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Posted onZoe KleinmanTechnology editor and Tom GerkenTechnology reporter Emma Lynch/BBC Lilly Sabri has nearly six and half million followers on YouTube, where she posts fitness videos YouTube content creators contributed £2.2bn to the UK economy in 2024 and supported 45,000 jobs, according to an impact report carried out by Oxford Economics. It comes as an all-party…
OpenAI shares data on ChatGPT users with suicidal thoughts, psychosis
Posted onOpenAI has released new estimates of the number of ChatGPT users who exhibit possible signs of mental health emergencies, including mania, psychosis or suicidal thoughts. The company said that around 0.07% of ChatGPT users active in a given week exhibited such signs, adding that its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot recognizes and responds to these sensitive…
Electric Car Grant : £1.3bn boost for EV scheme expected in Budget
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Hackers delete data stolen in nursery cyber-attack after backlash
Posted onHackers who attempted to extort a nursery chain by posting stolen images and data about children on the darknet have removed the posts and claim to have deleted the information. The criminals began posting profiles of the children to their website last Thursday, adding another 10 children days later and vowing to continue until Kido…
Ofcom urged to use banning powers over X AI deepfakes
Posted onThe government has urged the regulator Ofcom to use all its powers – up to and including an effective ban – against X over concerns about unlawful AI images created on the site. Ofcom’s powers include the ability to obtain a court order to prevent third parties from helping the Elon Musk-owned platform from raising…
