Inner west Sydney seat has long been safely held by the PM – but potential changes to copyright laws are angering its large creative communityGet our daily political email, free app or daily news podcastThe prime minister is facing growing discontent within his own electorate as creatives push back against the federal government’s proposal to allow AI companies to scrape everything Australians create online.Anthony Albanese’s seat of Grayndler in Sydney’s inner west is home to more than 3,000 cultural and creative businesses, and 10% of its workers are employed in cultural and creative fields – compared with 4.2% nationally. Continue reading...
Anthropic, the creator of Claude, filed to go public on the US stock market on 26 October. The company's filing statement contains a 92-page risk factor document in which it acknowledges the dangers that AI poses to society and human beings, and factors that could negatively affect Anthropic's business. Johana Bhuiyan, senior tech reporter for the Guardian, breaks down the document and explains why Anthropic's IPO could be a real test to the AI boomAnthropic files for potentially record-breaking stock market valuation in key test for AI industry Continue reading...
Binance exchange says it will cover customer losses as it scrambles to freeze affected assets, with about $3bn located so farQ&A: How big a deal is the $6.3bn crypto heist?Tell us: have you been affected by the Binance hack?The world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange has been hit by a record $6.3bn (£4.7bn) hack described as the biggest heist in history, with experts identifying North Korea as the likely culprit.Binance said it would cover all customer losses as it froze $3bn of the affected assets. Continue reading...
Ghost hunting has changed in recent years due to AI chatbots, and paranormal enthusiasts are concernedGhost hunting is a tech-heavy pursuit. When Amy Waine and Jarrad Cutting investigate haunted locations, they’re loaded up with software of their own design, such as an app that assigns signals from a phone’s sensors to different words in a database. In the age of ChatGPT, the ghost-hunting pair is probing the world of AI. They describe one of their latest inventions, an app called GhostTube Seer, as “the world’s first AI Ghost Hunting tool”. In the hands of paranormal investigators, scientific tools like EMF meters (used to detect electromagnetic fields) are repurposed to identify changes and anomalies that they believe indicate supernatural activity. Seer is, in many ways, simply an expansion of that practice, another way to scan an empty room and believe that something may be there. The app, which requires a paid monthly subscription, has more than 1m downloads, according to its Google Play store listing.But for others in the ghost hunting world, AI is an unwelcome presence. Since the release of ChatGPT in 2022, AI-generated ghost stories and images of the supernatural have flooded online spaces, so much so that popular forums like the r/Nosleep subreddit, meant for scary stories, have implemented a strict policy against AI-generated material. Continue reading...
Is AI causing the deployment of SaaS to be completely disrupted? If so, what happens to those existing SaaS deployments, and how does this impact users?
Brian McKenna and Ascendion’s chief strategy officer, Paul Roehrig, discuss AI education, stressing the importance of critical thinking, curiosity and human judgement
UK Immigration Enforcement is set to start deploying live facial recognition technology, but critics are concerned about the expansion of its biometric surveillance into non-criminal matters away from ports of entry, especially in light of underlying issues with the integrity of Home Office data
Voluntary culture standards, support for female entrepreneurship and business mentorship programmes among the Budget promises for women in UK tech
As thousands of datacentres are constructed across Europe, the Guardian and Investigate Europe have uncovered disturbing evidence that some workers building them are exposed to dangerous conditions and living in fear of speaking outSandu* checked his watch. He was winding down the last 15 minutes of his shift at a vast Google datacentre site in Saint-Ghislain, Belgium, in March, when the call came in. The 34-year-old electrical tester had already worked almost 10 hours, but says such last-minute jobs were normal: “I had no choice. People have been fired after saying no.”The task was one Sandu had done many times before and involved a series of tests measuring the safety and integrity of the electrical wiring. A protective suit was locked away in an equipment room. The round trip would have added another 15 minutes to the job, he says, and people were waiting, so he decided not to retrieve the suit. Continue reading...
DESNZ confirms prioritisation and strategic alignment of datacentre connections, after 156 responses broadly backed tougher queue management but split on capacity reservation
E-commerce company posts high cloud computing sales but gives a cautious sales forecast for the fourth quarterAmazon offered a mixed picture of its financial health on Thursday in its quarterly earnings report.The e-commerce company gave a cautious sales forecast for the current fourth quarter, which encompasses the critical holiday shopping period, after delivering fiscal third-quarter results that came in below Wall Street analysts’ expectations. Continue reading...
Net profit slid 25% from a year earlier to $26.2bn, well short of expectations, though revenue rose to $127.6bnShares in the Google parent Alphabet fell double digits Wednesday evening into Thursday trading, erasing hundreds of billions of dollars in stock market value from the $4tn tech giant.The company had reported lower-than-expected profit and a slowdown in its advertising business while it maintained big spending on AI. Continue reading...
Court documents reveal staff considered ways to ‘get academic community to disavow’ influential US author Meta staff discussed deploying a “whisper strategy” to undermine the influential US academic whose work has inspired a global social media crackdown, according to court documents.Employees at the parent group of Facebook and Instagram sought to discredit Jonathan Haidt, the social psychologist and author of The Anxious Generation, a book that helped tip the debate about online safety towards more stringent measures such as the under-16 ban in Australia. Continue reading...
Operational pressures do not reduce the need for lawful and consistent safeguards, says Investigatory Powers Commissioner’s Office
The draft policy opens England’s fast-track NSIP regime to schemes of 100MW and above, with a presumption of consent and consultation running to 8 January 2027