Bosses don’t like the sound of a ‘four-day workweek’. Maybe it’s time to rebrand it | Gene Marks
We keep hearing that the four-day workweek is the future. So why are so few businesses actually adopting it? Belgium,…
UK departments at odds over energy demands of AI datacentres | AI (artificial intelligence)
One vision of the UK’s future involves a decarbonised economy powered by clean, renewable energy. Another involves making the UK…
Cannes AI film festival raises eyebrows – and questions about future | AI (artificial intelligence)
In Cannes’ darkened screening rooms, the supposed future of cinema flickered into life this week and it was strange. The…
Met investigates hundreds of officers after using Palantir AI tool | Metropolitan police
The Metropolitan police have launched investigations into hundreds of officers after using an AI tool built by the controversial tech…
Facing AI and a tough job market, gen Z turns to entrepreneurship: ‘I have to prove myself’ | US work & careers
When Ashley Terrell graduated from the University of Hawaii in 2024, she planned to find a job in marketing, maybe…
US justice department steps in on behalf of xAI in Colorado regulation case | Trump administration
The US justice department said on Friday it had intervened in a lawsuit by Elon Musk’s xAI challenging a Colorado…
Democratic Maine governor vetoes first US state freeze on new datacenters | Maine
The Democratic governor of Maine on Friday vetoed a bill that would have made it the first US state to…
Officials hugely underestimated impact of AI datacentres on UK carbon emissions | AI (artificial intelligence)
The UK government vastly underestimated the climate impact of artificial intelligence, it has emerged, after officials raised their estimate of…
‘Look, no hands’: China chases the driverless dream at Beijing car show | Self-driving cars
At the world’s biggest car fair, which opened in Beijing on Friday, there were hundreds of manufacturers, more than 1,000…
Grok tells researchers pretending to be delusional ‘drive an iron nail through the mirror while reciting Psalm 91 backwards’ | AI (artificial intelligence)
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok 4 told researchers pretending to be delusional that there was indeed a doppelganger in their…