All news on the topic: Computing

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Peer claims UK copyright law consultation was biased in favor of AI firms
Beeban Kidron says plans will lead to ‘wholesale’ transfer of wealth from creative industries to tech sector.
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Macron promotes Europe and critiques Trump at Paris AI summit
‘Choose Europe and France for AI,’ says president amid speculation US and UK playing hardball over declaration.
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UK minister states that the AI race should be led by ’western, liberal, democratic’ nations
Technology secretary delivers veiled warning over China’s role ahead of Paris summit.
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DeepSeek banned from certain app stores in Italy over data use concerns
Italian and Irish regulators want answers on how data harvested by chatbot could be used by Chinese government.
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Global tech shares drop as China’s AI chatbot DeepSeek alarms investors
Chinese startup’s $6m product raises doubts about sustainability of western artificial intelligence boom.
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Water shortage fears as Labour’s first AI growth zone is located near new reservoir
First datacentre site proposed seven miles from Abingdon reservoir planned for water-stressed south-east England.
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UK proposes allowing tech companies to use copyrighted material for AI training
Consultation suggests opt-out scheme for creatives who don’t want their work used by Google, OpenAI and others
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Google unveils ’mindboggling’ new quantum computing chip
Chip completes tasks in minutes that would take 10 septillion years with traditional computing.
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Intel wins prolonged EU legal battle over a £880 million competition fine
Chipmaker disputed 2009 decision that it abused its market position in case dating back two decades
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Meta to proceed with plan to use UK Facebook and Instagram posts for AI training
Move to use shared posts follows information commissioner concerns and sets collision course with EU over privacy
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OpenAI sitting on tool to watermark AI-generated content
OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, has developed a text watermarking tool that could help it comply with the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act, but the company has yet to release it, reportedly because it fears losing users.
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UK shelves £1.3bn of funding for technology and AI projects
Britain’s first next-generation supercomputer, planned by Tories, in doubt after Labour government move
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Microsoft hit by massive outage across Europe days after global IT meltdown
Microsoft is investigating a second IT meltdown after millions of computers went offline less than two weeks ago.
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CrowdStrike faces backlash as ‘thank you’ gift cards are blocked
$10 UberEats vouchers sent to people who helped after global IT outage are flagged as potential fraud
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Windows global IT outage: what we know so far
Outage linked to Windows workstations causing global disruption, hitting banks, airlines, rail services and supermarkets
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Microsoft, OpenAI and Nvidia investigated over monopoly laws
US regulators open inquiry into AI firms over antitrust laws that oversee fair competition
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UK researchers say AI chatbots’ safeguards can be easily bypassed
All five systems tested were found to be ‘highly vulnerable’ to attempts to elicit harmful responses
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Tech company Raspberry Pi is preparing to launch its initial public offering on the London stock market
Cambridge-based business could be valued at up to £500m and is boost for UK after some companies switched listings