April 30, 2025 1:38 PM Image credit: VentureBeat with Ideogram Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More David Silver and Richard Sutton, two renowned AI scientists, argue in a new paper that artificial intelligence is about to enter a new phase, the “Era …
April 30, 2025 1:31 PM Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Chinese e-commerce and cloud giant Alibaba isn’t taking the pressure off other AI model providers in the U.S. and abroad. Just days after releasing its new, state-of-the-art open source Qwen3 large …
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Image: Matthew Smith / IDG Microsoft’s Surface is the gold standard for Windows-powered laptops, so of course it was one of the first to get access to Qualcomm’s super-efficient Snapdragon processors for its latest generation. Normally priced at $1,000, today you can get a refurb version of the 13-inch base model for $599 on eBay. …
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Alexander – stock.adobe.com AI could enable investigations to cover far more individuals than was ever previously possible, which is why oversight is needed By Cliff Saran, Managing Editor Published: 30 Apr 2025 12:00 A study published to coincide with the Centre for Emerging Technology and Security annual Showcase 2025 event has highlighted some of the …
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peresanz – stock.adobe.com Financial services regulator proposes artificial intelligence testing environment as part of its AI Lab By Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA Published: 30 Apr 2025 9:50 The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) plans to offer a service where companies under its watch can test out artificial intelligence (AI) tools before they …
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World’s biggest banks have increased the number of employees working with artificial intelligence by 13% in the past six months By Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA Published: 30 Apr 2025 8:00 Artificial intelligence (AI)-related roles could be the only “safe jobs” in the banking sector as financial organisations “relentlessly” press on with …
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peshkov – stock.adobe.com The government has received 200 expressions of interest in response to its AI growth zones application push, and is now seeking to progress some bids By Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK Published: 30 Apr 2025 7:30 The government has received more than 200 responses from local authorities across the UK that want …
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The infamous Scattered Spider hacking collective may have been behind the ongoing cyber attack on Marks and Spencer that has crippled systems at the retailer and left its ecommerce operation in disarray. By Alex Scroxton, Security Editor Published: 29 Apr 2025 21:06 Scattered Spider – the teenage hacking collective that breached multiple organisations in 2023 …
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Image: hakanyalicn/Shutterstock.com Today, Mozilla has released version 138 of its popular Firefox web browser for Windows, macOS, and Linux. The biggest draw of this update is the profile manager feature that makes it easier to separate work, play, and everything else. With separate user profiles, you’ll be able to have separate bookmarks, tabs, browsing history, …
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Google I/O is usually where the company reveals what’s happening with its smartphone OS for the next 12 months, but this year, Android is getting its own thing. A week ahead of I/O, Google will deep dive into the future of Android in a special edition of The Android Show. The company said people have …
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