McDonald’s drive-thru AI bot may have broken privacy law

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29.08.2025

McDonald’s announced earlier this month that it was deploying an AI chatbot to handle its drive-thru orders, but it turns out it might break privacy law. The chatbot is the product of a voice recognition company McDonald’s snapped up in 2019 called Apprente which is now known as McD Tech...

DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman departs Google

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25.08.2025

DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman has departed Google after an eight-year stint at the company. Suleyman co-founded AI giant DeepMind alongside Demis Hassabis and Shane Legg in 2010 before it was acquired by Google in 2014...

Teachers in England given the green-light to use AI

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21.08.2025

Teachers in England have been given the all-clear to use AI to help them in low-level tasks that are part of their duties, the BBC reports. Guidance from the Department for Education (DfE) says AI...

OpenAI’s GPT-3 is a convincing philosopher

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19.08.2025

A study has found that OpenAI’s GPT-3 is capable of being indistinguishable from a human philosopher. The now infamous GPT-3 is a powerful autoregressive language model that uses deep learning to produce human-like text. Eric...

Hallucinations, plagiarism, and ChatGPT

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12.08.2025

ChatGPT was introduced just seven weeks ago, but the AI has already garnered a lifetime’s worth of hype. It’s anybody’s guess whether this particular technology opens the AI kimono for good or is just a...

AI and bots allegedly used to fraudulently boost music streams

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06.08.2025

A singer from the United States has been accused of manipulating music streaming platforms using AI technologies and bots to fraudulently inflate his stream statistics and earn millions of dollars in royalties. Michael Smith, 52,...

DeepSeek V3-0324 tops non-reasoning AI models in open-source first

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02.08.2025

DeepSeek V3-0324 has become the highest-scoring non-reasoning model on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index in a landmark achievement for open-source AI. The new model advanced seven points in the benchmark to surpass proprietary counterparts such...

Innovative machine learning uses transforming business applications

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29.07.2025

Machine learning (ML) is revolutionising the way businesses operate, driving innovation, and unlocking new possibilities across industries. By leveraging vast amounts of data and powerful algorithms, ML enables companies to automate processes, make accurate predictions,...

Data analytics’ centrality to F1 racing

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24.07.2025

To the fan or the casual onlooker, a Formula One race involves drivers, the car, and a pit crew. These are the visible teams that you see at the race. Fans know there is a...

The hidden climate cost of AI: How tech giants are struggling to go green

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23.07.2025

As AI takes centre stage in Silicon Valley, an inconvenient truth is emerging behind the scenes: AI has a massive carbon footprint. Tech giants like Microsoft, Google and Amazon have made bold commitments to slash...