Jack Dorsey’s Block cuts thousands of jobs as it embraces AI
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey says his technology firm Block is laying off almost half its workforce because artificial intelligence (AI) “fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company.” “Within the next year, I believe the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion and make similar structural changes,” he wrote in a letter […]
Instagram to alert parents if teens search for self-harm and suicide content
Parents using Instagram’s child supervision tools will soon receive alerts if their teen repeatedly searches for suicide or self-harm related terms on the platform. It is the first time parent company Meta will proactively alert parents to searches by their child on Instagram for harmful material, rather than just block searches and direct users to […]
Trump orders government to stop using Anthropic in battle over AI use
US President Donald Trump has said he would direct every federal agency to immediately stop using technology from AI developer Anthropic. “We don’t need it, we don’t want it, and will not do business with them again!” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Friday. Anthropic is mired in a row with the White […]
Urgent research needed to tackle AI threats, says Google AI boss
More research on the threats of artificial intelligence (AI) “needs to be done urgently”, the boss of Google DeepMind has told BBC News. In an exclusive interview at the AI Impact Summit in Delhi, Sir Demis Hassabis said the industry wanted “smart regulation” for “the real risks” posed by the tech. Many tech leaders and […]
Is £70 becoming harder to justify? The rise of cheaper blockbuster games
What can you tell about a video game from its price tag? In the UK, £70 may not gurantee quality, but it tends to mean you are getting a blockbuster or “AAA” – a big-budget game made by a large team, built around cutting-edge graphics, sprawling worlds and dozens of hours of gameplay. In 2025 […]
‘The end of Xbox’: fans split as AI exec takes over Microsoft’s top gaming role
Xbox fans have been left divided after Microsoft announced Phil Spencer, boss of its gaming division, and Xbox president Sarah Bond would step down from their roles. Spencer, who is retiring after nearly 40 years at Microsoft, will be replaced by Asha Sharma – an executive who previously oversaw some of the firm’s AI initiatives. […]
Chip giant Nvidia defies AI concerns with record $215bn revenue
Chip giant Nvidia has reported record annual revenue of $215.9bn (£159.1bn), despite a wave of investor scepticism about the massive amounts of money being spent on artificial intelligence (AI) technology. The firm also beat analyst’s forecasts as sales for the last three months of its financial year jumped by 73% compared to 12 months earlier. […]
Do you have to be polite to AI?
From being polite to pretending you’re on Star Trek, the advice you get about talking to chatbots can be truly bizarre, and totally useless. Here’s what actually works. When a group of researchers decided to test whether “positive thinking” made AI chatbots more accurate, it led to some surprising results. As they asked various chatbots […]
Dame Stephanie Shirley’s art collection to be sold
Born Vera Buchthal in the German city of Dortmund in 1933, Dame Stephanie was one of thousands of Jewish children to flee the Nazis to Britain as part of the Kindertransport. She went on to become a computer industry and women’s rights pioneer in the 1950s and 1960s, and founded the software company Freelance Programmers. […]
AI in Global Healthcare
The World Health Organization (WHO) has officially endorsed a new AI-driven diagnostic tool for rural clinics. The software, which runs on basic tablets, can identify 40 different infectious diseases from simple blood scans with 98% accuracy. Deployment began this morning in several regions across Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.