All news on the topic: Artificial intelligence (AI)

Sainsbury’s has suspended use of live facial recognition technology at one of its branches after a customer was wrongly identified as a shoplifter and asked to leave.

A British court ordered a retrial involving rape charges. The decisive judicial ruling arrived after legal procedures collapsed completely. Evidence proved the complainant used an artificial intelligence chatbot tool.

Asked whether the finance industry has enough safeguards in place to remain stable if an AI bubble unravels, Schindler said: “I do hope so.”

When Apple sued OpenAI last week, claiming the company behind ChatGPT had sought to steal its trade secrets, one name was conspicuously absent from the lawsuit.

Age verification means that the sector’s biggest players will now have access to information that will only make them richer and more powerful

The UK has turned to AI to determine ages of asylum seekers, and other countries are likely to follow suit. Our investigation finds the technology is deeply unreliable.

Family courts are home to an “alarming prevalence” of victim blaming and bias – predominantly impacting mothers – according to researchers we spoke to following the publication of a new report.

A lawsuit filed by Google against an alleged China-based phishing network may help the company seize reachable infrastructure and make fraud harder for criminals, but is unlikely to stop the broader scam ecosystem, a cybersecurity expert told OCCRP on Tuesday.

The social media ban for under-16s is not a “silver bullet”, the Technology Secretary acknowledged as she faced a backlash from firms which will be hit by the restriction.

Britain’s plans to ban social media for under-16s will push teenagers towards more harmful platforms, the world’s biggest technology companies have said as ministers push to enact the new restrictions by next spring.

A Russian online sabotage network was behind a series of arson attacks on Sir Keir Starmer’s family home and other targets linked to the UK prime minister, an FT investigation has found.

Europe’s STOXX 600 hit a record high on Monday, boosted by a relief rally across most sectors after the United States and Iran reached a preliminary agreement ‌that would open the Strait of Hormuz and end the three-month-long war in the Middle East.

Keir Starmer will ban under-16s from major social media apps such as TikTok, Instagram and X in sweeping restrictions described as “Australia plus”, the Guardian understands.

SpaceX shares jumped 19% in their Nasdaq debut on Friday, sending the company’s value past $2 trillion to make it the sixth-biggest U.S. company by value and turning Elon Musk into the world’s first trillionaire.

Anthropic will "abruptly disable" its most advanced AI models for all users after the US government ordered it to suspend access to the models for foreign nationals, citing national security concerns.

A Dutch court artist has received damages after an MP for the far-right Party for Freedom (PVV) used one of her drawings without permission and altered it with AI to make the subjects appear more menacing.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has raised 75 billion US dollars (£56 billion) ahead of its record-breaking 1.8 trillion US dollar (£1.3 trillion) US stock market debut on Friday as it looks set to become the biggest flotation of all time.

Three in four European adults encountered a scam over the past 12 months, according to a sweeping new report that warns of a rapidly evolving digital underworld where criminal networks are increasingly harnessing artificial intelligence to target victims.

OpenAI has filed for a blockbuster initial public offering (IPO) that could value the ChatGPT maker at more than $1 trillion as it races its rivals to market.

A journalist managed to get accepted as a volunteer at an estate owned by the wife of Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, using a fake name and an AI-generated photo.

Sitting in his Paris flat, Noé Campo reads the transcript of an exchange between an AI chatbot and a real person. The conversation took place on Seewa AI, the companion chatbot platform he built in three weeks. The exchange is intimate, personal and private. Or so the person thought.

A number of UK police forces have been told to stop using AI systems to prepare court statements and carry out other criminal justice tasks, after concerns that inaccurate outputs could contaminate legal proceedings.