Image: Microsoft A few days ago, Microsoft announced via the Windows Insider blog some new AI features and improvements for the Photos app. Among the new features is “Relight,” which lets you adjust the lighting in a photo by placing up to three virtual light sources that can each be adjusted for color, intensity, and …
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The government puts up money to help drive the UK’s expertise in artificial intelligence By Cliff Saran, Managing Editor Published: 09 Jun 2025 16:45 The government is funding a scholarship named after British computer scientist Karen Sparck Jones, who pioneered a technique for indexing documents quickly. Labour said it would be providing full funding for …
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A vast array of student information is collected under protective measures in secondary schools and colleges, yet the pupils are not always aware of what is being collected and how it is being stored and processed. Children can be exposed to a variety of online harms, from cyber bullying to doxing and grooming, which they …
The government has now paid out more than £1bn to victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal By Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA Published: 09 Jun 2025 12:50 More than 7,000 people have received over £1bn between them as part of the government’s promise to provide financial redress to victims of the …
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peshkov – stock.adobe.com Prime Minister unveiled plans to boost UK’s high-performance compute capacity 20-fold, along with funding to bolster skills By Cliff Saran, Managing Editor Published: 09 Jun 2025 12:15 London Tech Week 2025 has kicked off with a set of initiatives to bolster the UK’s sovereign artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. Prime minister Keir Starmer …
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Barclays is doubling down on its adoption of artificial intelligence tools by moving to embrace Microsoft Copilot with a large-scale roll-out of the technology to 100,000 staff By Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK Published: 09 Jun 2025 11:46 Barclays has signed an agreement with public cloud giant Microsoft that will see the latter’s generative artificial …
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This Media Buying Briefing covers the latest in agency news and media buying for Digiday+ members and is distributed over email every Monday at 10 a.m. ET. More from the series → As expected, professional sports inventory is selling rapidly in this year’s upfront marketplace, notably the NFL, which as one media buyer said has …
Lifestyle publishers face distinct challenges from the generative AI features Google is adding to its search engine, such as AI Overviews and AI Mode. Evergreen and lifestyle content — like science, health and society — has traditionally drawn traffic to publishers’ sites by answering the kinds of questions people type into Google. But now those …
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Meta’s plans to fully automate ads with AI by 2026 doesn’t come as a surprise to creative agencies – but it could make retaining clients and scooping up new business that much more difficult. By next year, the social media company aims to allow brands to fully create and target ads using AI, seemingly giving marketers …
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By Kimeko McCoy • June 9, 2025 • Ivy Liu Digiday covers the latest from marketing and media at the annual Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. More from the series → Yet again, generative AI is likely to be center stage at this year’s Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity from June 16 to …
AI talk returns to Cannes — but marketers want practicality over pontification Read More »