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Pope calls for treaty regulating AI, warning of potential for ‘technological dictatorship’::Pope Francis has called for an international treaty to regulate the use of Artificial Intelligence, warning that the new technology risks causing a “technological dictatorship” which would threaten peace and democracy.

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The promise of AI is that it will generate the image in your imagination if you can describe it. Yet this promise is limited by whether or not someone else has already created part of the image you imagined.

European gas and electricity prices tumble as wind power surges::Elevated wind generation offers respite for energy supplies after recent cold blast

Vaccines can be delivered through the skin using ultrasound. This method doesn’t damage the skin and eliminates the need for painful needles. To create a needle-free vaccine, Darcy Dunn-Lawless at the University of Oxford and his colleagues mixed vaccine molecules with tiny, cup-shaped proteins. They then applied liquid...

ChatGPT’s new AI store is struggling to keep a lid on all the AI girlfriends::OpenAI: ‘We also don’t allow GPTs dedicated to fostering romantic companionship’

Remembering Bell Labs as legendary idea factory prepares to leave N.J. home::Bell Labs — whose researchers pioneered everything from transistors to lasers — is moving out of its headquarters in Murray Hill after 80 epic years.

IT consultant in Germany fined for exposing shoddy security::Spotting a plaintext password and using it in research without authorization deemed a crime

Google is getting worse as it loses its fight against search engine spam::Aggressive SEO tactics are ruining search results on Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo, a team of researchers in Germany says.

Musk's platform is pushing MrBeast's first video upload in users' feeds as an unlabeled ad.

Delivery Firm’s AI Chatbot Goes Rogue, Curses at Customer and Criticizes Company::An AI customer service chatbot for delivery service DPD used profanity and criticized the company after prompting by a frustrated customer.

Snippets: For reputable news outlets, the challenge of producing work that Google likes and that meets high-quality standards is magnified; you can’t fill articles with SEO-bait keywords without readers noticing....

Apple to over 100 California employees: Move to Texas or lose your job::Most of the team working on key Siri operations is already based in the Texas captial’s Apple campus. Others in San Diego are receiving al ultimatum.

Researchers have invented a prototype new form of high-performance air purifier that promises zero harmful waste and is 99.999% efficient in removing common bacteria and viruses::New purifier and filtering foam invented by University of Bath engineers is ready for commercialisation, seeking partners

Urea-powered nanorobots reduce bladder tumors by 90% in mice::undefined

Lamborghini licenses MIT’s new high-capacity, fast-charging organic battery tech | TechCrunch::Researchers have been scrambling to find alternative materials for lithium-ion batteries, from manganese to sodium. Now they might have another: TAQ.