1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (620+ words) US Senator Bernie Sanders has urged Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump to negotiate a treaty to pause advanced AI development and ban artificial superintelligence before it is too late, citing recent calls from leading technology executives…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (620+ words) Nations around the world are attempting to loosen the grip of social media on adolescent minds. While most are focusing on teens in the 13-16 age group, Australia has gone a step further, to give 16+ users more control of their online…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (363+ words) Around 30 robots took to the streets of Warsaw, Poland’s capital city, on Monday, September 7, waving flags, playing protest slogans and marching in circles outside Poland’s digital affairs ministry to demand stronger rules for artificial intelligence (AI). The unusual demonstration, which…...

6+ day, 5+ hour ago   (327+ words) OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki has warned that humanity should exercise “extreme caution” as artificial intelligence advances rapidly, saying people may not be prepared for the consequences of continued progress in machine intelligence. In a blog post, Pachocki wrote: “This…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (349+ words) Apple has changed the name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America” on its maps for users in the United States, days after Google made a similar change following US President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to rename the lake, media…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (526+ words) Tim Cook signed off as Apple’s chief executive with a farewell note to employees that leaned heavily on gratitude, company culture and a full-throated endorsement of his successor, John Ternus, who takes over as CEO effective September 1. In the memo,…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (314+ words) Berlin Mayor Kai Wegner has confirmed that the German capital is being blackmailed by hackers who compromised the city’s computer systems and stole data in a recent cyberattack. Berlin’s Governing Mayor Kai Wegner and Senator for the Interior and Sport…...

3+ week, 7+ hour ago   (446+ words) New Zealand is set to join the growing list of countries seeking to restrict social media access for children under 16, with Prime Minister Christopher Luxon announcing plans to introduce legislation aimed at protecting young users online. In a statement on…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (774+ words) “Artificial Intelligence is coming! AI will take all our jobs!” Warnings like these might have felt a bit exaggerated just a few years ago, but when thousands of employees around the world wake up to layoff e-mails almost on a…...