Meta on Thursday announced that Meta AI is coming to Europe after a rather long wait. It’s not going to be the full Meta AI experience you get in the US and elsewhere, as the standalone Meta AI service won’t be available here. Instead, Meta AI will come to all of Meta’s social and chat…
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Online harms regulator Ofcom can begin enforcing its Illegal Content codes under the Online Safety Act (OSA) after giving firms three months to prepare. Published 16 December 2024, Ofcom’s Illegal Harms Codes and guidance went into effect on 17 March 2025, meaning online service providers will now have to comply with its safety measures or face…
Sir Martin – founder of what became the world’s largest advertising company, WPP – is now chairman of the board of S4Capital, which aims at digitally native delivery of services.He talks about the use cases in advertising and marketing, limited currently, but where activities like planning and buying media will likely become automated by AI…
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The European fintech and banking industry must not follow Trump’s US in cancelling workforce equality programmes and must instead continue to enforce diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), according to Wincie Wong, co-founder of Tech She Can. During a session on women in fintech at Finovate Europe last week, Wang reflected on the direction of travel…
European fintech must take different path to Trump’s US on diversity Read More »
Apple’s most powerful chip ever is the M3 Ultra, which is currently exclusive to the 2025 Mac Studio. With up to an 80-core GPU, twice what’s available on the M4 Max, this chipset is a beast for graphics performance. However, how much better is it really than the M4 Max and the previous M2 Ultra?In…
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We already knew that Meta was planning to infuse more of its AI features into its apps—including WhatsApp. Well, it looks like Meta is finally starting to infuse more AI features into WhatsApp, and it’s starting with a pretty useless one.Obviously, opinions on AI in WhatsApp have been very mixed since the company announced its…
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Last year, DuckDuckGo introduced an AI chat feature that made ChatGPT queries private. Now, the company is expanding the AI capabilities of its browser to bring more “private, useful, and optional AI features” with popular chatbots.By accessing the free Duck.ai feature, users can get AI-assisted answers daily without needing an account. The company says that…
DuckDuckGo just brought tons of popular AI chatbots to its private browser Read More »
Google announced twice in a matter of days that it’ll use machine learning (AI) to estimate a user’s age so it can restrict inappropriate content from children. That’s a great use of AI, as it could help companies like Google truly police content access so younger viewers can’t access content options that shouldn’t be available…
Google using AI to determine the age of kids is useful but terrifying Read More »
Just as the US and UK refused to sign an international statement about AI safety at the AI Action Summit earlier this week, an AI study out of China revealed that AI models have reached a “red line” humans should be aware of: The AI can replicate itself, which sounds like one of the nightmare…
AI can now replicate itself, a ‘red line’ that researchers are terrified of Read More »
Youth activists have gathered outside Meta’s London offices to protest how the company allegedly exploits younger users for profit at the expense of their mental health, as part of a wider series of actions against the corporate and structural drivers of mental illness. On 4 February 2025, around 20 youth activists with experience of…
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