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Open letter to culture secretary also proposes ‘freelancers’ commissioner’ to champion cause of the low-paid in creative industriesMore than 4,000 artists have called on the government to create a levy on smartphone sales to fund ­visual art in the face of cuts, studio closures and the rise of generative AI.Creatives... Read more

GUEST: Graphics chips, or GPUs, are the engines of the AI revolution, powering the large language models (LLMs) that underpin chatbots and other AI applications. With price tags for these chips likely to fluctuate significantly in the years ahead, many businesses will need to learn how to manage variable costs... Read more

The capsule, which returned without astronauts, and other space programs at Boeing have suffered many delays and cost overruns.... Read more

Drug dealers, scammers and white nationalists openly conduct business and spread toxic speech on the platform, according to a Times analysis of more than 3.2 million Telegram messages.... Read more

Federal prosecutors say Russia paid an American media company to push pro-Kremlin messages from social media influencers including Benny Johnson, Tim Pool and Dave Rubin.... Read more

AI and games has become the hottest topic at game conferences like Devcom, the game developer conference that precedes the giant Gamescom expo every year in Cologne. At the event, I moderated a panel that explored the notion of the limits of intellectual property — exploring concepts with legal experts... Read more

Journalists and other writers are employed to improve the quality of chatbot replies. The irony of working for an industry that may well make their craft redundant is not lost on themFor several hours a week, I write for a technology company worth billions of dollars. Alongside me are published... Read more

Every time it seems he can’t possibly sink any lower, the billionaire CEO grabs a shovel and starts diggingEvery time I think Elon Musk can’t possibly sink any lower, he grabs a shovel and starts digging. In recent months, Apartheid Clyde (as he is nicknamed) has been doing his best... Read more

This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore.A team of researchers in China have uncovered a way to help autonomous cars “see” better in the dark—boosting the vehicles’ driving abilities by more than 10 percent. The secret to the researchers’ success is... Read more

A global survey suggests 88 percent of people are worried about the state of nature.... Read more

"We will review the data and determine the next steps for the program," says Boeing's Starliner manager.... Read more

A new book argues that our ignorance is so large, lucky discoveries are inevitable.... Read more

Spokesperson says government ‘considering the advice’ of Australian Electoral Commission on regulating AI useGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastDavid Pocock has raised the alarm on the risk posed to democracy by generative AI by using it to play a trick: fabricating a video of Anthony... Read more

Prompt Poet allows you to ground LLM-generated responses to a real-world data context, opening up a new horizon of AI interactions.... Read more

The person recovered, and Missouri officials say risk to public is still low.... Read more