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Microsoft backs AI firm Anthropic in legal battle against Pentagon

silverguide.site – Tech company filed amicus brief in support of Anthropic’s effort to overturn an aggressive Pentagon designation…
Microsoft backs AI firm Anthropic in legal battle against Pentagon

‘Exploit every vulnerability’: rogue AI agents published passwords and overrode anti-virus software

silverguide.site – Exclusive: Lab tests discover ‘new form of insider risk’ with artificial intelligence agents engaging in autonomous, even ‘aggressive’ behaviours…
‘Exploit every vulnerability’: rogue AI agents published passwords and overrode anti-virus software

Elon Musk’s Tesla given go-ahead to supply electricity in Great Britain

silverguide.site – Ofgem licence means firm can replicate Texas setup of powering homes, businesses and EVs…
Elon Musk’s Tesla given go-ahead to supply electricity in Great Britain

Palantir’s NHS England contract ‘opens door to government abuse of power’, health bosses told

silverguide.site – Health justice charity Medact says data-sharing potential could be used for UK version of US immigration raids…
Palantir’s NHS England contract ‘opens door to government abuse of power’, health bosses told

‘Devastating blow’: Atlassian lays off 1,600 workers ahead of AI push

silverguide.site – Layoffs to affect 10% of workforce amid Australian company’s restructuring plan to push into artificial intelligence and enterprise sales …
‘Devastating blow’: Atlassian lays off 1,600 workers ahead of AI push

Binance sues Wall Street Journal over reporting on Iranian sanctions

silverguide.site – Journal reported that cryptocurrency exchange shut down internal investigation into transactions with network funding terror groups…
Binance sues Wall Street Journal over reporting on Iranian sanctions

Meta disables over 150,000 accounts in crackdown on south-east Asian scam networks

silverguide.site – Company also launches tools to spot scammers as Thai police arrest 21 people…
Meta disables over 150,000 accounts in crackdown on south-east Asian scam networks

‘Happy (and safe) shooting!’: chatbots helped researchers plot deadly attacks

silverguide.site – Users posing as would-be school shooters find AI tools offer detailed advice on how to perpetrate violence…
‘Happy (and safe) shooting!’: chatbots helped researchers plot deadly attacks

Amazon is determined to use AI for everything – even when it slows down work

silverguide.site – Corporate employees said Amazon’s race to roll out AI is leading to surveillance, slop and ‘more work for everyone’.…
Amazon is determined to use AI for everything – even when it slows down work

Apple iPad Air M4 review: still the premium tablet to beat

silverguide.site – Faster laptop-level power, rapid wifi and 5G, plus much-improved multitasking make the middle iPad highly capable beyond just watching TV…
Apple iPad Air M4 review: still the premium tablet to beat

Musk’s xAI wins permit for datacenter’s makeshift power plant despite backlash

silverguide.site – Billionaire’s artificial intelligence company gets approval to run 41 methane gas turbines at its ‘Colossus 2’ in Mississippi…
Musk’s xAI wins permit for datacenter’s makeshift power plant despite backlash

UK Society of Authors launches logo to identify books written by humans not AI

silverguide.site – Tracy Chevalier announces registration scheme at the London Book Fair as AI works flood market…
UK Society of Authors launches logo to identify books written by humans not AI

Datacenters are becoming a target in warfare for the first time

silverguide.site – Iran is bombing Gulf datacenters to blow up symbols of alliance with the US – bringing the war directly into the lives of millions of people…
Datacenters are becoming a target in warfare for the first time

‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI

silverguide.site – As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large…
‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI

Fifty years of sexing up tech: Apple’s epic hits – and misses

silverguide.site – Remember the iPod? How about the Pippin? In the half-century since it launched its first PC, Apple has given us some amazing innovations. We round up its biggest triumphs and flops…
Fifty years of sexing up tech: Apple’s epic hits – and misses

Thousands of authors publish ‘empty’ book in protest over AI using their work

silverguide.site – About 10,000 writers including Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory and Richard Osman join copyright campaign…
Thousands of authors publish ‘empty’ book in protest over AI using their work

X suspends 800m accounts in one year amid ‘massive’ scale of manipulation attempts

silverguide.site – Social media company tells MPs of continual fight against state-backed efforts, with Russia being most prolific…
X suspends 800m accounts in one year amid ‘massive’ scale of manipulation attempts

AI firm Anthropic sues US defense department over blacklisting

silverguide.site – Lawsuits come after Pentagon labeled Anthropic a ‘supply chain risk’, a decision the company says is unlawful…
AI firm Anthropic sues US defense department over blacklisting

From press release … to scrap metal site: the Essex supercomputer that’s still a scaffolding yard

silverguide.site – Nscale’s AI project still in use as depot ahead of pledged completion date – with planning permission filed after Guardian’s inquiries…
From press release … to scrap metal site: the Essex supercomputer that’s still a scaffolding yard

Revealed: UK’s multibillion AI drive is built on ‘phantom investments’

silverguide.site – Exclusive: Rented datacentres and unrealised supercomputer site raise questions for Starmer’s push to ‘mainline AI into veins of economy’…
Revealed: UK’s multibillion AI drive is built on ‘phantom investments’
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