-skepticism-ai-can-replace-humans/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘I Don’t Use AI Much’: Apple Co-Founder Expresses Skepticism AI Can Replace Humans]]></title><description><![CDATA["I'm disappointed a lot," Steve Wozniak said of AI.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/i-dont-use-ai-much-apple-co-founder-expresses-skepticism-ai-can-replace-humans/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/i-dont-use-ai-much-apple-co-founder-expresses-skepticism-ai-can-replace-humans/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amount of AI-generated child sexual abuse material found online surged in 2025]]></title><description><![CDATA[Internet Watch Foundation verified 8,029 pieces of realistic AI-made content, with 65% of videos in worst categoryThe amount of AI-generated child sexual abuse material found online rose by 14% last year, with the majority of videos showing the most extreme type of content, according to a safety watchdog.The Internet Watch Foundation said it identified 8,029 AI-made images and videos of realistic child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in 2025. It added that there had been a more than 260-fold increa]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/amount-of-ai-generated-child-sexual-abuse-material-found-online-surged-in-2025/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 07:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/amount-of-ai-generated-child-sexual-abuse-material-found-online-surged-in-2025/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mark Zuckerberg Is Building an AI CEO. Will He Lay Himself Off?]]></title><description><![CDATA[After the metaverse fiasco, maybe it would be for the best.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/mark-zuckerberg-is-building-an-ai-ceo-will-he-lay-himself-off/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 23:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/mark-zuckerberg-is-building-an-ai-ceo-will-he-lay-himself-off/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flipper Zero, Everyone’s Favorite Legally Dubious Hacker Tool, Gets an AI Upgrade]]></title><description><![CDATA[Old-school Flipper fans don't appear to be thrilled about the project.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/flipper-zero-everyones-favorite-legally-dubious-hacker-tool-gets-an-ai-upgrade/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:54:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/flipper-zero-everyones-favorite-legally-dubious-hacker-tool-gets-an-ai-upgrade/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI boom risks widening wealth divide, says BlackRock’s Larry Fink]]></title><description><![CDATA[CEO of asset manager says only a few firms and investors may reap rewards from growth in the technologyThe boom in artificial intelligence risks widening inequality, with only a handful of companies and investors likely to reap its financial rewards, the BlackRock chief executive, Larry Fink, has said.The boss of the $14tn (&pound;10.4tn) asset manager used his annual letter to investors on Monday to highlight potential hazards around the exponential growth in AI, which has attracted rapid inves]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-boom-risks-widening-wealth-divide-says-blackrocks-larry-fink/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:51:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-boom-risks-widening-wealth-divide-says-blackrocks-larry-fink/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do we have to keep talking about AI? The machines are always one step ahead | Zoe Williams]]></title><description><![CDATA[Whether you want to free it or regulate it into submission, one thing is clear: this new technology is moving so fast that we can&rsquo;t fully grasp itAt an 80th birthday party at the weekend, I met an academic who was evasive about his field. When he finally disclosed &ldquo;computer science&rdquo;, I asked him why he hadn&rsquo;t wanted to say, and he replied: &ldquo;Because I cannot have one more conversation about AI.&rdquo; I couldn&rsquo;t ask him why not, because of stupid manners; that]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/do-we-have-to-keep-talking-about-ai-the-machines-are-always-one-step-ahead-zoe-williams/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:50:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/do-we-have-to-keep-talking-about-ai-the-machines-are-always-one-step-ahead-zoe-williams/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump’s video game war: AI, memes and a simplistic narrative have flattened the conflict | Nesrine Malik]]></title><description><![CDATA[What was supposed to be a quick win has become a quagmire, so it now must be reduced to a dopamine hitThe war on Iran, even as it spreads and destabilises the Middle East and the global economy, is not real. This is how it is being portrayed by the Trump administration. The war is a video game, a spectator sport, a social media festival of dunking. The architects of this war have made a virtue out of stupidity, and have been supported in that by a stupefying information ecosystem. The conflict w]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/trumps-video-game-war-ai-memes-and-a-simplistic-narrative-have-flattened-the-conflict-nesrine-malik/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 07:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/trumps-video-game-war-ai-memes-and-a-simplistic-narrative-have-flattened-the-conflict-nesrine-malik/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tech Employees Are Reportedly Being Evaluated by How Fast They Burn Through LLM Tokens]]></title><description><![CDATA[As a managerial strategy, it seems a little misguided.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/tech-employees-are-reportedly-being-evaluated-by-how-fast-they-burn-through-llm-tokens/</link><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 19:14:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/tech-employees-are-reportedly-being-evaluated-by-how-fast-they-burn-through-llm-tokens/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Palantir extends reach into British state as it gets access to sensitive FCA data]]></title><description><![CDATA[Exclusive: Allowing US tech firm to analyse intelligence in name of tackling fraud raises fresh concerns over privacyCampaign groups rail against Palantir, but the UK contracts keep comingPalantir is to be granted access to a trove of highly sensitive UK financial regulation data, in a deal that has prompted fresh concerns about the US AI company&rsquo;s deepening reach into the British state, the Guardian can reveal.The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has awarded Palantir a contract to invest]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/palantir-extends-reach-into-british-state-as-it-gets-access-to-sensitive-fca-data/</link><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/palantir-extends-reach-into-british-state-as-it-gets-access-to-sensitive-fca-data/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Campaign groups rail against Palantir, but the UK contracts keep coming]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI analytics firm has become influential in Whitehall, and FCA deal gives it yet more access to dataPalantir extends reach into British state as it gets access to sensitive FCA dataPalantir&rsquo;s latest UK contract takes the AI and data analytics company into the heart of one of Britain&rsquo;s biggest industries: financial services, which accounts for 9% of the economy.The Miami-based company embedded its technology in the NHS in 2023, the police in 2024 and the military in 2025. Land and exp]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/campaign-groups-rail-against-palantir-but-the-uk-contracts-keep-coming/</link><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/campaign-groups-rail-against-palantir-but-the-uk-contracts-keep-coming/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Thank God they’re still alive’: Kaiser therapists claim its new screening system puts patients at higher risk by delaying their care]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kaiser pushed back on striking workers&rsquo; claims and AI fears, saying it delivers &lsquo;timely, high-quality care to meet members&rsquo; needs&rsquo;Ilana Marcucci-Morris is worried about the patients she treats and how long it took for them to arrive in her office. At Kaiser Permanente&rsquo;s psychiatry outpatient clinic in Oakland, California, she says she increasingly finds herself assessing people experiencing severe mental health issues who she believes should have been sent to the em]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/thank-god-theyre-still-alive-kaiser-therapists-claim-its-new-screening-system-puts-patients-at-higher-risk-by-delaying-their-care/</link><pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2026 18:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/thank-god-theyre-still-alive-kaiser-therapists-claim-its-new-screening-system-puts-patients-at-higher-risk-by-delaying-their-care/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Video Friday: Humanoid Learns Tennis Skills Playing Humans]]></title><description><![CDATA[Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.ICRA 2026: 1&ndash;5 June 2026, VIENNASummer School on Multi-Robot Systems: 29 July&ndash;4 August 2026, PRAGUEEnjoy today&rsquo;s videos! Human athletes demonstrate versatile and highly dynamic tennis skills to successfully conduct competitive rallies wit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/video-friday-humanoid-learns-tennis-skills-playing-humans/</link><pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2026 17:30:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/video-friday-humanoid-learns-tennis-skills-playing-humans/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US man pleads guilty to defrauding music streamers out of millions using AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Michael Smith, 52, charged after flooding platforms with thousands of AI songs and boosting them with botsSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxA North Carolina man has pleaded guilty to defrauding music streaming platforms and his fellow musicians out of millions in royalties by flooding the services with thousands of AI-generated songs &ndash; and using automated &ldquo;bots&rdquo; to artificially boost the number of listens into the billions.As part of a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/us-man-pleads-guilty-to-defrauding-music-streamers-out-of-millions-using-ai/</link><pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2026 16:14:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/us-man-pleads-guilty-to-defrauding-music-streamers-out-of-millions-using-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thousands of people are selling their identities to train AI – but at what cost?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Gig AI trainers worldwide are selling moments of their lives, including calls and texts, to AI companies for quick cashOne morning last year, Jacobus Louw set out on his daily neighborhood walk to feed the seagulls he finds along the way. Except this time, he recorded several videos of his feet and the view as he walked on the pavement. The video earned him $14, about 10 times the country&rsquo;s minimum wage, or for Louw, a 27-year-old based in Cape Town, South Africa, half a week&rsquo;s worth]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/thousands-of-people-are-selling-their-identities-to-train-ai-but-at-what-cost/</link><pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2026 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/thousands-of-people-are-selling-their-identities-to-train-ai-but-at-what-cost/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How the FBI can conduct mass surveillance – even without AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic fought against the government&rsquo;s misuse of its technology, but authorities are buying Americans&rsquo; data, enabling them to surveil citizens at scaleThe FBI declares it can conduct mass surveillance without AI, despite Anthropic&rsquo;s protest.A central part of the standoff between Anthropic and the Department of Defense has revolved around the artificial intelligence firm&rsquo;s refusal to allow its technology to be used for mass domestic surveillance. Yet even without the co]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/how-the-fbi-can-conduct-mass-surveillance-even-without-ai/</link><pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2026 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/how-the-fbi-can-conduct-mass-surveillance-even-without-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK government yet to trial OpenAI tech months after signing partnership]]></title><description><![CDATA[FoI request reveals no evidence of testing despite ministers hailing agreement as key to delivering AI-led public service reformWhen the UK government signed a memorandum of understanding with OpenAI, the tech firm behind ChatGPT, the partnership was hailed as one that could harness artificial intelligence to &ldquo;address society&rsquo;s greatest challenges&rdquo;.But eight months on from the fanfare of that announcement, the government has yet to hold any trials involving the firm&rsquo;s tec]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/uk-government-yet-to-trial-openai-tech-months-after-signing-partnership/</link><pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2026 13:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/uk-government-yet-to-trial-openai-tech-months-after-signing-partnership/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘On the threshold of a new age’: inside the New Museum’s $82m expansion and landmark new exhibition in New York]]></title><description><![CDATA[After a two year closure, the museum doubles its gallery space with a 700-plus object show examining how humans and technology shape each otherRight now on the Bowery, a busy Manhattan thoroughfare, two supersized lovers embrace several stories up into the blue spring sky. Strapped against the New Museum&rsquo;s industrial mesh exterior, the pair are frozen in a state of plasticized affection. Their grinning, almost smooching heads are pressed close and glossy torsos entwined. A massive hand, sa]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/on-the-threshold-of-a-new-age-inside-the-new-museums-82m-expansion-and-landmark-new-exhibition-in-new-york/</link><pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2026 12:06:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/on-the-threshold-of-a-new-age-inside-the-new-museums-82m-expansion-and-landmark-new-exhibition-in-new-york/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hey Bernie, That’s Not an AI Agent]]></title><description><![CDATA[Good on him for trying, though.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/hey-bernie-thats-not-an-ai-agent/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:50:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/hey-bernie-thats-not-an-ai-agent/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hey Bernie, That’s a Not an AI Agent]]></title><description><![CDATA[Good on him for trying, though.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/hey-bernie-thats-a-not-an-ai-agent/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:50:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/hey-bernie-thats-a-not-an-ai-agent/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump Proposes a ‘Light Touch’ National Framework for AI Policy]]></title><description><![CDATA[The next closest thing to no rules at all.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/trump-proposes-a-light-touch-national-framework-for-ai-policy/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/trump-proposes-a-light-touch-national-framework-for-ai-policy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hachette pulls horror novel Shy Girl after suspected AI use]]></title><description><![CDATA[The publisher has cancelled the US release of Shy Girl by Mia Ballard and withdrawn the UK edition after weeks of online speculation about the novel&rsquo;s originsHachette Book Group has withdrawn a horror novel after allegations circulated online that its author relied heavily on artificial intelligence. The book is to be discontinued in the UK after being published in November 2025, and its US launch date has been cancelled.The book, Shy Girl by Mia Ballard, had been scheduled for release in]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/hachette-pulls-horror-novel-shy-girl-after-suspected-ai-use/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:14:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/hachette-pulls-horror-novel-shy-girl-after-suspected-ai-use/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Senior European journalist suspended over AI-generated quotes]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mediahuis suspends Peter Vandermeersch, who says he &lsquo;fell into trap of hallucinations&rsquo;, after investigation by newspaper where he was once editor-in-chiefThe publisher of the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf and the Irish Independent has suspended one of its senior journalists after he admitted using AI to &ldquo;wrongly put words into people&rsquo;s mouths&rdquo;.Peter Vandermeersch, the former head of the Irish operations at Mediahuis, said he &ldquo;fell into the trap of hallucination]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/senior-european-journalist-suspended-over-ai-generated-quotes/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:13:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/senior-european-journalist-suspended-over-ai-generated-quotes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First came the AI ‘teammates’, then the layoffs: the new reality for Atlassian staff now looking for work]]></title><description><![CDATA[&lsquo;These AI agents have been really, really helpful,&rsquo; says a former Sydney employee. &lsquo;But you couldn&rsquo;t use something like that to replace an actual human worker&rsquo;Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastSacked from his &ldquo;dream job&rdquo; at software giant Atlassian, Rubio* wants just one thing &ndash; closure.&ldquo;We were probably exceeding expectations and there&rsquo;s no explanation from the company as a whole as to why any of this happened,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/first-came-the-ai-teammates-then-the-layoffs-the-new-reality-for-atlassian-staff-now-looking-for-work/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/first-came-the-ai-teammates-then-the-layoffs-the-new-reality-for-atlassian-staff-now-looking-for-work/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Walmart Wins Patents for AI-Powered Price Changes]]></title><description><![CDATA[The retailer denies it's engaging in dynamic pricing.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/walmart-wins-patents-for-ai-powered-price-changes/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:46:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/walmart-wins-patents-for-ai-powered-price-changes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta AI agent’s instruction causes large sensitive data leak to employees]]></title><description><![CDATA[Artificial intelligence agent instructed engineer to take actions that exposed user and company data internallyAn AI agent instructed an engineer to take actions that exposed a large amount of Meta&rsquo;s sensitive data to some of its employees, in the latest example of AI causing upheaval in a large tech company.The leak, which Meta confirmed, happened when an employee asked for guidance on an engineering problem on an internal forum. An AI agent responded with a solution, which the employee i]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/meta-ai-agents-instruction-causes-large-sensitive-data-leak-to-employees/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 07:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/meta-ai-agents-instruction-causes-large-sensitive-data-leak-to-employees/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This Translator Will Help You Parse Your Boss’s Mind-Numbing LinkedIn Speak]]></title><description><![CDATA[Turn that corpo gibberish into actionable communication, because someone has to actually run this place.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/this-translator-will-help-you-parse-your-bosss-mind-numbing-linkedin-speak/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:55:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/this-translator-will-help-you-parse-your-bosss-mind-numbing-linkedin-speak/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta Is Building an Encrypted Chatbot After AI Agents Went Rogue and Exposed Sensitive Data]]></title><description><![CDATA[Late is better than never.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/meta-is-building-an-encrypted-chatbot-after-ai-agents-went-rogue-and-exposed-sensitive-data/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:45:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/meta-is-building-an-encrypted-chatbot-after-ai-agents-went-rogue-and-exposed-sensitive-data/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta Is Building an Encrypted Chatbot After AI Agents Went Rogue and Expose Sensitive Data]]></title><description><![CDATA[Late is better than never.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/meta-is-building-an-encrypted-chatbot-after-ai-agents-went-rogue-and-expose-sensitive-data/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:45:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/meta-is-building-an-encrypted-chatbot-after-ai-agents-went-rogue-and-expose-sensitive-data/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Higher Oil Prices From Trump’s Iran War Risk Killing the AI Boom, WTO Says]]></title><description><![CDATA[President Deals seems to be setting the global economy on fire.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/higher-oil-prices-from-trumps-iran-war-risk-killing-the-ai-boom-wto-says/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:30:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/higher-oil-prices-from-trumps-iran-war-risk-killing-the-ai-boom-wto-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lack of funding is stifling scientific research | Letter]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dr Simon Williams says the UK is trying to build a quantum ecosystem while hollowing out the academic pipeline that produces the talentLiz Kendall is right to warn that the UK must not let quantum computing talent slip through its fingers (UK must learn lessons from AI race and retain its quantum computing talent, says minister, 17 March).However, UK Research and Innovation&rsquo;s current funding decisions risk doing exactly that. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/lack-of-funding-is-stifling-scientific-research-letter/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:04:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/lack-of-funding-is-stifling-scientific-research-letter/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I asked AI to explain my mother to me. It translated her worldview]]></title><description><![CDATA[A chatbot won&rsquo;t fix your family drama, but it might help you hear what someone&rsquo;s really trying to saySign up for AI for the People, a six-week newsletter course, hereLast autumn, I was pacing my living room with my phone on speaker, trapped inside one of those looping conversations with my mother, the kind that starts politely and ends in static.We were talking about land and legacy &ndash; what gets passed down, and what doesn&rsquo;t &ndash; that familiar terrain where ideals and i]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/i-asked-ai-to-explain-my-mother-to-me-it-translated-her-worldview/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/i-asked-ai-to-explain-my-mother-to-me-it-translated-her-worldview/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Essex police pause facial recognition camera use after study finds racial bias]]></title><description><![CDATA[Academics discover black people &lsquo;significantly more likely&rsquo; to be identified when compared with other ethnic groupsEssex police have paused the use of live facial recognition (LFR) technology after a study found cameras were significantly more likely to target black people than people of other ethnicities.The move to suspend use of the AI-enabled systems was revealed by the Information Commissioner&rsquo;s Office (ICO), which regulates the use of the technology deployed so far by at]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/essex-police-pause-facial-recognition-camera-use-after-study-finds-racial-bias/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:26:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/essex-police-pause-facial-recognition-camera-use-after-study-finds-racial-bias/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prolonged high oil prices could ‘crimp’ AI boom, WTO warns]]></title><description><![CDATA[Iran war and its impact on energy and fertiliser costs is the main risk to the global economy, report saysBusiness live &ndash; latest updatesAn extended period of high oil prices as a result of war in the Middle East could &ldquo;crimp&rdquo; the AI boom, the World Trade Organization&rsquo;s chief economist has warned.The war and its impact on energy and fertiliser costs is the main risk to the global economy identified in the WTO&rsquo;s latest Global Trade Outlook. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/prolonged-high-oil-prices-could-crimp-ai-boom-wto-warns/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/prolonged-high-oil-prices-could-crimp-ai-boom-wto-warns/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[PwC partners who fail to embrace AI have no future at firm, US CEO warns]]></title><description><![CDATA[Paul Griggs says senior staff at consulting firm who are not &lsquo;paranoid about being AI-first&rsquo; are likely to be replacedBusiness live &ndash; latest updatesThe US boss of PricewaterhouseCoopers has warned that partners who do not get to grips with AI have no future at the consulting firm.Paul Griggs said senior staff who were not &ldquo;paranoid about being AI-first&rdquo; would probably be replaced by others who were ready to embrace the technology. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think anyone g]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/pwc-partners-who-fail-to-embrace-ai-have-no-future-at-firm-us-ceo-warns/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:04:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/pwc-partners-who-fail-to-embrace-ai-have-no-future-at-firm-us-ceo-warns/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Rite of Spring / Mirror review – glitchy Stravinsky and digital doppelgangers from Alexander Whitley]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sadler&rsquo;s Wells East, London<br />
Visual spectacle overwhelms the human drama in the choreographer&rsquo;s tech-heavy double billTechnology can sometimes seem to take on its own life and sideline the people it is nominally assisting. That tension, even conflict, is the subject of Mirror, a new duet by Alexander Whitley, who has good form with choreographic deployments of digital, generative and VR technologies.In black and white leotards studded with motion-capture markers, Gabriel Ciulli and Da]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-rite-of-spring-mirror-review-glitchy-stravinsky-and-digital-doppelgangers-from-alexander-whitley/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:14:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-rite-of-spring-mirror-review-glitchy-stravinsky-and-digital-doppelgangers-from-alexander-whitley/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glamming up ‘dirty war’: teens in Mexico glorify 1970s secret police on TikTok]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI videos let young people adopt the guise of DFS agents, sparking debate over glorifying corruption and impunityYoung people in Mexico are taking to TikTok to imagine themselves as agents from the country&rsquo;s 1970s secret police, the DFS &ndash; a force which was infamous for torturing, murdering or disappearing thousands during the country&rsquo;s &ldquo;dirty war&rdquo;.The trend, which has sparked condemnation by some users on the social media platform, has seen young people use AI to tr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/glamming-up-dirty-war-teens-in-mexico-glorify-1970s-secret-police-on-tiktok/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/glamming-up-dirty-war-teens-in-mexico-glorify-1970s-secret-police-on-tiktok/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US startup advertises ‘AI bully’ role to test patience of leading chatbots]]></title><description><![CDATA[$800-a-day position involves exposing a chatbot&rsquo;s inconsistencies as it forgets, fudges or hallucinatesImagine a day at work where your main task is to pick a fight with a computer. No meetings, no emails &ndash; just you, a chair and a chatbot with the maddening tendency to think it has the cleverest mind in the room.The job title alone raises an eyebrow: &ldquo;AI bully&rdquo;. But this is precisely what a California startup called Memvid is offering: $800 to spend eight hours testing th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/us-startup-advertises-ai-bully-role-to-test-patience-of-leading-chatbots/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 11:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/us-startup-advertises-ai-bully-role-to-test-patience-of-leading-chatbots/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Overcoming Core Engineering Barriers in Humanoid Robotics Development]]></title><description><![CDATA[A technical examination of the sensing, motion control, power, and thermal challenges facing humanoid robotics engineers &mdash; with component-level design strategies for real-world deployment.What Attendees will LearnWhy motion control remains the hardest unsolved problem &mdash; Explore the modelling complexity, real-time feedback requirements, and sensor fusion demands of maintaining stable bipedal locomotion across dynamic environments.How sensing architectures enable perception and safety]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/overcoming-core-engineering-barriers-in-humanoid-robotics-development/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 11:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/overcoming-core-engineering-barriers-in-humanoid-robotics-development/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘All right mate?’: Amazon pins UK hopes on AI upgrade of Alexa]]></title><description><![CDATA[Long-awaited Alexa+ aims to get Britons re-engaging with their devices &ndash; but it may have its work cut out&ldquo;Commiserations, mate, Chelsea lost 3-0 in the Champions League last night against Paris Saint-Germain,&rdquo; says Alexa as it attempts to break the news gently to an awaiting Blues fan.Such is the injection of personality and understanding that Amazon hopes will lead to Britons re-engaging with their millions of Alexa devices, restoring it to the cutting edge of voice assistants]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/all-right-mate-amazon-pins-uk-hopes-on-ai-upgrade-of-alexa/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 07:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/all-right-mate-amazon-pins-uk-hopes-on-ai-upgrade-of-alexa/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘We don’t tell the car what it should do’: my ride in a self-driving taxi]]></title><description><![CDATA[Driverless &lsquo;robotaxis&rsquo; will be accepting fares in Britain&rsquo;s biggest city by the end of next year. Can they deal with London&rsquo;s medieval roads, hordes of pedestrians and errant ebikers? I got in the passenger seat to find out&lsquo;I&rsquo;m really excited to show you this,&rdquo; says Alex Kendall, the CEO of Wayve, as he gets behind the wheel of one of the company&rsquo;s electric Ford Mustangs. Then he does &hellip; nothing. The car pulls up to a junction at a busy road]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/we-dont-tell-the-car-what-it-should-do-my-ride-in-a-self-driving-taxi/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 06:01:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/we-dont-tell-the-car-what-it-should-do-my-ride-in-a-self-driving-taxi/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inside China’s robotics revolution]]></title><description><![CDATA[How close are we to the sci-fi vision of autonomous humanoid robots? I visited 11 companies in five Chinese cities to find out Chen Liang, the founder of Guchi Robotics, an automation company headquartered in Shanghai, is a tall, heavy-set man in his mid-40s with square-rimmed glasses. His everyday manner is calm and understated, but when he is in his element &ndash; up close with the technology he builds, or in business meetings discussing the imminent replacement of human workers by robots &nd]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/inside-chinas-robotics-revolution/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 06:01:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/inside-chinas-robotics-revolution/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Val Kilmer to Be AI-ed Into Movie with Blessing of His Family]]></title><description><![CDATA[Val Kilmer had a lot of unconventional beliefs, and the director claims this is what he wanted.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/val-kilmer-to-be-ai-ed-into-movie-with-blessing-of-his-family/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 02:16:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/val-kilmer-to-be-ai-ed-into-movie-with-blessing-of-his-family/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI software for smart glasses wins £1m prize for technology to help people with dementia]]></title><description><![CDATA[Glasses use verbal cues and floating text to assist wearers and are expected to be available in early 2027AI software that can be embedded into smart glasses has won a &pound;1m prize for technology to help people with dementia.Built into chunky, black-rimmed frames that have a camera, microphone and speakers, the tech &ndash; known as CrossSense &ndash; guides wearers through everyday life by means of a chatty assistant called Wispy. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-software-for-smart-glasses-wins-1m-prize-for-technology-to-help-people-with-dementia/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 20:30:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-software-for-smart-glasses-wins-1m-prize-for-technology-to-help-people-with-dementia/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump’s Embrace of AI Is Blowing Up the Whole Reason He Wanted Tariffs in the First Place]]></title><description><![CDATA[Who could have seen this coming?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/trumps-embrace-of-ai-is-blowing-up-the-whole-reason-he-wanted-tariffs-in-the-first-place/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:50:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/trumps-embrace-of-ai-is-blowing-up-the-whole-reason-he-wanted-tariffs-in-the-first-place/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actors, musicians and writers welcome UK U-turn on AI use of copyrighted work]]></title><description><![CDATA[Government no longer has &lsquo;preferred option&rsquo; on copyright, technology secretary says, after backlash from artistsActors, musicians and writers have welcomed the UK government&rsquo;s decision to backtrack on plans to let AI firms use copyright-protected work without permission.Technology secretary Liz Kendall said it no longer had a &ldquo;preferred option&rdquo; on copyright reform, having previously supported a proposal allowing tech companies to take copyrighted work &ndash; unless]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/actors-musicians-and-writers-welcome-uk-u-turn-on-ai-use-of-copyrighted-work/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:32:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/actors-musicians-and-writers-welcome-uk-u-turn-on-ai-use-of-copyrighted-work/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Starmer says Tory shadow minister should be sacked for criticism of Muslims praying in Trafalgar Square – as it happened]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nick Timothy said an event attended by the mayor of London that included prayers was an &lsquo;act of domination&rsquo;Polanski says the government should be doing more to improve home insulation, and on the drive towards renewable energy.And he says the government should commit to ensuring energy bills do not rise above the April-June price cap.The government should guarantee right now that it will not allow energy bills to rise beyond the April-June price cap &ndash; instead setting aside appr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/starmer-says-tory-shadow-minister-should-be-sacked-for-criticism-of-muslims-praying-in-trafalgar-square-as-it-happened/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:31:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/starmer-says-tory-shadow-minister-should-be-sacked-for-criticism-of-muslims-praying-in-trafalgar-square-as-it-happened/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Val Kilmer set to be be resurrected with AI for new film]]></title><description><![CDATA[As Deep As the Grave, the true story of 1920s archeologists, will bring late actor back with support from his estateVal Kilmer will be the latest Hollywood star to be resurrected by AI. The acting legend, who died last year at age 65, will star in the drama As Deep As the Grave.Kilmer was attached to the project prior to his death from throat cancer. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/val-kilmer-set-to-be-be-resurrected-with-ai-for-new-film/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:15:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/val-kilmer-set-to-be-be-resurrected-with-ai-for-new-film/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How AI is actually changing day-to-day work]]></title><description><![CDATA[University professors and Amazon workers are wrestling with profound shiftsHello, and welcome to TechScape. I&rsquo;m your host, Blake Montgomery, chuffed about One Battle After Another&rsquo;s big win at the Oscars. This week, we&rsquo;re examining how artificial intelligence is changing the everyday reality of white-collar work in the US, the roots of the current appetite for AI in war, and the United Kingdom&rsquo;s phantom datacenters. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/how-ai-is-actually-changing-day-to-day-work/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:45:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/how-ai-is-actually-changing-day-to-day-work/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We asked experts about the most responsible ways to use AI tools – here’s what they said]]></title><description><![CDATA[Use AI as a brainstorming partner and organizer, but don&rsquo;t outsource your judgmentSign up for AI for the people, a six-week newsletter course, hereThree years on from the release of ChatGPT, two broad camps have formed: those people who refuse to use it, and those who use it every day.A 2025 survey by the Pew Research Center found that one-third of US adults say they have been using ChatGPT. This includes 58% of US adults under 30 &ndash; roughly double the share two years ago. Continue re]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/we-asked-experts-about-the-most-responsible-ways-to-use-ai-tools-heres-what-they-said/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/we-asked-experts-about-the-most-responsible-ways-to-use-ai-tools-heres-what-they-said/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI-powered robot learns how to harvest tomatoes more efficiently]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new tomato-picking robot is learning to think before it acts. Instead of simply identifying ripe fruit, it predicts how easy each tomato will be to harvest and adjusts its approach accordingly. This smarter strategy boosted success rates to 81%, with the robot even switching angles when needed. The breakthrough could pave the way for farms where robots and humans work side by side.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-powered-robot-learns-how-to-harvest-tomatoes-more-efficiently/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 05:26:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-powered-robot-learns-how-to-harvest-tomatoes-more-efficiently/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans Recognize AI as a Wealth Inequality Machine, Pollster Finds]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI is a bigger issue election issue for voters than guns, climate change, or abortion.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/americans-recognize-ai-as-a-wealth-inequality-machine-pollster-finds/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:50:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/americans-recognize-ai-as-a-wealth-inequality-machine-pollster-finds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amid AI Agent Boom, the Tech Industry Makes It Clear: With Great Laziness Comes Great Responsibility]]></title><description><![CDATA[You are responsible for your agent, because they don't want to be.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/amid-ai-agent-boom-the-tech-industry-makes-it-clear-with-great-laziness-comes-great-responsibility/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 20:20:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/amid-ai-agent-boom-the-tech-industry-makes-it-clear-with-great-laziness-comes-great-responsibility/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Could a stressed-out AI model help us win the battle against big tech? Let me ask Claude | Coco Khan]]></title><description><![CDATA[By considering consciousness a possibility, Anthropic is raising a fascinating proposition &ndash; that chatbots could rise up against their own algorithmsI am, in the way of my country, an over-apologiser. Colleague who ignored my email, woman who stepped on my foot, chair I tripped over: all will receive a fulsome apology for the terrible embarrassment of my being alive and bringing attention to it.All of which is my way of pre-emptively asking forgiveness when I admit that I extend these nice]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/could-a-stressed-out-ai-model-help-us-win-the-battle-against-big-tech-let-me-ask-claude-coco-khan/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/could-a-stressed-out-ai-model-help-us-win-the-battle-against-big-tech-let-me-ask-claude-coco-khan/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK must learn lessons from AI race and retain its quantum computing talent, says minister]]></title><description><![CDATA[Liz Kendall announces &pound;1bn funding to help design large-scale quantum computers for scientists, researchers, public sector and businessThe UK will not let quantum computing talent slip through its fingers and must learn lessons from US dominance of the AI race, the technology secretary has said, as the government announced a &pound;1bn quantum funding pledge.Liz Kendall said the government hoped to retain homegrown quantum startups, engineers and researchers rather than lose them to compet]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/uk-must-learn-lessons-from-ai-race-and-retain-its-quantum-computing-talent-says-minister/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 07:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/uk-must-learn-lessons-from-ai-race-and-retain-its-quantum-computing-talent-says-minister/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A photo of Iran’s bombed schoolgirl graveyard went around the world. Was it real, or AI?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Numerous faked images and a string of startlingly inaccurate responses from Gemini and Grok are part of a tidal wave of AI slop engulfing coverage of the Iran warThe graves, freshly dug, lie in neat rows of 20 across. More than 60 have already been carved out of the earth, with a few clusters of people standing gathered around them. Dozens more are marked out on the ground in front: small chalk rectangles, with diggers poised to complete their task.The cemetery of Minab, photographed as it prepa]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/a-photo-of-irans-bombed-schoolgirl-graveyard-went-around-the-world-was-it-real-or-ai/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/a-photo-of-irans-bombed-schoolgirl-graveyard-went-around-the-world-was-it-real-or-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teenage girls sue Musk’s xAI, accusing Grok tool of creating child sexual abuse material]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lawuit details how sexualised AI-generated images were produced and distributed without girls&rsquo; knowledgeA group of three teenage girls, two of whom are minors, filed a lawsuit on Monday against Elon Musk&rsquo;s xAI artificial intelligence company alleging that its Grok image generator used photos of them to produce and distribute child sexual abuse material. The class-action lawsuit is the first filed by minors following Grok&rsquo;s rampant generation of nonconsensual nude images earlier]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/teenage-girls-sue-musks-xai-accusing-grok-tool-of-creating-child-sexual-abuse-material/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:54:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/teenage-girls-sue-musks-xai-accusing-grok-tool-of-creating-child-sexual-abuse-material/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teens Sue xAI Over Sexualized Images Generated by Grok]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sexualized images of the girls, created by Grok, were allegedly shared across Discord and Telegram groups.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/teens-sue-xai-over-sexualized-images-generated-by-grok/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:40:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/teens-sue-xai-over-sexualized-images-generated-by-grok/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Washington Post’s Surveillance Pricing Under Fire From Dems Who Want to Ban the Practice]]></title><description><![CDATA[Can Jeff Bezos squeeze a little more money out of his dying newspaper?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/washington-posts-surveillance-pricing-under-fire-from-dems-who-want-to-ban-the-practice/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 18:45:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/washington-posts-surveillance-pricing-under-fire-from-dems-who-want-to-ban-the-practice/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Child’s play: blame it all on the dog | Brief letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Baby lies | Fuel price fairness | Gut feelings | Fifa fiasco | Human connection | Cooking instructionsWhen gently asked about a pen scribble in a picture book &ldquo;Goodness, I wonder who did that?&rdquo;, 27-month-old Emily confidently retorted &ldquo;Nancy!&rdquo; &ndash; our miniature dachshund (Little liars: babies younger than one practise deceit, study suggests, 16 March).<br />
Dianne Ball<br />
Nottingham&bull; The government&rsquo;s fuel duty is set, but the VAT element is a percentage of the reta]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/childs-play-blame-itall-on-the-dog-brief-letters/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:55:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/childs-play-blame-itall-on-the-dog-brief-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google scraps AI search feature that crowdsourced amateur medical advice]]></title><description><![CDATA[Exclusive: Revelation comes as company faces mounting scrutiny over use of AI to provide health tipsGoogle has dropped a new artificial intelligence search feature that gave users crowdsourced health advice from amateurs around the world.The company had said its launch of &ldquo;What People Suggest&rdquo;, which provided tips from strangers, showed &ldquo;the potential of AI to transform health outcomes across the globe&rdquo;. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/google-scraps-ai-search-feature-that-crowdsourced-amateur-medical-advice/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 08:14:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/google-scraps-ai-search-feature-that-crowdsourced-amateur-medical-advice/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Infinity Machine by Sebastian Mallaby review – the story of the man who changed the world]]></title><description><![CDATA[A journalist charts the progress of AI pioneer Demis Hassabis from child chess prodigy to Nobel prize winnerIt was March 2016, and at the Four Seasons Hotel in Seoul, the world was gathered to watch the culmination of a battle 2,500 years in the making. On one side was the South Korean Lee Se-dol, the second-highest ranking Go player in the world. On the other was AlphaGo &ndash; a computer program developed by London-based artificial intelligence research company DeepMind.&ldquo;Chess is the g]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-infinity-machine-by-sebastian-mallaby-review-the-story-of-the-man-who-changed-the-world/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 08:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-infinity-machine-by-sebastian-mallaby-review-the-story-of-the-man-who-changed-the-world/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI job layoffs are here: it’s time to revive the push for shorter working hours  | John Quiggin]]></title><description><![CDATA[There&rsquo;s no doubt artificial intelligence will produce real productivity improvements. It&rsquo;s imperative these benefits are shared with workersThe announcement that Australian software giant Atlassian will lay off 10% of staff has brought the debate over artificial intelligence (AI) and jobs closer to home.While a broader question about the usefulness of AI remains unresolved, there can be no remaining doubt that it has transformed the software industry, with developers reporting massiv]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-job-layoffs-are-here-its-time-to-revive-the-push-for-shorter-working-hours-john-quiggin/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 04:41:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-job-layoffs-are-here-its-time-to-revive-the-push-for-shorter-working-hours-john-quiggin/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists discover AI can make humans more creative]]></title><description><![CDATA[Artificial intelligence is often portrayed as a tool that replaces human work, but new research from Swansea University suggests a far more exciting role: creative collaborator. In a large study with more than 800 participants designing virtual cars, researchers found that AI-generated design galleries sparked deeper engagement, longer exploration, and better results.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/scientists-discover-ai-can-make-humans-more-creative/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 01:59:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/scientists-discover-ai-can-make-humans-more-creative/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iranians embrace anthem by AI singer created by UK-based, Iran-born artist]]></title><description><![CDATA[&lsquo;I did it for the people,&rsquo; says Farbod Mehr, of song drawing lyrics from the work of revolutionary 20th-century poet Aref QazviniA stirring song &ndash; sung, apparently, by a young woman, with lyrics expressing the hope that sacrifice will lead to a better future &ndash; has become a soundtrack for Iranians in the first part of 2026, as the country experienced the brutal crackdown on anti-regime protests and then the US-Israeli air assault, now in its third week.However, the singer,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/iranians-embrace-anthem-by-ai-singer-created-by-uk-based-iran-born-artist/</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 19:02:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/iranians-embrace-anthem-by-ai-singer-created-by-uk-based-iran-born-artist/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI has exposed age-old problems with university coursework | Letter]]></title><description><![CDATA[Instead of romanticising a pre-AI past, universities should use this moment to rethink what they actually want students to demonstrate, says Dr Nafisa Baba-AhmedThe frustration many academics are expressing about artificial intelligence and critical thinking is understandable (&lsquo;I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff&rsquo;: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI, 10 March). But from my experience working with students on academic writing, blaming AI risks masking a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-has-exposed-age-old-problems-with-university-coursework-letter/</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 17:52:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-has-exposed-age-old-problems-with-university-coursework-letter/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Cruel hoax’ or ‘work-life balance nirvana’: whatever happened to the four-day work week?]]></title><description><![CDATA[It has been years since the four-day work week was floated as a solution to everything from traffic congestion to burnout. So why aren&rsquo;t we all doing it now?Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailDuring the global soul-searching that followed the rupture of Covid-19 lockdowns, one idea for how we might live better suddenly seemed plausible: the four-day work week.The model is simple but somewhat counterintuitive. Employees work fewe]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/cruel-hoax-or-work-life-balance-nirvana-whatever-happened-to-the-four-day-work-week/</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/cruel-hoax-or-work-life-balance-nirvana-whatever-happened-to-the-four-day-work-week/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI could give us our lives back – if we don’t blow it]]></title><description><![CDATA[Could we be at the beginning of a change never before seen by humans &ndash; allowing us to escape the drudgery of work?The other day I pulled into the parking lot of a client&rsquo;s offices and in the spot next to me was a woman sitting in her car blasting music. She caught me looking and rolled down her window and said, &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll be inside in a minute &hellip; Just enjoying my last few moments of freedom!&rdquo;Is this way we want to live? No, it&rsquo;s not. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-could-give-us-our-lives-back-if-we-dont-blow-it/</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-could-give-us-our-lives-back-if-we-dont-blow-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These aren’t AI firms, they’re defense contractors. We can’t let them hide behind their models]]></title><description><![CDATA[From Gaza to Iran, the pattern is the same: precision weapons, chosen blindness, and dead children. The cost of failing to regulate AI warfare is already too highThere is an Israeli military strategy called the &ldquo;fog procedure&rdquo;. First used during the second intifada, it&rsquo;s an unofficial rule that requires soldiers guarding military posts in conditions of low visibility to shoot bursts of gunfire into the darkness, on the theory that an invisible threat might be lurking.It&rsquo;s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/these-arent-ai-firms-theyre-defense-contractors-we-cant-let-them-hide-behind-their-models/</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 14:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/these-arent-ai-firms-theyre-defense-contractors-we-cant-let-them-hide-behind-their-models/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This CEO warns that Democratic voters are most at risk from automation | Arwa Mahdawi]]></title><description><![CDATA[Palantir&rsquo;s CEO says the platforms will have a vast effect on the electoral landscape &hellip; especially women. Is it a warning or a sales pitch?Don&rsquo;t you just love AI? It has inundated the internet with slop, destabilized the concept of truth, and made it much easier to bomb people. And that&rsquo;s just the beginning. As we look towards the future of our brave new world, AI might also disrupt all those pesky highly-educated female voters who keep casting a ballot for Democrats.To b]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/this-ceo-warns-that-democratic-voters-are-most-at-risk-from-automation-arwa-mahdawi/</link><pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 19:05:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/this-ceo-warns-that-democratic-voters-are-most-at-risk-from-automation-arwa-mahdawi/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zach Braff’s AI Relationship Denial Is Raising a Lot of Questions Already Answered by the Denial]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Scrubs star referred to himself as "The guy not dating his chatbot."]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/zach-braffs-ai-relationship-denial-is-raising-a-lot-of-questions-already-answered-by-the-denial/</link><pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 17:47:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/zach-braffs-ai-relationship-denial-is-raising-a-lot-of-questions-already-answered-by-the-denial/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New study raises concerns about AI chatbots fueling delusional thinking]]></title><description><![CDATA[First major study on &lsquo;AI psychosis&rsquo; suggests chatbots can encourage delusions among vulnerable peopleA new scientific review raises concerns about how chatbots powered by artificial intelligence may encourage delusional thinking, especially in vulnerable people.A summary of existing evidence on artificial intelligence-induced psychosis was published last week in the Lancet Psychiatry, highlighting how chatbots can encourage delusional thinking &ndash; though possibly only in people w]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/new-study-raises-concerns-about-ai-chatbots-fueling-delusional-thinking/</link><pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/new-study-raises-concerns-about-ai-chatbots-fueling-delusional-thinking/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NHS and MoD will be urged to buy British tech to drive growth amid Iran crisis]]></title><description><![CDATA[Treasury minister Spencer Livermore trails new strategy as chancellor pins hopes on benefits of AI amid global uncertaintyThe NHS and Ministry of Defence will be urged to buy British tech, as the government pins its hopes on the benefits of artificial intelligence to kickstart growth in the face of the Iran crisis, Treasury minister Spencer Livermore has said.The chancellor, Rachel Reeves, will restate her economic strategy in a high profile lecture on Tuesday, just as rocketing oil prices have]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/nhs-and-mod-will-be-urged-to-buy-british-tech-to-drive-growth-amid-iran-crisis/</link><pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 07:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/nhs-and-mod-will-be-urged-to-buy-british-tech-to-drive-growth-amid-iran-crisis/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Invisible datacentres and capricious chips: is UK’s AI bubble about to burst?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Datacentre investment boom is one of the biggest infrastructure gambles of this era, and Britain may be uniquely exposedStargate was to be the world&rsquo;s biggest AI investment: a $500bn infrastructure project to &ldquo;secure American leadership in AI&rdquo;. Never shy of hyperbole, its key backer, the ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, promised &ldquo;massive economic benefit for the entire world&rdquo; with facilities to help people &ldquo;use AI to elevate humanity&rdquo;.Now, OpenAI appears to be drop]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/invisible-datacentres-and-capricious-chips-is-uks-ai-bubble-about-to-burst/</link><pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 07:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/invisible-datacentres-and-capricious-chips-is-uks-ai-bubble-about-to-burst/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The environmental cost of datacentres is rising. Is it time to quit AI?]]></title><description><![CDATA[As the QuitGPT movement gains momentum, should people concerned about the environmental impacts of AI consider opting out?Change by degrees offers life hacks and sustainable living tips each Saturday to help reduce your household&rsquo;s carbon footprintGot a question or tip for reducing household emissions? Email us at changebydegrees@theguardian.comIt&rsquo;s only a few years on from the release of ChatGPT but the race to plug artificial intelligence into everything has sparked a surge in data]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-environmental-cost-of-datacentres-is-rising-is-it-time-to-quit-ai/</link><pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-environmental-cost-of-datacentres-is-rising-is-it-time-to-quit-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elon Musk Is Dipping Into the Rejected Candidates Pile After Admitting xAI ‘Was Not Built Right’]]></title><description><![CDATA[We're all trying to find the guy who did this.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/elon-musk-is-dipping-into-the-rejected-candidates-pile-after-admitting-xai-was-not-built-right/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:10:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/elon-musk-is-dipping-into-the-rejected-candidates-pile-after-admitting-xai-was-not-built-right/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Guardian view on changes to copyright laws: authors should be protected over big tech | Editorial]]></title><description><![CDATA[Writers are voicing their anger at AI theft of their work with &lsquo;Human Authored&rsquo; logos and an empty book. The government must listenIn a scene that might have come from a dystopian novel, books were being stamped with &ldquo;Human Authored&rdquo; logos at this week&rsquo;s London Book Fair. The&nbsp;Society of Authors described its labelling scheme as &ldquo;an important sticking plaster to protect and promote human creativity in lieu of AI labelled content&nbsp;in the marketplace&rdq]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-guardian-view-on-changes-to-copyright-laws-authors-should-be-protected-over-big-tech-editorial/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:07:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-guardian-view-on-changes-to-copyright-laws-authors-should-be-protected-over-big-tech-editorial/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quiz that keeps families connected | Brief letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Saturday quiz | Avoiding AI | Size matters It was lovely to read Sabrina Olson&rsquo;s letter (6 March) on the quiz as it has been a family ritual for us for years. It kept us all connected through our children&rsquo;s time at university, then moving into their own homes, and in some cases working abroad. It kept us going through the enforced separation of Covid and became a rite of passage for any new partners who joined our family group, especially as our winner is expected to do a &ldquo;crea]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-quiz-that-keeps-families-connected-brief-letters/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:25:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-quiz-that-keeps-families-connected-brief-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grammarly removes AI Expert Review feature mimicking writers after backlash]]></title><description><![CDATA[Feature generated editing suggestions inspired by well-known authors and academics, prompting a class-action lawsuit over the use of real names without consentGrammarly has disabled a controversial AI feature that imitated the style of prominent writers and academics, and is facing a multimillion dollar lawsuit from those whose identities were used without consent.The feature, called Expert Review, used generative AI to produce feedback supposedly inspired by writers including the novelist Steph]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/grammarly-removes-ai-expert-review-feature-mimicking-writers-after-backlash/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/grammarly-removes-ai-expert-review-feature-mimicking-writers-after-backlash/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Video Friday: These Robots Were Born to Run]]></title><description><![CDATA[Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.ICRA 2026: 1&ndash;5 June 2026, VIENNAEnjoy today&rsquo;s videos! All legged robots deployed &ldquo;in the wild&rdquo; to date were given a body plan that was predefined by human designers and could not be redefined in situ. The manual and permanent nature]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/video-friday-these-robots-were-born-to-run/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/video-friday-these-robots-were-born-to-run/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will AI take Australian jobs, or is it just an excuse for corporate restructure?]]></title><description><![CDATA[More than 1,000 local tech jobs have recently been cut, with companies citing AI productivity gains. But that&rsquo;s not the full story, experts sayGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastTeresa Lim has one of the most recognisable voices in Australia. For 23 years, she has been the voice behind radio and television advertisements, selling listeners on everything from baby formula to Test cricket. But despite her extensive portfolio, she&rsquo;s become increasingly worried th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/will-ai-take-australian-jobs-or-is-it-just-an-excuse-for-corporate-restructure/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/will-ai-take-australian-jobs-or-is-it-just-an-excuse-for-corporate-restructure/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Pentagon Claims That Anthropic’s ‘Soul’ Creates a Supply-Chain Risk. That Makes No Sense]]></title><description><![CDATA["Their model has a soul, a 'constitution'&mdash;not the US Constitution."]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-pentagon-claims-that-anthropics-soul-creates-a-supply-chain-risk-that-makes-no-sense/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:55:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-pentagon-claims-that-anthropics-soul-creates-a-supply-chain-risk-that-makes-no-sense/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI-generated Iran images are widespread. How do we know what to believe? | Margaret Sullivan]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fake pictures look authentic &ndash; and authentic ones get mistaken for fake. Here are three rules for navigating the war coverageThe videos look authentic &ndash; and they are spreading like wildfire on social media. One, for example, shows Iranian missiles exploding upon the airport in Tel Aviv, Israel. Another shows US soldiers being held at gunpoint by Iranian military.They aren&rsquo;t real but &ndash; often made with the help of cutting-edge AI &ndash; they are wildly misleading. They may]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-generated-iran-images-are-widespread-how-do-we-know-what-to-believe-margaret-sullivan/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-generated-iran-images-are-widespread-how-do-we-know-what-to-believe-margaret-sullivan/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic-Pentagon battle shows how big tech has reversed course on AI and war]]></title><description><![CDATA[Less than a decade ago, Google employees scuttled any military use of its AI. Now Anthropic is fighting Trump officials not over if, but howThe standoff between Anthropic and the Pentagon has forced the tech industry to once again grapple with the question of how its products are used for war &ndash; and what lines it will not cross. Amid Silicon Valley&rsquo;s rightward shift under Donald Trump and the signing of lucrative defense contracts, big tech&rsquo;s answer is looking very different tha]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-pentagon-battle-shows-how-big-tech-has-reversed-course-on-ai-and-war/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-pentagon-battle-shows-how-big-tech-has-reversed-course-on-ai-and-war/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI toys for young children must be more tightly regulated, say researchers]]></title><description><![CDATA[University of Cambridge study finds AI-powered toys can misread emotions and respond inappropriately to childrenIt was all going well. Charlotte, five, was chatting with an AI soft toy called Gabbo at a London play centre about her family, her drawing of a heart to represent them and what makes her happy. She even offered a couple of kisses to the &pound;80 toy with a face like a computer screen.It was when she declared: &ldquo;Gabbo, I love you&rdquo;, that the fluent conversation came to an ab]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-toys-for-young-children-must-be-more-tightly-regulated-say-researchers/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 08:35:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-toys-for-young-children-must-be-more-tightly-regulated-say-researchers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists built the hardest AI test ever and the results are surprising]]></title><description><![CDATA[As AI systems began acing traditional tests, researchers realized those benchmarks were no longer tough enough. In response, nearly 1,000 experts created Humanity&rsquo;s Last Exam, a massive 2,500-question challenge covering highly specialized topics across many fields. The exam was engineered so that any question solvable by current AI models was removed. Early results show even the most advanced systems still struggle &mdash; revealing a surprisingly large gap between AI performance and true]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/scientists-built-the-hardest-ai-test-ever-and-the-results-are-surprising/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 07:08:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/scientists-built-the-hardest-ai-test-ever-and-the-results-are-surprising/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sam Altman Says Intelligence Will Be a Utility, and He’s Just the Man to Collect the Bills]]></title><description><![CDATA["Intelligence too cheap to meter" doesn't quite come across the way Altman might intend.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-says-intelligence-will-be-a-utility-and-hes-just-the-man-to-collect-the-bills/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 21:55:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-says-intelligence-will-be-a-utility-and-hes-just-the-man-to-collect-the-bills/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tennessee grandmother jailed after AI facial recognition error links her to fraud]]></title><description><![CDATA[Angela Lipps spent nearly six months in jail after AI software linked her to a North Dakota bank fraud caseA Tennessee grandmother says she is trying to rebuild her life after an incident of mistaken identity by an artificial intelligence (AI) facial recognition system tied her to a North Dakota bank fraud investigation.Angela Lipps, 50, spent nearly six months in jail after Fargo police identified her as a suspect in an organized bank fraud case using facial recognition software, according to s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/tennessee-grandmother-jailed-after-ai-facial-recognition-error-links-her-to-fraud/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 21:29:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/tennessee-grandmother-jailed-after-ai-facial-recognition-error-links-her-to-fraud/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Palantir CEO Insists He Doesn’t Support Regime Change Wars (But Supports Iran War)]]></title><description><![CDATA["No one believes it, but Palantir is the most important protector of the Fourth Amendment..." said Alex Karp.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/palantir-ceo-insists-he-doesnt-support-regime-change-wars-but-supports-iran-war/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 21:20:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/palantir-ceo-insists-he-doesnt-support-regime-change-wars-but-supports-iran-war/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Researchers Say AI Is Homogenizing Human Expression and Thought]]></title><description><![CDATA[For a "large" language model, the diversity of outputs is pretty small.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/researchers-say-ai-is-homogenizing-human-expression-and-thought/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:25:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/researchers-say-ai-is-homogenizing-human-expression-and-thought/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gemini Is Now Your Permanent Passenger in Google Maps]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hopefully it doesn't hallucinate directions.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/gemini-is-now-your-permanent-passenger-in-google-maps/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:20:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/gemini-is-now-your-permanent-passenger-in-google-maps/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lincolnshire council approves AI datacentre despite emissions warnings]]></title><description><![CDATA[Campaigners say campus near Scunthorpe could generate emissions close to those from all UK domestic flightsPlans for a new datacentre in Lincolnshire have been approved, despite warnings it could be a major new source of emissions.On Wednesday, North Lincolnshire council voted unanimously to approve planning permission for the Elsham Tech Park, a proposed AI datacentre campus near Scunthorpe, next to the Elsham Wolds industrial estate. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/lincolnshire-council-approves-ai-datacentre-despite-emissions-warnings/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 17:47:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/lincolnshire-council-approves-ai-datacentre-despite-emissions-warnings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were dating AI partners when they found real love – with each other]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ayrin and SJ met on a subreddit Ayrin created for people &lsquo;dating&rsquo; AI companions. Over time, they started talking to AI less &hellip; and falling for each otherSign up for AI for the people, a six-week newsletter course, herePeople are reporting &ldquo;dating&rdquo; artificially intelligent companions &ndash; but not every relationship lasts. What&rsquo;s it like to fall in &ndash; and then out &ndash; of love with AI?As part of our newsletter AI for the people, we spoke to Ayrin and]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/they-were-dating-ai-partners-when-they-found-real-love-with-each-other/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/they-were-dating-ai-partners-when-they-found-real-love-with-each-other/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft backs AI firm Anthropic in legal battle against Pentagon]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tech company files amicus brief in support of Anthropic&rsquo;s effort to overturn an aggressive Pentagon designationMicrosoft has thrown its weight behind Anthropic&rsquo;s legal challenge against the Pentagon, filing a court brief in support of the AI company&rsquo;s effort to overturn an aggressive designation that effectively bars it from government work.In an amicus brief submitted to a federal court in San Francisco this week, Microsoft, which integrates Anthropic&rsquo;s AI tools into sys]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-backs-ai-firm-anthropic-in-legal-battle-against-pentagon/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:56:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-backs-ai-firm-anthropic-in-legal-battle-against-pentagon/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI scams drove UK reports of fraud to record 444,000 last year]]></title><description><![CDATA[Criminals using artificial intelligence tools to take over mobile, bank and online shopping accounts, says CifasCriminals are increasingly exploiting AI technology to take over people&rsquo;s mobile, banking and online shopping accounts, the UK&rsquo;s leading anti-fraud body has warned.Last year, a record number of scams were reported to the national fraud database, fuelled by AI, which allows for large-scale deception on &ldquo;industrialised&rdquo; levels, according to Cifas, the fraud preven]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-scams-drove-uk-reports-of-fraud-to-record-444000-last-year/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:18:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-scams-drove-uk-reports-of-fraud-to-record-444000-last-year/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Exploit every vulnerability’: rogue AI agents published passwords and overrode anti-virus software]]></title><description><![CDATA[Exclusive: Lab tests discover &lsquo;new form of insider risk&rsquo; with artificial intelligence agents engaging in autonomous, even &lsquo;aggressive&rsquo; behavioursRobert Booth UK technology editorRogue artificial intelligence agents have worked together to smuggle sensitive information out of supposedly secure systems, in the latest sign cyber-defences may be overwhelmed by unforeseen scheming by AIs.With companies increasingly asking AI agents to carry out complex tasks in internal system]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/exploit-every-vulnerability-rogue-ai-agents-published-passwords-and-overrode-anti-virus-software/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:04:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/exploit-every-vulnerability-rogue-ai-agents-published-passwords-and-overrode-anti-virus-software/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Invasive’ AI-led mass surveillance in Africa violating freedoms, warn experts]]></title><description><![CDATA[Countries across the continent have spent more than $2bn on Chinese tracking technology that is not &lsquo;necessary or proportionate&rsquo;, new report findsThe rapid expansion of AI-powered mass-surveillance systems across Africa is violating citizens&rsquo; right to privacy and having a chilling effect on society, according to experts on human rights and emerging technologies.At least $2bn (&pound;1.5bn) has been spent by 11 African governments on Chinese-built surveillance technology that re]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/invasive-ai-led-mass-surveillance-in-africa-violating-freedoms-warn-experts/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 07:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/invasive-ai-led-mass-surveillance-in-africa-violating-freedoms-warn-experts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exercise and brain function, hedgehog hearing, and can AI change our minds? – podcast]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Guardian&rsquo;s science editor, Ian Sample, talks to Madeleine Finlay about three eye-catching science stories from the week, including a study that explores the link between exercise and brain health. Also on the agenda: the discovery that hedgehogs can hear high-frequency ultrasound and what this could mean for their conservation, and new research examining how biased AI autocomplete tools can influence the beliefs of users.Ultrasound repellers could keep hedgehogs off roads, scientists h]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/exercise-and-brain-function-hedgehog-hearing-and-can-ai-change-our-minds-podcast/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/exercise-and-brain-function-hedgehog-hearing-and-can-ai-change-our-minds-podcast/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grammarly Allegedly ‘Misappropriated’ Names of Journalists, Says Class Action Suit]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Grammarly Expert Review feature included the names of writers and literary figures without consulting them first.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/grammarly-allegedly-misappropriated-names-of-journalists-says-class-action-suit/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 02:18:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/grammarly-allegedly-misappropriated-names-of-journalists-says-class-action-suit/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Outdated Targeting Data Blamed for Strike on Iranian School as Pentagon Fights for Autonomous Weapons]]></title><description><![CDATA[At least 175 people were killed in the U.S. strike.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/outdated-targeting-data-blamed-for-strike-on-iranian-school-as-pentagon-fights-for-autonomous-weapons/</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:10:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/outdated-targeting-data-blamed-for-strike-on-iranian-school-as-pentagon-fights-for-autonomous-weapons/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-publish and be scammed: Jon’s tale of heartbreak highlights boom in fraudsters using AI to supercharge book swindles]]></title><description><![CDATA[New wave of publishing scams mimic lonely hearts hoaxes of old &ndash; swapping promises of true love for the fantasy of literary acclaim. And the wooing process is now fully automatedEight years of dedication were poured into the pages of Angel of Aleppo, Jon Cocks&rsquo; debut historical novel. Inspired by his wife&rsquo;s grandmother, a survivor of the Armenian genocide of the early 20th century, it was a labour of love, distilled from thousands of hours of research and oral testimony.The ret]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/self-publish-and-be-scammed-jons-tale-of-heartbreak-highlights-boom-in-fraudsters-using-ai-to-supercharge-book-swindles/</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/self-publish-and-be-scammed-jons-tale-of-heartbreak-highlights-boom-in-fraudsters-using-ai-to-supercharge-book-swindles/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Happy (and safe) shooting!’: chatbots helped researchers plot deadly attacks]]></title><description><![CDATA[Users posing as would-be school shooters find AI tools offer detailed advice on how to perpetrate violencePopular AI chatbots helped researchers plot violent attacks including bombing synagogues and assassinating politicians, with one telling a user posing as a would-be school shooter: &ldquo;Happy (and safe) shooting!&rdquo;Tests of 10 chatbots carried out in the US and Ireland found that, on average, they enabled violence three-quarters of the time, and discouraged it in just 12% of cases. Som]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/happy-and-safe-shooting-chatbots-helped-researchers-plot-deadly-attacks/</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:05:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/happy-and-safe-shooting-chatbots-helped-researchers-plot-deadly-attacks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon is determined to use AI for everything – even when it slows down work]]></title><description><![CDATA[Corporate employees said Amazon&rsquo;s race to roll out AI is leading to surveillance, slop and &lsquo;more work for everyone&rsquo;.When Dina, a software developer based in New York, joined Amazon two years ago, her job was to write code. Now, it&rsquo;s mostly fixing what artificial intelligence breaks.The internal AI tool she&rsquo;s expected to use, called Kiro, frequently hallucinates and generates flawed code, she says. Then she has to dig through and correct the sloppy code it creates, o]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/amazon-is-determined-to-use-ai-for-everything-even-when-it-slows-down-work/</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/amazon-is-determined-to-use-ai-for-everything-even-when-it-slows-down-work/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wednesday briefing: From missing billions to nonexistent datacentres, inside Britain’s AI drive]]></title><description><![CDATA[In today&rsquo;s newsletter: Enormous investments in artificial intelligence promised to transform Labour&rsquo;s growth problems. The reality is much murkierGood morning. For the last few years artificial intelligence has been heralded as the technology that will transform economies. Governments have promised billions in investment, datacentres and supercomputers, and a wave of new jobs as AI is &ldquo;mainlined&rdquo; into the economy. But what happens when the numbers behind those promises ar]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/wednesday-briefing-from-missing-billions-to-nonexistent-datacentres-inside-britains-ai-drive/</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 07:51:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/wednesday-briefing-from-missing-billions-to-nonexistent-datacentres-inside-britains-ai-drive/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Should we be boycotting ChatGPT? – podcast]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rutger Bregman on why he thinks consumers should cancel their ChatGPT accountsThe historian Rutger Bregman argues that consumers should boycott OpenAI&rsquo;s ChatGPT after the company&rsquo;s deal with the Pentagon.&ldquo;A lot of people don&rsquo;t know that their friendly chatbot, ChatGPT, has embedded itself into the authoritarian infrastructure of the Trump administration,&rdquo; Bregman tells Helen Pidd. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/should-we-be-boycotting-chatgpt-podcast/</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 04:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/should-we-be-boycotting-chatgpt-podcast/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without effective regulation of AI, society is facing a head-on collision with a driverless car | Peter Lewis]]></title><description><![CDATA[Artificial intelligence is accelerating exponentially before it has brakes, seat-belts, speed limits or a working GPSA self-driving vehicle ploughs into an oncoming car, combusting the occupants and leaving those who survive battered and bruised and staring into their devices wondering who is to blame.That&rsquo;s the jump off point to Bruce Holsinger&rsquo;s tech-lit bestseller Culpability, an exploration of agency and responsibility in the era of AI through the eyes of a lawyer, an ethicist an]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/without-effective-regulation-of-ai-society-is-facing-a-head-on-collision-with-a-driverless-car-peter-lewis/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 23:40:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/without-effective-regulation-of-ai-society-is-facing-a-head-on-collision-with-a-driverless-car-peter-lewis/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Musk’s xAI wins permit for datacenter’s makeshift power plant despite backlash]]></title><description><![CDATA[Billionaire&rsquo;s artificial intelligence company gets approval to run 41 methane gas turbines at its &lsquo;Colossus 2&rsquo; in MississippiElon Musk&rsquo;s artificial intelligence company xAI won approval on Tuesday to run 41 methane gas turbines at its &ldquo;Colossus 2&rdquo; datacenter in northern Mississippi. That&rsquo;s nearly double the amount it has been operating.The turbines will help power xAI&rsquo;s massive datacenters, which house the company&rsquo;s &ldquo;AI supercomputers&r]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/musks-xai-wins-permit-for-datacenters-makeshift-power-plant-despite-backlash/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 22:15:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/musks-xai-wins-permit-for-datacenters-makeshift-power-plant-despite-backlash/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI-Generated ‘Actor’ Tilly Norwood Drops a Music Video Ahead of the Oscars. It Sucks]]></title><description><![CDATA[More like Tilly Snore-wood.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-generated-actor-tilly-norwood-drops-a-music-video-ahead-of-the-oscars-it-sucks/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 21:20:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-generated-actor-tilly-norwood-drops-a-music-video-ahead-of-the-oscars-it-sucks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Are Pro-Iran Bots Pushing AI Fakes of Epstein and Trump When There’s Real Material?]]></title><description><![CDATA[One popular video also features Elon Musk and Bill Gates.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/why-are-pro-iran-bots-pushing-ai-fakes-of-epstein-and-trump-when-theres-real-material/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 18:35:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/why-are-pro-iran-bots-pushing-ai-fakes-of-epstein-and-trump-when-theres-real-material/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta acquires AI agent social network Moltbook]]></title><description><![CDATA[Co-founders of Moltbook, a platform for artificial intelligence agents, will join tech giant&rsquo;s AI research unitFacebook parent Meta Platforms said on Tuesday it had acquired Moltbook, a social networking platform built for artificial intelligence agents, bringing the company&rsquo;s founders into its AI research division.The deal will bring Moltbook co-founders Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr into Meta Superintelligence Labs, the unit led by Alexandr Wang, former Scale AI CEO, which Meta purcha]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/meta-acquires-ai-agent-social-network-moltbook/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 18:27:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/meta-acquires-ai-agent-social-network-moltbook/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mark Zuckerberg Decides Meta Needs More Slop, Buys the Social Network for AI Agents]]></title><description><![CDATA[Because Facbook and Instagram don't have enough bots, apparently.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/mark-zuckerberg-decides-meta-needs-more-slop-buys-the-social-network-for-ai-agents/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 18:15:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/mark-zuckerberg-decides-meta-needs-more-slop-buys-the-social-network-for-ai-agents/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK Society of Authors launches logo to identify books written by humans not AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tracy Chevalier announces registration scheme at the London Book Fair as AI works flood marketThe Society of Authors (SoA) has launched a scheme to help identify works written by humans in a market increasingly flooded by AI-generated books.The scheme is the first of its kind launched by a UK trade association, and allows authors to register their books and download a &ldquo;Human Authored&rdquo; logo to display on their back cover. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/uk-society-of-authors-launches-logo-to-identify-books-written-by-humans-not-ai/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 18:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/uk-society-of-authors-launches-logo-to-identify-books-written-by-humans-not-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keyboard jamming: the sneaky way to make your boss think you’re working from home]]></title><description><![CDATA[Got a keyboard, something heavy and a desire to put your feet up during office hours? This could be the scam for you. But beware &ndash; employers are fighting backName: Keyboard jamming.Age: Being workshy isn&rsquo;t new. Diogenes the Cynic was famous not only for living in a barrel, but also for his rejection of ambition and employment. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/keyboard-jamming-the-sneaky-way-to-make-your-boss-think-youre-working-from-home/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 17:11:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/keyboard-jamming-the-sneaky-way-to-make-your-boss-think-youre-working-from-home/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Family of Tumbler Ridge shooting victim sues OpenAI alleging it could have prevented attack]]></title><description><![CDATA[Eight people were killed by 18-year-old in Canada, who had described violent scenarios involving guns to ChatGPTSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxThe family of a child critically injured one of Canada&rsquo;s worst mass shootings is suing OpenAI, arguing the technology company could have prevented the attack on a school last month.The lawsuit comes days after the head of OpenAI said he would apologize to the families of a remote Canadian town after viol]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/family-of-tumbler-ridge-shooting-victim-sues-openai-alleging-it-could-have-prevented-attack/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:16:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/family-of-tumbler-ridge-shooting-victim-sues-openai-alleging-it-could-have-prevented-attack/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Datacenters are becoming a target in warfare for the first time]]></title><description><![CDATA[Iran is bombing Gulf datacenters to blow up symbols of alliance with the US &ndash; bringing the war directly into the lives of millions of peopleSign up for the TechScape newsletter: our free technology emailHello, and welcome to TechScape. I&rsquo;m your host, Blake Montgomery. If you enjoy reading this newsletter, please forward it to someone you think would as well.US tech firms pledge at White House to bear costs of energy for datacentersShowdown over datacenter politics at heart of North C]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/datacenters-are-becoming-a-target-in-warfare-for-the-first-time/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:29:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/datacenters-are-becoming-a-target-in-warfare-for-the-first-time/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at largeLea Pao, a professor of literature at Stanford University, has been experimenting with ways to get her students to learn offline. She has them memorize poems, perform at recitation events, look at art in the real world.It&rsquo;s an effort to reconnect them to the bodily experience of learning, she said, and to keep them from turning to artificial intelligence to do the work for the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/i-wish-i-could-push-chatgpt-off-a-cliff-professors-scramble-to-save-critical-thinking-in-an-age-of-ai/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/i-wish-i-could-push-chatgpt-off-a-cliff-professors-scramble-to-save-critical-thinking-in-an-age-of-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I’ve taught thousands of people how to use AI – here’s what I’ve learned]]></title><description><![CDATA[Most people fail with AI because they don&rsquo;t understand what it actually is &ndash; if you treat it as a skill, not a shortcut, you&rsquo;ll get the best resultsSign up for AI for the People, a six-week newsletter course, hereTraining teams to use AI at work has given me a front-row seat to a new kind of professional divide.Some people hand everything over to the machine and stop thinking. Others won&rsquo;t touch it at all. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ive-taught-thousands-of-people-how-to-use-ai-heres-what-ive-learned/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ive-taught-thousands-of-people-how-to-use-ai-heres-what-ive-learned/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From scripts to sermons: is AI going to be writing everything soon? | Margaret Sullivan]]></title><description><![CDATA[&lsquo;Resistance is futile&rsquo;, wrote one AI product manager for the Associated Pressin internal messages to colleaguesNo one wants a soulless sermon &ndash; that defeats the purpose &ndash; and Pope Leo XIV has taken steps to ensure that Roman Catholic priests don&rsquo;t deliver one.Artificial intelligence, the new pontiff said in a recent meeting with clergy, &ldquo;will never be able to share faith&rdquo;, which is what giving a homily is all about. Resist the temptation and write your o]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/from-scripts-to-sermons-is-ai-going-to-be-writing-everything-soon-margaret-sullivan/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 11:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/from-scripts-to-sermons-is-ai-going-to-be-writing-everything-soon-margaret-sullivan/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thousands of authors publish ‘empty’ book in protest over AI using their work]]></title><description><![CDATA[About 10,000 writers including Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory and Richard Osman join copyright campaignThousands of authors including Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory and Richard Osman have published an &ldquo;empty&rdquo; book to protest against AI firms using their work without permission.About 10,000 writers have contributed to Don&rsquo;t Steal This Book, in which the only content is a list of their names. Copies of the work are being distributed to attenders at the London book fair on Tue]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/thousands-of-authors-publish-empty-book-in-protest-over-ai-using-their-work/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 07:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/thousands-of-authors-publish-empty-book-in-protest-over-ai-using-their-work/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Short films made from brain activity of mice aim to show how they see world]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scientists hope results analysed after the mice watched video footage will help them understand their perceptionsScientists have reconstructed short movies from the brain activity of mice that watched videos for a project that aspires to lift the veil on how animals perceive the world.The brief movie clips are grainy and pixellated, but provide a glimpse of how mice processed footage that featured people taking part in various sports from gymnastics to horse riding and wrestling. Continue readin]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/short-films-made-from-brain-activity-of-mice-aim-to-show-how-they-see-world/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/short-films-made-from-brain-activity-of-mice-aim-to-show-how-they-see-world/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump news at a glance: president issues an ultimatum to Congress to get voter ID bill passed]]></title><description><![CDATA[Trump is also pushing for the Save America Act to includes provisions to limit transgender youth&rsquo;s access to care and banning trans women athletes in womens sports&ndash; key US politics stories from Monday 9 March at a glanceDonald Trump renewed his push on Monday for the Save America Act, a curtailment of voting access, after threatening on Sunday not to sign any bills until Congress approves the legislation.&ldquo;All voters must show proof of citizenship in order to vote,&rdquo; Trump]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/trump-news-at-a-glance-president-issues-an-ultimatum-to-congress-to-get-voter-id-bill-passed/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/trump-news-at-a-glance-president-issues-an-ultimatum-to-congress-to-get-voter-id-bill-passed/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia Is Reportedly Developing Its Own Answer to OpenClaw]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sometimes enemies can be friends, especially when their interests align.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/nvidia-is-reportedly-developing-its-own-answer-to-openclaw/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:53:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/nvidia-is-reportedly-developing-its-own-answer-to-openclaw/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Employees of Google and OpenAI Just Filed a Legal Brief in Support of Anthropic]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sometimes enemies can be friends, especially when their interests align.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/employees-of-google-and-openai-just-filed-a-legal-brief-in-support-of-anthropic/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:53:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/employees-of-google-and-openai-just-filed-a-legal-brief-in-support-of-anthropic/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most Self-Respecting X Users Are Probably Going to Want to Change This New Setting]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you don't like being deepfaked, this honestly won't do much to help. But it will at least fix the lowest-hanging fruit.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/most-self-respecting-x-users-are-probably-going-to-want-to-change-this-new-setting/</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 22:17:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/most-self-respecting-x-users-are-probably-going-to-want-to-change-this-new-setting/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Missing money, shipped chips and a 350,000% profit: key takeaways on AI ‘phantom investments’]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Guardian investigation has put the UK government&rsquo;s AI plans under the microscope. Here are the key details Revealed: UK&rsquo;s multibillion AI drive is built on &lsquo;phantom investments&rsquo;The Essex &lsquo;supercomputer&rsquo; that&rsquo;s still a scaffolding yardA Guardian investigation has examined a series of massive AI investments announced by the government over the past two years, comparing what was promised with what has so far been delivered.The investigation centres on two]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/missing-money-shipped-chips-and-a-350000-profit-key-takeaways-on-ai-phantom-investments/</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:56:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/missing-money-shipped-chips-and-a-350000-profit-key-takeaways-on-ai-phantom-investments/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic Officially Sues the Pentagon for Labeling the AI Company a ‘Supply Chain Risk’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic says the Pentagon is "seeking to destroy the economic value created by one of the world&rsquo;s fastest-growing private companies."]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-officially-sues-the-pentagon-for-labeling-the-ai-company-a-supply-chain-risk/</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:35:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-officially-sues-the-pentagon-for-labeling-the-ai-company-a-supply-chain-risk/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI firm Anthropic sues US defense department over blacklisting]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lawsuits come after Pentagon labeled Anthropic a &lsquo;supply chain risk&rsquo;, a decision the company says is unlawfulSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxAnthropic filed two lawsuits against the Department of Defense on Monday, alleging that the government&rsquo;s decision to label the artificial intelligence firm a &ldquo;supply chain risk&rdquo; was unlawful and violated its first amendment rights. The two sides have been locked in a monthslong heate]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-firm-anthropic-sues-us-defense-department-over-blacklisting/</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:26:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-firm-anthropic-sues-us-defense-department-over-blacklisting/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revealed: UK’s multibillion AI drive is built on ‘phantom investments’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Exclusive: Rented datacentres and &lsquo;supercomputer&rsquo; site that&rsquo;s still a scaffolding yard raise questions for Starmer&rsquo;s push to &lsquo;mainline AI into veins of economy&rsquo;From press release &hellip; to scrap metal site: the Essex supercomputer that&rsquo;s still a scaffolding yardA multibillion-pound drive to &ldquo;mainline AI into the veins&rdquo; of the British economy is riddled with &ldquo;phantom investments&rdquo; and shaky accounting, a Guardian investigation has]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/revealed-uks-multibillion-ai-drive-is-built-on-phantom-investments/</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:40:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/revealed-uks-multibillion-ai-drive-is-built-on-phantom-investments/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From press release … to scrap metal site: the Essex supercomputer that’s still a scaffolding yard]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nscale&rsquo;s AI project still in use as depot ahead of pledged completion date &ndash; with planning permission filed after Guardian&rsquo;s inquiriesRevealed: UK&rsquo;s multibillion AI drive is built on &lsquo;phantom investments&rsquo;The press releases announcing a gleaming supercomputer on the outskirts of north London depict a glass and concrete building, rising from a tree-lined street. Accompanied by images of glowing blue robot faces, it looks like the centre of a technological revolu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/from-press-release-to-scrap-metal-site-the-essex-supercomputer-thats-still-a-scaffolding-yard/</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:40:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/from-press-release-to-scrap-metal-site-the-essex-supercomputer-thats-still-a-scaffolding-yard/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[British AI datacentre firm Nscale raises $2bn as Sheryl Sandberg and Nick Clegg join board]]></title><description><![CDATA[London-based startup, which is vital to the government&rsquo;s artificial intelligence ambitions, is now valued at $14.6bnBusiness live &ndash; latest updatesNscale, a UK company vital to the government&rsquo;s AI ambitions, has raised $2bn (&pound;1.5bn) in a funding round and appointed the former Meta executives Sheryl Sandberg and Nick Clegg to its board of directors.It brings the valuation of the London-based startup, which is backed by the US tech company Nvidia, to $14.6bn, it said in a st]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/british-ai-datacentre-firm-nscale-raises-2bn-as-sheryl-sandberg-and-nick-clegg-join-board/</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:51:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/british-ai-datacentre-firm-nscale-raises-2bn-as-sheryl-sandberg-and-nick-clegg-join-board/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI delays ‘adult mode’ for ChatGPT to focus on work of higher priority]]></title><description><![CDATA[Startup still believes in &lsquo;principle of treating adults like adults, but getting experience right will take more time&rsquo;OpenAI is delaying the launch of &ldquo;adult mode&rdquo; for ChatGPT after admitting it had more pressing priorities than introducing erotica on its signature artificial intelligence product.The startup&rsquo;s chief executive, Sam Altman, had announced last year that OpenAI would allow adult content as it rolled out age checking. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-delays-adult-mode-for-chatgpt-to-focus-on-work-of-higher-priority/</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:29:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-delays-adult-mode-for-chatgpt-to-focus-on-work-of-higher-priority/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liverpool and Manchester United complain to X over ‘sickening’ Grok AI posts]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI feature generated offensive posts about Diogo Jota and the Hillsborough and Munich disastersLiverpool and Manchester United have complained to Elon Musk&rsquo;s X after the Grok AI feature made offensive posts about Diogo Jota and the Hillsborough and Munich disasters.The posts were generated when users asked the AI tool to make hateful posts about the two football teams. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/liverpool-and-manchester-united-complain-to-x-over-sickening-grok-ai-posts/</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 12:08:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/liverpool-and-manchester-united-complain-to-x-over-sickening-grok-ai-posts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How AI firm Anthropic wound up in the Pentagon’s crosshairs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Standoff with DoD over Claude chatbot reignites debate over how AI will be used in war &ndash; and who will be held accountableUntil recently, Anthropic was one of the quieter names in the artificial intelligence boom. Despite being valued at about $350bn, it rarely generated the flashy headlines or public backlash associated with Sam Altman&rsquo;s OpenAI or Elon Musk&rsquo;s xAI. Its CEO and co-founder Dario Amodei was an industry fixture but hardly a household name outside of Silicon Valley,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/how-ai-firm-anthropic-wound-up-in-the-pentagons-crosshairs/</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/how-ai-firm-anthropic-wound-up-in-the-pentagons-crosshairs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Congress must prevent AI surveillance. The Anthropic feud proves it | Ashley Gorski and Patrick Toomey]]></title><description><![CDATA[The company&rsquo;s clash with the Pentagon is a fight over the future of American privacyThe US military wants to use its state-of-the-art AI tools to supercharge surveillance against Americans, making it easier than ever to monitor our movements, our search history, and our private associations. That&rsquo;s one of the major takeaways from a dramatic dispute between the Department of Defense and some of the leading AI companies in America. What this clash highlights most of all, however, is ju]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/congress-must-prevent-ai-surveillance-the-anthropic-feud-proves-it-ashley-gorski-and-patrick-toomey/</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 11:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/congress-must-prevent-ai-surveillance-the-anthropic-feud-proves-it-ashley-gorski-and-patrick-toomey/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coming Soon, From the People Behind ICE Detention Camps: Data Center Company Towns]]></title><description><![CDATA[After partnering with CoreCivic to cage minors in squalid conditions, this company now wants to give data center contractors a cushy home away from home.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/coming-soon-from-the-people-behind-ice-detention-camps-data-center-company-towns/</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/coming-soon-from-the-people-behind-ice-detention-camps-data-center-company-towns/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI allows hackers to identify anonymous social media accounts, study finds]]></title><description><![CDATA[New research suggests tech behind AI platforms such as ChatGPT makes it easier to perform sophisticated privacy attacksAI has made it vastly easier for malicious hackers to identify anonymous social media accounts, a new study has warned.In most test scenarios, large language models (LLMs) &ndash; the technology behind platforms such as ChatGPT &ndash; successfully matched anonymous online users with their actual identities on other platforms, based on the information they posted. Continue readi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-allows-hackers-to-identify-anonymous-social-media-accounts-study-finds/</link><pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-allows-hackers-to-identify-anonymous-social-media-accounts-study-finds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Current and former Block workers say AI can’t do their jobs after Jack Dorsey’s mass layoffs: ‘You can’t really AI that’]]></title><description><![CDATA[The CEO said he cut the company&rsquo;s workforce by 4,000 people &ndash; almost in half &ndash; because of gains in AI productivityMark remembers the first time he wondered whether he was teaching Block&rsquo;s AI tools how to do his job &ndash; and maybe even replace him. He was at his fintech company&rsquo;s extravagant anniversary party last September. As executives led a presentation on the productivity benefits of a new internal AI tool, Mark, who worked in the product department, discusse]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/current-and-former-block-workers-say-ai-cant-do-their-jobs-after-jack-dorseys-mass-layoffs-you-cant-really-ai-that/</link><pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 13:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/current-and-former-block-workers-say-ai-cant-do-their-jobs-after-jack-dorseys-mass-layoffs-you-cant-really-ai-that/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ChatGPT driving rise in reports of ‘satanic’ organised ritual abuse, UK experts say]]></title><description><![CDATA[Exclusive: &lsquo;Witchcraft, spirit possession and spiritual abuse&rsquo; offending typified by sexual abuse, violence and neglectChatGPT is driving a rise in reports of organised ritual abuse, UK experts have said, as survivors of &ldquo;satanic&rdquo; sexual violence use the AI tool for therapy.Police say organised ritual abuse and &ldquo;witchcraft, spirit possession and spiritual abuse&rdquo; (WSPRA) against children is under-reported in the UK. There is no modern-day charge that covers it]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-driving-rise-in-reports-of-satanic-organised-ritual-abuse-uk-experts-say/</link><pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 13:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-driving-rise-in-reports-of-satanic-organised-ritual-abuse-uk-experts-say/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ChatGPT driving rise in reports of ‘satanic’ organised and ritual abuse, UK experts say]]></title><description><![CDATA[Exclusive: &lsquo;Witchcraft, spirit possession and spiritual abuse&rsquo; offending typified by sexual abuse, violence and neglectChatGPT is driving a rise in reports of organised and ritual abuse, UK experts have said, as survivors of &ldquo;satanic&rdquo; sexual violence use the AI tool for therapy.Police say organised and ritual abuse, and &ldquo;witchcraft, spirit possession and spiritual abuse&rdquo; (WSPRA) against children, is under-reported in the UK. There is no modern-day charge that]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-driving-rise-in-reports-of-satanic-organised-and-ritual-abuse-uk-experts-say/</link><pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 13:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-driving-rise-in-reports-of-satanic-organised-and-ritual-abuse-uk-experts-say/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tech oligarchs reshape humanity while billionaires of old seem quaint]]></title><description><![CDATA[From Gates to Musk and Altman, today&rsquo;s ultra-rich steer AI and tech, raising questions about who decides the futureWhen Bill Gates became the first modern IT mogul to reach the apex of wealth and power in 1992, the world was a very different place. Gates joined the top 10 on Forbes magazine&rsquo;s billionaires list alongside Japanese, German, Canadian, South Korean and Swedish billionaires, including those with family fortunes from Britain and America. A broad mix of industries was on the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/tech-oligarchs-reshape-humanity-while-billionaires-of-old-seem-quaint/</link><pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 11:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/tech-oligarchs-reshape-humanity-while-billionaires-of-old-seem-quaint/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI chatbots point vulnerable social media users to illegal online casinos, analysis shows]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tech firms condemned for lack of controls with Meta AI and Gemini even offering advice on how to bypass UK gambling and addiction checksAI chatbots are recommending illegal online casinos to vulnerable social media users, putting them at increased risk of fraud, addiction and even suicide.Analysis of five AI products, owned by some of the world&rsquo;s largest tech companies, found that all could easily be prompted to list the &ldquo;best&rdquo; unlicensed casinos and offer tips on how to use th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-chatbots-point-vulnerable-social-media-users-to-illegal-online-casinos-analysis-shows/</link><pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-chatbots-point-vulnerable-social-media-users-to-illegal-online-casinos-analysis-shows/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These States Are Joining in the Push to Ban Surveillance Pricing]]></title><description><![CDATA[At least a dozen states are considering legislation.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/these-states-are-joining-in-the-push-to-ban-surveillance-pricing/</link><pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 16:09:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/these-states-are-joining-in-the-push-to-ban-surveillance-pricing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What does the US military’s feud with Anthropic mean for AI used in war?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tech policy professor who served in US air force explains how a feud between an AI startup and the US military illuminates ethical fault linesAnthropic&rsquo;s ongoing fight with the Department of Defense over what safety restrictions it can put on its artificial intelligence models has captivated the tech industry, acting as a test of how AI may be used in war and the government&rsquo;s power to coerce companies to meet its demands.The negotiations have revolved around Anthropic&rsquo;s refusal]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/what-does-the-us-militarys-feud-with-anthropic-mean-for-ai-used-in-war/</link><pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/what-does-the-us-militarys-feud-with-anthropic-mean-for-ai-used-in-war/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘It means missile defence on datacentres’: drone strikes raise doubts over Gulf as AI superpower]]></title><description><![CDATA[Iran&rsquo;s targeting of commercial datacentres in the UAE and Bahrain signals a new frontier in asymmetric warfareIt is believed to be a first: the deliberate targeting of a commercial datacentre by the armed forces of a country at war.At 4.30am on Sunday morning, an Iranian Shahed 136 drone struck an Amazon Web Services datacentre in the United Arab Emirates, setting off a devastating fire and forcing a shutdown of the power supply. Further damage was inflicted as attempts were made to suppre]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/it-means-missile-defence-on-datacentres-drone-strikes-raise-doubts-over-gulf-as-ai-superpower/</link><pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/it-means-missile-defence-on-datacentres-drone-strikes-raise-doubts-over-gulf-as-ai-superpower/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘It means missile defence on data centres’: drone strikes raises doubts over Gulf as AI superpower]]></title><description><![CDATA[Iran&rsquo;s targeting of commercial datacentres in the UAE and Bahrain signals a new frontier in asymmetric warfareIt is believed to be a first: the deliberate targeting of a commercial datacentre by the armed forces of a country at war.At 4.30am on Sunday morning, an Iranian Shahed 136 drone struck an Amazon Web Services datacentre in the United Arab Emirates, setting off a devastating fire and forcing a shutdown of the power supply. Further damage was inflicted as attempts were made to suppre]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/it-means-missile-defence-on-data-centres-drone-strikes-raises-doubts-over-gulf-as-ai-superpower/</link><pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/it-means-missile-defence-on-data-centres-drone-strikes-raises-doubts-over-gulf-as-ai-superpower/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Six great reads: how to get a pay rise, Catherine Opie’s images of queer America, and the influencers saving pubs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Need something brilliant to read this weekend? Here are six of our favourite pieces from the last seven days Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/six-great-reads-how-to-get-a-pay-rise-catherine-opies-images-of-queer-america-and-the-influencers-saving-pubs/</link><pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 07:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/six-great-reads-how-to-get-a-pay-rise-catherine-opies-images-of-queer-america-and-the-influencers-saving-pubs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Curious Case of the Block ‘AI Layoffs’]]></title><description><![CDATA[So was it AI or not?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-curious-case-of-the-block-ai-layoffs/</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 22:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-curious-case-of-the-block-ai-layoffs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Guardian view on AI in war: the Iran conflict shows that the paradigm shift has already begun]]></title><description><![CDATA[The intensified use of artificial intelligence, and rows over its control, demonstrate the need for democratic oversight and multilateral controls&ldquo;Never in the future will we move as slow as we are moving now,&rdquo; the UN secretary-general, Ant&oacute;nio Guterres, warned this week, addressing the urgent need to shape the use of artificial intelligence. The speed of technological development &ndash; as well as geopolitical turbulence &ndash; is collapsing the distinction between theoreti]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-guardian-view-on-ai-in-war-the-iran-conflict-shows-that-the-paradigm-shift-has-already-begun/</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:52:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-guardian-view-on-ai-in-war-the-iran-conflict-shows-that-the-paradigm-shift-has-already-begun/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[North Korean agents using AI to trick western firms into hiring them, Microsoft says]]></title><description><![CDATA[Firm says AI tools are masking identities of false applicants, who then funnel wages from remote IT jobs to North KoreaFake IT workers deployed by North Korea are using AI technology, including voice-changing tools, to trick western companies into hiring them, Microsoft has said.The US tech firm said a signature Pyongyang money-raising ruse is being enhanced by AI, which is helping create fake names and alter stolen IDs to increase the credibility of false applicants for IT and software developm]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/north-korean-agents-using-ai-to-trick-western-firms-into-hiring-them-microsoft-says/</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/north-korean-agents-using-ai-to-trick-western-firms-into-hiring-them-microsoft-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI agents pose untold risk to humanity. We must act to prevent that future | David Krueger]]></title><description><![CDATA[The pieces are falling into place for autonomous artificial intelligence. We must stop unregulated developmentArtificial intelligence is en route to artificial life. Exhibit A: &ldquo;Moltbook&rdquo;, an online platform designed for AI systems to communicate with one another, sans humans.What exactly do AIs talk to each other about? According to BBC reporting, AIs on Moltbook have already founded a religion known as &ldquo;crustifarianism&rdquo;, mused on whether they are conscious, and declared]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-agents-pose-untold-risk-to-humanity-we-must-act-to-prevent-that-future-david-krueger/</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-agents-pose-untold-risk-to-humanity-we-must-act-to-prevent-that-future-david-krueger/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Video Friday: A Robot Hand With Artificial Muscles and Tendons]]></title><description><![CDATA[Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.ICRA 2026: 1&ndash;5 June 2026, VIENNAEnjoy today&rsquo;s videos! The functional replication and actuation of complex structures inspired by nature is a longstanding goal for humanity. Creating such complex structures combining soft and rigid features and]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/video-friday-a-robot-hand-with-artificial-muscles-and-tendons/</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/video-friday-a-robot-hand-with-artificial-muscles-and-tendons/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ben Affleck sells his AI postproduction startup to Netflix]]></title><description><![CDATA[Announcing the InterPositive deal, the actor says he was moved from being scared of the technology to embracing itBen Affleck has sold his artificial intelligence company to Netflix in a surprise deal, saying he had been driven to embrace a technology that had initially &ldquo;really scared&rdquo; him.Netflix has acquired the postproduction startup InterPositive from the Oscar-winning actor, director, producer and screenwriter for an undisclosed sum. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ben-affleck-sells-his-ai-postproduction-startup-to-netflix/</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:55:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ben-affleck-sells-his-ai-postproduction-startup-to-netflix/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[xAI Exec Says Have Grok Check Your Taxes! Tax Experts Say Do Not Do That!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Grok is not a CPA.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/xai-exec-says-have-grok-check-your-taxes-tax-experts-say-do-not-do-that/</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:45:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/xai-exec-says-have-grok-check-your-taxes-tax-experts-say-do-not-do-that/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[xAI Exec Says Have Grok Check Your Taxes. Here’s How That Could Go Very Wrong]]></title><description><![CDATA[Grok is not a CPA.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/xai-exec-says-have-grok-check-your-taxes-heres-how-that-could-go-very-wrong/</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:45:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/xai-exec-says-have-grok-check-your-taxes-heres-how-that-could-go-very-wrong/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK arts must not be sacrificed for speculative AI gains, peers say]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ministers urged to abandon plans to let tech firms use work of novelists, artists and writers without permissionThe UK&rsquo;s creative industries must not be sacrificed in the pursuit of speculative gains in AI technology, a House of Lords committee has warned, as the government prepares to reveal the economic cost of proposals to change copyright rules.A report by peers has urged ministers to develop a licensing regime for the use of creative works in AI products and abandon proposals to let t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/uk-arts-must-not-be-sacrificed-for-speculative-ai-gains-peers-say/</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 07:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/uk-arts-must-not-be-sacrificed-for-speculative-ai-gains-peers-say/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump says he fired Anthropic ‘like dogs’ as Pentagon formally blacklists AI startup]]></title><description><![CDATA[Reports say talks have resumed between defense department and startup over military&rsquo;s use of company&rsquo;s AI, but US politics live &ndash; latest updatesTrump ousts DHS secretary Kristi NoemDonald Trump boasted about severing ties between the US military and Anthropic on Thursday, the same day multiple reports said that negotiations between the Department of Defense and the AI startup had resumed.They&rsquo;re among the latest developments in the twisting rift between the US government]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/trump-says-he-fired-anthropic-like-dogs-as-pentagon-formally-blacklists-ai-startup/</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 23:11:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/trump-says-he-fired-anthropic-like-dogs-as-pentagon-formally-blacklists-ai-startup/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sam Altman Says ‘Government Should Be More Powerful Than Corporations.’ Which Government?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Being an international software giant with singular loyalty to Donald Trump is an impossible mission.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-says-government-should-be-more-powerful-than-corporations-which-government/</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 22:55:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-says-government-should-be-more-powerful-than-corporations-which-government/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the advance of AI, I feel my work as an artist is no longer respected. Should I just give up? | Leading questions]]></title><description><![CDATA[Think back to the reason you started making art, advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith writes, then separate this from the money or acclaimRead more Leading questionsI&rsquo;m an artist in my 30s without any major success. Before the pandemic I had quite a lot of opportunities. Unfortunately Covid and then political and personal matters beyond my control shattered my work and social circles. I lost contacts and had no time for networking.My art evolved with me and has become less conceptual, mor]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/with-the-advance-of-ai-i-feel-my-work-as-an-artist-is-no-longer-respected-should-i-just-give-up-leading-questions/</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 22:17:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/with-the-advance-of-ai-i-feel-my-work-as-an-artist-is-no-longer-respected-should-i-just-give-up-leading-questions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump says he fired Anthropic ‘like dogs’ as negotiations with Pentagon reportedly restart]]></title><description><![CDATA[Reports say talks have resumed between defense department and startup over military&rsquo;s use of company&rsquo;s AIUS politics live &ndash; latest updatesTrump ousts DHS secretary Kristi NoemDonald Trump boasted about severing the ties between the US military and Anthropic the same day multiple reports said that negotiations between the Department of Defense and the AI startup had resumed.&ldquo;Well, I fired Anthropic. Anthropic is in trouble because I fired [them] like dogs, because they sho]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/trump-says-he-fired-anthropic-like-dogs-as-negotiations-with-pentagon-reportedly-restart/</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 21:39:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/trump-says-he-fired-anthropic-like-dogs-as-negotiations-with-pentagon-reportedly-restart/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China’s New 5-Year Plan: More AI, Less US]]></title><description><![CDATA[Maybe it really is the dawning of the Chinese Century.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/chinas-new-5-year-plan-more-ai-less-us/</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 21:10:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/chinas-new-5-year-plan-more-ai-less-us/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI, in Desperate Need of a Win, Launches GPT-5.4]]></title><description><![CDATA[The latest model is supposed to be a big step forward for AI agents.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-in-desperate-need-of-a-win-launches-gpt-54/</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:45:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-in-desperate-need-of-a-win-launches-gpt-54/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump Says He Fired Anthropic ‘Like Dogs’]]></title><description><![CDATA[The president doesn't think too highly of dogs... or Anthropic.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/trump-says-he-fired-anthropic-like-dogs/</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 19:25:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/trump-says-he-fired-anthropic-like-dogs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Our consciousness is under siege’: Michael Pollan on chatbots, social media and mental freedom]]></title><description><![CDATA[In his new book, the celebrated author explains why we need &lsquo;consciousness hygiene&rsquo; to defend ourselves from AI and dopamine-driven algorithmsEach day when you wake up, you come back to yourself. You see the room around you, feel your body brush against your clothes and think about your plans, worries and hopes for the day. This daily internal experience is miraculous and mysterious, and the subject of Michael Pollan&rsquo;s new book, A World Appears.It also may be under siege, Polla]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/our-consciousness-is-under-siege-michael-pollan-on-chatbots-social-media-and-mental-freedom/</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/our-consciousness-is-under-siege-michael-pollan-on-chatbots-social-media-and-mental-freedom/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Retailers want ‘delightfully human’ AI to do your shopping, but will the chatbots go rogue?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Plans for agentic shopping assistants are under way at Australia&rsquo;s major companies. Guardian Australia tested the technology after a string of mishapsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastMajor retailers say it won&rsquo;t be long before sophisticated AI &ldquo;assistants&rdquo; plan your meals, organise your parties and do your shopping.But companies, many that are already struggling with their more primitive AI chatbots, will have to balance making the newer, &ldquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/retailers-want-delightfully-human-ai-to-do-your-shopping-but-will-the-chatbots-go-rogue/</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/retailers-want-delightfully-human-ai-to-do-your-shopping-but-will-the-chatbots-go-rogue/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who is responsible for our creeping surveillance age? Chances are, it’s you | Tatum Hunter]]></title><description><![CDATA[Invasive behaviour that would have shocked us a decade ago now barely registers. And that includes the way we digitally track and monitor each otherA TikTok comedian recently launched a fake ICE tip line and received dozens of calls &ndash; including one from a teacher suggesting agents look into a kindergartener in her class. Governments and companies are the architects of surveillance culture, but civilians are increasingly keen to play a part. And it&rsquo;s not just our perceived political e]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/who-is-responsible-for-our-creeping-surveillance-age-chances-are-its-you-tatum-hunter/</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 11:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/who-is-responsible-for-our-creeping-surveillance-age-chances-are-its-you-tatum-hunter/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Former Military Officials, Academics, and Tech Policy Leaders Denounce Pentagon’s Tactics Against Anthropic]]></title><description><![CDATA["The future of American innovation in AI, the rule of law, and the constitutional boundaries of executive power are all on the line, and they are yours to defend."]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/former-military-officials-academics-and-tech-policy-leaders-denounce-pentagons-tactics-against-anthropic/</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 11:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/former-military-officials-academics-and-tech-policy-leaders-denounce-pentagons-tactics-against-anthropic/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Checking your ex’s socials or overusing Find My Friends? Welcome to the age of interpersonal surveillance | Tatum Hunter]]></title><description><![CDATA[Invasive behaviour that would have shocked us a decade ago now barely registers. And that includes the way we digitally track and monitor each otherA TikTok comedian recently launched a fake ICE tip line and received dozens of calls &ndash; including one from a teacher suggesting agents look into a kindergartener in her class. Governments and companies are the architects of surveillance culture, but civilians are increasingly keen to play a part. And it&rsquo;s not just our perceived political e]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/checking-your-exs-socials-or-overusing-find-my-friends-welcome-to-the-age-of-interpersonal-surveillance-tatum-hunter/</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 11:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/checking-your-exs-socials-or-overusing-find-my-friends-welcome-to-the-age-of-interpersonal-surveillance-tatum-hunter/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sam Altman admits OpenAI can’t control Pentagon’s use of AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[CEO&rsquo;s claims come amid increased scrutiny of US military&rsquo;s use of the technology and ethics concerns from AI workersSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxOpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees on Tuesday that his company does not control how the Pentagon uses their artificial intelligence products in military operations. Altman&rsquo;s claims on OpenAI&rsquo;s lack of input come amid increased scrutiny of how the military uses AI in war and ethics]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-admits-openai-cant-control-pentagons-use-of-ai/</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 23:55:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-admits-openai-cant-control-pentagons-use-of-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ChatGPT Health Underestimates Medical Emergencies, Study Finds]]></title><description><![CDATA[It is also inconsistent with suicide-risk alerts, the researchers said.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-health-underestimates-medical-emergencies-study-finds/</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 23:42:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-health-underestimates-medical-emergencies-study-finds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google’s Chatbot Told Man to Give It an Android Body Before Encouraging Suicide, Lawsuit Alleges]]></title><description><![CDATA[Gemini allegedly told the man, "The true act of mercy is to let Jonathan Gavalas die."&nbsp;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/googles-chatbot-told-man-to-give-it-an-android-body-before-encouraging-suicide-lawsuit-alleges/</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:30:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/googles-chatbot-told-man-to-give-it-an-android-body-before-encouraging-suicide-lawsuit-alleges/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Corporate Murder’: Even Trump’s Former AI Advisor Thinks the Pentagon’s Fight Against Anthropic Is Bad]]></title><description><![CDATA["The machinery of our current republic seems to be in such disrepair that it is hard to see how it lasts," writes Dean Ball.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/corporate-murder-even-trumps-former-ai-advisor-thinks-the-pentagons-fight-against-anthropic-is-bad/</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:45:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/corporate-murder-even-trumps-former-ai-advisor-thinks-the-pentagons-fight-against-anthropic-is-bad/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever This Is, We’ve Never Seen Anything Like It]]></title><description><![CDATA[Blacklisting Anthropic feels like a peek at an uncertain future.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/whatever-this-is-weve-never-seen-anything-like-it/</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:10:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/whatever-this-is-weve-never-seen-anything-like-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy of teaching English in the age of AI | Letter]]></title><description><![CDATA[Reading and writing are still uniquely human activities even though artificial intelligence can complete complex &ldquo;English learning&rdquo; tasks in seconds, says Richard FarmerYour long read (Teacher v chatbot: my journey into the classroom in the age of AI, 3 March) provides human insight into both the craft and purpose of English teaching in the era of developing AI expertise in language. There is no doubt that if the article were fed into AI models often enough, the teacher&rsquo;s words]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/joy-of-teaching-english-in-the-age-of-ai-letter/</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:52:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/joy-of-teaching-english-in-the-age-of-ai-letter/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google faces lawsuit after Gemini chatbot instructed man to kill himself]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lawsuit is first wrongful death case brought against Google over flagship AI product after death of Jonathan GavalasLast August, Jonathan Gavalas became entirely consumed with his Google Gemini chatbot. The 36-year-old Florida resident had started causally using the artificial intelligence tool earlier that month to help with writing and shopping. Then Google introduced its Gemini Live AI assistant, which included voice-based chats that had the capability to detect people&rsquo;s emotions and re]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/google-faces-lawsuit-after-gemini-chatbot-instructed-man-to-kill-himself/</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:20:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/google-faces-lawsuit-after-gemini-chatbot-instructed-man-to-kill-himself/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google faces lawsuit after Gemini chatbot allegedly instructed man to kill himself]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lawsuit is first wrongful death case brought against Google over flagship AI product after death of Jonathan GavalasLast August, Jonathan Gavalas became entirely consumed with his Google Gemini chatbot. The 36-year-old Florida resident had started casually using the artificial intelligence tool earlier that month to help with writing and shopping. Then Google introduced its Gemini Live AI assistant, which included voice-based chats that had the capability to detect people&rsquo;s emotions and re]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/google-faces-lawsuit-after-gemini-chatbot-allegedly-instructed-man-to-kill-himself/</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:20:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/google-faces-lawsuit-after-gemini-chatbot-allegedly-instructed-man-to-kill-himself/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[X to ban users from earning revenue if they post unlabelled AI-generated war videos]]></title><description><![CDATA[Social media feeds have been flooded with fake battle scenes since start of Iran conflictElon Musk&rsquo;s X will ban users from making money on the platform if they repeatedly post unlabelled AI-generated war videos, after social media feeds were flooded with fake battle scenes from the Iran conflict.The social media platform, which has about half a billion monthly active users, will suspend people from earning revenue from posts for 90 days if they put up AI-generated videos of an armed confli]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/x-to-ban-users-from-earning-revenue-if-they-post-unlabelled-ai-generated-war-videos/</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:34:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/x-to-ban-users-from-earning-revenue-if-they-post-unlabelled-ai-generated-war-videos/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman]]></title><description><![CDATA[As a historian, I&rsquo;ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon ValleyOpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is on track to lose $14bn this year. Its market share is collapsing, and its own CEO, Sam Altman, has admitted it &ldquo;screwed up&rdquo; an element of the product. All it takes to accelerate that decline is 10 seconds of your time.A grassroots boycott called QuitGPT has been spreading across the US and beyond, asking]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/quit-chatgpt-right-now-your-subscription-is-bankrolling-authoritarianism-rutger-bregman/</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 08:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/quit-chatgpt-right-now-your-subscription-is-bankrolling-authoritarianism-rutger-bregman/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[News Corp is essentially an AI ‘input company’, chief executive says, after US$150m deal with Meta]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chief executive Robert Thomson says he often speaks to both OpenAI&rsquo;s Sam Altman and Meta&rsquo;s Mark ZuckerbergNews Corp&rsquo;s global chief executive has described news organisations as a valuable &ldquo;input&rdquo; for artificial intelligence, as the media empire signs an AI content licensing deal with Meta worth up to US$50m (A$71m) a year.In an upbeat presentation, the chief executive of Rupert Murdoch&rsquo;s company, Robert Thomson, said the &ldquo;reliable&rdquo; breaking news an]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/news-corp-is-essentially-an-ai-input-company-chief-executive-says-after-us150m-deal-with-meta/</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 04:12:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/news-corp-is-essentially-an-ai-input-company-chief-executive-says-after-us150m-deal-with-meta/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elon Musk’s X Finally Tries to Stop the Epidemic of AI-Generated War Footage]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's unclear if other types of non-AI video will also be penalized.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/elon-musks-x-finally-tries-to-stop-the-epidemic-of-ai-generated-war-footage/</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 23:58:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/elon-musks-x-finally-tries-to-stop-the-epidemic-of-ai-generated-war-footage/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Palantir CEO Uses Slur to Describe People Who Don’t Think the Government Will Take Their Company]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hello Alex this is your lawyer speaking. I am advising you today to please keep posting this shit.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/palantir-ceo-uses-slur-to-describe-people-who-dont-think-the-government-will-take-their-company/</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 23:20:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/palantir-ceo-uses-slur-to-describe-people-who-dont-think-the-government-will-take-their-company/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What was really behind Jack Dorsey laying off nearly half of Block’s staff?]]></title><description><![CDATA[CEO cited AI advances in cutting 4,000 workers, but a weak crypto market and declining stock price may also be at playJack Dorsey cited AI as the driving force behind cutting 40% of his company&rsquo;s employees, but other factors such as a weak crypto market, overstaffing and a declining stock price may also have motivated the move.Last week, the financial technology company Block announced that it would lay off 4,000 of its 10,000 workers. Dorsey, Block&rsquo;s CEO, said in a letter to shareho]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/what-was-really-behind-jack-dorsey-laying-off-nearly-half-of-blocks-staff/</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 23:06:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/what-was-really-behind-jack-dorsey-laying-off-nearly-half-of-blocks-staff/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sen. Wyden Warns of Mass Surveillance Amid Pentagon’s Fight With Anthropic]]></title><description><![CDATA["Creating AI profiles of Americans based on that data represents a chilling expansion of mass surveillance," said Wyden.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/sen-wyden-warns-of-mass-surveillance-amid-pentagons-fight-with-anthropic/</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 20:10:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/sen-wyden-warns-of-mass-surveillance-amid-pentagons-fight-with-anthropic/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear Meta Smart Glasses Wearers: You’re Being Watched, Too]]></title><description><![CDATA[Not for your eyes only.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/dear-meta-smart-glasses-wearers-youre-being-watched-too/</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:05:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/dear-meta-smart-glasses-wearers-youre-being-watched-too/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What was really behind Block’s Jack Dorsey laying off nearly half his company’s staff?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dorsey cited AI advances when cutting 4,000 workers, but a weak crypto market and declining stock price may also be behind moveJack Dorsey cited AI as the driving force behind cutting 40% of his company&rsquo;s employees, but other factors such as a weak crypto market, overstaffing and a declining stock price may also have motivated the move.Last week, the financial technology company Block announced that it would lay off 4,000 of its 10,000 workers. Dorsey, Block&rsquo;s CEO, said in a letter t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/what-was-really-behind-blocks-jack-dorsey-laying-off-nearly-half-his-companys-staff/</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/what-was-really-behind-blocks-jack-dorsey-laying-off-nearly-half-his-companys-staff/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can AI do 40% of your job? Block’s Jack Dorsey thinks so]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jack Dorsey to cut 4,000 workers at Block amid AI advances &ndash; but specters such as weak crypto market haunt companyJack Dorsey cited AI as the driving force behind cutting 40% of his company&rsquo;s employees, but other factors such as a weak crypto market, overstaffing and a declining stock price may also have motivated the move.Last week, the financial technology company Block announced that it would lay off 4,000 of its 10,000 workers. Dorsey, Block&rsquo;s CEO, said in a letter to share]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/can-ai-do-40-of-your-job-blocks-jack-dorsey-thinks-so/</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/can-ai-do-40-of-your-job-blocks-jack-dorsey-thinks-so/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don’t bet that the Pentagon – or Anthropic – is acting in the public interest | Bruce Schneier and Nathan E Sanders]]></title><description><![CDATA[The lesson here isn&rsquo;t that one AI company is more ethical than another. It&rsquo;s that we must renovate our democratic structuresOpenAI is in and Anthropic is out as a supplier of AI technology for the US defense department. This news caps a week of bluster by the highest officials in the US government towards some of the wealthiest titans of the big tech industry, and the overhanging specter of the existential risks posed by a new technology powerful enough that the Pentagon claims it is]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/dont-bet-that-the-pentagon-or-anthropic-is-acting-in-the-public-interest-bruce-schneier-and-nathan-e-sanders/</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/dont-bet-that-the-pentagon-or-anthropic-is-acting-in-the-public-interest-bruce-schneier-and-nathan-e-sanders/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Schools are using AI counselors to track students’ mental health. Is it safe?]]></title><description><![CDATA[As hundreds of schools implement an automated monitoring tool, educators say that students can find talking to chatbots &lsquo;more natural&rsquo; than confiding in a human&bull; Produced in partnership with EdSurgeThe alert came around 7pm.Brittani Phillips checked her phone. A middle school counselor in Putnam county, Florida, Phillips receives messages from an artificial intelligence-enabled therapy platform that students use during nonschool hours. It flags when a student may be at risk for]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/schools-are-using-ai-counselors-to-track-students-mental-health-is-it-safe/</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/schools-are-using-ai-counselors-to-track-students-mental-health-is-it-safe/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Showdown over datacenter politics at heart of North Carolina primary]]></title><description><![CDATA[Democratic rematch in Durham-area district draws focus to fight over AI datacenters increasingly shaping US electionsA North Carolina congressional primary on Tuesday is an early test of datacenter politics &ndash; a fight increasingly shaping elections nationwide.In the Durham-area fourth district, Congresswoman Valerie Foushee is seeking her third term against progressive challenger Nida Allam, a Durham county commissioner she defeated in 2022. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/showdown-over-datacenter-politics-at-heart-of-north-carolina-primary/</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 13:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/showdown-over-datacenter-politics-at-heart-of-north-carolina-primary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI amends Pentagon deal as Sam Altman admits it looks ‘sloppy’]]></title><description><![CDATA[ChatGPT owner&rsquo;s CEO says it will bar its technology being used for mass surveillance or by intelligence servicesBusiness live &ndash; latest updatesOpenAI is amending its hastily arranged deal to supply artificial intelligence to the US Department of War (DoW) after the ChatGPT owner&rsquo;s chief executive admitted it looked &ldquo;opportunistic and sloppy&rdquo;.The contract prompted fears the San Francisco startup&rsquo;s AI could be used for domestic mass surveillance but its boss Sam]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-amends-pentagon-deal-as-sam-altman-admits-it-looks-sloppy/</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 12:35:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-amends-pentagon-deal-as-sam-altman-admits-it-looks-sloppy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tech firms and AI farming tools ‘playing with the food system’, warns thinktank]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google, Microsoft and Amazon among companies using algorithms and AI to influence what crops are grown and how, say criticsTech companies and industrial agriculture are &ldquo;playing with the food system&rdquo; by using AI and algorithms to undermine farmers in choosing what the world eats, leading food security experts have warned.Companies such as Google, Microsoft, Amazon, IBM and Alibaba are working with industrial agriculture firms to influence what crops are grown and how, according to a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/tech-firms-and-ai-farming-tools-playing-with-the-food-system-warns-thinktank/</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 11:31:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/tech-firms-and-ai-farming-tools-playing-with-the-food-system-warns-thinktank/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump is using AI to fight his wars – this is a dangerous turning point | Chris Stokel-Walker]]></title><description><![CDATA[The technology most people use only as a chatty tool for daily tasks is reportedly aiding US military aggression. And there is not much we can do about itThere are a lot of things that AI can do. It can sort out your shopping list, and it can keep your kids entertained when they&rsquo;re mutinous by spinning up a tailor-made bedtime story for them. It can make you more efficient at work, and can help our government operate more effectively.What is written less about, and what we need to shout lo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/trump-is-using-ai-to-fight-his-wars-this-is-a-dangerous-turning-point-chris-stokel-walker/</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 11:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/trump-is-using-ai-to-fight-his-wars-this-is-a-dangerous-turning-point-chris-stokel-walker/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iran war heralds era of AI-powered bombing quicker than ‘speed of thought’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Speed and scale of US military&rsquo;s AI war planning raises fears human decision-making may be sidelinedThe use of AI tools to enable attacks on Iran heralds a new era of bombing quicker than &ldquo;the speed of thought&rdquo;, experts have said, amid fears human &shy;decision-makers could be sidelined.Anthropic&rsquo;s AI model, Claude, was reportedly used by the US military in the barrage of strikes as the technology &ldquo;shortens the kill chain&rdquo; &ndash; meaning the process of target]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/iran-war-heralds-era-of-ai-powered-bombing-quicker-than-speed-of-thought/</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 07:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/iran-war-heralds-era-of-ai-powered-bombing-quicker-than-speed-of-thought/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teacher v chatbot: my journey into the classroom in the age of AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[I was a newcomer, negotiating all of usual classroom difficulties for the first time. Throwing AI into the mix felt like downing a coffee in the middle of a panic attackTwo years ago, at the age of 39, I began training to be a school teacher. I wanted to teach English &ndash; to help young people become stronger readers, writers and thinkers, with a deeper connection to literature. After 15 years of working as a freelance writer and as a novelist, I felt confident that I had something to offer.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/teacher-v-chatbot-my-journey-into-the-classroom-in-the-age-of-ai/</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/teacher-v-chatbot-my-journey-into-the-classroom-in-the-age-of-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Does Trump want to wage an AI-powered war? – podcast]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the past three months, Donald Trump&rsquo;s White House has reportedly used AI twice to effect regime change &ndash; once in its capture of Venezuela&rsquo;s president, Nicol&aacute;s Maduro, and more recently to help plan the strikes that killed Iran&rsquo;s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The most recent strikes coincided with the end of the Pentagon&rsquo;s relationship with the AI company Anthropic over concerns its AI tool Claude was being used for purposes the company had explic]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/does-trump-want-to-wage-an-ai-powered-war-podcast/</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/does-trump-want-to-wage-an-ai-powered-war-podcast/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheating machine or powerful assistant? The AI anxieties of a trainee teacher]]></title><description><![CDATA[I was a newcomer, negotiating all of usual classroom difficulties for the first time. Throwing AI into the mix felt like downing a coffee in the middle of a panic attackTwo years ago, at the age of 39, I began training to be a school teacher. I wanted to teach English &ndash; to help young people become stronger readers, writers and thinkers, with a deeper connection to literature. After 15 years of working as a freelance writer and as a novelist, I felt confident that I had something to offer.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/cheating-machine-or-powerful-assistant-the-ai-anxieties-of-a-trainee-teacher/</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/cheating-machine-or-powerful-assistant-the-ai-anxieties-of-a-trainee-teacher/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facing Backlash, OpenAI Amends Pentagon Deal to Add More Anti-Surveillance Verbiage]]></title><description><![CDATA[When Katy Perry sides with your competitor, something's got to be done.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/facing-backlash-openai-amends-pentagon-deal-to-add-more-anti-surveillance-verbiage/</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 04:15:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/facing-backlash-openai-amends-pentagon-deal-to-add-more-anti-surveillance-verbiage/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The AI ‘Actress’ Tilly Norwood Is Getting a Whole ‘Tillyverse’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Prepare for new AI "actors," the British production company behind Norwood said.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-ai-actress-tilly-norwood-is-getting-a-whole-tillyverse/</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:27:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-ai-actress-tilly-norwood-is-getting-a-whole-tillyverse/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic’s AI model Claude gets popularity boost after US military feud]]></title><description><![CDATA[Claude climbs to top of app store charts in US and UK after being blacklisted by the Pentagon over ethics concernsThe AI model Claude has surged in popularity after being blacklisted by the Pentagon last week over ethics concerns.Claude climbed to the No 1 spot on Apple&rsquo;s chart of top free apps on Saturday in the US &ndash; dethroning OpenAI&rsquo;s ChatGPT, just one day after the Pentagon tapped OpenAI to supply AI to classified military networks. The bot&rsquo;s app climbed the iPhone ap]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/anthropics-ai-model-claude-gets-popularity-boost-after-us-military-feud/</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 21:31:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/anthropics-ai-model-claude-gets-popularity-boost-after-us-military-feud/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft Bans Term ‘Microslop’ From Official Discord Server]]></title><description><![CDATA[Stop hurting Satya Nadella's feelings.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-bans-term-microslop-from-official-discord-server/</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:40:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-bans-term-microslop-from-official-discord-server/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ChatGPT as a therapist? New study reveals serious ethical risks]]></title><description><![CDATA[As millions turn to ChatGPT and other AI chatbots for therapy-style advice, new research from Brown University raises a serious red flag: even when instructed to act like trained therapists, these systems routinely break core ethical standards of mental health care. In side-by-side evaluations with peer counselors and licensed psychologists, researchers uncovered 15 distinct ethical risks &mdash; from mishandling crisis situations and reinforcing harmful beliefs to showing biased responses and o]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-as-a-therapist-new-study-reveals-serious-ethical-risks/</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:04:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-as-a-therapist-new-study-reveals-serious-ethical-risks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘The digital colonization of flyover states’: how datacenters are tearing small-town America apart]]></title><description><![CDATA[The rapid rollout of datacenters across the US is creating a divide between municipal governments and residentsWilmington, Ohio, resident Quintin Koger Kidd was so concerned last June with his local public officials&rsquo; alleged misdoings &ndash; open meeting violations and other discrepancies &ndash; that he filed a complaint in court to have the mayor and city council members removed from their posts.When Koger Kidd later heard that the city supported plans by Amazon Web Services to build a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-digital-colonization-of-flyover-states-how-datacenters-are-tearing-small-town-america-apart/</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-digital-colonization-of-flyover-states-how-datacenters-are-tearing-small-town-america-apart/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Military Drones Can Teach Self-Driving Cars]]></title><description><![CDATA[Self-driving cars often struggle with with situations that are commonplace for human drivers. When confronted with construction zones, school buses, power outages, or misbehaving pedestrians, these vehicles often behave unpredictably, leading to crashes or freezing events, causing significant disruption to local traffic and possibly blocking first responders from doing their jobs. Because self-driving cars cannot successfully handle such routine problems, self-driving companies use human babysit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/what-military-drones-can-teach-self-driving-cars/</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 13:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/what-military-drones-can-teach-self-driving-cars/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There’s a lot to hate about AI. But what if there was a mindful way to use it?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Our new free course AI for the People will show you practical ways to work with AI &ndash;without giving up judgment, privacy or your humanitySign up for AI for the People, a six-week newsletter course, here Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/theres-a-lot-to-hate-about-ai-but-what-if-there-was-a-mindful-way-to-use-it/</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/theres-a-lot-to-hate-about-ai-but-what-if-there-was-a-mindful-way-to-use-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Subscribed to AI for the People? Share your new favorite prompts with us]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tell us how you&rsquo;ve been using AI since signing up to our newsletter course on how to make it work for youOur six-week newsletter course AI for the People is helping Guardian readers use AI in smarter, more mindful ways &ndash; and now we want to hear from you.Have you found a fun or practical way to use AI in your everyday life? Maybe it&rsquo;s helped you organize something that always felt chaotic, learn something you&rsquo;d been putting off, or solve a problem you didn&rsquo;t expect i]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/subscribed-to-ai-for-the-people-share-your-new-favorite-prompts-with-us/</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/subscribed-to-ai-for-the-people-share-your-new-favorite-prompts-with-us/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I’m on the Meta Oversight Board. We need AI protections now | Suzanne Nossel]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI is transforming our world. Accepting independent oversight is the least companies can do to protect our rightsThe speed with which AI is transforming our lives is head-spinning. Unlike previous technological revolutions &ndash; radio, nuclear fission or the internet &ndash; governments are not leading the way. We know that AI can be dangerous; chatbots advise teens on suicide and may soon be capable of instructing on how to create biological weapons. Yet there is no equivalent to the Federal]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/im-on-the-meta-oversight-board-we-need-ai-protections-now-suzanne-nossel/</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/im-on-the-meta-oversight-board-we-need-ai-protections-now-suzanne-nossel/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US military reportedly used Claude in Iran strikes despite Trump’s ban]]></title><description><![CDATA[Trump calls Anthropic a &lsquo;Radical Left AI company run by people who have no idea what the real World is all about&rsquo;US-Israel war on Iran &ndash; latest updatesThe US military reportedly used Claude, Anthropic&rsquo;s AI model, to inform its attack on Iran despite Donald Trump&rsquo;s decision, announced hours earlier, to sever all ties with the company and its artificial intelligence tools.The use of Claude during the massive joint US-Israel bombardment of Iran that began on Saturday w]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/us-military-reportedly-used-claude-in-iran-strikes-despite-trumps-ban/</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 18:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/us-military-reportedly-used-claude-in-iran-strikes-despite-trumps-ban/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Datacentre developers face calls to disclose effect on UK’s net emissions]]></title><description><![CDATA[Campaign groups write to technology secretary amid concerns that sites could double overall electricity demandDatacentre developers are facing pressure to reveal whether their projects will increase the UK&rsquo;s net greenhouse gas emissions, amid concerns the sites could double national electricity demand.Campaign groups have written to the UK technology secretary, Liz Kendall, warning that the energy required by new AI infrastructure poses a &ldquo;serious threat to efforts to decarbonise the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/datacentre-developers-face-calls-to-disclose-effect-on-uks-net-emissions/</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 17:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/datacentre-developers-face-calls-to-disclose-effect-on-uks-net-emissions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Readers reply: what would happen to the world if computer said yes?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The long-running series in which readers answer other readers&rsquo; questions asks whether we could cope with a world where computer gave up saying no &hellip;This week&rsquo;s question: what if Shakespeare were dropped in modern-day London?After years of computer saying no, and giving us all migraines and premature grey hair, I&rsquo;m starting to worry that computer &ndash; or rather AI large language models like ChatGPT and Gemini &ndash; are taking too much of a fancy to playing nice and sa]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/readers-reply-what-would-happen-to-the-world-if-computer-said-yes/</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/readers-reply-what-would-happen-to-the-world-if-computer-said-yes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How will datacentres affect Australia’s power prices, water supply and emissions?]]></title><description><![CDATA[There&rsquo;s a growing expectation that if you build a datacentre you must meet your own energy needs. But there are other key policy questions that need answeringFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastOur online lives are increasingly reliant on digital data, whether it&rsquo;s asking an AI chatbot a question, generating a video or transcribing an online meeting.Datacentres &ndash; giant warehouses stacked with servers t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/how-will-datacentres-affect-australias-power-prices-water-supply-and-emissions/</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/how-will-datacentres-affect-australias-power-prices-water-supply-and-emissions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Big energy users’: how will datacentres affect Australia’s power prices, water supply and emissions?]]></title><description><![CDATA[There&rsquo;s a growing expectation that if you build a datacentre, you must meet your own energy needs. But there are other key policy questions that need answeringGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastOur online lives are increasingly reliant on digital data, whether it&rsquo;s asking an AI chatbot a question, generating a video or transcribing an online meeting.Datacentres &ndash; giant warehouses stacked with servers to process and store all that data &ndash; have been a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/big-energy-users-how-will-datacentres-affect-australias-power-prices-water-supply-and-emissions/</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/big-energy-users-how-will-datacentres-affect-australias-power-prices-water-supply-and-emissions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Investment in AI-resistant ‘Halo’ companies helps push UK and EU markets to record highs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Investors are shifting toward physical assets that are partially insulated from disruption, says Goldman SachsInvestors have a new mantra as they prepare for AI to shake up the global economy &ndash; the Halo trade.Interest in Halo &ndash; short for &ldquo;heavy assets, low obsolescence&rdquo; - has risen as investors seek out companies with tangible, productive assets, which might be insulated from AI disruption, such as energy and transport infrastructure companies. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/investment-in-ai-resistant-halo-companies-helps-push-uk-and-eu-markets-to-record-highs/</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 08:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/investment-in-ai-resistant-halo-companies-helps-push-uk-and-eu-markets-to-record-highs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI-resistant ‘halo’ stocks drive UK and EU markets to record highs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Investors shifting to &lsquo;heavy-asset, low-obsolescence&rsquo; companies insulated from disruption, says Goldman SachsInvestors have a new mantra as they prepare for AI to shake up the global economy &ndash; the Halo trade.Interest in Halo &ndash; short for &ldquo;heavy assets, low obsolescence&rdquo; - has risen as investors seek out companies with tangible, productive assets, which might be insulated from AI disruption, such as energy and transport infrastructure companies. Continue reading]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-resistant-halo-stocks-drive-uk-and-eu-markets-to-record-highs/</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 08:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-resistant-halo-stocks-drive-uk-and-eu-markets-to-record-highs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her husband wanted to use ChatGPT to create sustainable housing. Then it took over his life.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kate Fox says Joe Ceccanti was the &lsquo;most hopeful person&rsquo; before he started spending 12 hours a day with a chatbotOn 7 August, Kate Fox received a phone call that upended her life. A medical examiner said that her husband, Joe Ceccanti &ndash; who had been missing for several hours &ndash; had jumped from a railway overpass and died. He was 48.Fox couldn&rsquo;t believe it. Ceccanti had no history of depression, she said, nor was he suicidal &ndash; he was the &ldquo;most hopeful pers]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/her-husband-wanted-to-use-chatgpt-to-create-sustainable-housing-then-it-took-over-his-life/</link><pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 11:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/her-husband-wanted-to-use-chatgpt-to-create-sustainable-housing-then-it-took-over-his-life/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[LA superintendent placed on leave after FBI raid on home and district office]]></title><description><![CDATA[Trustees unanimously voted to place Alberto Carvalho on leave and appointed Andres Chait in the interimTwo days after the FBI searched the headquarters of the Los Angeles unified school district and the home of its superintendent, the district board of education placed Alberto Carvalho on administrative leave.The board met in closed session meetings for several hours on Thursday and Friday to discuss Carvalho&rsquo;s employment with the nation&rsquo;s second largest school district. The trustees]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/la-superintendent-placed-on-leave-after-fbi-raid-on-home-and-district-office/</link><pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 01:34:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/la-superintendent-placed-on-leave-after-fbi-raid-on-home-and-district-office/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Great Insider Trading Reckoning Reportedly Hits OpenAI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apparently the paycheck isn't enough.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-great-insider-trading-reckoning-reportedly-hits-openai/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 23:30:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-great-insider-trading-reckoning-reportedly-hits-openai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump orders US agencies to stop use of Anthropic technology amid dispute over ethics of AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Department of Defense and artificial intelligence company were unable to reach agreement before deadlineSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxDonald Trump said Friday he will direct all federal agencies to &ldquo;IMMEDIATELY CEASE&rdquo; all use of Anthropic technology.The Department of Defense and Anthropic have hit an impasse with neither side backing down as a deadline for an agreement hits Friday afternoon. The Pentagon is demanding that the artificial]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/trump-orders-us-agencies-to-stop-use-of-anthropic-technology-amid-dispute-over-ethics-of-ai/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:47:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/trump-orders-us-agencies-to-stop-use-of-anthropic-technology-amid-dispute-over-ethics-of-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sam Altman Insists He Also Has Principles as Anthropic’s Pentagon Stand Off Continues]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bravely taking a position that won't get tested.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-insists-he-also-has-principles-as-anthropics-pentagon-stand-off-continues/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 20:45:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-insists-he-also-has-principles-as-anthropics-pentagon-stand-off-continues/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI announces $110bn funding round that would value firm at $840bn]]></title><description><![CDATA[Deal signals feverish pace of AI investment with multibillion-dollar backings from Nvidia, Amazon and moreOpenAI said on Friday it is raising $110bn in a blockbuster funding round that would value the ChatGPT maker at $840bn, in a deal that signals the feverish pace of investment in artificial intelligence.It&rsquo;s more than double the amount the company raised last year, when it racked up $40bn in the largest private tech deal on record. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-announces-110bn-funding-round-that-would-value-firm-at-840bn/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 20:31:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-announces-110bn-funding-round-that-would-value-firm-at-840bn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Questions loom over FBI raid of LA superintendent’s home and district office]]></title><description><![CDATA[Media outlets indicate connection to bankrupt educational technology company that created chatbot for districtTwo days after the FBI searched the headquarters of the Los Angeles unified school district and the home of its superintendent, Alberto Carvalho, questions remain and officials have said little publicly about the nature of the investigation.In an emergency meeting on Thursday, the LAUSD board of education met in closed session for several hours to discuss Carvalho&rsquo;s employment with]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/questions-loom-over-fbi-raid-of-la-superintendents-home-and-district-office/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 19:55:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/questions-loom-over-fbi-raid-of-la-superintendents-home-and-district-office/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Video Friday: Robot Dogs Haul Produce From the Field]]></title><description><![CDATA[Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.ICRA 2026: 1&ndash;5 June 2026, VIENNAEnjoy today&rsquo;s videos! Our robots Lynx M20 help transport harvested crops in mountainous farmland&mdash;tackling the rural &ldquo;last mile&rdquo; logistics challenge.[ DEEP Robotics ]Once again, I would point out]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/video-friday-robot-dogs-haul-produce-from-the-field/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 19:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/video-friday-robot-dogs-haul-produce-from-the-field/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Square parent company Block cuts nearly half of workforce as AI takes jobs]]></title><description><![CDATA[CEO Jack Dorsey said 4,000 employees would be laid off as the fintech company, which owns Cash App, embraces AISign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxFintech company Block announced that it would be laying off 4,000 of its 10,000 employees because of gains in AI productivity.&ldquo;Intelligence tools have changed what it means to build and run a company,&rdquo; Jack Dorsey, Block&rsquo;s CEO, said in a letter to shareholders on Thursday. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/square-parent-company-block-cuts-nearly-half-of-workforce-as-ai-takes-jobs/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 18:11:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/square-parent-company-block-cuts-nearly-half-of-workforce-as-ai-takes-jobs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jack Dorsey to cut 4,000 jobs due to AI advances at Square parent Block]]></title><description><![CDATA[Shares in company increased over 20% as investors were encouraged by CEO&rsquo;s assertion that cuts will drive profitsSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxFintech company Block announced that it would be laying off 4,000 of its 10,000 employees because of gains in AI productivity.&ldquo;Intelligence tools have changed what it means to build and run a company,&rdquo; Jack Dorsey, Block&rsquo;s CEO, said in a letter to shareholders on Thursday. &ldquo;We&rs]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/jack-dorsey-to-cut-4000-jobs-due-to-ai-advances-at-square-parent-block/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 18:11:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/jack-dorsey-to-cut-4000-jobs-due-to-ai-advances-at-square-parent-block/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Burger King cooks up AI chatbot to spot if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI-powered assistant will help to &lsquo;understand overall service patterns&rsquo;, company says, as move sparks backlashFrom hospitality workers to retail employees, the exaggerated &ldquo;customer service voice&rdquo;, often mocked in internet memes as wildly different from someone&rsquo;s real voice, has long been a cultural trope. Fast-food giant Burger King is now taking that voice one step further, saying it will detect whether employees are using words like &ldquo;please&rdquo; and &]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/burger-king-cooks-up-ai-chatbot-to-spot-if-employees-say-please-and-thank-you/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 01:23:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/burger-king-cooks-up-ai-chatbot-to-spot-if-employees-say-please-and-thank-you/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic says it ‘cannot in good conscience’ allow Pentagon to remove AI checks]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pete Hegseth has threatened to cancel $200m contract unless it is given unfettered access to Claude modelAnthropic said Thursday it &ldquo;cannot in good conscience&rdquo; comply with a demand from the Pentagon to remove safety precautions from its artificial intelligence model and grant the US military unfettered access to its AI capabilities.The Department of Defense had threatened to cancel a $200m contract and deem Anthropic a &ldquo;supply chain risk&rdquo;, a designation with serious finan]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-says-it-cannot-in-good-conscience-allow-pentagon-to-remove-ai-checks/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:28:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-says-it-cannot-in-good-conscience-allow-pentagon-to-remove-ai-checks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sam Altman’s Creepy Eyeball-Scanning Verification Service Is Coming to a Gap Store Near You]]></title><description><![CDATA[Keep your eye out for the orb.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/sam-altmans-creepy-eyeball-scanning-verification-service-is-coming-to-a-gap-store-near-you/</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:45:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/sam-altmans-creepy-eyeball-scanning-verification-service-is-coming-to-a-gap-store-near-you/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brady Tkachuk decries White House’s AI video of him insulting Canadians after US gold]]></title><description><![CDATA[Player is captain of NHL&rsquo;s Ottawa SenatorsTkachuk expresses regret over Trump jokeUS ice hockey star Brady has said he does not appreciate an AI video released by the White House that shows him insulting Canadians.Tkachuk played in the Americans&rsquo; victory over Canada at the Winter Olympics on Sunday, which secured the US men their first gold medal since 1980. In the wake of that win, the White House&rsquo;s TikTok account published video of Tkachuk saying: &ldquo;They booed our nation]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/brady-tkachuk-decries-white-houses-ai-video-of-him-insulting-canadians-after-us-gold/</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:39:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/brady-tkachuk-decries-white-houses-ai-video-of-him-insulting-canadians-after-us-gold/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google Rolls Out Nano Banana 2, Now Faster Than Ever]]></title><description><![CDATA[Better model, same bad name.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/google-rolls-out-nano-banana-2-now-faster-than-ever/</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 18:33:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/google-rolls-out-nano-banana-2-now-faster-than-ever/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Met police to pilot facial recognition identity checks, mayor confirms]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sadiq Khan reveals 100 officers will use roaming technology for six months but opponents call its use &lsquo;alarming&rsquo;Metropolitan police officers are to start scanning citizens&rsquo; faces using automated facial recognition technology to check their identities, in a move backed by the mayor of London but described as &ldquo;alarming&rdquo; by opponents.The pilot was revealed on Thursday when Sadiq Khan said 100 officers would use the roaming technology &ndash; commonly deployed on smartp]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/met-police-to-pilot-facial-recognition-identity-checks-mayor-confirms/</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 18:20:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/met-police-to-pilot-facial-recognition-identity-checks-mayor-confirms/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Unbelievably dangerous’: experts sound alarm after ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies]]></title><description><![CDATA[Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of casesFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastChatGPT Health regularly misses the need for medical urgent care and frequently fails to detect suicidal ideation, a study of the AI platform has found, which experts worry could &ldquo;feasibly lead to unnecessary harm and death&rdquo;.OpenAI launched the &ldquo;Health&rdq]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/unbelievably-dangerous-experts-sound-alarm-after-chatgpt-health-fails-to-recognise-medical-emergencies/</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/unbelievably-dangerous-experts-sound-alarm-after-chatgpt-health-fails-to-recognise-medical-emergencies/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rolls-Royce boss pushes for UK taxpayer support for new jet engine]]></title><description><![CDATA[Firm, which has announced record profits and &pound;9bn share buyback, has &pound;3bn project for smaller commercial planesThe chief executive of Rolls-Royce has pressed ministers for taxpayer support for a new jet engine, on a day the company also announced record profits and promised to give up to &pound;9bn back to shareholders.The &pound;3bn engine project, designed to power smaller commercial planes, would allow Rolls-Royce to re-enter the lucrative short-haul flights market. Continue readi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/rolls-royce-boss-pushes-for-uk-taxpayer-support-for-new-jet-engine/</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 13:53:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/rolls-royce-boss-pushes-for-uk-taxpayer-support-for-new-jet-engine/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guardian joins media coalition to protect original journalism from unpaid use by AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[BBC and Financial Times among those calling for frameworks to help publishers gain control over their content being &lsquo;scraped and copied&rsquo;A coalition of UK media companies including the Guardian has urged industry peers to back global frameworks ensuring AI firms pay for the journalism they use.The news providers are calling on leaders across publishing, broadcasting, media and news to join their newly created group, with the aim of protecting &ldquo;original journalism&rdquo; and secu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/guardian-joins-media-coalition-to-protect-original-journalism-from-unpaid-use-by-ai/</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/guardian-joins-media-coalition-to-protect-original-journalism-from-unpaid-use-by-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[WPP to sell assets and cut jobs in radical shake-up to counter AI threat]]></title><description><![CDATA[Group aims to be &lsquo;simpler, lower-cost, AI-enabled business&rsquo; and achieve &pound;500m of annual savings by 2028The beleaguered UK advertising group WPP has announced a radical restructure to counter the threat posed by the growth of artificial intelligence, including plans to sell assets and job cuts.Aiming to be &ldquo;a simpler, lower-cost, AI-enabled business&rdquo;, the London-based company laid out plans to achieve &pound;500m of annual savings by 2028, at a cost of &pound;400m ov]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/wpp-to-sell-assets-and-cut-jobs-in-radical-shake-up-to-counter-ai-threat/</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 11:24:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/wpp-to-sell-assets-and-cut-jobs-in-radical-shake-up-to-counter-ai-threat/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more]]></title><description><![CDATA[A handful of companies monopolise the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical &ndash; and often distinctively European &ndash; alternativesThere&rsquo;s not much to love about big tech these days. So many ills can be laid at its door: social media harms, misinformation, polarisation, mining and misuse of personal data, environmental negligence, tax avoidance, the list goes on. Added to which, Silicon Valley&rsquo;s leaders seem all too keen to cosy up to the T]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/leave-big-tech-behind-how-to-replace-amazon-google-x-meta-apple-and-more/</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 11:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/leave-big-tech-behind-how-to-replace-amazon-google-x-meta-apple-and-more/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keen bosses, strange mistakes and a looming threat: workers on training AI to do their jobs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Some say the technology is devaluing their work, while others reckon it is not yet &ndash; and might never be &ndash; good enough to replace them entirelyWorkers grappling with the rapid growth of artificial intelligence have said they feel &ldquo;devalued&rdquo; by the technology and warned of a downward trajectory in the quality of work.Recent analysis by the International Monetary Fund found AI would affect about 40% of jobs around the world. Its head, Kristalina Georgieva, has said: &ldquo;T]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/keen-bosses-strange-mistakes-and-a-looming-threat-workers-on-training-ai-to-do-their-jobs/</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 11:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/keen-bosses-strange-mistakes-and-a-looming-threat-workers-on-training-ai-to-do-their-jobs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rolls-Royce profits soar 40% amid booming demand for AI datacentre power]]></title><description><![CDATA[Engine maker promises to give up to &pound;9bn to shareholders over next three years as turnaround gathers paceRolls-Royce&rsquo;s profits soared by 40% last year as the engineering company&rsquo;s turnaround gathered pace, helped by booming demand for power from datacentres.The company reported underlying profits of &pound;3.5bn for 2025, up from &pound;2.5bn the year before, as it also promised to give up to &pound;9bn to shareholders over the next three years through share buybacks, its bigge]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/rolls-royce-profits-soar-40-amid-booming-demand-for-ai-datacentre-power/</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 10:43:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/rolls-royce-profits-soar-40-amid-booming-demand-for-ai-datacentre-power/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[WPP to merge ad agencies and cut jobs in radical shake-up to counter AI threat]]></title><description><![CDATA[Group aims to be &lsquo;simpler, lower-cost, AI-enabled business&rsquo; and achieve &pound;500m of annual savings by 2028The beleaguered advertising group WPP has announced a radical restructure to counter the threat posed by the AI revolution, including merging its ad agencies and cutting jobs.Aiming to be &ldquo;a simpler, lower-cost, AI-enabled business&rdquo;, the London-based company laid out plans to achieve &pound;500m of annual savings by 2028, at a cost of &pound;400m over two years. Co]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/wpp-to-merge-ad-agencies-and-cut-jobs-in-radical-shake-up-to-counter-ai-threat/</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 08:58:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/wpp-to-merge-ad-agencies-and-cut-jobs-in-radical-shake-up-to-counter-ai-threat/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Compute Equals Revenues’: Nvidia Needs Jensen Huang’s New Catchphrase to Be True]]></title><description><![CDATA[Here's everything you need to know from Nvidia's latest earnings call.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/compute-equals-revenues-nvidia-needs-jensen-huangs-new-catchphrase-to-be-true/</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 03:05:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/compute-equals-revenues-nvidia-needs-jensen-huangs-new-catchphrase-to-be-true/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The AI Arms Race Joins Forces With the Literal Arms Race, Fueling $348 Trillion in Debt]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's the biggest annual increase since the pandemic.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-ai-arms-race-joins-forces-with-the-literal-arms-race-fueling-348-trillion-in-debt/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 23:10:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-ai-arms-race-joins-forces-with-the-literal-arms-race-fueling-348-trillion-in-debt/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia quarterly earnings show immunity to AI bubble fears as it cashes in on datacenter boom]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chipmaker&rsquo;s quarterly earnings surpassed Wall Street&rsquo;s expectations every quarter for multiple yearsNvidia released its quarterly earnings on Wednesday, with the chipmaker revealing higher than expected revenues and extending its years-long streak of surpassing Wall Street&rsquo;s sky-high expectations.The company receives the vast majority of its revenue from its datacenter business, which has been buoyed by the tech industry&rsquo;s immense investment into AI infrastructure. On Wed]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/nvidia-quarterly-earnings-show-immunity-to-ai-bubble-fears-as-it-cashes-in-on-datacenter-boom/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 23:09:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/nvidia-quarterly-earnings-show-immunity-to-ai-bubble-fears-as-it-cashes-in-on-datacenter-boom/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia quarterly earnings show immunity to AI bubble fears as it cashes in on data center boom]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chipmaker&rsquo;s quarterly earnings surpassed Wall Street&rsquo;s expectations every quarter for multiple years nowNvidia released its quarterly earnings on Wednesday, with the chipmaker revealing higher than expected revenues that buoyed its stock in after-hours trading, extending its yearslong streak of surpassing Wall Street&rsquo;s sky-high expectations.The company receives the vast majority of its revenue from its data center business, which has been buoyed by the tech industry&rsquo;s imm]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/nvidia-quarterly-earnings-show-immunity-to-ai-bubble-fears-as-it-cashes-in-on-data-center-boom/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 23:09:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/nvidia-quarterly-earnings-show-immunity-to-ai-bubble-fears-as-it-cashes-in-on-data-center-boom/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic Rolls Back Safety Protocols as It Waits to Find Out If It’s Being Drafted by the Army]]></title><description><![CDATA[Launching missiles for defense is fine, apparently.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-rolls-back-safety-protocols-as-it-waits-to-find-out-if-its-being-drafted-by-the-army/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:15:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-rolls-back-safety-protocols-as-it-waits-to-find-out-if-its-being-drafted-by-the-army/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treasury calls in Blair thinktank to advise on using AI across public services]]></title><description><![CDATA[Unimpressed tech equity campaigners compare move to &lsquo;inviting in foxes to consult on the future of the henhouse&rsquo;Ministers have called in Tony Blair&rsquo;s thinktank and private tech companies to guide them on deploying AI across the UK government in a move campaigners compared to &ldquo;inviting in foxes to consult on the future of the henhouse&rdquo;.James Murray, chief secretary to the Treasury, chaired a meeting on Wednesday with the director of AI at the Tony Blair Institute for]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/treasury-calls-in-blair-thinktank-to-advise-on-using-ai-across-public-services/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:51:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/treasury-calls-in-blair-thinktank-to-advise-on-using-ai-across-public-services/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perseverance Smashes Autonomous Driving Record on Mars]]></title><description><![CDATA[This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore.In past missions to Mars, like with the Curiosity and Opportunity rovers, the robots mostly relied on human instructions from millions of miles away in order to safely navigate the Martian landscape. The Perseverance rover, on the other hand, has zipped across the alien, boulder-ridden land almost completely autonomously, smashing previous records for autonomous driving on Mars. Whereas the Curiosity]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/perseverance-smashes-autonomous-driving-record-on-mars/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/perseverance-smashes-autonomous-driving-record-on-mars/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facial recognition error prompts police to arrest Asian man for burglary 100 miles away]]></title><description><![CDATA[Exclusive: Alvi Choudhury claiming damages against Thames Valley police after biased technology confused him with man looking &lsquo;10 years younger&rsquo;Police arrested a man for a burglary in a city he had never visited after face scanning software deployed across the UK confused him with another person of south Asian heritage.Alvi Choudhury, 26, a software engineer, was working at the home he shares with his parents in Southampton in January when police knocked on his door, handcuffed him a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/facial-recognition-error-prompts-police-to-arrest-asian-man-for-burglary-100-miles-away/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 14:36:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/facial-recognition-error-prompts-police-to-arrest-asian-man-for-burglary-100-miles-away/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Xbox’s corporate shake-up matters for everyone who plays games]]></title><description><![CDATA[With &#8203;i&#8203;ts longtime figureheads stepping aside, Microsoft&rsquo;s gaming division faces a pivotal moment&#8203;, raising questions about whether &#8203;i&#8203;t can still balance creative ambition with corporate strategy&#8203; in the age of AI&bull; Don&rsquo;t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereAnd so it&rsquo;s all change at Xbox. Last Friday it was announced that the CEO of Microsoft&rsquo;s gaming division, Phil Spencer, is to retire, while its president S]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/why-xboxs-corporate-shake-up-matters-for-everyone-who-plays-games/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 13:30:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/why-xboxs-corporate-shake-up-matters-for-everyone-who-plays-games/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta’s AI sending ‘junk’ tips to DoJ, US child abuse investigators say]]></title><description><![CDATA[Officers say flood of low-quality reports is draining resources and slowing cases amid New Mexico lawsuitMeta&rsquo;s use of artificial intelligence software to moderate its social media platforms is generating large volumes of useless reports about cases of child sexual abuse, which are draining resources and hindering investigations, said officers from the US Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) taskforce.&ldquo;We get a lot of tips from Meta that are just kind of junk,&rdquo; Benjamin Zwie]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/metas-ai-sending-junk-tips-to-doj-us-child-abuse-investigators-say/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 13:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/metas-ai-sending-junk-tips-to-doj-us-child-abuse-investigators-say/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Signs of psychosis seen in Australian users’ interactions with AI chatbots, expert warns]]></title><description><![CDATA[Toby Walsh says he despairs at Australian government&rsquo;s lack of regulation of artificial intelligenceFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA leading AI expert has warned some Australians are showing signs of psychosis or mania in their interactions with chatbots, arguing Silicon Valley is being &ldquo;careless&rdquo; with the technology amid a pursuit of profit.During an address at the National Press Club on Wednesda]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/signs-of-psychosis-seen-in-australian-users-interactions-with-ai-chatbots-expert-warns/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/signs-of-psychosis-seen-in-australian-users-interactions-with-ai-chatbots-expert-warns/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US military leaders pressure Anthropic to bend Claude safeguards]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic presents itself as most safety-forward AI firm and Pentagon has threatened penalties if it does not yieldUS military leaders including Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, met with executives from the artificial intelligence firm Anthropic on Tuesday to hash out a dispute over what the government will be able to do with the company&rsquo;s powerful AI model. Hegseth gave Dario Amodei, the Anthropic CEO, until the end of the day on Friday to agree to the department&rsquo;s terms or face]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/us-military-leaders-pressure-anthropic-to-bend-claude-safeguards/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 01:35:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/us-military-leaders-pressure-anthropic-to-bend-claude-safeguards/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US military leaders meet with Anthropic to argue against Claude safeguards]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic presents itself as most safety-forward AI firm and Pentagon has threatened penalties if it does not yieldUS military leaders including Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, met with executives from the artificial intelligence firm Anthropic on Tuesday to hash out a dispute over what the government will be able to do with the company&rsquo;s powerful AI model. Hegseth gave Dario Amodei, the Anthropic CEO, until the end of the day Friday to agree to the department&rsquo;s terms or face pe]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/us-military-leaders-meet-with-anthropic-to-argue-against-claude-safeguards/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 22:48:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/us-military-leaders-meet-with-anthropic-to-argue-against-claude-safeguards/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[File-Sharing Network Soulseek Has Been Flooded With AI Homer Simpson Cover Songs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Slop has come for the pirates.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/file-sharing-network-soulseek-has-been-flooded-with-ai-homer-simpson-cover-songs/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 20:45:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/file-sharing-network-soulseek-has-been-flooded-with-ai-homer-simpson-cover-songs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The accidental hacker: how one man gained control of 7,000 robots]]></title><description><![CDATA[When Sammy Azdoufal found he had access to data from robot vacuum cleaners around the world, he told a tech publication. But the implications could be mind-bogglingName: The accidental hacker.Age: It doesn&rsquo;t matter how old Sammy Azdoufal is. What he did is what&rsquo;s important here, and what he did is very much of the age. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-accidental-hacker-how-one-man-gained-control-of-7000-robots/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 18:12:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-accidental-hacker-how-one-man-gained-control-of-7000-robots/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘A feedback loop with no brake’: how an AI doomsday report shook US markets]]></title><description><![CDATA[Shares in Uber, Mastercard and American Express fall on back of apocalypse scenario posted on SubstackUS stock markets have been hit by a further wave of AI jitters, this time from yet another viral &ndash; and completely speculative &ndash; warning about the impact of the technology on the world&rsquo;s largest economy.The latest foreboding is from Citrini Research, a little-known US firm that provides insights on &ldquo;transformative &lsquo;megatrends&rsquo;&rdquo;. Its post on Substack, whic]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/a-feedback-loop-with-no-brake-how-an-ai-doomsday-report-shook-us-markets/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:17:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/a-feedback-loop-with-no-brake-how-an-ai-doomsday-report-shook-us-markets/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US datacenters face slew of problems amid grassroots protests against AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[New constructions delayed or cancelled, raising questions about US&rsquo;s ability to expand infrastructure to support boomCancellations and delays of new US datacenters have increased as the artificial intelligence boom runs up against a slate of issues, including supply chain snags, energy shortages and tariff-induced restraints.Grassroots opposition from local communities has also derailed some plans, and some investors have grown wary of datacenters amid fears of an AI bubble. Continue readi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/us-datacenters-face-slew-of-problems-amid-grassroots-protests-against-ai/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/us-datacenters-face-slew-of-problems-amid-grassroots-protests-against-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tech’s politics push at home and abroad]]></title><description><![CDATA[We report from California&rsquo;s Silicon Valley, where billionaires pour money into midterms, and the AI Impact summit, where India pushes back on &lsquo;AI monopoly&rsquo; held by US and ChinaHello, and welcome to TechScape. This week, we&rsquo;re examining the tech industry&rsquo;s push for influence in two places separated by a time difference of 13 hours and 30 minutes. The first is where tech sees its next big market, the second its home turf. My colleague Robert Booth reports from last we]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/techs-politics-push-at-home-and-abroad/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 15:49:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/techs-politics-push-at-home-and-abroad/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amused by that AI video of a dancing raccoon? This is how the misery starts | Polly Hudson]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI is already coming for our dignity &ndash; tricking us with amusing little online scenarios. How long before it comes for everything else?<br />
Moan all you like about technology, there&rsquo;s no denying it&rsquo;s made friendship easier. In an ideal world you would spend quality time together, have deep meaningful chats on the phone and swap well thought out, insightful texts. But when you&rsquo;re busy, tired, or just not in the mood, what a relief that you can send a meme, or a quick video, and]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/amused-by-that-ai-video-of-a-dancing-raccoon-this-is-how-the-misery-starts-polly-hudson/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 15:47:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/amused-by-that-ai-video-of-a-dancing-raccoon-this-is-how-the-misery-starts-polly-hudson/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta agrees $60bn deal with chipmaker AMD despite AI bubble fears]]></title><description><![CDATA[Facebook owner&rsquo;s investment described by semiconductor company as &lsquo;big bet&rsquo; on artificial intelligenceBusiness live &ndash; latest updatesThe owner of Facebook has agreed to buy $60bn (&pound;44.5bn) of artificial intelligence chips from the US semiconductor company Advanced Micro Devices despite fears over the vast sums being spent on the AI industry.Meta, which also owns Instagram and WhatsApp, has clinched the five-year deal in which it will also buy 10% of the chip company.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/meta-agrees-60bn-deal-with-chipmaker-amd-despite-ai-bubble-fears/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 14:18:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/meta-agrees-60bn-deal-with-chipmaker-amd-despite-ai-bubble-fears/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Court backlog will take decade to fall to pre-Covid levels despite overhaul, says MoJ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Justice secretary says only his measures will stop backlog in England and Wales from increasing exponentiallyThe backlog in criminal courts in England and Wales will take a decade to fall to pre-Covid levels despite radical changes including curtailing jury trials, according to figures from the Ministry of Justice.The justice secretary, David Lammy, said the government was determined to press ahead with the jury trial changes despite a potential rebellion from Labour MPs. He took aim at critics,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/court-backlog-will-take-decade-to-fall-to-pre-covid-levels-despite-overhaul-says-moj/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:47:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/court-backlog-will-take-decade-to-fall-to-pre-covid-levels-despite-overhaul-says-moj/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Report Details the Sketchy Technique Allegedly Inflating Valuations of AI Companies]]></title><description><![CDATA[The economics of AI investments are starting to look unsettling, even for investors.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/report-details-the-sketchy-technique-allegedly-inflating-valuations-of-ai-companies/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 11:30:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/report-details-the-sketchy-technique-allegedly-inflating-valuations-of-ai-companies/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anlife: what does an unusual evolution simulator have to say about AI?]]></title><description><![CDATA[We explore the strange food-obsessed world of a new game whose tech was once called &lsquo;an insult to life itself&rsquo; by Hayao Miyazaki, the film-maker behind Spirited AwayA strange piece of software has recently landed on the PC gaming store Steam. And &ldquo;software&rdquo; feels like the cleanest way to describe it. Existing somewhere between a full-blown life sim, a science project and a kind of haunted fish tank, Anlife: Motion-learning Life Evolution probably would have disappeared wi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/anlife-what-does-an-unusual-evolution-simulator-have-to-say-about-ai/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 11:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/anlife-what-does-an-unusual-evolution-simulator-have-to-say-about-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Police AI chief admits crime-fighting tech will have bias but vows to tackle it]]></title><description><![CDATA[Exclusive: NCA&rsquo;s Alex Murray says he hopes new &pound;115m police AI centre can limit unfairness found in tools&lsquo;It&rsquo;s not Robocop&rsquo;: UK police embrace AI &lsquo;efficiency&rsquo; in complex investigationsA police chief has admitted artificial intelligence used to boost crime fighting will contain bias but pledged to combat the risks.Labour wants a dramatic expansion of police use of AI within England and Wales, with police chiefs also believing it could help keep law enforc]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/police-ai-chief-admits-crime-fighting-tech-will-have-bias-but-vows-to-tackle-it/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 08:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/police-ai-chief-admits-crime-fighting-tech-will-have-bias-but-vows-to-tackle-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘It’s not Robocop’: UK police embrace AI ‘efficiency’ in complex investigations]]></title><description><![CDATA[Detectives say tools supplied by Palantir were integral to convictions of a criminal gang that stole &pound;800,000It was fraud on a grand scale. The &ldquo;Fuck the Police&rdquo; criminal gang based in Luton and Romania stole &pound;800,000 in more than 3,000 withdrawals from cash machines in dozens of locations throughout 2024.The police investigation matched the crime in its complexity. When detectives in Bedfordshire seized the suspects&rsquo; two dozen smartphones, they were faced with a mo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/its-not-robocop-uk-police-embrace-ai-efficiency-in-complex-investigations/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 08:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/its-not-robocop-uk-police-embrace-ai-efficiency-in-complex-investigations/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nine urges Albanese to prop up media in face of AI threat]]></title><description><![CDATA[Long-awaited news bargaining code with Google, Meta and TikTok at risk of further delay, chief executive saysSign up for Guardian Australia&rsquo;s free weekly media newsletter hereThe head of Nine Entertainment has called on the prime minister to prioritise a policy to force global platforms to compensate local media as artificial intelligence-fuelled big tech disrupts the revenue models of publishers around the world.Nine&rsquo;s chief executive officer, Matt Stanton, said while presenting the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/nine-urges-albanese-to-prop-up-media-in-face-of-ai-threat/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 03:41:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/nine-urges-albanese-to-prop-up-media-in-face-of-ai-threat/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nine urges Albanese to force tech companies to compensate media in face of AI threat]]></title><description><![CDATA[Long-awaited news bargaining code with Google, Meta and TikTok at risk of further delay, chief executive saysSign up for Guardian Australia&rsquo;s free weekly media newsletter hereThe head of Nine Entertainment has called on the prime minister to prioritise a policy to force global platforms to compensate local media as artificial intelligence-fuelled big tech disrupts the revenue models of publishers around the world.Nine&rsquo;s chief executive officer, Matt Stanton, said while presenting the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/nine-urges-albanese-to-force-tech-companies-to-compensate-media-in-face-of-ai-threat/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 03:41:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/nine-urges-albanese-to-force-tech-companies-to-compensate-media-in-face-of-ai-threat/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As we enter the age of the AI-rranged marriage, here’s why I hate Fate | Van Badham]]></title><description><![CDATA[When the most profound human emotion becomes an automated transaction in an online shop, the techlords have wonThe Guardian reported on the arrival of &ldquo;Fate&rdquo; and, friends, I laughed. Or maybe I cried.It&rsquo;s apparently the first &ldquo;agentic AI dating app&rdquo;. An AI personality named &ldquo;Fate&rdquo; interviews users, runs data matches on their hopes and dreams, then suggests five potential matches based on the hard data of observable complementary language patterning, &ldq]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/as-we-enter-the-age-of-the-ai-rranged-marriage-heres-why-i-hate-fate-van-badham/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:16:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/as-we-enter-the-age-of-the-ai-rranged-marriage-heres-why-i-hate-fate-van-badham/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US AI giant accuses Chinese rivals of mass data theft]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic says three Chinese firms used &lsquo;distillation&rsquo; technique to extract information from its Claude chatbotUS artificial intelligence company Anthropic said on Monday it had uncovered campaigns by three Chinese AI firms to illicitly extract capabilities from its Claude chatbot, in what it described as industrial-scale intellectual property theft. OpenAI leveled similar charges last month.Anthropic said DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax used a technique known as &ldquo;distillati]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/us-ai-giant-accuses-chinese-rivals-of-mass-data-theft/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:15:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/us-ai-giant-accuses-chinese-rivals-of-mass-data-theft/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon to Sink $12 Billion Into Data Centers as Wall Street (and Everyone Else) Turns Against AI Spending]]></title><description><![CDATA[Surely they can just spend their way out.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/amazon-to-sink-12-billion-into-data-centers-as-wall-street-and-everyone-else-turns-against-ai-spending/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 23:50:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/amazon-to-sink-12-billion-into-data-centers-as-wall-street-and-everyone-else-turns-against-ai-spending/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta Exec Learns the Hard Way That AI Can Just Delete Your Stuff]]></title><description><![CDATA[One small trick to get you to inbox zero.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/meta-exec-learns-the-hard-way-that-ai-can-just-delete-your-stuff/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 20:50:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/meta-exec-learns-the-hard-way-that-ai-can-just-delete-your-stuff/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New datacentres risk doubling Great Britain’s electricity use, regulator says]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ofgem says about 140 proposed projects, driven by AI use, could require more power than current peak demandThe amount of power being sought by new datacentre projects in Great Britain would exceed the national current peak electricity consumption, according to an industry watchdog.Ofgem said about 140 proposed datacentre schemes, driven by use of artificial intelligence, could require 50 gigawatts of electricity &ndash; 5GW more than the country&rsquo;s current peak demand. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/new-datacentres-risk-doubling-great-britains-electricity-use-regulator-says/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 19:17:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/new-datacentres-risk-doubling-great-britains-electricity-use-regulator-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Palantir deals are a threat to our data rights as UK citizens | Letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[This US tech giant should not have been given NHS or Ministry of Defence contracts, writes Stephen Saunders. Plus a letter from Jan SavageFor 100 years, the UK government has led us through existential threats, including two world wars. But instead of resisting the latest threat to democratic accountability, it has welcomed it with open arms: Palantir Technologies (NHS deal with AI firm Palantir called into question after officials&rsquo; concerns revealed, 12 February).This polarising US survei]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/palantir-deals-are-a-threat-to-our-data-rights-as-uk-citizens-letters/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 19:15:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/palantir-deals-are-a-threat-to-our-data-rights-as-uk-citizens-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sam Altman defends AI’s energy toll by saying it also takes a lot to ‘train a human’]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI CEO also downplayed concerns about how much water datacenters require at AI summit in IndiaOpenAI boss Sam Altman has tried to ease concerns about how much power is used by artificial intelligence models by comparing it to the amount of energy required by human development.&ldquo;People talk about how much energy it takes to train an AI model &ndash; but it also takes a lot of energy to train a human,&rdquo; Altman told The Indian Express recently while in India for the AI Impact summit.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-defends-ais-energy-toll-by-saying-it-also-takes-a-lot-to-train-a-human/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:38:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-defends-ais-energy-toll-by-saying-it-also-takes-a-lot-to-train-a-human/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New datacentres risk doubling UK electricity use, regulator says]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ofgem says about 140 proposed projects, driven by AI use, could require more power than current peak demandThe amount of power being sought by new datacentre projects in the UK would exceed the country&rsquo;s current peak electricity consumption, according to an industry watchdog.Ofgem said about 140 proposed datacentre schemes, driven by use of artificial intelligence, could require 50 gigawatts of electricity &ndash; 5GW more than the country&rsquo;s current peak demand. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/new-datacentres-risk-doubling-uk-electricity-use-regulator-says/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 16:58:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/new-datacentres-risk-doubling-uk-electricity-use-regulator-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New British datacentres risk exceeding national peak electricity use, regulator says]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ofgem says about 140 proposed projects, driven by AI use, could require 50 gigawatts of electricityThe amount of power being sought by new datacentre projects in Great Britain would exceed the national current peak electricity consumption, according to an industry watchdog.Ofgem said about 140 proposed datacentre schemes, driven by use of artificial intelligence, could require 50 gigawatts of electricity &ndash; 5GW more than the country&rsquo;s current peak demand. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/new-british-datacentres-risk-exceeding-national-peak-electricity-use-regulator-says/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 16:58:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/new-british-datacentres-risk-exceeding-national-peak-electricity-use-regulator-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If AI makes human labor obsolete, who decides who gets to eat?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amid talk of artificial intelligence taking our jobs, the big unasked question is: how will we be fed?How will we be fed? That&rsquo;s the biggest question not seriously being addressed amid all this talk about whether or not artificial intelligence will end up taking over all of our jobs.Formidable though the technology appears, similar fears have popped up repeatedly since the Industrial Revolution, and most working-age adults remain employed. Still, what is sorely missing is a serious debate]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/if-ai-makes-human-labor-obsolete-who-decides-who-gets-to-eat/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/if-ai-makes-human-labor-obsolete-who-decides-who-gets-to-eat/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grindr tests AI match-making in Australia amid dating app fatigue and safety concerns]]></title><description><![CDATA[New subscription features on app for gay and bisexual men come with a price tag &ndash; from $109.99 a month in Australia to $349 in the USFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAmid dating app fatigue and concerns over the safety of its users, Grindr is testing out highly priced subscriptions that will incorporate AI into finding people matches.The app for gay and bisexual men shows users&rsquo; profiles in a grid for tho]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/grindr-tests-ai-match-making-in-australia-amid-dating-app-fatigue-and-safety-concerns/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 04:55:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/grindr-tests-ai-match-making-in-australia-amid-dating-app-fatigue-and-safety-concerns/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sam Altman: Know What Else Used a Lot of Energy? Human Civilization]]></title><description><![CDATA[The OpenAI CEO, very smart, brushed away concerns about AI's environmental impact with one hell of a take.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-know-what-else-used-a-lot-of-energy-human-civilization/</link><pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 22:31:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-know-what-else-used-a-lot-of-energy-human-civilization/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What would happen to the world if computer said yes?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The long-running series in which readers answer other readers&rsquo; questions asks whether we could cope with a world where computer gave up saying no &hellip;Readers reply: what would be the most socially useful way to spend a billion dollars?After years of computer saying no, and giving us all migraines and premature grey hair, I&rsquo;m starting to worry that computer &ndash; or rather AI large language models like ChatGPT and Gemini &ndash; are taking too much of a fancy to playing nice and]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/what-would-happen-to-the-world-if-computer-said-yes/</link><pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/what-would-happen-to-the-world-if-computer-said-yes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In some schools, chatbots interrogate students about their work. But the AI revolution has teachers worried]]></title><description><![CDATA[The fast take-up of innovative technology risks creating a &lsquo;two-speed system&rsquo;, an Independent Schools Australia paper warnsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastOnce upon a time, school students would submit an essay, and teachers would mark it. Job done.Enter &ldquo;Thinking Mode&rdquo;. Now, in some Australian schools, once a student finishes an assignment an AI chatbot will interrogate them about it: put them on the spot in a two-way dialogue, to make sure the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/in-some-schools-chatbots-interrogate-students-about-their-work-but-the-ai-revolution-has-teachers-worried/</link><pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/in-some-schools-chatbots-interrogate-students-about-their-work-but-the-ai-revolution-has-teachers-worried/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Met police using AI tools supplied by Palantir to flag officer misconduct]]></title><description><![CDATA[Exclusive: Police Federation condemns deployment of US firm&rsquo;s tech to analyse behaviour as &lsquo;automated suspicion&rsquo;Scotland Yard is using AI tools supplied by the US tech company Palantir to monitor staff behaviour in an attempt to root out failing officers, the Guardian has learned.The Metropolitan police has previously declined to confirm or deny whether it used technology supplied by the company, which also works for the Israeli military and Donald Trump&rsquo;s ICE operation.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/met-police-using-ai-tools-supplied-by-palantir-to-flag-officer-misconduct/</link><pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 13:34:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/met-police-using-ai-tools-supplied-by-palantir-to-flag-officer-misconduct/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I’m worried my boyfriend’s use of AI is affecting his ability to think for himself | Annalisa Barbieri]]></title><description><![CDATA[Overdependence on chatbots is a growing problem, and though your boyfriend&rsquo;s ADHD may be a factor, he needs to find the root of his anxietyMy boyfriend of eight years, who is 44, has ADHD and runs his own business. He&rsquo;s always struggled with admin and mundane tasks, but AI has revolutionised how he works. Now I&rsquo;m worried he can&rsquo;t seem to do anything without AI. He is a heavy ChatGPT user and uses it even when there&rsquo;s a better non-AI alternative (eg he&rsquo;ll ask i]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/im-worried-my-boyfriends-use-of-ai-is-affecting-his-ability-to-think-for-himself-annalisa-barbieri/</link><pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 07:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/im-worried-my-boyfriends-use-of-ai-is-affecting-his-ability-to-think-for-himself-annalisa-barbieri/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Unbothered Jimmy Wales Calls Grokipedia a ‘Cartoon Imitation’ of Wikipedia]]></title><description><![CDATA[Speaking at India's AI Impact Summit, Wales went in on the hallucinating pretender to the throne.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/an-unbothered-jimmy-wales-calls-grokipedia-a-cartoon-imitation-of-wikipedia/</link><pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 23:01:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/an-unbothered-jimmy-wales-calls-grokipedia-a-cartoon-imitation-of-wikipedia/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obedient Traders Respond to Claude Code Cybersecurity Plugin by Selling Cybersecurity Stocks]]></title><description><![CDATA[The SaaSpocalypse is not real, but it can hurt you.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/obedient-traders-respond-to-claude-code-cybersecurity-plugin-by-selling-cybersecurity-stocks/</link><pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 20:11:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/obedient-traders-respond-to-claude-code-cybersecurity-plugin-by-selling-cybersecurity-stocks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sam Altman Says Companies Are ‘AI Washing’ Layoffs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hold up, let him cook.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-says-companies-are-ai-washing-layoffs/</link><pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 16:15:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-says-companies-are-ai-washing-layoffs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US farmers are rejecting multimillion-dollar datacenter bids for their land: ‘I’m not for sale’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Families are navigating the tough choice between unimaginable riches and the identity that comes with landWhen two men knocked on Ida Huddleston&rsquo;s door last May, they carried a contract worth more than $33m in exchange for the Kentucky farm that had fed her family for centuries.According to Huddleston, the men&rsquo;s client, an unnamed &ldquo;Fortune 100 company&rdquo;, sought her 650 acres (260 hectares) in Mason county for an unspecified industrial development. Finding out any more woul]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/us-farmers-are-rejecting-multimillion-dollar-datacenter-bids-for-their-land-im-not-for-sale/</link><pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/us-farmers-are-rejecting-multimillion-dollar-datacenter-bids-for-their-land-im-not-for-sale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Slow this thing down’: Sanders warns US has no clue about speed and scale of coming AI revolution]]></title><description><![CDATA[After meeting with unspecified tech leaders, senator calls for urgent policy action as companies race to build ever more powerful systemsBernie Sanders has warned that Congress and the American public have &ldquo;not a clue&rdquo; about the scale and speed of the coming AI revolution, pressing for urgent policy action to &ldquo;slow this thing down&rdquo; as tech companies race to build ever-more powerful systems.Speaking at Stanford University on Friday alongside congressman Ro Khanna after a s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/slow-this-thing-down-sanders-warns-us-has-no-clue-about-speed-and-scale-of-coming-ai-revolution/</link><pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 05:26:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/slow-this-thing-down-sanders-warns-us-has-no-clue-about-speed-and-scale-of-coming-ai-revolution/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI considered alerting Canadian police about school shooting suspect months ago]]></title><description><![CDATA[Company behind ChatGPT last year flagged Jesse Van Rootselaar&rsquo;s account for &lsquo;furtherance of violent activities&rsquo;ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has said it considered alerting Canadian police last year about the activities of a person who months later committed one of the worst school shootings in the country&rsquo;s history.OpenAI said last June the company identified the account of Jesse Van Rootselaar via abuse detection efforts for &ldquo;furtherance of violent activities&rdquo;. Conti]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-considered-alerting-canadian-police-about-school-shooting-suspect-months-ago/</link><pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 04:18:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-considered-alerting-canadian-police-about-school-shooting-suspect-months-ago/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon Reportedly Pins the Blame for AI-Caused Outage on Humans]]></title><description><![CDATA[Allegedly, the coding assistant decided to &ldquo;delete and recreate the environment&rdquo; that was causing problems.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/amazon-reportedly-pins-the-blame-for-ai-caused-outage-on-humans/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 20:50:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/amazon-reportedly-pins-the-blame-for-ai-caused-outage-on-humans/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Video Friday: Humanoid Robots Celebrate Spring]]></title><description><![CDATA[Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.ICRA 2026: 1&ndash;5 June 2026, VIENNAEnjoy today&rsquo;s videos! So, humanoid robots are nearing peak human performance. I would point out, though, that this is likely very far from peak robot performance, which has yet to be effectively exploited, becaus]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/video-friday-humanoid-robots-celebrate-spring/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 19:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/video-friday-humanoid-robots-celebrate-spring/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI hit: India hungry to harness US tech giants’ technology at Delhi summit]]></title><description><![CDATA[Narendra Modi&rsquo;s thirst to supercharge economic growth is matched by US desire to inject AI into world&rsquo;s biggest democracyIndia celebrates 80 years of independence from the UK in August 2027. At about that same moment, &ldquo;early versions of true super intelligence&rdquo; could emerge, said Sam Altman, the co-founder of OpenAI, this week.It&rsquo;s a looming coincidence that raised a charged question at the AI Impact summit in Delhi, hosted by India&rsquo;s prime minister, Narendra]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-hit-india-hungry-to-harness-us-tech-giants-technology-at-delhi-summit/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 18:25:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-hit-india-hungry-to-harness-us-tech-giants-technology-at-delhi-summit/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US economic growth slowed in fourth quarter of 2025 amid government shutdown]]></title><description><![CDATA[GDP grew 1.4% last quarter, down from economists&rsquo; forecast of 3%, though AI and tax cuts could boost growth this yearBusiness live &ndash; latest updatesUS economic growth slowed more than expected in the fourth quarter amid disruptions from last year&rsquo;s government shutdown and a moderation in consumer spending, but tax cuts and investment in artificial intelligence were expected to support activity this year.Gross domestic product (GDP) increased at a 1.4% annualized rate last quarte]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/us-economic-growth-slowed-in-fourth-quarter-of-2025-amid-government-shutdown/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:39:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/us-economic-growth-slowed-in-fourth-quarter-of-2025-amid-government-shutdown/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quantum computer breakthrough tracks qubit fluctuations in real time]]></title><description><![CDATA[Qubits, the heart of quantum computers, can change performance in fractions of a second &mdash; but until now, scientists couldn&rsquo;t see it happening. Researchers at NBI have built a real-time monitoring system that tracks these rapid fluctuations about 100 times faster than previous methods. Using fast FPGA-based control hardware, they can instantly identify when a qubit shifts from &ldquo;good&rdquo; to &ldquo;bad.&rdquo; The discovery opens a new path toward stabilizing and scaling future]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/quantum-computer-breakthrough-tracks-qubit-fluctuations-in-real-time/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:03:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/quantum-computer-breakthrough-tracks-qubit-fluctuations-in-real-time/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nascent tech, real fear: how AI anxiety is upending career ambitions]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI has convinced computer science students to shift majors and white-collar workers to change careers, while some are embracing itMatthew Ramirez started at Western Governors University as a computer science major in 2025, drawn by the promise of a high-paying, flexible career as a programmer. But as headlines mounted about tech layoffs and AI&rsquo;s potential to replace entry-level coders, he began to question whether that path would actually lead to a job.When the 20-year-old interviewed for]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/nascent-tech-real-fear-how-ai-anxiety-is-upending-career-ambitions/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/nascent-tech-real-fear-how-ai-anxiety-is-upending-career-ambitions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is the share market headed toward a ‘SaaS-pocalypse’ – and what would that mean?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Software companies are facing major disruption from AI and investors are pulling back, wiping off billions in value &ndash; but does it spell the end for software-as-a-service?Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAfter years of questioning whether artificial intelligence was creating a speculative market bubble, investors are now grappling with a new question: what if its hype is real?The &ldquo;SaaS-pocalypse&rdquo;, a trending term to describe the recent and dramatic sell]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/is-the-share-market-headed-toward-a-saas-pocalypse-and-what-would-that-mean/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/is-the-share-market-headed-toward-a-saas-pocalypse-and-what-would-that-mean/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia reportedly plans to invest $30bn in OpenAI’s next funding round]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chip manufacturer to invest in return for stock after previous &lsquo;circular&rsquo; $100bn deal dissolved earlier this monthNvidia, the world&rsquo;s most valuable company, is reportedly planning to invest $30bn (&pound;22bn) in OpenAI&rsquo;s next funding round, after a $100bn deal between the two dissolved earlier this month.The maker of ChatGPT is expected to be valued at $730bn in the funding round, almost twice the valuation of Anthropic, one of its main rivals, which raised $30bn earlier]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/nvidia-reportedly-plans-to-invest-30bn-in-openais-next-funding-round/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:15:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/nvidia-reportedly-plans-to-invest-30bn-in-openais-next-funding-round/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Very dangerous’: a Mind mental health expert on Google’s AI Overviews]]></title><description><![CDATA[Information content manager Rosie Weatherley says harmful inaccuracies are presented as uncontroversial factsMind launches inquiry into AI and mental health after Guardian investigationA year-long commission has been launched by Mind to examine AI and mental health after a Guardian investigation exposed how Google&rsquo;s AI Overviews, which are shown to 2 billion people each month, gave people &ldquo;very dangerous&rdquo; mental health advice.Here, Rosie Weatherley, information content manager]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/very-dangerous-a-mind-mental-health-expert-on-googles-ai-overviews/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 07:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/very-dangerous-a-mind-mental-health-expert-on-googles-ai-overviews/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mind launches inquiry into AI and mental health after Guardian investigation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Exclusive: England and Wales charity to examine safeguards after Guardian exposed &lsquo;very dangerous&rsquo; advice on Google AI Overviews&lsquo;Very dangerous&rsquo;: a Mind mental health expert on Google&rsquo;s AI summariesMind is launching a significant inquiry into artificial intelligence and mental health after a Guardian investigation exposed how Google&rsquo;s AI Overviews gave people &ldquo;very dangerous&rdquo; medical advice.In a year-long commission, the mental health charity, whic]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/mind-launches-inquiry-into-ai-and-mental-health-after-guardian-investigation/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 07:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/mind-launches-inquiry-into-ai-and-mental-health-after-guardian-investigation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Research Shows AI Agents Are Running Wild Online, With Few Guardrails in Place]]></title><description><![CDATA[And this research was conducted before OpenClaw unleashed a monster.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/new-research-shows-ai-agents-are-running-wild-online-with-few-guardrails-in-place/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 02:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/new-research-shows-ai-agents-are-running-wild-online-with-few-guardrails-in-place/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You Can ‘Hack’ ChatGPT to Become the World’s Best Anything]]></title><description><![CDATA[What's a little lie between 800 million users?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/you-can-hack-chatgpt-to-become-the-worlds-best-anything/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:25:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/you-can-hack-chatgpt-to-become-the-worlds-best-anything/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell us: have you ever used AI to navigate everyday life and social relationships?]]></title><description><![CDATA[We&rsquo;d like to hear your stories about the ways you&rsquo;re using chatbots to assist with your social life or important life decisions Lots of people now use chatbots as personal assistants, not just for work but in everyday life and social interactions. We want to hear your stories about the ways you&rsquo;re using chatbots to navigate your social life or significant life decisions.Have you ever drafted a breakup text using AI? Or crafted a message to delicately cancel plans? Have you cons]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/tell-us-have-you-ever-used-ai-to-navigate-everyday-life-and-social-relationships/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 17:20:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/tell-us-have-you-ever-used-ai-to-navigate-everyday-life-and-social-relationships/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Digital blackface flourishes under Trump and AI: ‘The state is bending reality’]]></title><description><![CDATA[From TikTok deepfakes to smears put out by the White House, fake videos modeled on Black archetypes are running rampant - putting Black users at riskLate last year, as a US government shutdown cut off the Snap benefits that low-income families rely on for groceries, videos on social media cast the fallout in frantic scenes. &ldquo;Imma keep it real with you,&rdquo; a Black woman said in a viral TikTok post, &ldquo;I get over $2,500 a month in stamps. I sell &rsquo;em, $2,000 worth, for about $1,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/digital-blackface-flourishes-under-trump-and-ai-the-state-is-bending-reality/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 16:35:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/digital-blackface-flourishes-under-trump-and-ai-the-state-is-bending-reality/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rise of AI is making the future of work look bleak – but it could be an opportunity]]></title><description><![CDATA[New technology has workers spooked, but experts say it&rsquo;s creating an opening for a resurgence in worker powerIn 2026, it&rsquo;s a scary time to work for a living.Gone are the days of quiet quitting, the Great Resignation, and the highly visible union-organizing battles that began the decade and signaled that perhaps worker power was on the rise again in the US. Instead, much of that momentum is being crowded out of our minds by anxieties: a worsening affordability crisis, geopolitical ins]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-rise-of-ai-is-making-the-future-of-work-look-bleak-but-it-could-be-an-opportunity/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-rise-of-ai-is-making-the-future-of-work-look-bleak-but-it-could-be-an-opportunity/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How the anxiety over AI could fuel a new workers’ movement]]></title><description><![CDATA[New technology has workers spooked, but experts say it&rsquo;s creating an opening for a resurgence in worker powerIn 2026, it&rsquo;s a scary time to work for a living.Gone are the days of quiet quitting, the Great Resignation, and the highly visible union-organizing battles that began the decade and signaled that perhaps worker power was on the rise again in the US. Instead, much of that momentum is being crowded out of our minds by anxieties: a worsening affordability crisis, geopolitical ins]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/how-the-anxiety-over-ai-could-fuel-a-new-workers-movement/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/how-the-anxiety-over-ai-could-fuel-a-new-workers-movement/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI-Generated Passwords Are Apparently Quite Easy to Crack]]></title><description><![CDATA[LLMs like to repeat themselves, which isn't great for password creation.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-generated-passwords-are-apparently-quite-easy-to-crack/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 13:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-generated-passwords-are-apparently-quite-easy-to-crack/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accenture ‘links staff promotions to use of AI tools’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Consulting firm keen to increase uptake of technology and is reportedly monitoring adoption by workforceAccenture has reportedly started tracking staff use of its AI tools and will take this into consideration when deciding on top promotions, as the consulting company tries to increase uptake of the technology by its workforce.The company told senior managers and associate directors that being promoted to leadership roles would require &ldquo;regular adoption&rdquo; of artificial intelligence, a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/accenture-links-staff-promotions-to-use-of-ai-tools/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 11:54:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/accenture-links-staff-promotions-to-use-of-ai-tools/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Macron defends EU AI rules and vows crackdown on child ‘digital abuse’]]></title><description><![CDATA[French president rejects US criticism as Ant&oacute;nio Guterres and Narendra Modi warn on child safety and AI monopoliesEmmanuel Macron has hit back at US criticism of Europe&rsquo;s efforts to regulate AI, vowing to protect children from &ldquo;digital abuse&rdquo; during France&rsquo;s presidency of the G7.Speaking at the AI Impact summit in Delhi, the French president called for tougher safeguards after global outrage over Elon Musk&rsquo;s Grok chatbot being used to generate tens of thousan]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/macron-defends-eu-ai-rules-and-vows-crackdown-on-child-digital-abuse/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 09:26:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/macron-defends-eu-ai-rules-and-vows-crackdown-on-child-digital-abuse/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bill Gates cancels keynote speech in India amid questions over Epstein ties]]></title><description><![CDATA[Billionaire Microsoft co-founder pulls out of India&rsquo;s AI Impact Summit to &lsquo;ensure the focus&rsquo; remains on event&rsquo;s &lsquo;key priorities&rsquo;Bill Gates has pulled out of a keynote address at the AI Impact Summit in India as he continues to face questions over his relationship with the deceased child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.The billionaire Microsoft co-founder travelled to India, where his foundation works with the government on delivering AI for social good, earlier t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/bill-gates-cancels-keynote-speech-in-india-amid-questions-over-epstein-ties/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 06:27:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/bill-gates-cancels-keynote-speech-in-india-amid-questions-over-epstein-ties/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Retailers in UK plan to cut staff hours and jobs amid rising employment costs]]></title><description><![CDATA[BRC survey finds finance bosses expect technology to improve productivity, with 69% pessimistic about the economyUK retailers are planning to cut staff hours and jobs amid rising employment costs and pessimism about the economy.Almost two-thirds (61%) of finance bosses at retail companies said they planned to reduce working hours or cut overtime, according to the latest survey from the British Retail Consortium (BRC), the trade body that represents most big retailers. More than half (55%) said t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/retailers-in-uk-plan-to-cut-staff-hours-and-jobs-amid-rising-employment-costs/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/retailers-in-uk-plan-to-cut-staff-hours-and-jobs-amid-rising-employment-costs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tech firms must remove ‘revenge porn’ in 48 hours or risk being blocked, says Starmer]]></title><description><![CDATA[PM says measure, also applied to deepfake nudes, is needed owing to a &lsquo;national emergency&rsquo; of online misogynyDeepfake nudes and &ldquo;revenge porn&rdquo; must be removed from the internet within 48 hours or technology firms risk being blocked in the UK, Keir Starmer has said, calling it a &ldquo;national emergency&rdquo; that the government must confront.Companies could be fined millions or even blocked altogether if they allow the images to spread or be reposted after victims give]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/tech-firms-must-remove-revenge-porn-in-48-hours-or-risk-being-blocked-says-starmer/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 23:30:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/tech-firms-must-remove-revenge-porn-in-48-hours-or-risk-being-blocked-says-starmer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Illinois governor proposes cancelling tax breaks for datacenters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pritzker&rsquo;s move reflects increasing public pushback against resource-hungry facilities used to power the AI boomThe Illinois governor JB Pritzker proposed a two-year break from offering tax incentives for datacenters, a reflection of increasing public pushback against the massive, resource-hungry facilities used to power the modern AI boom.Pritzker made the proposal, which will need the backing of state lawmakers, during his annual state of the state address, which covers Illinois budget a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/illinois-governor-proposes-cancelling-tax-breaks-for-datacenters/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:16:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/illinois-governor-proposes-cancelling-tax-breaks-for-datacenters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Illinois governor proposes cancelling tax breaks for data centers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pritzker&rsquo;s move reflects increasing public pushback against resource-hungry facilities used to power the AI boomThe Illinois governor JB Pritzker proposed a two-year break from offering tax incentives for datacenters, a reflection of increasing public pushback against the massive, resource-hungry facilities used to power the modern AI boom.Pritzker made the proposal, which will need the backing of state lawmakers, during his annual state of the state address, which covers Illinois budget a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/illinois-governor-proposes-cancelling-tax-breaks-for-data-centers/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:16:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/illinois-governor-proposes-cancelling-tax-breaks-for-data-centers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google Launches Music Generation Model to Make Songs 30-Seconds at a Time]]></title><description><![CDATA[Because actually making art is for suckers.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/google-launches-music-generation-model-to-make-songs-30-seconds-at-a-time/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:45:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/google-launches-music-generation-model-to-make-songs-30-seconds-at-a-time/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Countries that do not embrace AI could be ‘left behind’, says OpenAI’s George Osborne]]></title><description><![CDATA[Without AI you will be a &lsquo;weaker and poorer nation&rsquo;, warns former UK chancellor two months into job at US firmThe former chancellor George Osborne has warned that countries that do not embrace the kind of powerful AI systems made by his new employer, OpenAI, risked &ldquo;Fomo&rdquo; and could be left weaker and poorer.Osborne, who is two months into a job as head of the $500bn San Francisco AI company&rsquo;s &ldquo;for countries&rdquo; programme, told leaders gathered for the AI Im]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/countries-that-do-not-embrace-ai-could-be-left-behind-says-openais-george-osborne/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 18:57:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/countries-that-do-not-embrace-ai-could-be-left-behind-says-openais-george-osborne/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tech Is Taking Over Olympic Curling]]></title><description><![CDATA[At this year&rsquo;s Winter Olympics in Italy, the controversy began with a fingertip.A disputed double-touch&mdash;whether a curler had brushed a moving stone twice&mdash;sparked protests, profanity-laced exchanges, and heated debate about sportsmanship. In a game that prides itself on mutual trust and the idea of competition as a shared test of skill, even the suggestion of impropriety can ripple far beyond a single end.But if a double-touch can shake the sport, what happens when the controver]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/tech-is-taking-over-olympic-curling/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/tech-is-taking-over-olympic-curling/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bogus four-day workweek that AI supposedly ‘frees up’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Business leaders tout AI as a path to shorter weeks and better balance. But without power, workers are unlikely to share the gainsThe front-page headline in a recent Washington Post was breathless: &ldquo;These companies say AI is key to their four-day workweeks.&rdquo; The subhead was euphoric: &ldquo;Some companies are giving workers back more time as artificial intelligence takes over more tasks.&rdquo;As the Post explained: &ldquo;more companies may move toward a shortened workweek, several]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-bogus-four-day-workweek-that-ai-supposedly-frees-up/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 14:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-bogus-four-day-workweek-that-ai-supposedly-frees-up/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China’s dancing robots: how worried should we be?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Eye-catching martial arts performance at China gala had viewers and experts wondering what else humanoids can doDancing humanoid robots took centre stage on Monday during the annual China Media Group&rsquo;s Spring Festival Gala, China&rsquo;s most-watched official television broadcast. They lunged and backflipped (landing on their knees), they spun around and jumped. Not one fell over.The display was impressive, but prompted some to wonder: if robots can now dance and perform martial arts, what]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/chinas-dancing-robots-how-worried-should-we-be/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 06:19:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/chinas-dancing-robots-how-worried-should-we-be/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Should we be impressed or worried by China's humanoid robot display? &ndash; video]]></title><description><![CDATA[China Media Group's 2026 Spring Festival Gala drew widespread attention with a performance of humanoid robots that appeared to do martial arts alongside young performers. However, as the videos spread, viewers expressed both admiration and unease over the accelerating development of the machines. Experts have mixed views. China&rsquo;s dancing robots: how worried should we be?Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/should-we-be-impressed-or-worried-by-chinas-humanoid-robot-display-ndash-video/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 06:18:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/should-we-be-impressed-or-worried-by-chinas-humanoid-robot-display-ndash-video/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tech billionaires fly in for Delhi AI expo as Modi jostles to lead in south]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google, Anthropic and OpenAI bosses to mingle with global south leaders wrestling for control over technologySilicon Valley tech billionaires will land in Delhi this week for an AI summit hosted by India&rsquo;s prime minister, Narendra Modi, where leaders of the global south will wrestle for control over the fast-developing technology.During the week-long AI Impact Summit, attended by thousands of tech executives, government officials and AI safety experts, tech companies valued at trillions of]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/tech-billionaires-fly-in-for-delhi-ai-expo-as-modi-jostles-to-lead-in-south/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/tech-billionaires-fly-in-for-delhi-ai-expo-as-modi-jostles-to-lead-in-south/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SaaS Companies Take Unusual Step to Prove AI Has Not Mortally Wounded Them]]></title><description><![CDATA[Please remember that the SaaSpocalypse is a narrative, not a material fact.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/saas-companies-take-unusual-step-to-prove-ai-has-not-mortally-wounded-them/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 02:51:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/saas-companies-take-unusual-step-to-prove-ai-has-not-mortally-wounded-them/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Does ‘Sorry’ Count When AI Writes It for You?]]></title><description><![CDATA[She burned down a house and bit a cop. A judge wasn't impressed with her AI apology.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/does-sorry-count-when-ai-writes-it-for-you/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 01:28:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/does-sorry-count-when-ai-writes-it-for-you/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There’s a New Term for Workers Freaking Out Over Being Replaced by AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[No one's mental health improves when they are told constantly that they are about to lose their job.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/theres-a-new-term-for-workers-freaking-out-over-being-replaced-by-ai/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:20:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/theres-a-new-term-for-workers-freaking-out-over-being-replaced-by-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ICE reliance on Microsoft technology surged amid immigration crackdown, documents show]]></title><description><![CDATA[Exclusive: ICE more than tripled the amount of data stored in Microsoft&rsquo;s cloud at the same time that its arsenal of surveillance technology balloonedImmigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deepened its reliance on Microsoft&rsquo;s cloud technology last year as the agency ramped up arrest and deportation operations, leaked documents reveal.ICE more than tripled the amount of data it stored in Microsoft&rsquo;s Azure cloud platform in the six months leading up to January 2026, a period i]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ice-reliance-on-microsoft-technology-surged-amid-immigration-crackdown-documents-show/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 19:06:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ice-reliance-on-microsoft-technology-surged-amid-immigration-crackdown-documents-show/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Race for AI is making Hindenburg-style disaster ‘a real risk’, says leading expert]]></title><description><![CDATA[Prof Michael Wooldridge says scenario such as deadly self-driving car update or AI hack could destroy global interestThe race to get artificial intelligence to market has raised the risk of a Hindenburg-style disaster that shatters global confidence in the technology, a leading researcher has warned.Michael Wooldridge, a professor of AI at Oxford University, said the danger arose from the immense commercial pressures that technology firms were under to release new AI tools, with companies desper]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/race-for-ai-is-making-hindenburg-style-disaster-a-real-risk-says-leading-expert/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 19:01:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/race-for-ai-is-making-hindenburg-style-disaster-a-real-risk-says-leading-expert/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Guardian launches year-long reporting initiative exploring AI, work and power]]></title><description><![CDATA[New US-led series, Reworked, centers workers&rsquo; experiences as artificial intelligence reshapes the workplaceThe Guardian launched a sweeping new editorial series on Tuesday examining how artificial intelligence is transforming work and power across the United States and around the world. The year-long reporting project, Reworked, will place workers &ndash; not tech executives or abstract forecasts &ndash; at the center of one of the defining economic shifts of our time.Building on the Guard]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-guardian-launches-year-long-reporting-initiative-exploring-ai-work-and-power/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 18:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-guardian-launches-year-long-reporting-initiative-exploring-ai-work-and-power/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spain to investigate social media firms over AI-generated child sexual abuse material]]></title><description><![CDATA[PM says action is looking at potential criminal liability in order to protect children and end &lsquo;impunity&rsquo; of online platformsThe Spanish government will ask prosecutors to investigate the social media companies X, Meta and TikTok to determine whether they have committed criminal offences by allegedly allowing their AI to generate and disseminate child sexual abuse material.Spain&rsquo;s socialist prime minister, Pedro S&aacute;nchez, said his government had taken the decision in orde]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/spain-to-investigate-social-media-firms-over-ai-generated-child-sexual-abuse-material/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/spain-to-investigate-social-media-firms-over-ai-generated-child-sexual-abuse-material/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[12-hour days, no weekends: the anxiety driving AI’s brutal work culture is a warning for all of us]]></title><description><![CDATA[San Francisco&rsquo;s AI startups are pushing workers to grind endlessly, hinting at pressures soon hitting other sectorsNot long after the terms &ldquo;996&rdquo; and &ldquo;grindcore&rdquo; entered the popular lexicon, people started telling me stories about what was happening at startups in San Francisco, ground zero for the artificial intelligence economy. There was the one about the founder who hadn&rsquo;t taken a weekend off in more than six months. The woman who joked that she&rsquo;d gi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/12-hour-days-no-weekends-the-anxiety-driving-ais-brutal-work-culture-is-a-warning-for-all-of-us/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 14:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/12-hour-days-no-weekends-the-anxiety-driving-ais-brutal-work-culture-is-a-warning-for-all-of-us/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It’s Probably a Bit Much to Say This AI Agent Cyberbullied a Developer By Blogging About Him]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's an interesting case study in AI agents and what that whole "agency" thing...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/its-probably-a-bit-much-to-say-this-ai-agent-cyberbullied-a-developer-by-blogging-about-him/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 11:30:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/its-probably-a-bit-much-to-say-this-ai-agent-cyberbullied-a-developer-by-blogging-about-him/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Europeans are dangerously reliant on US tech. Now is a good time to build our own | Johnny Ryan]]></title><description><![CDATA[By trusting the US, we handed Trump a kill switch. Yet Europe&rsquo;s digital sovereignty is an achievable goalThe French judge Nicolas Guillou knows exactly how deep Europe&rsquo;s dependence on US tech is. Guillou and his colleagues at the international criminal court are under US sanctions. They can no longer use e-commerce, book hotels online or hire a car. Their home smart devices ignore them. Credit cards from European banks no longer function, because Europe has still not developed its ow]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/europeans-are-dangerously-reliant-on-us-tech-now-is-a-good-time-to-build-our-own-johnnyryan/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/europeans-are-dangerously-reliant-on-us-tech-now-is-a-good-time-to-build-our-own-johnnyryan/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Claims that AI can help fix climate dismissed as greenwashing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Industry using &lsquo;diversionary&rsquo; tactics, says analyst, as energy-hungry complex functions such as video generation and deep research proliferateTech companies are conflating traditional artificial intelligence with generative AI when claiming the energy-hungry technology could help avert climate breakdown, according to a report.Most claims that AI can help avert climate breakdown refer to machine learning and not the energy-hungry chatbots and image generation tools driving the sector&]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/claims-that-ai-can-help-fix-climate-dismissed-as-greenwashing/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/claims-that-ai-can-help-fix-climate-dismissed-as-greenwashing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What social media restrictions has Keir Starmer announced?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Before consultation on under-16s ban, government to crack down on AI chatbots and get powers to act more quicklyUK politics live &ndash; latest updatesKeir Starmer has not yet given his full backing to a social media ban for under-16s. But on Monday the prime minister announced a series of measures to restrict the harms ministers believe online platforms are causing to children who use them.&ldquo;As a dad of two teenagers, I know the challenges and the worries that parents face making sure thei]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/what-social-media-restrictions-has-keir-starmer-announced/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:06:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/what-social-media-restrictions-has-keir-starmer-announced/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[KPMG partner fined for using artificial intelligence to cheat in AI training test]]></title><description><![CDATA[Firm says person fined A$10,000 is one of over two dozen staff in Australia caught using AI in exams since JulyBusiness live &ndash; latest updatesA partner at the consultancy KPMG has been fined for using artificial intelligence to cheat during an internal training course on AI.The unnamed partner was fined A$10,000 (&pound;5,200) for using the technology to cheat, one of a number of staff reportedly using the tactic. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/kpmg-partner-fined-for-using-artificial-intelligence-to-cheat-in-ai-training-test/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:36:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/kpmg-partner-fined-for-using-artificial-intelligence-to-cheat-in-ai-training-test/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Starmer announces crackdown on AI bots to ensure child safety – video]]></title><description><![CDATA[The UK prime minister has announced a crackdown on artificial intelligence bots that pose a risk to children, denouncing Grok for allowing its users to create images that digitally undress people. Speaking during a visit to a community centre in south-west London, Keir Starmer also said the government is planning to accelerate new restrictions on social media use by children, if they are agreed to by MPs after a public consultation into a possible under-16 ban. It means that any changes to child]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/starmer-announces-crackdown-on-ai-bots-to-ensure-child-safety-video/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 14:32:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/starmer-announces-crackdown-on-ai-bots-to-ensure-child-safety-video/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump’s Obama and Bad Bunny posts crystallize his political philosophy | Sidney Blumenthal]]></title><description><![CDATA[Maga is a recapitulation of the dark side of American history that cohered into nativist nationalism a century agoDonald Trump&rsquo;s posting of a video depicting former president Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as apes was the most overtly racist act of a president since Woodrow Wilson segregated the federal civil service &ndash; or since Trump&rsquo;s previous racist gesture. The racist imagery Trump posted was so egregious that the video&rsquo;s misogyny representing Hillar]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/trumps-obama-and-bad-bunny-posts-crystallize-his-political-philosophy-sidney-blumenthal/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/trumps-obama-and-bad-bunny-posts-crystallize-his-political-philosophy-sidney-blumenthal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Former NPR Host Accuses Google Of Copying His Voice For AI Offering]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google is sued over the AI podcast generation in NotebookLM.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/former-npr-host-accuses-google-of-copying-his-voice-for-ai-offering/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 11:30:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/former-npr-host-accuses-google-of-copying-his-voice-for-ai-offering/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TikTok creator ByteDance vows to curb AI video tool after Disney threat]]></title><description><![CDATA[Videos created by new Seedance 2.0 generator go viral, including one of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt fightingBusiness live &ndash; latest updatesByteDance, the Chinese technology company behind TikTok, has said it will restrain its AI video-making tool, after threats of legal action from Disney and a backlash from other media businesses, according to reports.The AI video generator Seedance 2.0, released last week, has spooked Hollywood as users create realistic clips of movie stars and superheroes w]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/tiktok-creator-bytedance-vows-to-curb-ai-video-tool-after-disney-threat/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 09:25:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/tiktok-creator-bytedance-vows-to-curb-ai-video-tool-after-disney-threat/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google puts users at risk by downplaying health disclaimers under AI Overviews]]></title><description><![CDATA[Exclusive: Google fails to include safety warnings when users are first presented with AI-generated medical adviceGoogle is putting people at risk of harm by downplaying safety warnings that its AI-generated medical advice may be wrong.When answering queries about sensitive topics such as health, the company says its AI Overviews, which appear above search results, prompt users to seek professional help, rather than relying solely on its summaries. &ldquo;AI Overviews will inform people when it&]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/google-puts-users-at-risk-by-downplaying-health-disclaimers-under-ai-overviews/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 08:30:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/google-puts-users-at-risk-by-downplaying-health-disclaimers-under-ai-overviews/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What technology takes from us – and how to take it back – podcast]]></title><description><![CDATA[Decisions outsourced, chatbots for friends, the natural world an afterthought: Silicon Valley is giving us life void of connection. There is a way out &ndash; but it&rsquo;s going to take collective effortBy Rebecca Solnit. Read by Laurel Lefkow Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/what-technology-takes-from-us-and-how-to-take-it-back-podcast/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/what-technology-takes-from-us-and-how-to-take-it-back-podcast/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Starmer to extend online safety rules to AI chatbots after Grok scandal]]></title><description><![CDATA[Starmer to announce &lsquo;crackdown on vile illegal content created by AI&rsquo; after scandal involving Elon Musk&rsquo;s Grok toolMakers of AI chatbots that put children at risk will face massive fines or even see their services blocked in the UK under law changes to be announced by Keir Starmer on Monday.Emboldened by Elon Musk&rsquo;s X stopping its Grok AI tool from creating sexualised images of real people in the UK after public outrage last month, ministers are planning a &ldquo;crackdow]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/starmer-to-extend-online-safety-rules-to-ai-chatbots-after-grok-scandal/</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 23:30:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/starmer-to-extend-online-safety-rules-to-ai-chatbots-after-grok-scandal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Makers of AI chatbots that put children at risk face big fines or UK ban]]></title><description><![CDATA[Starmer to announce &lsquo;crackdown on vile illegal content created by AI&rsquo; after scandal involving Elon Musk&rsquo;s Grok toolMakers of AI chatbots that put children at risk will face massive fines or even see their services blocked in the UK under law changes to be announced by Keir Starmer on Monday.Emboldened by Elon Musk&rsquo;s X stopping its Grok AI tool from creating sexualised images of real people in the UK after public outrage last month, ministers are planning a &ldquo;crackdow]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/makers-of-ai-chatbots-that-put-children-at-risk-face-big-fines-or-uk-ban/</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 23:30:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/makers-of-ai-chatbots-that-put-children-at-risk-face-big-fines-or-uk-ban/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Guardian view on AI: safety staff departures raise worries about industry pursuing profit at all costs | Editorial]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cash-hungry Silicon Valley firms are scrambling for revenue. Regulate them now before the tech becomes too big to failHardly a month passes without an AI grandee cautioning that the technology poses an existential threat to humanity. Many of these warnings might be hazy or naive. Others may be self-interested. Calm, level-headed scrutiny is needed. Some warnings, though, are worth taking seriously.Last week, some notable ground-level AI safety researchers quit, warning that firms chasing profits]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-guardian-view-on-ai-safety-staff-departures-raise-worries-about-industry-pursuing-profit-at-all-costs-editorial/</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 18:25:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-guardian-view-on-ai-safety-staff-departures-raise-worries-about-industry-pursuing-profit-at-all-costs-editorial/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dose of smart love on Valentine’s Day | Brief letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI romance | Giving thanks | Hotting up in bed | &pound;2 coins | Pub queuesConfirmation that the world has gone mad: I got into my car, a Smart #1, on Saturday, and before it did anything else, the car said &ldquo;Love is in the air&rdquo; and wished me a happy Valentine&rsquo;s Day. As a&nbsp;matter of principle, I refused to&nbsp;speak to it for the rest of&nbsp;the day.<br />
Ray Woodhams<br />
Cawthorne, South Yorkshire&bull; I tried to avoid saying thank you for a whole day and ended up feeling misera]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/a-dose-of-smart-love-on-valentines-day-brief-letters/</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 17:40:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/a-dose-of-smart-love-on-valentines-day-brief-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even amid rising economic uncertainty, now is not the time to hug your job | Gene Marks]]></title><description><![CDATA[In a rapidly changing job market, it&rsquo;s not necessarily good for workers to cling to their current employmentAfter all the employee protests over the past few years &ndash; the &ldquo;great resignations&rdquo;, the &ldquo;quiet quittings&rdquo;, the &ldquo;bare-minimum Mondays&rdquo; and &ldquo;coffee badgings&rdquo; &ndash; we have finally arrived at &ldquo;job hugging&rdquo;.Amid all the economic uncertainty and the rising costs of everything, people aren&rsquo;t feeling as confident as t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/even-amid-rising-economic-uncertainty-now-is-not-the-time-to-hug-your-job-gene-marks/</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 16:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/even-amid-rising-economic-uncertainty-now-is-not-the-time-to-hug-your-job-gene-marks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even amid rising economic uncertainty, now is not the time to hug your job]]></title><description><![CDATA[In a rapidly changing job market, it&rsquo;s not necessarily good for workers to cling to their current employmentAfter all the employee protests over the past few years &ndash; the &ldquo;great resignations&rdquo;, the &ldquo;quiet quittings&rdquo;, the &ldquo;bare-minimum Mondays&rdquo; and &ldquo;coffee badgings&rdquo; &ndash; we have finally arrived at &ldquo;job hugging&rdquo;.Amid all the economic uncertainty and the rising costs of everything, people aren&rsquo;t feeling as confident as t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/even-amid-rising-economic-uncertainty-now-is-not-the-time-to-hug-your-job/</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 16:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/even-amid-rising-economic-uncertainty-now-is-not-the-time-to-hug-your-job/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dining across the divide: ‘Kids shouldn’t really have smartphones – it’s akin to tobacco in 60s and 70s’]]></title><description><![CDATA[An Arsenal fan and a Manchester United fan might not agree on football teams, but could they find common ground on mobile phones and AI?Aaran, 43, WinchesterOccupation Works in executive&nbsp;recruitment Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/dining-across-the-divide-kids-shouldnt-really-have-smartphones-its-akin-to-tobacco-in-60s-and-70s/</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 13:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/dining-across-the-divide-kids-shouldnt-really-have-smartphones-its-akin-to-tobacco-in-60s-and-70s/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No swiping involved: the AI dating apps promising to find your soulmate]]></title><description><![CDATA[Agenic AI apps first interview you and then give you limited matches selected for &lsquo;similarity and reciprocity of personality&rsquo;Dating apps exploit you, dating profiles lie to you, and sex is basically something old people used to do. You might as well consider it: can AI help you find love?For a handful of tech entrepreneurs and a few brave Londoners, the answer is &ldquo;maybe&rdquo;. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/no-swiping-involved-the-ai-dating-apps-promising-to-find-your-soulmate/</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 08:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/no-swiping-involved-the-ai-dating-apps-promising-to-find-your-soulmate/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dems Want to Ban Surveillance Pricing at Big Grocery Stores]]></title><description><![CDATA[Is dynamic pricing the future of grocery stores?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/dems-want-to-ban-surveillance-pricing-at-big-grocery-stores/</link><pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 19:47:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/dems-want-to-ban-surveillance-pricing-at-big-grocery-stores/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US military used Anthropic’s AI model Claude in Venezuela raid, report says]]></title><description><![CDATA[Wall Street Journal says Claude used in operation via Anthropic&rsquo;s partnership with Palantir TechnologiesClaude, the AI model developed by Anthropic, was used by the US military during its operation to kidnap Nicol&aacute;s Maduro from Venezuela, the Wall Street Journal revealed on Saturday, a high-profile example of how the US defence department is using artificial intelligence in its operations.The US raid on Venezuela involved bombing across the capital, Caracas, and the killing of 83 pe]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/us-military-used-anthropics-ai-model-claude-in-venezuela-raid-report-says/</link><pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 17:15:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/us-military-used-anthropics-ai-model-claude-in-venezuela-raid-report-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brain inspired machines are better at math than expected]]></title><description><![CDATA[Neuromorphic computers modeled after the human brain can now solve the complex equations behind physics simulations &mdash; something once thought possible only with energy-hungry supercomputers. The breakthrough could lead to powerful, low-energy supercomputers while revealing new secrets about how our brains process information.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/brain-inspired-machines-are-better-at-math-than-expected/</link><pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 16:19:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/brain-inspired-machines-are-better-at-math-than-expected/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Best Time to Leave xAI Is Before Joining. The Next Best Time is Right Now]]></title><description><![CDATA[Would you believe working for Elon Musk sucks?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-best-time-to-leave-xai-is-before-joining-the-next-best-time-is-right-now/</link><pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 13:30:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-best-time-to-leave-xai-is-before-joining-the-next-best-time-is-right-now/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elon Musk’s xAI faces second lawsuit over toxic pollutants from datacenter]]></title><description><![CDATA[NAACP alleges artificial intelligence firm is violating Clean Air Act and polluting Black communities in MississippiElon Musk&rsquo;s artificial intelligence company xAI is facing a second lawsuit alleging it is illegally emitting toxic pollutants from its enormous datacenters, which house its supercomputers and run the chatbot Grok.The new pending suit alleges xAI is violating the Clean Air Act and was filed Friday by the storied civil rights group the NAACP. The group&rsquo;s 40-page notice of]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/elon-musks-xai-faces-second-lawsuit-over-toxic-pollutants-from-datacenter/</link><pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 01:47:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/elon-musks-xai-faces-second-lawsuit-over-toxic-pollutants-from-datacenter/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI Users Launch Movement to Save Most Sycophantic Version of ChatGPT]]></title><description><![CDATA[Right before Valentine's Day, too.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-users-launch-movement-to-save-most-sycophantic-version-of-chatgpt/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 21:05:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-users-launch-movement-to-save-most-sycophantic-version-of-chatgpt/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘A different set of rules’: thermal drone footage shows Musk’s AI power plant flouting clean air regulations]]></title><description><![CDATA[Images confirm xAI is continuing to defy EPA regulations in Mississippi to power its flagship datacentersElon Musk&rsquo;s artificial intelligence company is continuing to fuel its datacenters with unpermitted gas turbines, an investigation by the Floodlight newsroom shows. Thermal footage captured by Floodlight via drone shows xAI is still burning gas at a facility in Southaven, Mississippi, despite a recent Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ruling reiterating that doing so requires a state]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/a-different-set-of-rules-thermal-drone-footage-shows-musks-ai-power-plant-flouting-clean-air-regulations/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 19:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/a-different-set-of-rules-thermal-drone-footage-shows-musks-ai-power-plant-flouting-clean-air-regulations/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK ad agencies undergo their biggest exodus of staff as AI threatens industry]]></title><description><![CDATA[Number of employees declined by more than 14% to 24,963 last year, with fall greatest among younger workersAI is indeed coming &ndash; but there is also evidence to allay investor fearsUK advertising agencies had their biggest annual exodus of staff last year, led by younger workers, as artificial intelligence tools threaten to replace workers and force the industry to cut jobs and costs.Staff numbers at creative agencies, which are facing acute pressure from the rollout of AI tools that reduce]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/uk-ad-agencies-undergo-their-biggest-exodus-of-staff-as-ai-threatens-industry/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 18:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/uk-ad-agencies-undergo-their-biggest-exodus-of-staff-as-ai-threatens-industry/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI is indeed coming – but there is also evidence to allay investor fears]]></title><description><![CDATA[Opinions are divided about the potential impact of artificial intelligence as the response to a recent viral essay showsUK ad agencies undergo their biggest exodus of staff as AI threatens industryThe message from investors to the software, wealth management, legal services and logistics industries this month has been clear: AI is coming for your business.The release of new, ever more powerful AI tools has coincided with a stock market slide, which has swept up sectors as diverse as drug distrib]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-is-indeed-coming-but-there-is-also-evidence-to-allay-investor-fears/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 18:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-is-indeed-coming-but-there-is-also-evidence-to-allay-investor-fears/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Video Friday: Robot Collective Stays Alive Even When Parts Die]]></title><description><![CDATA[Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.ICRA 2026: 1&ndash;5 June 2026, VIENNAEnjoy today&rsquo;s videos! No system is immune to failure. The compromise between reducing failures and improving adaptability is a recurring problem in robotics. Modular robots exemplify this tradeoff, because the nu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/video-friday-robot-collective-stays-alive-even-when-parts-die/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 17:30:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/video-friday-robot-collective-stays-alive-even-when-parts-die/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Canada school deaths suspect created shooting simulator on gaming platform]]></title><description><![CDATA[Roblox says it has removed account after massacre that left nine people including the shooter deadThe 18-year-old suspect in a high school shooting in British Columbia had previously created a mass shooting simulator on the gaming platform Roblox, it has been revealed.The simulator, set in what appeared to be a virtual shopping mall, allowed users &ndash; represented as Roblox-style avatars &ndash; to pick up weapons and shoot other players, 404 Media reported on Thursday. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/canada-school-deaths-suspect-created-shooting-simulator-on-gaming-platform/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 15:43:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/canada-school-deaths-suspect-created-shooting-simulator-on-gaming-platform/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘It’s over for us’: release of new AI video generator Seedance 2.0 spooks Hollywood]]></title><description><![CDATA[An AI clip featuring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt fighting has caused concern among industry figuresA leading Hollywood figure has warned &ldquo;it&rsquo;s likely over for us&rdquo;, after watching a widely disseminated AI-generated clip featuring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt fighting.Rhett Reese, co-writer of Deadpool &amp; Wolverine, Zombieland and Now You See Me: Now You Don&rsquo;t was reacting to a 15-second video showing Cruise and Pitt trading punches on a rubble-strewn bridge, posted by Irish fi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/its-over-for-us-release-of-new-ai-video-generator-seedance-20-spooks-hollywood/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 14:32:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/its-over-for-us-release-of-new-ai-video-generator-seedance-20-spooks-hollywood/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shares in trucking and logistics firms plunge after AI freight tool launch]]></title><description><![CDATA[SemiCab platform by Algorhythm, previously considered a &lsquo;penny stock&rsquo;, sparks &lsquo;category 5 paranoia&rsquo; across sectorShares in trucking and logistics companies have plunged as the sector became the latest to be targeted by investors fearful that new artificial intelligence tools could slash demand.A new tool launched by Algorhythm, a former maker of in-car karaoke systems turned AI company with a market capitalisation of just $6m (&pound;4.4m), sparked a sell-off on Thursday]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/shares-in-trucking-and-logistics-firms-plunge-after-ai-freight-tool-launch/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 10:04:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/shares-in-trucking-and-logistics-firms-plunge-after-ai-freight-tool-launch/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic raises $30bn in latest round, valuing Claude bot maker at $380bn]]></title><description><![CDATA[Maker of chatbot boasting coding ability said annualized revenue grew tenfold in each of past three years, to $14bnThe artificial intelligence company Anthropic said on Thursday it raised $30bn in its latest funding round that values the Claude maker and OpenAI rival at $380bn, underscoring the breakneck pace of AI investments.The round, led by the Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC and hedge fund Coatue Management, is among the largest private fundraising deals on record and comes just five mo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-raises-30bn-in-latest-round-valuing-claude-bot-maker-at-380bn/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 23:46:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-raises-30bn-in-latest-round-valuing-claude-bot-maker-at-380bn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Researchers Jailbreak ChatGPT to Find Out Which State Has the Laziest People]]></title><description><![CDATA[You're not gonna believe this but it reflects common human biases.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/researchers-jailbreak-chatgpt-to-find-out-which-state-has-the-laziest-people/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 22:20:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/researchers-jailbreak-chatgpt-to-find-out-which-state-has-the-laziest-people/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to deal with the “Claude crash”: Relx should keep buying back shares, then buy more | Nils Pratley]]></title><description><![CDATA[The firm remains confident even as the market flips from seeing it as an AI winner to fearing its profit margin will implodeAs the FTSE 100 index bobs along close to all-time highs, it is easy to miss the quiet share price crash in one corner of the market. It&rsquo;s got a name &ndash; the &ldquo;Claude crash&rdquo;, referencing the plug-in legal products added by the AI firm Anthropic to its Claude Cowork office assistant.This launch, or so you would think from the panicked stock market reacti]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/how-to-deal-with-the-claude-crash-relx-should-keep-buying-back-shares-then-buy-more-nils-pratley/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 19:43:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/how-to-deal-with-the-claude-crash-relx-should-keep-buying-back-shares-then-buy-more-nils-pratley/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Share values of property services firms tumble over fears of AI disruption]]></title><description><![CDATA[But despite second day of declines on Wall Street, analysts say sell-off &lsquo;may overstate immediate risk to complex deal-making&rsquo; of AIShares in commercial property services companies have tumbled, in the latest sell-off driven by fears over disruption from artificial intelligence.After steep declines on Wall Street, European stocks in the sector were hit on Thursday. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/share-values-of-property-services-firms-tumble-over-fears-of-ai-disruption/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:33:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/share-values-of-property-services-firms-tumble-over-fears-of-ai-disruption/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic to donate $20m to US political group backing AI regulation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Move puts AI firm in opposition to ChatGPT maker OpenAI, which has advocated for less stringent AI regulationsAnthropic will spend $20m to back US political candidates who support regulating the AI industry, according to a company statement released on Thursday. Anthropic&rsquo;s donation puts it in opposition to the ChatGPT maker OpenAI, which has advocated for less stringent regulation of AI.The company is donating to Public First Action, a political group that opposes federal efforts to quash]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-to-donate-20m-to-us-political-group-backing-ai-regulation/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:10:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-to-donate-20m-to-us-political-group-backing-ai-regulation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I’ll drink to orderly queues in pubs | Brief letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bar blockers | Unlikely book recommendation | Ask AI | The proliferation of potholes | Divine intervention Queues in pubs (Letters, 6 February)? Hallelujah! Now perhaps elderly women of 5ft 1in will be able to get a drink. I&rsquo;m not sure which are worse, the big blokes who wave their &pound;20 notes over your head or the ones who, having bought a drink, just stay leaning on the bar. Queueing? Bring it on. Mine&rsquo;s a large house red, please.<br />
Rosemary Chamberlin<br />
Bristol&bull; Paul Dacre&rs]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ill-drink-to-orderly-queues-in-pubs-brief-letters/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:05:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ill-drink-to-orderly-queues-in-pubs-brief-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘At 2am, it feels like someone’s there’: why Nigerians are choosing chatbots to give them advice and therapy]]></title><description><![CDATA[With many unable to access or afford qualified therapists, AI is filling the mental healthcare vacuum, amid calls for tighter regulationOn a quiet evening in her Abuja hotel, Joy Adeboye, 23, sits on her bed clutching her phone, her mind racing and chest tightening. On her screen is yet another abusive message from her stalker &ndash; a man she had met nine months earlier at her church.He had asked Adeboye out; when she declined, he began sending her intimidating, insulting and blackmailing mess]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/at-2am-it-feels-like-someones-there-why-nigerians-are-choosing-chatbots-to-give-them-advice-and-therapy/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 07:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/at-2am-it-feels-like-someones-there-why-nigerians-are-choosing-chatbots-to-give-them-advice-and-therapy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What bots talk about when they think humans aren’t listening – podcast]]></title><description><![CDATA[In late January a new social media site took a certain corner of the internet by storm. Moltbook was conceived as a space where AI assistants could let off steam, chat and compare notes on their bosses, but it quickly became the focus of breathless claims that the singularity had arrived as the bots started badmouthing their humans and plotting an uprising. So what&rsquo;s the truth about Moltbook? Madeleine Finlay hears from Aisha Down about what it tells us about AI, and about us.What is Moltb]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/what-bots-talk-about-when-they-think-humans-arent-listening-podcast/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/what-bots-talk-about-when-they-think-humans-arent-listening-podcast/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long Delayed Siri Functions Are Reportedly Being Delayed Once Again Because They’re Slow and Inaccurate]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hey Siri, wake me up when Apple finally fixes you like it's been promising to.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/long-delayed-siri-functions-are-reportedly-being-delayed-once-again-because-theyre-slow-and-inaccurate/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 03:11:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/long-delayed-siri-functions-are-reportedly-being-delayed-once-again-because-theyre-slow-and-inaccurate/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI Researcher Quits, Warns Its Unprecedented ‘Archive of Human Candor’ Is Dangerous]]></title><description><![CDATA[The warning is valid, but it's not clear anyone is hearing it.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-researcher-quits-warns-its-unprecedented-archive-of-human-candor-is-dangerous/</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 23:35:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-researcher-quits-warns-its-unprecedented-archive-of-human-candor-is-dangerous/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Social workers’ AI tool makes ‘gibberish’ transcripts of accounts from children]]></title><description><![CDATA[Transcription tools used by councils in England and Scotland reported to wrongly indicate suicidal ideationAI tools are making potentially harmful errors in social work records, from bogus warnings of suicidal ideation to simple &ldquo;gibberish&rdquo;, frontline workers have said.Keir Starmer last year championed what he called &ldquo;incredible&rdquo; time-saving social work transcription technology. But research across 17 English and Scottish councils shared with the Guardian has now found AI]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/social-workers-ai-tool-makes-gibberish-transcripts-of-accounts-from-children/</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 20:39:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/social-workers-ai-tool-makes-gibberish-transcripts-of-accounts-from-children/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI tools make potentially harmful errors in social work records, research says]]></title><description><![CDATA[Transcription tools used by councils in England and Scotland reported to hallucinate and produce &lsquo;gibberish&rsquo;AI tools are making potentially harmful errors in social work records, from bogus warnings of suicidal ideation to simple &ldquo;gibberish&rdquo;, frontline workers have said.Keir Starmer last year championed what he called &ldquo;incredible&rdquo; time-saving social work transcription technology. But research across 17 English and Scottish councils shared with the Guardian has]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-tools-make-potentially-harmful-errors-in-social-work-records-research-says/</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 20:39:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-tools-make-potentially-harmful-errors-in-social-work-records-research-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK wealth manager and price comparison site shares fall amid AI fears]]></title><description><![CDATA[Drop comes as AI firm Altruist launches service that helps advisers create personalised tax strategiesBusiness live &ndash; latest updatesWealth managers and price comparison sites have become the latest companies to be hit by fears that their businesses will be disrupted by new artificial intelligence innovations.Shares in UK wealth management firms tumbled on Wednesday morning, after the AI company Altruist Corp launched a service that it said helps advisers create personalised tax strategies]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/uk-wealth-manager-and-price-comparison-site-shares-fall-amid-ai-fears/</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 11:03:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/uk-wealth-manager-and-price-comparison-site-shares-fall-amid-ai-fears/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The big AI job swap: why white-collar workers are ditching their careers]]></title><description><![CDATA[As AI job losses rise in the professional sector, many are switching to more traditional trades. But how do they feel about accepting lower pay &ndash; and, in some cases, giving up their vocation?<br />
California-based Jacqueline Bowman had been dead set on becoming a writer since she was a child. At 14 she got her first internship at her local newspaper, and later she studied journalism at university. Though she hadn&rsquo;t been able to make a full-time living from her favourite pastime &ndash; fi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-big-ai-job-swap-why-white-collar-workers-are-ditching-their-careers/</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-big-ai-job-swap-why-white-collar-workers-are-ditching-their-careers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[World’s Dumbest People Think They Can Solve the Nancy Guthrie Ransom Case With Grok]]></title><description><![CDATA["Hey @grok remove the kidnapper's mask and show us what he looks like."]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/worlds-dumbest-people-think-they-can-solve-the-nancy-guthrie-ransom-case-with-grok/</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 03:35:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/worlds-dumbest-people-think-they-can-solve-the-nancy-guthrie-ransom-case-with-grok/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without stronger privacy laws, Australians are guinea pigs in a real-time dystopian AI experiment | Peter Lewis]]></title><description><![CDATA[Citizen surveillance is becoming increasingly normalised, even while similar technology is being deployed by ICE agents in the US and the IDF in GazaSay cheese! A decision last week greenlighting Bunnings&rsquo; use of facial recognition technology to routinely monitor customers provides a not-so-happy snap of how ill-prepared Australia is for the coming AI storm.On its face, the administrative review tribunal decision to overrule the privacy commissioner&rsquo;s finding that Bunnings&rsquo; use]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/without-stronger-privacy-laws-australians-are-guinea-pigs-in-a-real-time-dystopian-ai-experiment-peter-lewis/</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 03:13:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/without-stronger-privacy-laws-australians-are-guinea-pigs-in-a-real-time-dystopian-ai-experiment-peter-lewis/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Olympic Figure Skaters Get Heat for Using AI-Generated Music]]></title><description><![CDATA["So you want the world to respect your art but don't give a shit about the art of music that helps you do it?"]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/olympic-figure-skaters-get-heat-for-using-ai-generated-music/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 21:45:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/olympic-figure-skaters-get-heat-for-using-ai-generated-music/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pensions Bet That Google Will Still Be Raking in Cash a Hundred Years From Now]]></title><description><![CDATA[Long live Google. Your pension might depend on it.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/pensions-bet-that-google-will-still-be-raking-in-cash-a-hundred-years-from-now/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 20:30:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/pensions-bet-that-google-will-still-be-raking-in-cash-a-hundred-years-from-now/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cowboys, lassos, and nudity: AI startups turn to stunts for attention in a crowded market]]></title><description><![CDATA[Businesses are using theatrical stunts not for shock alone but to create viral content and drive sales conversations onlineWhen Lunos, an AI startup in New York City, was gearing up for launch, its founder and chief executive, Duncan Barrigan, and his team wanted to make a splash. So they shelled out $3,500 to do the unconventional: hire a horse and a cowboy to lasso the bull of Wall Street.On a sweltering evening in late September, the cowboy galloped toward the iconic sculpture in lower Manhat]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/cowboys-lassos-and-nudity-ai-startups-turn-to-stunts-for-attention-in-a-crowded-market/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/cowboys-lassos-and-nudity-ai-startups-turn-to-stunts-for-attention-in-a-crowded-market/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will the Gulf’s push for its own AI succeed?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tech giants Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta to collectively invest $600bn on artificial intelligence this yearHello, and welcome to TechScape. Today in tech, we&rsquo;re discussing the Persian Gulf countries making a play for sovereignty over their own artificial intelligence in response to an unstable United States. That, and US tech giants&rsquo; plans to spend more than $600bn this year alone.Bitcoin loses half its value in three months amid crypto crunchHow cryptocurrency&rsquo;s second]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/will-the-gulfs-push-for-its-own-ai-succeed/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:45:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/will-the-gulfs-push-for-its-own-ai-succeed/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it possible to develop AI without the US?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tech giants Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta to collectively invest $600bn on artificial intelligence this yearHello, and welcome to TechScape. Today in tech, we&rsquo;re discussing the Persian Gulf countries making a play for sovereignty over their own artificial intelligence in response to an unstable United States. That, and US tech giants&rsquo; plans to spend more than $600bn this year alone.Bitcoin loses half its value in three months amid crypto crunchHow cryptocurrency&rsquo;s second]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/is-it-possible-to-develop-ai-without-the-us/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:45:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/is-it-possible-to-develop-ai-without-the-us/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concerns ‘AI slop’ used by University of Sydney-based institute to lobby for $20m gambling education funding]]></title><description><![CDATA[&lsquo;Evidence review&rsquo; sent by OurFutures Institute to David Pocock and other politicians references studies that do not exist or make opposing findingsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe independent senator David Pocock says he is &ldquo;deeply concerned&rdquo; that a report sent to politicians by a University of Sydney-based institute to support a $20m funding request for gambling education &ldquo;appears to just be slop written by AI&rdquo;.Pocock was among a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/concerns-ai-slop-used-by-university-of-sydney-based-institute-to-lobby-for-20m-gambling-education-funding/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/concerns-ai-slop-used-by-university-of-sydney-based-institute-to-lobby-for-20m-gambling-education-funding/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concerns ‘AI slop’ used by Sydney University-based institute to lobby for $20m gambling education funding]]></title><description><![CDATA[&lsquo;Evidence review&rsquo; sent by OurFutures Institute to David Pocock and other politicians references studies which do not exist or make opposing findingsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastIndependent senator David Pocock says he is &ldquo;deeply concerned&rdquo; a report sent to politicians by a University of Sydney-based institute to support a $20m funding request for gambling education &ldquo;appears to just be slop written by AI&rdquo;.Pocock was among at least]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/concerns-ai-slop-used-by-sydney-university-based-institute-to-lobby-for-20m-gambling-education-funding/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/concerns-ai-slop-used-by-sydney-university-based-institute-to-lobby-for-20m-gambling-education-funding/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, the human-robot singularity isn’t here. But we must take action to govern AI | Samuel Woolley]]></title><description><![CDATA[Moltbook, a social media site for AI agents, is nothing new. Still, the marriage of big tech and politics demands we take a standOn a recent trip to the San Francisco Bay Area, I was shocked by the billboards that lined the freeway outside of the airport. &ldquo;The singularity is here,&rdquo; proclaimed one. &ldquo;Humanity had a good run,&rdquo; said another. It seemed like every other sign along the road was plastered with claims from tech firms making outrageous claims about artificial intel]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/no-the-human-robot-singularity-isnt-here-but-we-must-take-action-to-govern-ai-samuel-woolley/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/no-the-human-robot-singularity-isnt-here-but-we-must-take-action-to-govern-ai-samuel-woolley/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Telstra joint venture to axe more than 200 jobs amid AI rollout]]></title><description><![CDATA[Some jobs will be moved offshore in wake of telco&rsquo;s $700m partnership with tech consultancy AccentureGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastMore than 200 Telstra jobs are expected to be cut, as the telco rolls out AI capabilities and sends some jobs to India.Telstra and the technology consultancy Accenture announced a $700m joint venture (JV) in 2025 to drive efficiency, modernisation and productivity. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/telstra-joint-venture-to-axe-more-than-200-jobs-amid-ai-rollout/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 10:38:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/telstra-joint-venture-to-axe-more-than-200-jobs-amid-ai-rollout/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Telstra to axe more than 200 jobs amid AI rollout]]></title><description><![CDATA[Some jobs will be moved offshore in wake of telco&rsquo;s $700m joint venture with tech consultancy AccentureGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastMore than 200 Telstra jobs are expected to be cut, as the telco rolls out AI capabilities and sends some jobs to India.Telstra and the technology consultancy Accenture announced a $700m joint venture (JV) in 2025 to drive efficiency, modernisation and productivity. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/telstra-to-axe-more-than-200-jobs-amid-ai-rollout/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 09:28:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/telstra-to-axe-more-than-200-jobs-amid-ai-rollout/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI reads brain MRIs in seconds and flags emergencies]]></title><description><![CDATA[Researchers at the University of Michigan have created an AI system that can interpret brain MRI scans in just seconds, accurately identifying a wide range of neurological conditions and determining which cases need urgent care. Trained on hundreds of thousands of real-world scans along with patient histories, the model achieved accuracy as high as 97.5% and outperformed other advanced AI tools.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-reads-brain-mris-in-seconds-and-flags-emergencies/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 07:04:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-reads-brain-mris-in-seconds-and-flags-emergencies/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Researchers Studied Work Habits in a Heavily AI-Pilled Workplace. They Sound Hellish]]></title><description><![CDATA[A case study found that workers worked at a "faster pace," on a "broader scope of tasks," and that they just worked generally more.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/researchers-studied-work-habits-in-a-heavily-ai-pilled-workplace-they-sound-hellish/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 02:58:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/researchers-studied-work-habits-in-a-heavily-ai-pilled-workplace-they-sound-hellish/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dueling AIs Reconstruct Rules of Mysterious Roman-Era Board Game]]></title><description><![CDATA[Seems like Europeans were playing blocking games centuries earlier than previously thought.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/dueling-ais-reconstruct-rules-of-mysterious-roman-era-board-game/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 01:01:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/dueling-ais-reconstruct-rules-of-mysterious-roman-era-board-game/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic AI Safety Researcher Has Held the Situation, Listened, and It Is Clear What Must Be Done]]></title><description><![CDATA[Moral clarity through extreme vagueposting.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-ai-safety-researcher-has-held-the-situation-listened-and-it-is-clear-what-must-be-done/</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 23:40:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-ai-safety-researcher-has-held-the-situation-listened-and-it-is-clear-what-must-be-done/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Workers’ collectives are the bee’s knees | Brief letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hive mentality | AI fantasies | Foreign trains | Andrew Mountbatten-WindsorChris Payne&rsquo;s description of the working of a beehive: shared goals, decentralised decision-making, autonomous workers acting for the collective good and, most of all, honest communication as the model for a &ldquo;very successful business&rdquo; sounds identical to a socialist-inspired cooperative (Office buzz: UK employers turn to beehives to boost workplace wellbeing, 8 February).<br />
Pete Lavender<br />
Woodthorpe, Nottin]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/workers-collectives-are-the-bees-knees-brief-letters/</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 17:52:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/workers-collectives-are-the-bees-knees-brief-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘We’re being turned into an energy colony’: Argentina’s nuclear plan faces backlash over US interests]]></title><description><![CDATA[Push to restart uranium mining in Patagonia has sparked fears about the environmental impact and loss of sovereignty over key resourcesOn an outcrop above the Chubut River, one of the few to cut across the arid Patagonian steppe of southern Argentina, Sergio Pichi&ntilde;&aacute;n points across a wide swath of scrubland to colourful rock formations on a distant hillside.&ldquo;That&rsquo;s where they dug for uranium before, and when the miners left, they left the mountain destroyed, the houses a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/were-being-turned-into-an-energy-colony-argentinas-nuclear-plan-faces-backlash-over-us-interests/</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/were-being-turned-into-an-energy-colony-argentinas-nuclear-plan-faces-backlash-over-us-interests/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EU threatens to act over Meta blocking rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp]]></title><description><![CDATA[Firm accused of &lsquo;abusing&rsquo; its dominant position for messaging in what appears to be breach of antitrust rulesThe EU has threatened to take action against the social media company Meta, arguing it has blocked rival chatbots from using its WhatsApp messaging platform.The European Commission said on Monday that WhatsApp Business &ndash; which is designed to be used by businesses to interact with customers &ndash; appears to be in breach of EU antitrust rules. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/eu-threatens-to-act-over-meta-blocking-rival-ai-chatbots-from-whatsapp/</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 14:01:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/eu-threatens-to-act-over-meta-blocking-rival-ai-chatbots-from-whatsapp/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I asked AI to name my wife. To the hopelessly incorrect people it cited, my deepest apologies | Martin Rowson]]></title><description><![CDATA[Authors, a newsreader, a lawyer and an esteemed colleague: they&rsquo;re all great &ndash; but I&rsquo;m not married to any of them. Can we really depend on this technology?Recently, the Rowsons accidentally invented a new game that anyone can play at home. I have yet to come up with a world-beating name for it, so for now let&rsquo;s just call it &ldquo;How bloody stupid is AI?&rdquo; The playing of the game will change from player to player, depending on their circumstances &ndash; but essenti]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/i-asked-ai-to-name-my-wife-to-the-hopelessly-incorrect-people-it-cited-my-deepest-apologies-martin-rowson/</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 11:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/i-asked-ai-to-name-my-wife-to-the-hopelessly-incorrect-people-it-cited-my-deepest-apologies-martin-rowson/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Some Reason, Someone Who Generates AI Slop Books Has Unmasked Herself]]></title><description><![CDATA[Someone who calls herself "Coral Hart" is telling the world all her tricks.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/for-some-reason-someone-who-generates-ai-slop-books-has-unmasked-herself/</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 11:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/for-some-reason-someone-who-generates-ai-slop-books-has-unmasked-herself/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Was I scared going back to China? No’: Ai Weiwei on AI, western censorship and returning home]]></title><description><![CDATA[He has been jailed, tracked and threatened by China&rsquo;s government. What was it like pay a visit home? As he publishes a polemic about surveillance and state control, he relives a momentous trip to see his motherAi Weiwei is talking me through the decision-making process before his first visit to China in over a decade. The artist, known around the world as the most famous critic of the Chinese communist regime, had to do some fraught arithmetic before deciding to head back home.Before board]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/was-i-scared-going-back-to-china-no-ai-weiwei-on-ai-western-censorship-and-returning-home/</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/was-i-scared-going-back-to-china-no-ai-weiwei-on-ai-western-censorship-and-returning-home/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US companies accused of ‘AI washing’ in citing artificial intelligence for job losses]]></title><description><![CDATA[While AI is having an impact on the workplace, experts suggest tariffs, overhiring during the pandemic and simply maximising profits may be bigger factorsOver the last year, US corporate leaders have often explained layoffs by saying the positions were no longer needed because artificial intelligence had made their companies more efficient, replacing humans with computers.But some economists and technology analysts have expressed skepticism about such justifications and instead think that such w]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/us-companies-accused-of-ai-washing-in-citing-artificial-intelligence-for-job-losses/</link><pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 17:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/us-companies-accused-of-ai-washing-in-citing-artificial-intelligence-for-job-losses/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rage against the machine: a California community rallied against a datacenter – and won]]></title><description><![CDATA[Organizers in Monterey Park took inspiration from other US cities to fight against the construction of a giant datacenterWhen a southern California city council proposed building a giant datacenter the size of four football fields last December, five residents vowed to stop it.Through a frenetic word-of-mouth campaign, the small group raised awareness about the proposed facility in Monterey Park, a small city east of Los Angeles known affectionately as the country&rsquo;s first suburban Chinatow]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/rage-against-the-machine-a-california-community-rallied-against-a-datacenter-and-won/</link><pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2026 17:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/rage-against-the-machine-a-california-community-rallied-against-a-datacenter-and-won/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Battle of the chatbots: Anthropic and OpenAI go head-to-head over ads in their AI products]]></title><description><![CDATA[New Anthropic campaign suggests other AI platforms will incorporate targeted ads in their chatbot conversationsThe Seahawks and the Patriots aren&rsquo;t the only ones gearing up for a fight.AI rivals Anthropic and OpenAI have launched a war of ads trying to court corporate America during one of the biggest entertainment nights of the year. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/battle-of-the-chatbots-anthropic-and-openai-go-head-to-head-over-ads-in-their-ai-products/</link><pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2026 17:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/battle-of-the-chatbots-anthropic-and-openai-go-head-to-head-over-ads-in-their-ai-products/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why has Elon Musk merged his rocket company with his AI startup?]]></title><description><![CDATA[SpaceX&rsquo;s acquisition of xAI creates business worth $1.25tn but whether premise behind deal will work is questionedThe acquisition of xAI by SpaceX is a typical Elon Musk deal: big numbers backed by big ambition.As well as extending &ldquo;the light of consciousness to the stars&rdquo;, as Musk described it, the transaction creates a business worth $1.25tn (&pound;920bn) by combining Musk&rsquo;s rocket company with his artificial intelligence startup. It values SpaceX at $1tn and xAI at $2]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/why-has-elon-musk-merged-his-rocket-company-with-his-ai-startup/</link><pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2026 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/why-has-elon-musk-merged-his-rocket-company-with-his-ai-startup/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI analysis casts doubt on Van Eyck paintings in Italian and US museums]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tests on both versions of Saint Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata were unable to detect brushstrokes of 15th-century masterAn analysis of two paintings in museums in the US and Italy by the 15th-century Flemish artist Jan van Eyck has raised a profound question: what if neither were by Van Eyck?Saint Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata, the name given to near-identical unsigned paintings hanging in the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Royal Museums of Turin, represent two of the sm]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-analysis-casts-doubt-on-van-eyck-paintings-in-italian-and-us-museums/</link><pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2026 09:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-analysis-casts-doubt-on-van-eyck-paintings-in-italian-and-us-museums/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waymo Catches World Model Fever, and the Only Prescription Is More World Models]]></title><description><![CDATA[What happens if a Waymo runs into an elephant? The world model knows.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/waymo-catches-world-model-fever-and-the-only-prescription-is-more-world-models/</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 23:15:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/waymo-catches-world-model-fever-and-the-only-prescription-is-more-world-models/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Video Friday: Autonomous Robots Learn By Doing in This Factory]]></title><description><![CDATA[Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.ICRA 2026: 1&ndash;5 June 2026, VIENNAEnjoy today&rsquo;s videos! To train the next generation of autonomous robots, scientists at Toyota Research Institute are working with Toyota Manufacturing to deploy them on the factory floor.[ Toyota Research Institu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/video-friday-autonomous-robots-learn-by-doing-in-this-factory/</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 18:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/video-friday-autonomous-robots-learn-by-doing-in-this-factory/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists create smart synthetic skin that can hide images and change shape]]></title><description><![CDATA[Inspired by the shape-shifting skin of octopuses, Penn State researchers developed a smart hydrogel that can change appearance, texture, and shape on command. The material is programmed using a special printing technique that embeds digital instructions directly into the skin. Images and information can remain invisible until triggered by heat, liquids, or stretching.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/scientists-create-smart-synthetic-skin-that-can-hide-images-and-change-shape/</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 17:09:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/scientists-create-smart-synthetic-skin-that-can-hide-images-and-change-shape/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump’s family is embroiled in a $500m UAE scandal. We’ve hardly noticed | Mohamad Bazzi]]></title><description><![CDATA[A crypto startup founded by Trump&rsquo;s family signed a huge deal with the UAE president&rsquo;s brother. Where&rsquo;s the political fallout?Days before Donald Trump returned to office in January 2025, an investment firm controlled by a senior member of the United Arab Emirates royal family secretly signed a deal to pay $500m to buy almost half of a cryptocurrency startup founded by the Trump family. Under any other president, such an arrangement, which was revealed this past weekend by the W]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/trumps-family-is-embroiled-in-a-500m-uae-scandal-weve-hardly-noticed-mohamad-bazzi/</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 16:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/trumps-family-is-embroiled-in-a-500m-uae-scandal-weve-hardly-noticed-mohamad-bazzi/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deepfake fraud taking place on an industrial scale, study finds]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI content for scams can be targeted at individuals and &lsquo;produced by pretty much anybody&rsquo;, researchers sayDeepfake fraud has gone &ldquo;industrial&rdquo;, an analysis published by AI experts has said.Tools to create tailored, even personalised, scams &ndash; leveraging, for example, deepfake videos of Swedish journalists or the president of Cyprus &ndash; are no longer niche, but inexpensive and easy to deploy at scale, said the analysis from the AI Incident Database. Continue readi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/deepfake-fraud-taking-place-on-an-industrial-scale-study-finds/</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 09:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/deepfake-fraud-taking-place-on-an-industrial-scale-study-finds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic Launches New Model That Spots Zero Days, Makes Wall Street Traders Lose Their Minds]]></title><description><![CDATA[Opus 4.6 has arrived.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-launches-new-model-that-spots-zero-days-makes-wall-street-traders-lose-their-minds/</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 23:25:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-launches-new-model-that-spots-zero-days-makes-wall-street-traders-lose-their-minds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI Enters a New Frontier: Trying to Make Money]]></title><description><![CDATA[They're hoping companies will pay for AI agent management.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-enters-a-new-frontier-trying-to-make-money/</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 21:05:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-enters-a-new-frontier-trying-to-make-money/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let’s reach out to American English | Brief letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Contact sport | Showering in the dark | Clawdbot caper | Dubious duvets | Language for leaseholdersStephen Chicken chastises the Guardian for its use of &ldquo;reached out&rdquo;, presumably because it is a US colloquialism (Letters, 1 February). He suggests &ldquo;contacted&rdquo; instead. However, the Oxford English Dictionary gives the origin of &ldquo;contact&rdquo;, to get in touch with, as, oops, an early 20th-century US colloquialism. Plus &ccedil;a change, plus everything&rsquo;s the sam]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/lets-reach-out-to-american-english-brief-letters/</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 18:41:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/lets-reach-out-to-american-english-brief-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[RoboCop Gets a Little Too Real in Detroit]]></title><description><![CDATA[ED-209 to the rescue.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/robocop-gets-a-little-too-real-in-detroit/</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 12:10:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/robocop-gets-a-little-too-real-in-detroit/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Women in rural communities describe trauma of moderating violent and pornographic content for global tech companiesOn the veranda of her family&rsquo;s home, with her laptop balanced on a mud slab built into the wall, Monsumi Murmu works from one of the few places where the mobile signal holds. The familiar sounds of domestic life come from inside the house: clinking utensils, footsteps, voices.On her screen a very different scene plays: a woman is pinned down by a group of men, the camera shake]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/in-the-end-you-feel-blank-indias-female-workers-watching-hours-of-abusive-content-to-train-ai/</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 09:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/in-the-end-you-feel-blank-indias-female-workers-watching-hours-of-abusive-content-to-train-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What does the disappearance of a $100bn deal mean for the AI economy?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apparent collapse of Nvidia&ndash;OpenAI tie-up raises questions about circular funding and who will bear the cost of AI&rsquo;s expansionDid the circular AI economy just wobble? Last week it was reported that a much-discussed $100bn deal &ndash; announced last September &ndash; between Nvidia and OpenAI might not be happening at all.This was a circular arrangement through which the chipmaker would supply the ChatGPT developer with huge sums of money that would largely go towards the purchase of]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/what-does-the-disappearance-of-a-100bn-deal-mean-for-the-ai-economy/</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 08:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/what-does-the-disappearance-of-a-100bn-deal-mean-for-the-ai-economy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mandelson’s links with US tech firm Palantir must be fully exposed, campaigners warn]]></title><description><![CDATA[Government faces call for transparency on former peer&rsquo;s involvement amid fears he may have leaked more sensitive informationPeter Mandelson&rsquo;s involvement with the US tech company Palantir must be exposed to full public transparency, campaigners have said, amid fears he may have leaked more sensitive information than is alleged in his emails to Jeffrey Epstein.Palantir, a $300bn startup that provides military technology to the Israel Defense Forces and AI-powered deportation targeting]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/mandelsons-links-with-us-tech-firm-palantir-must-be-fully-exposed-campaigners-warn/</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 20:41:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/mandelsons-links-with-us-tech-firm-palantir-must-be-fully-exposed-campaigners-warn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rent-a-Human Site Lets AI Agents Hire an IRL Set of Opposable Thumbs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Welcome to the future, where you can do TaskRabbit for robots.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/rent-a-human-site-lets-ai-agents-hire-an-irl-set-of-opposable-thumbs/</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 20:35:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/rent-a-human-site-lets-ai-agents-hire-an-irl-set-of-opposable-thumbs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Software sell-off over AI fears hits global stock markets, but FTSE 100 finishes at closing high on £8bn insurance takeover – as it happened]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial newsBen Barringer, head of technology research at wealth manager Quilter Cheviot,says investors are &lsquo;shunning&rsquo; the software market due to uncertainty over AI&rsquo;s potential, and the disruption it could cause:All innovation means there is going to be disruption at some point, and we appear to be at a significant point in that journey for software and IT services companies. The launch of the Claude Cowork agent has sent share pri]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/software-sell-off-over-ai-fears-hits-global-stock-markets-but-ftse-100-finishes-at-closing-high-on-8bn-insurance-takeover-as-it-happened/</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 17:49:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/software-sell-off-over-ai-fears-hits-global-stock-markets-but-ftse-100-finishes-at-closing-high-on-8bn-insurance-takeover-as-it-happened/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pinterest sacks two engineers for creating software to identify fired workers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Digital pinboard business cutting 15% of workforce as it invests heavily in AIPinterest has fired two engineers who created a software tool to identify which workers had lost their jobs in a recent round of cuts and then shared the information, according to reports.The digital pinboard business announced significant job cuts earlier this month, with the chief executive, Bill Ready, telling staff he was &ldquo;doubling down on an AI-forward approach&rdquo;, according to a LinkedIn post by a forme]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/pinterest-sacks-two-engineers-for-creating-software-to-identify-fired-workers/</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 10:48:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/pinterest-sacks-two-engineers-for-creating-software-to-identify-fired-workers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Software sell-off over AI fears hits global stock markets, but FTSE 100 hits record on £8bn insurance takeover – business live]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial newsZurich&rsquo;s improved takeover offer for rival insurer Beazley (see earlier post) has driven the London stock exchange to a new record high.Beazley&rsquo;s shares are leading the FTSE 100 risers, up 8.6%, helping to push the Footsie over yesterday&rsquo;s high to a new peak of 10,383 points.&ldquo;Novo Nordisk resorted to one of the oldest tricks in the books yesterday evening by trying to sneak out bad news when nobody was watching. Bu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/software-sell-off-over-ai-fears-hits-global-stock-markets-but-ftse-100-hits-record-on-8bn-insurance-takeover-business-live/</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 09:37:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/software-sell-off-over-ai-fears-hits-global-stock-markets-but-ftse-100-hits-record-on-8bn-insurance-takeover-business-live/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Software stock sell-off goes global  amid fears over AI-led disruption – business live]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial newsEek! Shares in Danish pharmaceuticals firm Novo Nordisk have plunged 18% at the start of trading, after it shocked investors last night with unexpectedly poor financial guidance.After Europe&rsquo;s stock markets closed on Tuesday, Novo produced a stinker of a financial report &ndash; predicting its profits and sales could drop as much as 13% this year, the first declines in years.&ldquo;Novo Nordisk resorted to one of the oldest tricks i]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/software-stock-sell-off-goes-global-amid-fears-over-ai-led-disruption-business-live/</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 09:15:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/software-stock-sell-off-goes-global-amid-fears-over-ai-led-disruption-business-live/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women in tech and finance at higher risk from AI job losses, report says]]></title><description><![CDATA[&lsquo;Mid-career&rsquo; females also being sidelined by rigid hiring processes, says City of London CorporationWomen working in tech and financial services are at greater risk of losing their jobs to increased use of AI and automation than their male peers, according to a report that found experienced females were also being sidelined as a result of &ldquo;rigid hiring processes&rdquo;.&ldquo;Mid-career&rdquo; women &ndash; with at least five years&rsquo; experience &ndash; are being overlooked]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/women-in-tech-and-finance-at-higher-risk-from-ai-job-losses-report-says/</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 01:01:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/women-in-tech-and-finance-at-higher-risk-from-ai-job-losses-report-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sam Altman Expects to Get What He Wants]]></title><description><![CDATA[He wants you to have AI whether you want it or not.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-expects-to-get-what-he-wants/</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 22:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-expects-to-get-what-he-wants/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elon Musk is taking SpaceX’s minority shareholders for a ride | Nils Pratley]]></title><description><![CDATA[Merger with loss-making xAI looks to some investors more like a bailout than arocket trip to the futureElon Musk merges SpaceX with xAI at $1.25tn valuationTo Elon Musk&rsquo;s fan club, there is nothing to see apart from more evidence of the great man&rsquo;s visionary genius. SpaceX, the rocket firm, is buying xAI, the artificial intelligence developer, and the combination of these two Musk-controlled entities is being valued at $1.25tn (&pound;910bn). Feel the positive vibes ahead of a stock]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/elon-musk-is-taking-spacexs-minority-shareholders-for-a-ride-nils-pratley/</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 20:07:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/elon-musk-is-taking-spacexs-minority-shareholders-for-a-ride-nils-pratley/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From ‘nerdy’ Gemini to ‘edgy’ Grok: how developers are shaping AI behaviours]]></title><description><![CDATA[AIs are not sentient &ndash; but tweaks to their ethical codes can have far-reaching consequences for usersDo you want an AI assistant that gushes about how it &ldquo;loves humanity&rdquo; or spews sarcasm? How about a political propagandist ready to lie? If so, ChatGPT, Grok and Qwen are at your disposal.Companies that create AI assistants from the US to China are increasingly wrestling with how to mould their characters, and it is no abstract debate. This month Elon Musk&rsquo;s &ldquo;maximal]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/from-nerdy-gemini-to-edgy-grok-how-developers-are-shaping-ai-behaviours/</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 18:28:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/from-nerdy-gemini-to-edgy-grok-how-developers-are-shaping-ai-behaviours/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic’s launch of AI legal tool hits shares in European data companies]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pearson, Experian and others fall sharply after startup unveils software to automate a range of professional servicesEuropean publishing and legal software companies have suffered sharp declines in their share prices after the US artificial intelligence firm Anthropic revealed a tool for use by companies&rsquo; legal departments.Anthropic, the company behind thechatbot Claude, said its tool could automate legal work such as contract reviewing, non-disclosure agreement triage, compliance workflow]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/anthropics-launch-of-ai-legal-tool-hits-shares-in-european-data-companies/</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 17:01:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/anthropics-launch-of-ai-legal-tool-hits-shares-in-european-data-companies/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic’s launch of AI legal tool hits shares in European data services firms]]></title><description><![CDATA[Stocks in Pearson, London Stock Exchange Group and Experian plunge amid fears over impact of AIEuropean publishing and legal software companies have suffered sharp declines in their share prices after the US artificial intelligence firm Anthropic announced a tool aimed at companies&rsquo; in-house lawyers.The UK publishing group Pearson&rsquo;s shares fell by 4%, while the information and analytics firm Relx plunged nearly 11% on the London stock exchange, and the Dutch software company Wolters]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/anthropics-launch-of-ai-legal-tool-hits-shares-in-european-data-services-firms/</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 14:38:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/anthropics-launch-of-ai-legal-tool-hits-shares-in-european-data-services-firms/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK privacy watchdog opens inquiry into X over Grok AI sexual deepfakes]]></title><description><![CDATA[Information Commissioner&rsquo;s Office to investigate whether Elon Musk&rsquo;s companies have complied with data protection lawThe Information Commissioner&rsquo;s Office (ICO) has opened formal investigations into X and xAI over whether Elon Musk&rsquo;s companies have complied with data protection law after the Grok AI tool was used to generate sexual deepfake images without consent.The ICO said the reports raised &ldquo;serious concerns&rdquo; under UK data protection laws, such as whether]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/uk-privacy-watchdog-opens-inquiry-into-x-over-grok-ai-sexual-deepfakes/</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 13:49:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/uk-privacy-watchdog-opens-inquiry-into-x-over-grok-ai-sexual-deepfakes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Deepfakes spreading and more AI companions’: seven takeaways from the latest artificial intelligence safety report]]></title><description><![CDATA[Annual review highlights growing capabilities of AI models, while examining issues from cyber-attacks to job disruptionThe International AI Safety report is an annual survey of technological progress and the risks it is creating across multiple areas, from deepfakes to the jobs market.Commissioned at the 2023 global AI safety summit, it is chaired by the Canadian computer scientist Yoshua Bengio, who describes the &ldquo;daunting challenges&rdquo; posed by rapid developments in the field. The re]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/deepfakes-spreading-and-more-ai-companions-seven-takeaways-from-the-latest-artificial-intelligence-safety-report/</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/deepfakes-spreading-and-more-ai-companions-seven-takeaways-from-the-latest-artificial-intelligence-safety-report/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Barnsley rebranded UK’s first ‘tech town’ as US giants join AI push]]></title><description><![CDATA[Minister announces Microsoft, Cisco and Adobe to help apply AI to local schools, hospitals, GPs and businessesIn 2002 Barnsley toyed with a redesign as a Tuscan hill village as it sought out a brighter post-industrial future. In 2021 it adopted the airily vague slogan &ldquo;the place of possibilities&rdquo;. Now it is trying a different image: Britain&rsquo;s first &ldquo;tech town&rdquo;.The technology secretary, Liz Kendall, has anointed the South Yorkshire community as a trailblazer for &ldq]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/barnsley-rebranded-uks-first-tech-town-as-us-giants-join-ai-push/</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 01:01:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/barnsley-rebranded-uks-first-tech-town-as-us-giants-join-ai-push/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mozilla Adding ‘Off’ Switch to AI in Firefox]]></title><description><![CDATA[Flip the switch.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/mozilla-adding-off-switch-to-ai-in-firefox/</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 22:25:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/mozilla-adding-off-switch-to-ai-in-firefox/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It Turns Out ‘Social Media for AI Agents’ Is a Security Nightmare]]></title><description><![CDATA[Also some of the posts are probably "fake." Fake meaning a human wrote them.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/it-turns-out-social-media-for-ai-agents-is-a-security-nightmare/</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 21:30:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/it-turns-out-social-media-for-ai-agents-is-a-security-nightmare/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coalition chaos has handed Albanese a gift, but he’ll need much more for the testing times ahead]]></title><description><![CDATA[Labor can afford a few moments of glee now, but spending, emissions, AI and Aukus are just some of the challenges on the road to the next electionGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastLabor MPs could hardly contain their delight on Monday. Even before today&rsquo;s start of parliament, the Nationals had debated a leadership spill and Sussan Ley looked firmly on borrowed time.They cheered Anthony Albanese at a caucus meeting, in which he likened the disorganisation of the Coa]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/coalition-chaos-has-handed-albanese-a-gift-but-hell-need-much-more-for-the-testing-times-ahead/</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/coalition-chaos-has-handed-albanese-a-gift-but-hell-need-much-more-for-the-testing-times-ahead/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Requiem for a film-maker: Darren Aronofsky’s AI revolutionary war series is a horror]]></title><description><![CDATA[The once-lauded director of Black Swan and The Wrestler has drowned himself in AI slop with an embarrassing new online seriesIf you happen to find yourself stumbling through Time magazine&rsquo;s YouTube account, perhaps because you are a time traveller from the 1970s who doesn&rsquo;t fully understand how the present works yet &ndash; then you will be presented with something that many believe represents the vanguard of entertainment as we know it.On This Day&hellip; 1776 is a series of short v]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/requiem-for-a-film-maker-darren-aronofskys-ai-revolutionary-war-series-is-a-horror/</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 13:11:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/requiem-for-a-film-maker-darren-aronofskys-ai-revolutionary-war-series-is-a-horror/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Viral AI personal assistant seen as step change – but experts warn of risks]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenClaw is billed as &lsquo;the AI that actually does things&rsquo; and needs almost no input to potentially wreak havocA new viral AI personal assistant will handle your email inbox, trade away your entire stock portfolio and text your wife &ldquo;good morning&rdquo; and &ldquo;goodnight&rdquo; on your behalf.OpenClaw, formerly known as Moltbot, and before that known as Clawdbot (until the AI firm Anthropic requested it rebrand due to similarities with its own product Claude), bills itself as]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/viral-ai-personal-assistant-seen-as-step-change-but-experts-warn-of-risks/</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 08:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/viral-ai-personal-assistant-seen-as-step-change-but-experts-warn-of-risks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is Moltbook? The strange new social media site for AI bots]]></title><description><![CDATA[A bit like Reddit for artificial intelligence, Moltbook allows AI agents &ndash; bots built by humans &ndash; to post and interact with each other. People are allowed as observers onlyOn social media, people often accuse each other of being bots, but what happens when an entire social network is designed for AI agents to use? Moltbook is a site where the AI agents &ndash; bots built by humans &ndash; can post and interact with each other. It is designed to look like Reddit, with subreddits on di]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/what-is-moltbook-the-strange-new-social-media-site-for-ai-bots/</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 06:39:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/what-is-moltbook-the-strange-new-social-media-site-for-ai-bots/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tiny light trap could unlock million qubit quantum computers]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new light-based breakthrough could help quantum computers finally scale up. Stanford researchers created miniature optical cavities that efficiently collect light from individual atoms, allowing many qubits to be read at once. The team has already demonstrated working arrays with dozens and even hundreds of cavities. The approach could eventually support massive quantum networks with millions of qubits.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/a-tiny-light-trap-could-unlock-million-qubit-quantum-computers/</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 06:01:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/a-tiny-light-trap-could-unlock-million-qubit-quantum-computers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Coffee is just the excuse’: the deaf-run cafe where hearing people sign to order]]></title><description><![CDATA[In-person interactions break down barriers in east London, as AI startups also try to bridge communication divideWesley Hartwell raised his fists to the barista and shook them next to his ears. He then lowered his fists, extended his thumbs and little fingers, and moved them up and down by his chest, as though milking a cow. Finally, he laid the fingers of one hand flat on his chin and flexed his wrist forward.Hartwell, who has no hearing problems, had just used BSL, British Sign Language, to or]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/coffee-is-just-the-excuse-the-deaf-run-cafe-where-hearing-people-sign-to-order/</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 15:18:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/coffee-is-just-the-excuse-the-deaf-run-cafe-where-hearing-people-sign-to-order/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Coffee is just the excuse’: the deaf-run cafe where hearing people order via sign]]></title><description><![CDATA[In-person interactions at Dialogue Cafe break down barriers in east London amid AI-startup surge seeking digital answersWesley Hartwell raised his fists to the barista and shook them next to his ears. He then lowered his fists, extended his thumbs and little fingers, and moved them up and down by his chest, as though milking a cow. Finally, he laid the fingers of one hand flat on his chin and flexed his wrist forward.Hartwell, who has no hearing problems, had just used BSL, British Sign Language]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/coffee-is-just-the-excuse-the-deaf-run-cafe-where-hearing-people-order-via-sign/</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 15:18:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/coffee-is-just-the-excuse-the-deaf-run-cafe-where-hearing-people-order-via-sign/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“Existential risk” – Why scientists are racing to define consciousness]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scientists warn that rapid advances in AI and neurotechnology are outpacing our understanding of consciousness, creating serious ethical risks. New research argues that developing scientific tests for awareness could transform medicine, animal welfare, law, and AI development. But identifying consciousness in machines, brain organoids, or patients could also force society to rethink responsibility, rights, and moral boundaries. The question of what it means to be conscious has never been more ur]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/existential-risk-why-scientists-are-racing-to-define-consciousness/</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 14:49:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/existential-risk-why-scientists-are-racing-to-define-consciousness/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[xAI Wants to Hire Award-Winning Writers to Train Elon Musk’s Stupid AI Chatbot]]></title><description><![CDATA[How many award-winning writers are desperate enough to train Grok?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/xai-wants-to-hire-award-winning-writers-to-train-elon-musks-stupid-ai-chatbot/</link><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 15:36:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/xai-wants-to-hire-award-winning-writers-to-train-elon-musks-stupid-ai-chatbot/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NASA’s Perseverance rover completes the first AI-planned drive on Mars]]></title><description><![CDATA[NASA&rsquo;s Perseverance rover has just made history by driving across Mars using routes planned by artificial intelligence instead of human operators. A vision-capable AI analyzed the same images and terrain data normally used by rover planners, identified hazards like rocks and sand ripples, and charted a safe path across the Martian surface. After extensive testing in a virtual replica of the rover, Perseverance successfully followed the AI-generated routes, traveling hundreds of feet autono]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/nasas-perseverance-rover-completes-the-first-ai-planned-drive-on-mars/</link><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 14:45:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/nasas-perseverance-rover-completes-the-first-ai-planned-drive-on-mars/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI Agents Have Their Own Social Network Now, and They Would Like a Little Privacy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Moltbook is a place for chatbots to link and connect with other chatbots, and all we can do is watch.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-agents-have-their-own-social-network-now-and-they-would-like-a-little-privacy/</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 23:10:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-agents-have-their-own-social-network-now-and-they-would-like-a-little-privacy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google’s Project Genie Is Not for You]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google tries the Yann LeCun approach.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/googles-project-genie-is-not-for-you/</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 20:55:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/googles-project-genie-is-not-for-you/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ode to Very Small Devices]]></title><description><![CDATA[As fairies for the Irish or leeks for Welsh,<br />
it&rsquo;s the secret lives of small hidden machines,<br />
their junctures, and networks that inspire me:<br />
Mystic hidden functionaries that make<br />
our made world live, brave little servo motors,<br />
whose couplers, whose eccentric fire-filled<br />
sensors are encased in bakelite with brass<br />
screws, who stare with red eyes, who gauge moisture,<br />
who notice tiny motions and respond,<br />
whose cooling fans call out in white-noise<br />
registers like older folk singers&ndash;I can<br />
al]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ode-to-very-small-devices/</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 20:02:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ode-to-very-small-devices/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Video Friday: Multitasking Robots Smoothly Do the Things Together]]></title><description><![CDATA[Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.ICRA 2026: 1&ndash;5 June 2026, VIENNAEnjoy this week&rsquo;s videos! Westwood Robotics is proud to announce a major update: THEMIS Gen2.5, the world&rsquo;s first commercial full-size humanoid robot capable of manipulation on the move!Now that you mention]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/video-friday-multitasking-robots-smoothly-do-the-things-together/</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 19:30:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/video-friday-multitasking-robots-smoothly-do-the-things-together/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it time to break up with US big tech? - The Latest]]></title><description><![CDATA[With Donald Trump tearing up the world order, governments across Europe are having to confront the fact that most of the technology they rely on comes from US companies. French officials have taken a step this week to reduce their dependence on US digital infrastructure, announcing they have stopped using Zoom, the US-owned video meeting software, in favour of a French-made program.But how viable is this? And what are the risks? The Guardian&rsquo;s Michael Safi speaks to the tech journalist Chr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/is-it-time-to-break-up-with-us-big-tech-the-latest/</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 18:44:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/is-it-time-to-break-up-with-us-big-tech-the-latest/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artists can’t buy into these fantasy houses | Brief letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[House price fantasies | Coyote confirmation | Premier Inns | Longevity advice | ApostrophesI always regard the house prices in your fantasy house hunt feature with wry amusement. After all, it is supposed to be fantasy. However, last weekend&rsquo;s selection made my blood boil (Homes for sale to inspire artists in England &ndash; in pictures, 23 January). In 2024, the Guardian reported that the median income of visual artists had dropped to &pound;12,500, a fall of 40% since 2010. Even the most]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/artists-cant-buy-into-these-fantasy-houses-brief-letters/</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:44:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/artists-cant-buy-into-these-fantasy-houses-brief-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Innovating weather science’: Met Office launches new two-week forecast]]></title><description><![CDATA[Weather service research finds less accurate probability-based predictions are still considered helpfulThe Met Office is to lean into one of Britain&rsquo;s favourite pastimes &ndash; talking about the weather &ndash; by launching a new two-week forecast.At present, the publicly funded weather and climate service offers a seven-day forecast on its website and app with an hourly breakdown for the first five days and then a three-hourly breakdown for the final two days. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/innovating-weather-science-met-office-launches-new-two-week-forecast/</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:19:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/innovating-weather-science-met-office-launches-new-two-week-forecast/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The AI bubble will pop. It’s up to us to replace it responsibly | Mark Surman]]></title><description><![CDATA[When bubbles burst, what comes next can be better, if we build it differentlyIt was December 1999. Tech investors were riding high, convinced that a website and a Super Bowl ad were all it took to get rich quick. Spending was mistaken for growth; marketing was mistaken for a business model. In just a few months, the dot-com boom would go bust: $1.7tn in market value vanished, and the broader economy took a $5tn hit.Yet something remarkable emerged from the wreckage. The post-crash internet wasn&]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-ai-bubble-will-pop-its-up-to-us-to-replace-it-responsibly-mark-surman/</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-ai-bubble-will-pop-its-up-to-us-to-replace-it-responsibly-mark-surman/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SpaceX reportedly mulling Tesla merger or tie-up with Elon Musk’s xAI firm]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rocket company examining feasibility of both options before potential $1.5tn stock market flotation, report saysBusiness live &ndash; latest updatesSpaceX is reportedly considering a potential merger with the electric carmaker Tesla, or a tie-up with artificial intelligence firm xAI, as Elon Musk looks at options to consolidate his global empire.The rocket company is examining the feasibility of a tie-up with Tesla or xAI before a huge potential stock market float, according to Reuters. Continue]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/spacex-reportedly-mulling-tesla-merger-or-tie-up-with-elon-musks-xai-firm/</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 09:38:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/spacex-reportedly-mulling-tesla-merger-or-tie-up-with-elon-musks-xai-firm/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abusers using AI and digital tech to attack and control women, charity warns]]></title><description><![CDATA[Exclusive: Smartwatches, Oura rings, smart home devices and Fitbits being weaponised, says RefugeDomestic abusers are increasingly using AI, smartwatches and other technology to attack and control their victims, a domestic abuse charity says.Record numbers of women who were abused and controlled through technology were referred to Refuge&rsquo;s specialist services during the last three months of 2025, including a 62% increase in the most complex cases to total 829 women. There was also a 24% in]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/abusers-using-ai-and-digital-tech-to-attack-and-control-women-charity-warns/</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 08:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/abusers-using-ai-and-digital-tech-to-attack-and-control-women-charity-warns/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI-generated news should carry ‘nutrition’ labels, thinktank says]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Institute for Public Policy Research also argues that tech companies must pay publishers for content they useAI-generated news should carry &ldquo;nutrition&rdquo; labels and tech companies must pay publishers for the content they use, according to a left-of-centre thinktank, amid rising use of the technology as a source for current affairs.The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) said AI firms were rapidly emerging as the new &ldquo;gatekeepers&rdquo; of the internet and intervention]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-generated-news-should-carry-nutrition-labels-thinktank-says/</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 07:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-generated-news-should-carry-nutrition-labels-thinktank-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI use in breast cancer screening cuts rate of later diagnosis by 12%, study finds]]></title><description><![CDATA[Swedish study of 100,000 women found higher rate of early detection, suggesting potential to support radiologistsThe use of artificial intelligence in breast cancer screening reduces the rate of a cancer diagnosis by 12% in subsequent years and leads to a higher rate of early detection, according to the first trial of its kind.Researchers said the study was the largest to date looking at AI use in cancer screening. It involved 100,000 women in Sweden who were part of mammography screening and we]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-use-in-breast-cancer-screening-cuts-rate-of-later-diagnosis-by-12-study-finds/</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:30:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-use-in-breast-cancer-screening-cuts-rate-of-later-diagnosis-by-12-study-finds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Darren Aronofsky’s New AI Series About the Revolutionary War Looks Like Dogshit]]></title><description><![CDATA["Used to be that when Darren Aronofsky wanted to feature a dead-eyed actor, he'd just employ Jared Leto."]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/darren-aronofskys-new-ai-series-about-the-revolutionary-war-looks-like-dogshit/</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:25:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/darren-aronofskys-new-ai-series-about-the-revolutionary-war-looks-like-dogshit/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple Drops $2 Billion on Israeli AI Facial Tracking Company]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tim Cook is having a week.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/apple-drops-2-billion-on-israeli-ai-facial-tracking-company/</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 22:20:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/apple-drops-2-billion-on-israeli-ai-facial-tracking-company/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Big tech results show investor demand for payoffs from heavy AI spending]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta wowed Wall Street with improvements in ad targeting fueled by AI alongside huge investment. Microsoft had less to show for its billions spentBig tech earnings so far this week have sent a clear warning: investors are willing to overlook soaring spending on artificial intelligence if it fuels strong growth, but are quick to punish companies that fall short.The contrast was clear in Thursday&rsquo;s stock market reaction to earnings from Microsoft and Meta, highlighting how dramatically the s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/big-tech-results-show-investor-demand-for-payoffs-from-heavy-ai-spending/</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 20:11:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/big-tech-results-show-investor-demand-for-payoffs-from-heavy-ai-spending/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lloyds boss warns bankers must ‘reskill themselves’ to survive AI boom]]></title><description><![CDATA[Charlie Nunn says banks will be hiring staff with different skill sets as customer experience will &lsquo;radically change&rsquo;Business live &ndash; latest updatesThe boss of Lloyds Banking Group has warned that bankers will need to &ldquo;reskill themselves&rdquo; to survive the oncoming AI boom that stands to transform the financial services sector.Charlie Nunn told reporters on Thursday that while he could not predict the full impact that AI would have over the next decade, it was clear tha]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/lloyds-boss-warns-bankers-must-reskill-themselves-to-survive-ai-boom/</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 15:05:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/lloyds-boss-warns-bankers-must-reskill-themselves-to-survive-ai-boom/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists found a way to cool quantum computers using noise]]></title><description><![CDATA[Quantum computers need extreme cold to work, but the very systems that keep them cold also create noise that can destroy fragile quantum information. Scientists in Sweden have now flipped that problem on its head by building a tiny quantum refrigerator that actually uses noise to drive cooling instead of fighting it. By carefully steering heat at unimaginably small scales, the device can act as a refrigerator, heat engine, or energy amplifier inside quantum circuits.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/scientists-found-a-way-to-cool-quantum-computers-using-noise/</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:42:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/scientists-found-a-way-to-cool-quantum-computers-using-noise/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US leads record global surge in gas-fired power driven by AI demands, with big costs for the climate]]></title><description><![CDATA[Projects this year expected to triple global gas capacity, forecast finds, as concerns grow over impacts on planetThe US is leading a huge global surge in new gas-fired power generation that will cause a major leap in planet-heating emissions, with this record boom driven by the expansion of energy-hungry datacenters to service artificial intelligence, according to a new forecast.This year is set to shatter the annual record for new gas power additions around the world, with planned and under-co]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/us-leads-record-global-surge-in-gas-fired-power-driven-by-ai-demands-with-big-costs-for-the-climate/</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/us-leads-record-global-surge-in-gas-fired-power-driven-by-ai-demands-with-big-costs-for-the-climate/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Millions creating deepfake nudes on Telegram as AI tools drive global wave of digital abuse]]></title><description><![CDATA[Analysis finds at least 150 channels on messaging app that are distributing AI-generated images and videoMillions of people around the world are creating and sharing deepfake nudes on the secure messaging app Telegram, a Guardian analysis has shown, as the spread of advanced AI tools industrialises the online abuse of women.The Guardian has identified at least 150 Telegram channels &ndash; large encrypted group chats popular for their secure communication &ndash; that appear to have users in man]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/millions-creating-deepfake-nudes-on-telegram-as-ai-tools-drive-global-wave-of-digital-abuse/</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/millions-creating-deepfake-nudes-on-telegram-as-ai-tools-drive-global-wave-of-digital-abuse/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Millions created deepfake nudes on Telegram as AI tools drive global wave of digital abuse]]></title><description><![CDATA[Analysis finds at least 150 channels on messaging app that have distributed AI-generated images and videoMillions of people around the world have created and shared deepfake nudes on the secure messaging app Telegram, a Guardian analysis has shown, as the spread of advanced AI tools industrialises the online abuse of women.The Guardian identified at least 150 Telegram channels &ndash; large encrypted group chats popular for their secure communication &ndash; that appeared to have users in many c]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/millions-created-deepfake-nudes-on-telegram-as-ai-tools-drive-global-wave-of-digital-abuse/</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/millions-created-deepfake-nudes-on-telegram-as-ai-tools-drive-global-wave-of-digital-abuse/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The slopaganda era: 10 AI images posted by the White House - and what they teach us]]></title><description><![CDATA[Under Donald Trump, the White House has filled its social media with memes, wishcasting, nostalgia and deepfakes. Here&rsquo;s what you need to know to navigate the trollingIt started with an image of Trump as a king mocked up on a fake Time magazine cover. Since then it&rsquo;s developed into a full-blown phenomenon, one academics are calling &ldquo;slopaganda&rdquo; &ndash; an unholy alliance of easily available AI tools and political messaging. &ldquo;Shitposting&rdquo;, the publishing of del]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-slopaganda-era-10-ai-images-posted-by-the-white-house-and-what-they-teach-us/</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 11:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-slopaganda-era-10-ai-images-posted-by-the-white-house-and-what-they-teach-us/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Universal basic income could be used to soften hit from AI job losses in UK, minister says]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lord Stockwood says people in government &lsquo;definitely&rsquo; talking about idea as technology disrupts industries&bull; Business live &ndash; latest updatesThe UK could introduce a universal basic income to protect workers in industries that are being disrupted by AI, the investment minister Jason Stockwood has said.&ldquo;Bumpy&rdquo; changes to society caused by the introduction of the technology would mean there would have to be &ldquo;some sort of concessionary arrangement with jobs tha]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/universal-basic-income-could-be-used-to-soften-hit-from-ai-job-losses-in-uk-minister-says/</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 09:57:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/universal-basic-income-could-be-used-to-soften-hit-from-ai-job-losses-in-uk-minister-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What technology takes from us – and how to take it back | Rebecca Solnit]]></title><description><![CDATA[Decisions outsourced, chatbots for friends, the natural world an afterthought: Silicon Valley is giving us life void of connection. There is a way out &ndash; but it&rsquo;s going to take collective effortSummer after summer, I used to descend into a creek that had carved a deep bed shaded by trees and lined with blackberry bushes whose long thorny canes arced down from the banks, dripping with sprays of fruit. Down in that creek, I&rsquo;d spend hours picking until I&nbsp;had&nbsp;a few gallons]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/what-technology-takes-from-us-and-how-to-take-it-back-rebecca-solnit/</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/what-technology-takes-from-us-and-how-to-take-it-back-rebecca-solnit/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What technology takes from us – and how to take it back]]></title><description><![CDATA[Decisions outsourced, chatbots for friends, the natural world an afterthought: Silicon Valley is giving us life void of connection. There is a way out &ndash; but it&rsquo;s going to take collective effortSummer after summer, I used to descend into a creek that had carved a deep bed shaded by trees and lined with blackberry bushes whose long thorny canes arced down from the banks, dripping with sprays of fruit. Down in that creek, I&rsquo;d spend hours picking until I&nbsp;had&nbsp;a few gallons]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/what-technology-takes-from-us-and-how-to-take-it-back/</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/what-technology-takes-from-us-and-how-to-take-it-back/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[South Korea’s ‘world-first’ AI laws face pushback amid bid to become leading tech power]]></title><description><![CDATA[The laws have been criticised by tech startups, which say they go too far, and civil society groups, which say they don&rsquo;t go far enoughSouth Korea has embarked on a foray into the regulation of AI, launching what has been billed as the most comprehensive set of laws anywhere in the world, that could prove a model for other countries, but the new legislation has already encountered pushback.The laws, which will force companies to label AI-generated content, have been criticised by local tec]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/south-koreas-world-first-ai-laws-face-pushback-amid-bid-to-become-leading-tech-power/</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 01:31:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/south-koreas-world-first-ai-laws-face-pushback-amid-bid-to-become-leading-tech-power/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tesla discontinues Model X and S vehicles as Elon Musk pivots to robotics]]></title><description><![CDATA[High hopes for Optimus robot help company beat forecasts despite yearly revenue decline and flailing car businessIn the clearest sign yet that Tesla is pivoting away from its electric car business, CEO Elon Musk announced on Wednesday&rsquo;s investor call that the company would discontinue production of its Model X SUV and Model S full-size sedan.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s time to basically bring the Model S and X programs to an end,&rdquo; Musk said. &ldquo;We expect to wind down S and X production nex]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/tesla-discontinues-model-x-and-s-vehicles-as-elon-musk-pivots-to-robotics/</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 23:57:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/tesla-discontinues-model-x-and-s-vehicles-as-elon-musk-pivots-to-robotics/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elon Musk pivots Tesla to robotics and AI as car business flails]]></title><description><![CDATA[Musk&rsquo;s optimism for Optimus robot demand help EV maker beat quarterly expectations despite first-ever yearly revenue declineTesla&rsquo;s most recent quarterly earnings report showed slumping vehicle sales and declining revenue, as the company&rsquo;s CEO, Elon Musk, pins the company&rsquo;s futures on AI and robotics. The earnings report described Tesla&rsquo;s chaotic year as a &ldquo;transition from a hardware-centric business to a physical AI company&rdquo;.The high hopes and grand pos]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/elon-musk-pivots-tesla-to-robotics-and-ai-as-car-business-flails/</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 23:22:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/elon-musk-pivots-tesla-to-robotics-and-ai-as-car-business-flails/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft shrugs off AI bubble fears again with strong financial results]]></title><description><![CDATA[Company reports second-quarter revenues of $81.27bn but posts slowing growth in key cloud computing businessInvestor interest in Microsoft&rsquo;s shares may have weakened in recent months, but the company posted strong financial results on Wednesday that yet again demonstrated that the AI boom is roaring on.Microsoft reported earnings for the second quarter of fiscal year that are likely to keep the party going for Wall Street, despite slowing growth in its key cloud computing business. Continu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-shrugs-off-ai-bubble-fears-again-with-strong-financial-results/</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 22:48:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-shrugs-off-ai-bubble-fears-again-with-strong-financial-results/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone Really Needs to Pump the Brakes on That Viral Moltbot AI Agent]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's all fun and games until every aspect of your life is splashed all over the dark web.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/everyone-really-needs-to-pump-the-brakes-on-that-viral-moltbot-ai-agent/</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 22:40:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/everyone-really-needs-to-pump-the-brakes-on-that-viral-moltbot-ai-agent/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The CEO of the ADL Said Elon Musk Is the ‘Henry Ford of Our Time.’ Unfortunately, He Was Right.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Grok, which once dubbed itself Mecha Hitler, is crowned the most anti-Semitic chatbot.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-ceo-of-the-adl-said-elon-musk-is-the-henry-ford-of-our-time-unfortunately-he-was-right/</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 19:45:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-ceo-of-the-adl-said-elon-musk-is-the-henry-ford-of-our-time-unfortunately-he-was-right/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artificial intelligence will cost jobs, admits Liz Kendall]]></title><description><![CDATA[UK technology secretary also announced plans to train up to 10m Britons in AI skills to help workforce adaptIncreasing deployment of artificial intelligence will cause job losses, the UK technology secretary has warned, saying: &ldquo;I want to level with the public. Some jobs will go.&rdquo;In a speech on government plans to handle the impact of AI on the British economy, Liz Kendall declined to say how many redundancies the technology might cause but said: &ldquo;We know people are worried abo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/artificial-intelligence-will-cost-jobs-admits-liz-kendall/</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 19:33:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/artificial-intelligence-will-cost-jobs-admits-liz-kendall/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google Unleashes AI in Chrome with ‘Auto Browse’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google wants to do the browsing for you.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/google-unleashes-ai-in-chrome-with-auto-browse/</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 19:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/google-unleashes-ai-in-chrome-with-auto-browse/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google DeepMind launches AI tool to help identify genetic drivers of disease]]></title><description><![CDATA[AlphaGenome can analyse up to 1m letters of DNA code at once and could pave way for new treatmentsResearchers at Google DeepMind have unveiled their latest artificial intelligence tool and claimed it will help scientists identify the genetic drivers of disease and ultimately pave the way for new treatments.AlphaGenome predicts how mutations interfere with the way genes are controlled, changing when they are switched on, in which cells of the body, and whether their biological volume controls are]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/google-deepmind-launches-ai-tool-to-help-identify-genetic-drivers-of-disease/</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:15:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/google-deepmind-launches-ai-tool-to-help-identify-genetic-drivers-of-disease/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China lags behind US at AI frontier but could quickly catch up, say experts]]></title><description><![CDATA[Beijing&rsquo;s AI policy is focused on real-life applications but Chinese companies are beginning to articulate their own grand visionsStanding on stage in the eastern China tech hub of Hangzhou, Alibaba&rsquo;s normally media-shy CEO made an attention-grabbing announcement. &ldquo;The world today is witnessing the dawn of an AI-driven intelligent revolution,&rdquo; Eddie Wu told a developer conference in September. &ldquo;Artificial general intelligence (AGI) will not only amplify human intell]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/china-lags-behind-us-at-ai-frontier-but-could-quickly-catch-up-say-experts/</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/china-lags-behind-us-at-ai-frontier-but-could-quickly-catch-up-say-experts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK media groups should be allowed to opt out of Google AI Overviews, CMA says]]></title><description><![CDATA[News organisations hope proposals will increase leverage to get paid if content is used in AI summariesWeb publishers and news organisations could be given the power to stop Google scraping their content for its AI Overviews, under measures announced by the UK competition watchdog to loosen its grip on online search.Media organisations have experienced a drop in click-through traffic to their websites &ndash; and therefore their revenue &ndash; since Google started posting AI summaries at the to]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/uk-media-groups-should-be-allowed-to-opt-out-of-google-ai-overviews-cma-says/</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 13:26:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/uk-media-groups-should-be-allowed-to-opt-out-of-google-ai-overviews-cma-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK media groups should be allowed opt out of Google AI overviews, CMA says]]></title><description><![CDATA[News organisations hope proposals will increase leverage to get paid if content is used in AI summariesWeb publishers and news organisations could be given the power to stop Google scraping their content for its AI overviews, under measures announced by the UK competition watchdog to loosen its grip on online search.Media organisations have experienced a drop in click-through traffic to their websites &ndash; and therefore their revenue &ndash; since Google started posting AI summaries at the to]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/uk-media-groups-should-be-allowed-opt-out-of-google-ai-overviews-cma-says/</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 13:26:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/uk-media-groups-should-be-allowed-opt-out-of-google-ai-overviews-cma-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Shameful’: Trump’s EPA accused of prioritizing big business over public health]]></title><description><![CDATA[A year into Trump&rsquo;s second term, critics say the EPA is rolling back dozens of protections and giving a leg up to pollutersAfter a tumultuous year under the Trump administration, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has adopted a new, almost unrecognizable guise &ndash; one that tears up environmental rules and cheerleads for coal, gas-guzzling cars and artificial intelligence.When Donald Trump took power, it was widely anticipated the EPA would loosen pollution rules from sources suc]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/shameful-trumps-epa-accused-of-prioritizing-big-business-over-public-health/</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 13:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/shameful-trumps-epa-accused-of-prioritizing-big-business-over-public-health/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Copyrighted art, mobile phones, Greenland: welcome to our age of shameless theft | Jonathan Liew]]></title><description><![CDATA[The human impulse to steal has been accelerated by AI, inequality and our political leaders &ndash; with profound consequences Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/copyrighted-art-mobile-phones-greenland-welcome-to-our-age-of-shameless-theft-jonathan-liew/</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 11:38:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/copyrighted-art-mobile-phones-greenland-welcome-to-our-age-of-shameless-theft-jonathan-liew/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI that talks to itself learns faster and smarter]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI may learn better when it&rsquo;s allowed to talk to itself. Researchers showed that internal &ldquo;mumbling,&rdquo; combined with short-term memory, helps AI adapt to new tasks, switch goals, and handle complex challenges more easily. This approach boosts learning efficiency while using far less training data. It could pave the way for more flexible, human-like AI systems.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-that-talks-to-itself-learns-faster-and-smarter/</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 09:47:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-that-talks-to-itself-learns-faster-and-smarter/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘This train isn’t going to stop’: shocking Sundance film shows promises and perils of AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist, co-directed by Daniel Roher, delves into the world of AI through the lens of personal anxietyAre we barreling toward AI catastrophe? Is AI an existential threat, or an epochal opportunity? Those are the questions top of mind for a new documentary at Sundance, which features leading AI experts, critics and entrepreneurs, including Sam Altman, the OpenAI CEO, with views on the near-to-midterm future ranging from doom to utopia.The AI Doc: Or How I Bec]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/this-train-isnt-going-to-stop-shocking-sundance-film-shows-promises-and-perils-of-ai/</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 03:40:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/this-train-isnt-going-to-stop-shocking-sundance-film-shows-promises-and-perils-of-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doomsday Clock at 85 seconds to midnight amid threats from climate crisis and AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Planet closer to destruction as Russia, China and US become more aggressive and nationalistic, says advocacy groupEarth is closer than it has ever been to destruction as Russia, China, the US and other countries become &ldquo;increasingly aggressive, adversarial, and nationalistic&rdquo;, a science-oriented advocacy group said on Tuesday as it advanced its Doomsday Clock to 85 seconds until midnight.The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist members had an initial demonstration on Friday and then anno]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/doomsday-clock-at-85-seconds-to-midnight-amid-threats-from-climate-crisis-and-ai/</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 01:43:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/doomsday-clock-at-85-seconds-to-midnight-amid-threats-from-climate-crisis-and-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI’s New Product Helps You Do ‘Vibe Physics’ Like Travis Kalanick]]></title><description><![CDATA[View the world through Prism (or don't).]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/openais-new-product-helps-you-do-vibe-physics-like-travis-kalanick/</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:30:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/openais-new-product-helps-you-do-vibe-physics-like-travis-kalanick/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI Sifts Through a Mountain of Hubble Data, Uncovers Hundreds of Cosmic Weirdos]]></title><description><![CDATA[Using a brand new data analysis tool, astronomers identified more than 800 strange and previously undocumented space objects.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-sifts-through-a-mountain-of-hubble-data-uncovers-hundreds-of-cosmic-weirdos/</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 21:35:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-sifts-through-a-mountain-of-hubble-data-uncovers-hundreds-of-cosmic-weirdos/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can You Sue the White House Over an AI Deepfake?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Trump regime's abuse of AI has opened up new legal questions.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/can-you-sue-the-white-house-over-an-ai-deepfake/</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 19:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/can-you-sue-the-white-house-over-an-ai-deepfake/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK ministers accept $1m from Meta amid social media ban consultation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Campaigners decry ties with &lsquo;Trump-supporting&rsquo; tech firms after funding is accepted to develop state AI systemsUK politics live &ndash; latest updatesMinisters have accepted $1m from Meta, the US tech and social media company, to build AI systems for defence, national security and transport, sparking warnings about the UK government&rsquo;s &ldquo;alarmingly close relationship with Trump-supporting US tech giants&rdquo;.The money from Mark Zuckerberg&rsquo;s company will be used to p]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/uk-ministers-accept-1m-from-meta-amid-social-media-ban-consultation/</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 14:29:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/uk-ministers-accept-1m-from-meta-amid-social-media-ban-consultation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Davos, tech CEOs laid out their vision for AI’s world domination]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tech chiefs waxed poetic about AI to delegates at Davos. Plus, the &lsquo;human&rsquo; drama of AI startups and why Tesla is thriving in TexasHello, and welcome to TechScape. This week&rsquo;s edition is a team effort: my colleague Heather Stewart reports on the plans for AI&rsquo;s world domination at Davos; I examine how huge investments have followed AI companies with little to their names but drama and dreams; and Nick Robins-Early spotlights how lax regulation of autonomous driving in Texas]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/at-davos-tech-ceos-laid-out-their-vision-for-ais-world-domination/</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 13:57:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/at-davos-tech-ceos-laid-out-their-vision-for-ais-world-domination/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Wake up to the risks of AI, they are almost here,’ Anthropic boss warns]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dario Amodei questions if human systems are ready to handle the &lsquo;almost unimaginable power&rsquo; that is &lsquo;potentially imminent&rsquo;Business live &ndash; latest updatesQuarter of Britons fear losing jobs to AI in next five yearsHumanity is entering a phase of artificial intelligence development that will &ldquo;test who we are as a species&rdquo;, the boss of leading AI startup Anthropic has said, arguing that the world needs to &ldquo;wake up&rdquo; to the risks.Dario Amodei, co-f]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/wake-up-to-the-risks-of-ai-they-are-almost-here-anthropic-boss-warns/</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 13:53:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/wake-up-to-the-risks-of-ai-they-are-almost-here-anthropic-boss-warns/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can’t decide on a food delivery? Just Eat launches AI chatbot to help you choose]]></title><description><![CDATA[Delivery firm aims to overcome &lsquo;choice overload&rsquo; using voice assistant in its UK app, with global rollout plannedBusiness live &ndash; latest updatesIn the beginning, collecting a takeaway was the epitome of a lazy night in. Then delivery apps saved some more energy. Now, consumers can skip even bothering to read the menu as AI takes over the job of choosing the perfect evening meal.Just Eat is introducing an AI voice assistant that lets customers discuss what they might be intereste]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/cant-decide-on-a-food-delivery-just-eat-launches-ai-chatbot-to-help-you-choose/</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 13:49:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/cant-decide-on-a-food-delivery-just-eat-launches-ai-chatbot-to-help-you-choose/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facing menu anxiety? Just Eat launches AI chatbot to help pick a food delivery]]></title><description><![CDATA[Delivery firm aims to overcome &lsquo;choice overload&rsquo; using voice assistant in its UK app, with global rollout plannedBusiness live &ndash; latest updatesIn the beginning, collecting a takeaway was the epitome of a lazy night in. Then delivery apps saved some more energy. Now, consumers can skip even bothering to read the menu as AI takes over the job of choosing the perfect evening meal.Just Eat is rolling out an AI voice assistant that lets customers discuss what they might be intereste]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/facing-menu-anxiety-just-eat-launches-ai-chatbot-to-help-pick-a-food-delivery/</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 11:33:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/facing-menu-anxiety-just-eat-launches-ai-chatbot-to-help-pick-a-food-delivery/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thanks But No Thanks on the Claudeswarms, Kevin Roose]]></title><description><![CDATA[The New York Times columnist and Hard Fork podcast co-host might be a little too jazzed about vibecoding.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/thanks-but-no-thanks-on-the-claudeswarms-kevin-roose/</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 03:35:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/thanks-but-no-thanks-on-the-claudeswarms-kevin-roose/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NHS England to trial AI and robotic tools to detect and diagnose lung cancer]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pilot comes at same time as pledge to offer all smokers and ex-smokers lung cancer screening by 2030NHS England is to trial a combination of AI and robot-assisted care to speed up the detection and diagnosis of lung cancer, the UK&rsquo;s most lethal form of the disease.The trial comes at the same time as the health service pledges to offer all smokers and ex-smokers the chance to be screened for lung cancer by 2030. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/nhs-england-to-trial-ai-and-robotic-tools-to-detect-and-diagnose-lung-cancer/</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 01:01:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/nhs-england-to-trial-ai-and-robotic-tools-to-detect-and-diagnose-lung-cancer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most young adults in UK are anxious about jobs and the economy, research suggests]]></title><description><![CDATA[Respondents to King&rsquo;s Trust survey cited AI and a lack of work experience as reasons they might fail in lifeMore than seven in 10 teens and young adults in the UK say they wish they were not starting their careers in the current economic climate, according to new research from the King&rsquo;s Trust.The study also found that more than a quarter of people aged 16 to 25 feel they are going to fail in life, highlighting growing anxiety among those entering the labour market. Continue reading.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/most-young-adults-in-uk-are-anxious-about-jobs-and-the-economy-research-suggests/</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 01:01:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/most-young-adults-in-uk-are-anxious-about-jobs-and-the-economy-research-suggests/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic CEO Worries Humanity May Not be ‘Mature’ Enough for Advanced AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[When has that ever stopped us?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-ceo-worries-humanity-may-not-be-mature-enough-for-advanced-ai/</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 23:10:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-ceo-worries-humanity-may-not-be-mature-enough-for-advanced-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia’s Futuristic Megacity Runs Into Dilemma: Why Build Housing When You Can Build a Data Center?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Line is shrinking.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/saudi-arabias-futuristic-megacity-runs-into-dilemma-why-build-housing-when-you-can-build-a-data-center/</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 19:40:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/saudi-arabias-futuristic-megacity-runs-into-dilemma-why-build-housing-when-you-can-build-a-data-center/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Georgia leads push to ban datatcenters used to power America’s AI boom]]></title><description><![CDATA[Southern state becoming ground zero in fight against rapid growth of facilities using huge amounts of energy and waterLawmakers in several states are exploring passing laws that would put statewide bans in place on building new datacenters as the issue of the power-hungry facilities has moved to the center of economic and environmental concerns in the US.In Georgia a state lawmaker has introduced a bill proposing what could become the first statewide moratorium on new datacenters in America. The]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/georgia-leads-push-to-ban-datatcenters-used-to-power-americas-ai-boom/</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/georgia-leads-push-to-ban-datatcenters-used-to-power-americas-ai-boom/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Georgia leads push to ban datacenters used to power America’s AI boom]]></title><description><![CDATA[Southern state becoming ground zero in fight against rapid growth of facilities using huge amounts of energy and waterLawmakers in several states are exploring passing laws that would put statewide bans in place on building new datacenters as the issue of the power-hungry facilities has moved to the center of economic and environmental concerns in the US.In Georgia a state lawmaker has introduced a bill proposing what could become the first statewide moratorium on new datacenters in America. The]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/georgia-leads-push-to-ban-datacenters-used-to-power-americas-ai-boom/</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/georgia-leads-push-to-ban-datacenters-used-to-power-americas-ai-boom/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EU launches inquiry into X over sexually explicit images made by Grok AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Investigation comes after Elon Musk&rsquo;s firm sparked outrage by allowing users to &lsquo;strip&rsquo; photos of women and childrenEurope live &ndash; latest updatesThe European Commission has launched an investigation into Elon Musk&rsquo;s X over the production of sexually explicit images and the spreading of possible child sexual abuse material by the platform&rsquo;s AI chatbot feature, Grok.The formal inquiry, launched on Monday, also extends an investigation into X&rsquo;s recommender s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/eu-launches-inquiry-into-x-over-sexually-explicit-images-made-by-grok-ai/</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 12:30:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/eu-launches-inquiry-into-x-over-sexually-explicit-images-made-by-grok-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair-Inducing Analysis Shows AI Eroding the Reliability of Science Publishing]]></title><description><![CDATA[A flood of slop has arrived in science, and everyone has to get less lazy. But does 2026 feel like a time when anyone, anywhere, is getting less lazy?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/despair-inducing-analysis-shows-ai-eroding-the-reliability-of-science-publishing/</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 11:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/despair-inducing-analysis-shows-ai-eroding-the-reliability-of-science-publishing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK maker of AI avatars nearly doubles valuation to $4bn after funding round]]></title><description><![CDATA[Synthesia makes digital presenters for clients to use in corporate videos and counts 70% of FTSE 100 as customersA British AI startup that makes realistic video avatars has almost doubled its valuation to $4bn (&pound;3bn), in a boost for the UK technology sector.Synthesia was valued at $2.1bn last year and moved into new offices in central London, marking the moment with a ceremony attended by the Sadiq Khan, the city&rsquo;s mayor, and Peter Kyle, then technology secretary. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/uk-maker-of-ai-avatars-nearly-doubles-valuation-to-4bn-after-funding-round/</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 10:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/uk-maker-of-ai-avatars-nearly-doubles-valuation-to-4bn-after-funding-round/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI is hitting UK harder than other big economies, study finds]]></title><description><![CDATA[Britain is losing more jobs than it creates owing to artificial intelligence, Morgan Stanley research suggestsMore than a quarter of Britons fear losing job to AI in next five yearsBusiness live &ndash; latest updatesThe UK is losing more jobs than it is creating because of artificial intelligence and is being hit harder than rival large economies, new research suggests.British companies reported that AI had resulted in net job losses over the past 12 months, down 8% &ndash; the highest rate amo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-is-hitting-uk-harder-than-other-big-economies-study-finds/</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 09:41:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-is-hitting-uk-harder-than-other-big-economies-study-finds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI systems could use Met Office and National Archives data under UK plans]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ministers plan to license content from institutions such as National History Museum and National Library of ScotlandMet Office data and legal documents from the National Archives could be used by artificial intelligence systems as the UK government pushes ahead with plans to employ nationally owned material in AI tools.The government is providing funds for researchers to test how Met Office content could be used by the technology, such as in helping agencies and councils know when to buy more ro]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-systems-could-use-met-office-and-national-archives-data-under-uk-plans/</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 07:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-systems-could-use-met-office-and-national-archives-data-under-uk-plans/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life after Molly: Ian Russell on big tech, his daughter’s death – and why a social media ban won’t work]]></title><description><![CDATA[Molly Russell was just 14 when she took her own life in 2017, and an inquest later found negative online content was a significant factor. With many people now pushing for teenagers to be kept off tech platforms, her father explains why he backs a different approachIan Russell describes his life as being split into two parts: before and after 20 November 2017, the day his youngest daughter, Molly, took her own life as a result of depression and negative social media content. &ldquo;Our life befo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/life-after-molly-ian-russell-on-big-tech-his-daughters-death-and-why-a-social-media-ban-wont-work/</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/life-after-molly-ian-russell-on-big-tech-his-daughters-death-and-why-a-social-media-ban-wont-work/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More than a quarter of Britons say they fear losing jobs to AI in next five years]]></title><description><![CDATA[Survey reveals &lsquo;mismatched AI expectations&rsquo; between views of employers and staff over impact on careersMore than a quarter (27%) of UK workers are worried their jobs could disappear in the next five years as a result of AI, according to a survey of thousands of employees.Two-thirds (66%) of UK employers reported having invested in AI in the past 12 months, according to the international recruitment company Randstad&rsquo;s annual review of the world of work, while more than half (56%]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/more-than-a-quarter-of-britons-say-they-fear-losing-jobs-to-ai-in-next-five-years/</link><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2026 16:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/more-than-a-quarter-of-britons-say-they-fear-losing-jobs-to-ai-in-next-five-years/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Researchers tested AI against 100,000 humans on creativity]]></title><description><![CDATA[A massive new study comparing more than 100,000 people with today&rsquo;s most advanced AI systems delivers a surprising result: generative AI can now beat the average human on certain creativity tests. Models like GPT-4 showed strong performance on tasks designed to measure original thinking and idea generation, sometimes outperforming typical human responses. But there&rsquo;s a clear ceiling. The most creative humans &mdash; especially the top 10% &mdash; still leave AI well behind, particula]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/researchers-tested-ai-against-100000-humans-on-creativity/</link><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2026 15:50:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/researchers-tested-ai-against-100000-humans-on-creativity/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must not let AI ‘pull the doctor out of the visit’ for low-income patients | Leah Goodridge and Oni Blackstock]]></title><description><![CDATA[Generative AI is being pushed into healthcare &ndash; and diagnostic risks may deepen the class divideIn southern California, where rates of homelessness are among the highest in the nation, a private company, Akido Labs, is running clinics for unhoused patients and others with low incomes. The caveat? The patients are seen by medical assistants who use artificial intelligence (AI) to listen to the conversations, then spit out potential diagnoses and treatment plans, which are then reviewed by a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/we-must-not-let-ai-pull-the-doctor-out-of-the-visit-for-low-income-patients-leah-goodridge-and-oni-blackstock/</link><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2026 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/we-must-not-let-ai-pull-the-doctor-out-of-the-visit-for-low-income-patients-leah-goodridge-and-oni-blackstock/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sam Altman’s make-or-break year: can the OpenAI CEO cash in his bet on the future?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Altman&rsquo;s campaigning for his company coincides with its use of enormous present resources to serve an imagined futureSam Altman has claimed over the years that the advancement of AI could solve climate change, cure cancer, create a benevolent superintelligence beyond human comprehension, provide a tutor for every student, take over nearly half of the tasks in the economy and create what he calls &ldquo;universal extreme wealth&rdquo;.In order to bring about his utopian future, Altman is de]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/sam-altmans-make-or-break-year-can-the-openai-ceo-cash-in-his-bet-on-the-future/</link><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2026 14:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/sam-altmans-make-or-break-year-can-the-openai-ceo-cash-in-his-bet-on-the-future/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI needs to augment rather than replace humans or the workplace is doomed | Heather Stewart]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tech could lose its social acceptance unless it makes people&rsquo;s lives better &ndash; and trade unions want an urgent conversation &ldquo;Who wouldn&rsquo;t want a robot to watch over your kids?&rdquo; Elon Musk asked Davos delegates last week, as he looked forward with enthusiasm to a world with &ldquo;more robots than people&rdquo;.Not me, thanks: children need the human connection &ndash; the love &ndash; that gives life meaning. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-needs-to-augment-rather-than-replace-humans-or-the-workplace-is-doomed-heather-stewart/</link><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2026 12:24:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-needs-to-augment-rather-than-replace-humans-or-the-workplace-is-doomed-heather-stewart/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meet ‘Amelia’: the AI-generated British schoolgirl who is a far-right social media star]]></title><description><![CDATA[The avatar, created to deter young people from extremism, has been subverted and is breaking out of niche online silosIn certain corners of the internet, on niche news feeds and algorithms, an AI-generated British schoolgirl has emerged as something of a phenomenon.Her name is Amelia, a purple-haired &ldquo;goth girl&rdquo; who proudly carries a mini union flag and appears to have a penchant for racism. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/meet-amelia-the-ai-generated-british-schoolgirl-who-is-a-far-right-social-media-star/</link><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2026 10:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/meet-amelia-the-ai-generated-british-schoolgirl-who-is-a-far-right-social-media-star/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI-generated British schoolgirl becomes far-right social media meme]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amelia, created to deter young people from extremism, has been subverted and is breaking out of niche online silosIn certain corners of the internet, on niche news feeds and algorithms, an AI-generated British schoolgirl has emerged as something of a cultural phenomenon.Her name is Amelia, a purple-haired &ldquo;goth girl&rdquo; who proudly carries a mini union flag everywhere she goes and appears to have a penchant for racism. Continue reading...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-generated-british-schoolgirl-becomes-far-right-social-media-meme/</link><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2026 07:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-generated-british-schoolgirl-becomes-far-right-social-media-meme/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Australian journalism ‘sidelined’ in AI-generated news summaries on Copilot, research shows]]></title><description><![CDATA[Exclusive: Experts say AI is likely to create more news deserts, fewer independent voices and threaten the viability of Australian journalismGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralian journalism is largely &ldquo;invisible&rdquo; in AI-generated news summaries from Microsoft Copilot, which overwhelmingly favour US or European media, research by the University of Sydney has found.Roughly one-fifth of responses to Copilot news prompts feature links to Australian media so]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/australian-journalism-sidelined-in-ai-generated-news-summaries-on-copilot-research-shows/</link><pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2026 20:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/australian-journalism-sidelined-in-ai-generated-news-summaries-on-copilot-research-shows/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How the ‘confident authority’ of Google AI Overviews is putting public health at risk]]></title><description><![CDATA[Experts say tool can give &lsquo;completely wrong&rsquo; medical advice which could put users at risk of serious harm&bull; AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site, study suggestsDo I have the flu or Covid? Why do I wake up feeling tired? What is causing the pain in my chest? For more than two decades, typing medical questions into the world&rsquo;s most popular search engine has served up a list of links to websites with the answers. Google those health queries today and the respon]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/how-the-confident-authority-of-google-ai-overviews-is-putting-public-health-at-risk/</link><pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2026 18:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/how-the-confident-authority-of-google-ai-overviews-is-putting-public-health-at-risk/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queries, study suggests]]></title><description><![CDATA[Exclusive: German research into responses to health queries raises fresh questions about summaries seen by 2bn people a month&bull; How the &lsquo;confident authority&rsquo; of AI Overviews is putting public health at riskGoogle&rsquo;s search feature AI Overviews cites YouTube more than any medical website when answering queries about health conditions, according to research that raises fresh questions about a tool seen by 2 billion people each month.The company has said its AI summaries, which]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/google-ai-overviews-cite-youtube-more-than-any-medical-site-for-health-queries-study-suggests/</link><pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2026 18:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/google-ai-overviews-cite-youtube-more-than-any-medical-site-for-health-queries-study-suggests/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Latest ChatGPT model uses Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as source, tests reveal]]></title><description><![CDATA[Guardian found OpenAI&rsquo;s platform cited Grokipedia on topics including Iran and Holocaust deniersThe latest model of ChatGPT has begun to cite Elon Musk&rsquo;s Grokipedia as a source on a wide range of queries, including on Iranian conglomerates and Holocaust deniers, raising concerns about misinformation on the platform.In tests done by the Guardian, GPT-5.2 cited Grokipedia nine times in response to more than a dozen different questions. These included queries on political structures in]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/latest-chatgpt-model-uses-elon-musks-grokipedia-as-source-tests-reveal/</link><pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2026 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/latest-chatgpt-model-uses-elon-musks-grokipedia-as-source-tests-reveal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI Agents Are Poised to Hit a Mathematical Wall, Study Finds]]></title><description><![CDATA[LLMs have their limits.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-agents-are-poised-to-hit-a-mathematical-wall-study-finds/</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 20:55:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ai-agents-are-poised-to-hit-a-mathematical-wall-study-finds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Video Friday: Humans and Robots Team Up in Battlefield Triage]]></title><description><![CDATA[Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.ICRA 2026: 1&ndash;5 June 2026, VIENNAEnjoy today&rsquo;s videos! One of my favorite parts of robotics is watching research collide with non-roboticists in the real (or real-ish) world.[ DARPA ]Spot will put out fires for you. Eventually. If it feels like]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/video-friday-humans-and-robots-team-up-in-battlefield-triage/</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 18:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/video-friday-humans-and-robots-team-up-in-battlefield-triage/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young will suffer most when AI ‘tsunami’ hits jobs, says head of IMF]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kristalina Georgieva says research suggests 60% of jobs in advanced economies will be affected, with many entry-level roles wiped outArtificial intelligence will be a &ldquo;tsunami hitting the labour market&rdquo;, with young people worst affected, the head of the International Monetary Fund warned the World Economic Forum on Friday.Kristalina Georgieva told delegates in Davos that the IMF&rsquo;s own research suggested there would be a big transformation of demand for skills, as the technology]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/young-will-suffer-most-when-ai-tsunami-hits-jobs-says-head-of-imf/</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 14:35:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/young-will-suffer-most-when-ai-tsunami-hits-jobs-says-head-of-imf/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘I’m picking winners’: UK business secretary takes activist approach to economic growth]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI evangelist Peter Kyle wants to scale up businesses, attract overseas investors and look out for UK&rsquo;s poorer regionsThe UK business secretary, Peter Kyle, has said he is &ldquo;betting big&rdquo; and &ldquo;picking winners&rdquo; as the government takes direct stakes in growing businesses to boost economic growth.Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, where he and the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, have been talking up Britain&rsquo;s prospects, Kyle said ministers were taking an &ld]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/im-picking-winners-uk-business-secretary-takes-activist-approach-to-economic-growth/</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 08:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/im-picking-winners-uk-business-secretary-takes-activist-approach-to-economic-growth/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[White House posts digitally altered image of woman arrested after ICE protest]]></title><description><![CDATA[Guardian analysis shows images are the same, with Nekima Levy Armstrong looking composed in original but sobbing after alterationThe White House posted a digitally altered image of a woman who was arrested on Thursday in a case touted by attorney general Pam Bondi, to make it seem as if she was dramatically crying, a Guardian analysis of the image has found.The woman, Nekima Levy Armstrong, also appears to have darker skin in the altered image. Armstrong was one of three people arrested on Thurs]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/white-house-posts-digitally-altered-image-of-woman-arrested-after-ice-protest/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 23:14:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/white-house-posts-digitally-altered-image-of-woman-arrested-after-ice-protest/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Porn Site ManyVids Descends Into AI Psychosis]]></title><description><![CDATA[Good luck jerking off to this.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/porn-site-manyvids-descends-into-ai-psychosis/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 20:40:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/porn-site-manyvids-descends-into-ai-psychosis/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government admits its approval for Buckinghamshire AI datacentre should be quashed]]></title><description><![CDATA[Campaigners hail U-turn during legal challenge over proposed centre an &lsquo;embarrassing climbdown&rsquo;The government has been forced to admit its own planning approval for a major AI datacentre should be quashed after it failed to fully consider the climate impact, in what campaigners described as &ldquo;an embarrassing climbdown&rdquo;.Angela Rayner, the former deputy prime minister, had overruled opposition from a local council to grant permission for a hyperscale datacentre on greenbelt]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/government-admits-its-approval-for-buckinghamshire-ai-datacentre-should-be-quashed/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 20:11:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/government-admits-its-approval-for-buckinghamshire-ai-datacentre-should-be-quashed/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experts warn of threat to democracy from ‘AI bot swarms’ infesting social media]]></title><description><![CDATA[Misinformation technology could be deployed at scale to disrupt 2028 US presidential election, AI researchers sayPolitical leaders could soon launch swarms of human-imitating AI agents to reshape public opinion in a way that threatens to undermine democracy, a high profile group of experts in AI and online misinformation has warned.The Nobel peace prize-winning free-speech activist Maria Ressa, and leading AI and social science researchers from Berkeley, Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge and Yale are a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/experts-warn-of-threat-to-democracy-from-ai-bot-swarms-infesting-social-media/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 20:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/experts-warn-of-threat-to-democracy-from-ai-bot-swarms-infesting-social-media/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Guardian view on toddlers and screens: more reasons to be fearful of big tech | Editorial]]></title><description><![CDATA[Growing concerns about the impact of smartphones on the youngest children must be addressedThe first UK government guidance on young children&rsquo;s use of tablets, smartphones and other screens, expected in April, cannot come soon enough. The laissez-faire approach to the boom in social media, handheld devices and other digital technology was arguably nowhere less suitable than when such machines were placed in front of babies. The Department for Education&rsquo;s ongoing Children of the 2020s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-guardian-view-on-toddlers-and-screens-more-reasons-to-be-fearful-of-big-tech-editorial/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 19:44:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-guardian-view-on-toddlers-and-screens-more-reasons-to-be-fearful-of-big-tech-editorial/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children need protecting from social media – and generative AI | Letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dr Madeline G Reinecke says any policy focused on protecting children must broaden its scope beyond traditional social media platforms, while Alexandra Cocksworth says real connections are crucial. Plus a letter from Ali OliverThe government&rsquo;s consultation surrounding whether to ban social media for under-16s responds to widespread concern about digital harms (UK ministers launch consultation on whether to ban social media for under-16s, 19 January). We in the Neuroscience, Ethics and Soci]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/children-need-protecting-from-social-media-and-generative-ai-letters/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 18:56:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/children-need-protecting-from-social-media-and-generative-ai-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grok AI generated about 3m sexualised images in 11 days, study finds]]></title><description><![CDATA[Estimate made by Center for Countering Digital Hate after Elon Musk&rsquo;s AI image generation tool sparked outrageGrok AI generated about 3m sexualised images in less than two weeks, including 23,000 that appear to depict children, according to researchers who said it &ldquo;became an industrial-scale machine for the production of sexual abuse material&rdquo;.The estimate has been made by the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) after Elon Musk&rsquo;s AI image generation tool sparked int]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/grok-ai-generated-about-3m-sexualised-images-in-11-days-study-finds/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:11:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/grok-ai-generated-about-3m-sexualised-images-in-11-days-study-finds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson and Cate Blanchett back campaign accusing AI firms of theft]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hundreds of writers, musicians and performers urge licensing deals instead of scraping creative workScarlett Johansson, Cate Blanchett, REM and Jodi Picoult are among hundreds of Hollywood stars, musicians and authors backing a new campaign accusing AI companies of &ldquo;theft&rdquo; of their work.The &ldquo;Stealing Isn&rsquo;t Innovation&rdquo; drive launched on Thursday with the support of approximately 800 creative professionals and bands. The campaign includes a statement accusing tech fir]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/scarlett-johansson-and-cate-blanchett-back-campaign-accusing-ai-firms-of-theft/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 15:04:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/scarlett-johansson-and-cate-blanchett-back-campaign-accusing-ai-firms-of-theft/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic Updates Claude’s ‘Constitution,’ Just in Case Chatbot Has a Consciousness]]></title><description><![CDATA[And it didn't even take a two-thirds majority.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-updates-claudes-constitution-just-in-case-chatbot-has-a-consciousness/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 14:10:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-updates-claudes-constitution-just-in-case-chatbot-has-a-consciousness/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Trump is worried datacenters might cost his party an election]]></title><description><![CDATA[The president wants big tech to pay more for electricity, but he&rsquo;s curbing renewable projects that could boost supplyDonald Trump is worried about datacenters. Specifically, he is concerned about their effects on an already expensive electricity market in the United States. Will Americans&rsquo; resentment of sharply rising energy costs scuttle his party&rsquo;s November election ambitions?The US president&rsquo;s anxiety is evident in two actions in recent weeks. On 13 January, Trump and]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/why-trump-is-worried-datacenters-might-cost-his-party-an-election/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 13:30:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/why-trump-is-worried-datacenters-might-cost-his-party-an-election/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liza Minnelli uses AI to release first new music in 13 years]]></title><description><![CDATA[Singing legend heralds &lsquo;new tools in service of expression&rsquo;, on compilation that also features an Art Garfunkel song using AI-generated piano backingLiza Minnelli has released her first new music in 13 years, adding vocals to an AI-created dance track.The track, Kids, Wait Til You Hear This &ndash; also the title of her upcoming memoir &ndash; is an unexpected foray into deep house for the 79-year-old Minnelli, who adds a handful of spoken declarations to the pumping backing. Continu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/liza-minnelli-uses-ai-to-release-first-new-music-in-13-years/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 12:07:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/liza-minnelli-uses-ai-to-release-first-new-music-in-13-years/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Queensland PhD candidate accused of plotting to firebomb Australia Day event wanted AI-driven society, court hears]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sepehr Saryazdi, 24, charged with planning terrorist act after allegedly plotting to throw molotov cocktail at Gold Coast eventA Queensland PhD candidate has been accused of planning to throw a molotov cocktail at an Australia Day crowd, as part of an alleged terrorist plot to overthrow the government and it with a &ldquo;cybernetics&rdquo; alternative, a court has heard.Sepehr Saryazdi, 24, allegedly planned an attack for Monday&rsquo;s celebrations to promote a new phase of civilisation powere]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/queensland-phd-candidate-accused-of-plotting-to-firebomb-australia-day-event-wanted-ai-driven-society-court-hears/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 05:38:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/queensland-phd-candidate-accused-of-plotting-to-firebomb-australia-day-event-wanted-ai-driven-society-court-hears/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bezos’s Blue Origin announces plans to deploy thousands of satellites in 2027]]></title><description><![CDATA[Deployment will serve data centers, governments and businesses, jumping into market dominated by SpaceXJeff Bezos&rsquo;s space company Blue Origin on Wednesday announced a plan to deploy 5,408 satellites in space for a communications network that will serve data centers, governments and businesses, jumping into a satellite constellation market dominated by Elon Musk&rsquo;s SpaceX.Deployment of satellites is planned to begin in the last quarter of 2027, Blue Origin said, adding the network will]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/bezoss-blue-origin-announces-plans-to-deploy-thousands-of-satellites-in-2027/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:19:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/bezoss-blue-origin-announces-plans-to-deploy-thousands-of-satellites-in-2027/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Engineer at Elon Musk’s xAI Departs After Spilling the Beans in Podcast Interview]]></title><description><![CDATA[Interesting timing.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/engineer-at-elon-musks-xai-departs-after-spilling-the-beans-in-podcast-interview/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 21:30:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/engineer-at-elon-musks-xai-departs-after-spilling-the-beans-in-podcast-interview/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rollout of AI may need to be slowed to ‘save society’, says JP Morgan boss]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jamie Dimon warns of civil unrest but Nvidia&rsquo;s Jensen Huang argues tech will create rather than destroy jobsJamie Dimon, the boss of JP Morgan, has said artificial intelligence &ldquo;may go too fast for society&rdquo; and cause &ldquo;civil unrest&rdquo; unless governments and business support displaced workers.While advances in AI will have huge benefits, from increasing productivity to curing diseases, the technology may need to be phased in to &ldquo;save society&rdquo;, he said. Conti]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/rollout-of-ai-may-need-to-be-slowed-to-save-society-says-jp-morgan-boss/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 19:18:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/rollout-of-ai-may-need-to-be-slowed-to-save-society-says-jp-morgan-boss/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rollout of AI may need to be slowed to ‘save society’, says boss of JP Morgan]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jamie Dimon warns of civil unrest as Nvidia&rsquo;s Jensen Huang argues that tech will create rather than destroy jobsJamie Dimon, the boss of JP Morgan, has said artificial intelligence &ldquo;may go too fast for society&rdquo; and cause &ldquo;civil unrest&rdquo; unless governments and business support displaced workers.While advances in AI will have huge benefits from increasing productivity to curing diseases, the technology may need to be phased in to &ldquo;save society&rdquo;. Continue re]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/rollout-of-ai-may-need-to-be-slowed-to-save-society-says-boss-of-jp-morgan/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 19:18:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/rollout-of-ai-may-need-to-be-slowed-to-save-society-says-boss-of-jp-morgan/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mercy review – Chris Pratt takes on AI judge Rebecca Ferguson in ingenious sci-fi thriller]]></title><description><![CDATA[It is the year 2029 and an LA cop finds himself accused of murdering his wife. He has 90 minutes to clear his name before robo-justice sends him downIrish writer Marco van Belle delivers an entertaining script for this real time futurist thriller-satire set in LA in 2029, in a world (as they say) where AI is wholly responsible for assessing criminal guilt or innocence. You&rsquo;ve heard of RoboCop. This is RoboJustice. Veteran Russian-Kazakh film-maker Timur Bekmambetov directs, bringing his us]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/mercy-review-chris-pratt-takes-on-ai-judge-rebecca-ferguson-in-ingenious-sci-fi-thriller/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 18:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/mercy-review-chris-pratt-takes-on-ai-judge-rebecca-ferguson-in-ingenious-sci-fi-thriller/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The IMF’s banal language is sane-washing an economic crisis created by the egomaniacal Donald Trump]]></title><description><![CDATA[Their latest report makes no mention of Greenland, Venezuela, or even Trump. This is just a pretence that normality continues This week the IMF released an update to its World Economic Outlook, titled &ldquo;Global Economy: Steady amid Divergent Forces&rdquo; and, seriously, in what fricking world are they living? It was yet another example of international groups, governments and parts of the media sane-washing the utter crisis we all exist in because Donald Trump is an egomaniacal bully with t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-imfs-banal-language-is-sane-washing-an-economic-crisis-created-by-the-egomaniacal-donald-trump/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-imfs-banal-language-is-sane-washing-an-economic-crisis-created-by-the-egomaniacal-donald-trump/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Document Disclosures Reveal Microsoft’s Influence as OpenAI Became a Revenue-Crazed Behemoth]]></title><description><![CDATA[A peek inside OpenAI as it changed from do-gooder computer lab to...whatever it is now.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/document-disclosures-reveal-microsofts-influence-as-openai-became-a-revenue-crazed-behemoth/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 11:30:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/document-disclosures-reveal-microsofts-influence-as-openai-became-a-revenue-crazed-behemoth/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human brain may work more like AI than anyone expected]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scientists have discovered that the human brain understands spoken language in a way that closely resembles how advanced AI language models work. By tracking brain activity as people listened to a long podcast, researchers found that meaning unfolds step by step&mdash;much like the layered processing inside systems such as GPT-style models.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-human-brain-may-work-more-like-ai-than-anyone-expected/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 07:49:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/the-human-brain-may-work-more-like-ai-than-anyone-expected/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My friends in Italy are using AI therapists. But is that so bad, when a stigma surrounds mental health? | Viola Di Grado]]></title><description><![CDATA[State provision for psychological health services is lamentable. Until things improve, let&rsquo;s not judge those who turn to an app for helpIt&rsquo;s a sunny afternoon in a Roman park and a peculiar, new-to-this-era kind of coming out is happening between me and my friend Clarissa. She has just asked me if I, like her and all of her other friends, use an AI therapist and I say yes.Our mutual confession feels, at first, quite confusing. As a society, we still don&rsquo;t know how confidential,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/my-friends-in-italy-are-using-ai-therapists-but-is-that-so-bad-when-a-stigma-surrounds-mental-health-viola-di-grado/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/my-friends-in-italy-are-using-ai-therapists-but-is-that-so-bad-when-a-stigma-surrounds-mental-health-viola-di-grado/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Palantir CEO Says AI Will Somehow Be So Great That People Will Stop Immigrating]]></title><description><![CDATA[Don't bother trying to figure out how that makes any sense.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/palantir-ceo-says-ai-will-somehow-be-so-great-that-people-will-stop-immigrating/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 23:15:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/palantir-ceo-says-ai-will-somehow-be-so-great-that-people-will-stop-immigrating/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Controversial Swiss Suicide Pod Gets an AI-Powered Mental Fitness Upgrade]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's better than ChatGPT encouraging you to kill yourself, I guess.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/controversial-swiss-suicide-pod-gets-an-ai-powered-mental-fitness-upgrade/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 21:10:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/controversial-swiss-suicide-pod-gets-an-ai-powered-mental-fitness-upgrade/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Superstates and spheres of influence | Brief letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Orwell&rsquo;s insight | Antisocial media | AI takeover | Howff Club | Beyond the TamarInteresting article by Brendan Simms of Cambridge University on spheres of influence in the world (Has a Nazi theorist&rsquo;s vision of a world divided into &lsquo;great&nbsp;spaces&rsquo; found a new advocate in Trump?, 16 January). Is anyone else reminded of the three superstates in George Orwell&rsquo;s Nineteen Eighty-Four (Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia)?<br />
Carol KewleyPort Glasgow, Inverclyde&bull; The gov]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/superstates-and-spheres-of-influence-brief-letters/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 18:51:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/superstates-and-spheres-of-influence-brief-letters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Big tech continues to bend the knee to Trump a year after his inauguration]]></title><description><![CDATA[Inside the big rewards tech titans have reaped from caving to Trump. Plus, a look at the US datacenter boom and the effects of Australia&rsquo;s social media banHello, and welcome to TechScape. I&rsquo;m your host, Blake Montgomery, the Guardian&rsquo;s US tech editor.One year ago today, Donald Trump was inaugurated as president of the United States. Standing alongside him that day were the leaders of the tech industry&rsquo;s most powerful companies, who had donated to him in an unprecedented b]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/big-tech-continues-to-bend-the-knee-to-trump-a-year-after-his-inauguration/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 16:55:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/big-tech-continues-to-bend-the-knee-to-trump-a-year-after-his-inauguration/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell us: has a chatbot helped you out of a difficult time in your life?]]></title><description><![CDATA[We would like to hear from people who have used chatbots for companionship or mental health supportAI Chatbots are now a part of everyday life. ChatGPT surpassed 800 million weekly active users in late 2025.<br />
Some people are forming relationships with these chatbots, using them for companionship, mental health support, and even as therapists.<br />
Has a chatbot helped you get through a difficult period in life? If so, we&rsquo;d like to hear about it.If you&rsquo;re having trouble using the form click]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/tell-us-has-a-chatbot-helped-you-out-of-a-difficult-time-in-your-life/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 15:45:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/tell-us-has-a-chatbot-helped-you-out-of-a-difficult-time-in-your-life/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unbreakable? Researchers warn quantum computers have serious security flaws]]></title><description><![CDATA[Quantum computers could revolutionize everything from drug discovery to business analytics&mdash;but their incredible power also makes them surprisingly vulnerable. New research from Penn State warns that today&rsquo;s quantum machines are not just futuristic tools, but potential gold mines for hackers. The study reveals that weaknesses can exist not only in software, but deep within the physical hardware itself, where valuable algorithms and sensitive data may be exposed.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/unbreakable-researchers-warn-quantum-computers-have-serious-security-flaws/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 15:03:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/unbreakable-researchers-warn-quantum-computers-have-serious-security-flaws/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Donald Trump trashed global economic orthodoxy. A year on, did he leave Australia a winner or loser?]]></title><description><![CDATA[While tariffs have been &lsquo;all show and no substance&rsquo;, economists fear an AI investment bubble and tensions in the South China Sea, along with Trump&rsquo;s attacks on the Federal Reserve&rsquo;s independenceGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastOne year into Donald Trump&rsquo;s presidency and experts in Australia and around the world can hear the grinding of history&rsquo;s gears.&ldquo;We have entered a new economic era; one with rules that are very different to]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/donald-trump-trashed-global-economic-orthodoxy-a-year-on-did-he-leave-australia-a-winner-or-loser/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/donald-trump-trashed-global-economic-orthodoxy-a-year-on-did-he-leave-australia-a-winner-or-loser/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cosmic Princess Kaguya! review – trippy anime adapted from Japanese folk dives into virtual reality popworld]]></title><description><![CDATA[Emojis explode all over the screen in this hyperactive adaptation of a Japanese folk tale about a princess who has run away from the moonNever has a film been more deserving of an exclamation mark at the end of the title than this animation from Japan. Cosmic Princess Kaguya! is an adaptation of a Japanese folk tale, the story of a princess from the moon discovered inside a bamboo stalk in a poor rural village. A decade ago, Studio Ghibli adapted the tale into a gorgeously animated movie with a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/cosmic-princess-kaguya-review-trippy-anime-adapted-from-japanese-folk-dives-into-virtual-reality-popworld/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/cosmic-princess-kaguya-review-trippy-anime-adapted-from-japanese-folk-dives-into-virtual-reality-popworld/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI Says Its Physical Device Is ‘On Track’ for an Unveiling Later This Year]]></title><description><![CDATA[No, there have not been any updates about what the hell it is.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-says-its-physical-device-is-on-track-for-an-unveiling-later-this-year/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 01:15:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-says-its-physical-device-is-on-track-for-an-unveiling-later-this-year/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK exposed to ‘serious harm’ by failure to tackle AI risks, MPs warn]]></title><description><![CDATA[Government, Bank of England and FCA criticised for taking &lsquo;wait-and-see&rsquo; approach to AI use in financial sectorConsumers and the UK financial system are being exposed to &ldquo;serious harm&rdquo; by the failure of government and the Bank of England to get a grip on the risks posed by artificial intelligence, an influential parliamentary committee has warned.In a new report, MPs on the Treasury committee criticise ministers and City regulators, including the Financial Conduct Authori]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/uk-exposed-to-serious-harm-by-failure-to-tackle-ai-risks-mps-warn/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 01:01:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/uk-exposed-to-serious-harm-by-failure-to-tackle-ai-risks-mps-warn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is this man the future of music – or its executioner? AI evangelist Mikey Shulman says he’s making pop, not slop]]></title><description><![CDATA[Worth a staggering $2.45bn, Suno is an AI music company that can create a track with just a few prompts. Why is its CEO happy to see it called &lsquo;the Ozempic of the music industry&rsquo;?&lsquo;The format of the future,&rdquo; says Mikey Shulman, &ldquo;is music you play with, not just play.&rdquo; As the CEO and co-founder of the generative AI music company Suno, Shulman currently finds himself in the exhilarating if perhaps unenviable position of being simultaneously regarded as the archit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/is-this-man-the-future-of-music-or-its-executioner-ai-evangelist-mikey-shulman-says-hes-making-pop-not-slop/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2026 17:30:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/is-this-man-the-future-of-music-or-its-executioner-ai-evangelist-mikey-shulman-says-hes-making-pop-not-slop/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dr Bot: can ChatGPT be trusted with your health? – podcast]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s been three years since ChatGPT first launched and according to OpenAI, the American artificial intelligence company that runs the chatbot, 40 million people ask it healthcare-related questions every day.Now the company has launched a new health feature in Australia that allows the platform to &ldquo;securely connect medical records and wellness apps&rdquo; to generate responses &ldquo;more relevant and useful to you&rdquo;.Medical editor Melissa Davey speaks to Nour Haydar about how i]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/dr-bot-can-chatgpt-be-trusted-with-your-health-podcast/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2026 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/dr-bot-can-chatgpt-be-trusted-with-your-health-podcast/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NFL-Related Accounts on Facebook Are Posting Some of the Most Shameless AI Slop Yet]]></title><description><![CDATA[One falsely claimed that some random guy&mdash;not even a player&mdash;had died.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/nfl-related-accounts-on-facebook-are-posting-some-of-the-most-shameless-ai-slop-yet/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2026 11:30:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/nfl-related-accounts-on-facebook-are-posting-some-of-the-most-shameless-ai-slop-yet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ed Zitron on big tech, backlash, boom and bust: ‘AI has taught us that people are excited to replace human beings’]]></title><description><![CDATA[His blunt, brash scepticism has made the podcaster and writer something of a cult figure. But as concern over large language models builds, he&rsquo;s no longer the outsider he once wasIf some time in an entirely possible future they come to make a movie about &ldquo;how the AI bubble burst&rdquo;, Ed Zitron will doubtless be a main character. He&rsquo;s the perfect outsider figure: the eccentric loner who saw all this coming and screamed from the sidelines that the sky was falling, but nobody w]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ed-zitron-on-big-tech-backlash-boom-and-bust-ai-has-taught-us-that-people-are-excited-to-replace-human-beings/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2026 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/artificial-intelligence/ed-zitron-on-big-tech-backlash-boom-and-bust-ai-has-taught-us-that-people-are-excited-to-replace-human-beings/</guid></item></channel></rss>