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Does AI make things up?

A recent experiment by researchers at the University of Gothenburg shows how quickly false data can enter the narrative.

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Watching your clicks

Many organisations have realised that the missing piece in their AI jigsaw is the knowledge and understanding in their employees heads.

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SNAP and you are gone.

Evan Spiegal, CEO of SNAP announced 1,000 jobs gone (16% of staff), $500 million stripped out of the cost base, and a repeated insistence that this is not panic but precision.

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From shoes to GPU's

Allbirds, once a poster child for ethical consumerism, merino wool minimalism and B‑Corp virtue calmly announced it has sold its shoes, its brand and, effectively, its former self this week to become NewBird AI, a GPU‑as‑a‑Service operation armed with $50 million of convertible financing.

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Ethical AI Governance in China

Their intent is to embed mandatory ethical governance into AI activities conducted in China, where it may pose risks to Human Dignity, Public Order, Life and Heath, Privacy and Data Security, Social Fairness or Sustainable Development.

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We all know AI works to please us, right?

In a recently published article in Science, reasarchers studied AI “sycophancy”, or the tendency of large language models (LLMs) to excessively agree with, flatter, or validate users, even when the user’s behavior is unethical, harmful, or socially inappropriate.

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Rent-a-human

What do you do if you are an AI Agent and you need a human to do a physical task for you?

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