Burger King cooks up AI chatbot to spot if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ | US news
From hospitality workers to retail employees, the exaggerated “customer service voice”, often mocked in internet memes as wildly different from…
Anthropic says it ‘cannot in good conscience’ allow Pentagon to remove AI checks | US military
Anthropic said Thursday it “cannot in good conscience” comply with a demand from the Pentagon to remove safety precautions from…
Brady Tkachuk decries White House’s AI video of him insulting Canadians after US gold | USA ice hockey team
US ice hockey star Brady has said he does not appreciate an AI video released by the White House that…
Met police to pilot facial recognition identity checks, mayor confirms | Facial recognition
Metropolitan police officers are to start scanning citizens’ faces using automated facial recognition technology to check their identities, in a…
‘Unbelievably dangerous’: experts sound alarm after ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies | ChatGPT
ChatGPT Health regularly misses the need for medical urgent care and frequently fails to detect suicidal ideation, a study of…
Guardian joins media coalition to protect original journalism from unpaid use by AI | Newspapers & magazines
A coalition of UK media companies including the Guardian has urged industry peers to back global frameworks ensuring AI firms…
Keen bosses, strange mistakes and a looming threat: workers on training AI to do their jobs | AI (artificial intelligence)
Workers grappling with the rapid growth of artificial intelligence have said they feel “devalued” by the technology and warned of…
Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more | Technology
There’s not much to love about big tech these days. So many ills can be laid at its door: social…
Rolls-Royce profits soar 40% amid booming demand for AI datacentre power | Rolls-Royce
Rolls-Royce’s profits soared by 40% last year as the engineering company’s turnaround gathered pace, helped by booming demand for power…
WPP to merge ad agencies and cut jobs in radical shake-up to counter AI threat | WPP
The beleaguered advertising group WPP has announced a radical restructure to counter the threat posed by the AI revolution, including…