AI developing too fast for regulators to keep up, says Oliver Dowden (www.theguardian.com)
Deputy prime minister to urge UN general assembly to create international regulatory system
Tesla is the next biggest union target in the United States. Sorry, Elon Musk | Hamilton Nolan (www.theguardian.com)
The carmaker is now US labor’s most important target. If Musk doesn’t like that, he’s welcome to settle it with an auto worker by cage match
Biden announces $600m for more free Covid-19 tests in anticipation of surge (www.theguardian.com)
The funding will produce new at-home tests and restart a website to allow Americans to order four free tests per household...
Australian federal police using AI to analyse data obtained under surveillance warrants (www.theguardian.com)
The AFP’s use of AI has been limited so far but the agency hopes the technology will help police identify money laundering and potential fraud
Tesla is the next biggest union target in the United States. Sorry, Elon Musk (www.theguardian.com)
Mexico supreme court decriminalizes abortion across country (www.theguardian.com)
Mexico’s supreme court has decriminalized abortion across the country, two years after ruling that abortion was not a crime in one northern state....
Tesla is the next biggest union target in the United States. Sorry, Elon Musk (www.theguardian.com)
French government defends arrest of teen in classroom over transgender bullying claims (www.theguardian.com)
The 14-year-old boy was put in handcuffs and marched out of his classroom on Monday.
Adidas chief exec: Kanye West ‘didn’t mean what he said’ with antisemitic comments (www.theguardian.com)
Bjørn Gulden, chief executive of Adidas, has lamented the end of the company’s lucrative partnership with Kanye West, saying, “I don’t think he meant what he said,” regarding the rapper’s antisemitic comments in October 2022....
AI-focused tech firms locked in ‘race to the bottom’, warns MIT professor (www.theguardian.com)
Elon Musk says Twitter, now X, is to charge all users subscription fees (www.theguardian.com)
Elon Musk has indicated that X, formerly known as Twitter, is preparing to charge all users for accessing the platform....
Revealed: top carbon offset projects may not cut planet-heating emissions (www.theguardian.com)
Elephants on the march across African borders as heat stress leads to fatalities (www.theguardian.com)
Mortality rate grows as animals roam long distances and clash with local people in desperate search for water.
People who work from home all the time ‘cut emissions by 54%’ against those in office (www.theguardian.com)
Twitter ranks worst in climate change misinformation report (www.theguardian.com)
The Climate of Misinformation report by Climate Action Against Disinformation looked at Meta, Pinterest, YouTube, TikTok and Twitter for their content moderation policies and efforts to mitigate inaccurate information such as climate denialism. The group, which is made up of dozens of international climate and...
A hidden universe of suffering’: the Palestinian children sent to jail (www.theguardian.com)
Elon Musk’s Neuralink approved to recruit humans for brain-implant trial (www.theguardian.com)
Company is seeking people with paralysis to test its experimental device after getting green light from independent review board...
Elon Musk says Twitter, now X, could charge all users subscription fees (www.theguardian.com)
Elon Musk says Twitter, now X, could charge all users subscription fees (www.theguardian.com)
Leaders of world’s biggest polluting countries skipping UN climate summit (www.theguardian.com)
Joe Biden and Xi Jinping, leaders of two biggest carbon emitters, among those not attending summit in New York....
Revealed: top carbon offset projects may not cut planet-heating emissions (www.theguardian.com)
Ten years after tragedy, tiny Lampedusa at centre of migration crisis again (www.theguardian.com)
More than 11,000 people have landed on the island in recent days – a decade on from when hundreds were killed in a shipwreck...
Thousands protest in Armenia over military strike on Nagorno-Karabakh (www.theguardian.com)
US anti-child trafficking activist resigns after sexual harassment allegations (www.theguardian.com)
The anti-child slavery activist Tim Ballard, whose work was dramatized in the movie Sound of Freedom, resigned from the Operation Underground Railroad (Our) organization he founded amid allegations he sexually harassed colleagues, it was reported on Monday....