Monday, May 4, 2026
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Forever fad: Rubik says his cube ‘reminds us why we have hands’
Budapest (AFP) - The naysayers said the maddening multicoloured cube that Erno Rubik invented 50 years ago would not survive...
South Korea, Britain host AI summit with safety top of agenda
Seoul (AFP) - South Korea and Britain kick off a major international summit on artificial intelligence in Seoul this week,...
Can we rid artificial intelligence of bias?
San Francisco (AFP) - Artificial intelligence built on mountains of potentially biased information has created a real risk of automating...
Ineos drives towards hydrogen car future
Millbrook (United Kingdom) (AFP) - At a sprawling vehicle test centre in the English countryside, a hydrogen-powered Grenadier 4x4 made...
OpenAI disbands team devoted to artificial intelligence risks
San Francisco (AFP) - OpenAI on Friday confirmed that it has disbanded a team devoted to mitigating the long-term dangers...
OpenAI team devoted to future risks left leaderless
San Francisco (AFP) - An OpenAI team devoted to mitigating the long-term dangers of super-smart computers was leaderless on Friday...
EU warns Microsoft to give Bing AI risk data or face fines
Brussels (Belgium) (AFP) - The EU on Friday told Microsoft to hand over internal documents or face fines as it...
Musk confirms Twitter has become X.com
Paris (AFP) - The social network formerly known as Twitter has fully migrated over to X. com, owner Elon Musk...
Rapidus ‘last opportunity’ to put Japan back on global chip map
Tokyo (AFP) - Japan's Rapidus project that brings together some of the world's biggest companies is the "last opportunity" to...
Reddit gives OpenAI access to its wealth of posts
San Francisco (AFP) - OpenAI will have access to Reddit data for training its artificial intelligence models and will put...
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