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Misuse of copyrighted music by AI companies ‘could exploit artists’ | Science & Tech News
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The misuse of copyrighted music by artificial intelligence companies could exploit musicians, a former executive at a leading tech startup has warned. The technology is trained on a huge number of existing songs, which it uses to generate music based on a text prompt. Copyrighted work is already being used to train artificial intelligence models…
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UK to launch an Online Fraud Charter with 11 major tech companies including TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube | Politics News
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The UK is to launch an Online Fraud Charter with 11 major tech companies in a “world-first” initiative to combat scams, fake adverts and romance fraud. Home Secretary James Cleverly will host representatives from several leading tech companies – including Facebook, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube – to sign the pledge to tackle internet fraud on…
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Elon Musk sues watchdog group after major companies pull ads | Science & Tech News
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Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) has sued the watchdog group Media Matters alleging it manufactured a report to show advertisers’ posts alongside neo-Nazi and white nationalist content. Major US companies including Disney, Warner Bros and Sky News’ parent company Comcast pulled advertising from X over concerns about their ads showing up next to hate speech…
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MI5 boss says ‘tens of thousands’ of UK companies at risk from Chinese AI threat | US News
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The head of MI5 has made an unprecedented public appearance alongside his counterparts from the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, to warn that companies, large and small, are unprepared for the threats posed by artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. Speaking to Sky News at the summit in Silicon Valley, the director general of…
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UK universities and tech companies win £4.3m funding to develop space-based solar power | Climate News
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British tech companies and universities are to receive millions of pounds of investment to develop new technology that generates solar power from space. The rapidly emerging technology collects energy from the sun using solar panels attached to satellites, which then beam it back to Earth using wireless technology. Generating power from space has huge potential…
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Good news on fall in sewage spills only highlights the scale of the challenge facing water companies | Climate News
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Well, first the good news: untreated sewage was pumped into our rivers and seas less frequently last year than the year before. Overall, storm overflow spills – when sewage gets released into the environment due to treatment works being overwhelmed – were down 19% in 2022, according to the latest data. But the raw figures…
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Why are companies, and even Joe Biden, posting one-word tweets? | Science & Tech News
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If you’ve been scrolling through Twitter today you might have been baffled to see several companies posting apparently cryptic one-word tweets. It all started when the US train company Amtrak accidentally tweeted the word “trains” on Thursday evening. The tweet had gained more than 153,000 likes and 23,000 retweets by midday UK time on Friday…