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Banks to share fraud data with tech firms in cross-sector collaboration

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Banks and tech firms are coming together in an initiative to share information on fraud to give them visibility of the attacks targeted at customers. The collaboration is part of Stop Scams UK’s intelligence-sharing pilots, which have brought together banks such as HSBC, NatWest and Santander with tech firms Amazon, Google and Meta. Mobile telecommunications…

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Insider report details Apple’s AI struggles, says first big Siri upgrade due this fall

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It’s been a few weeks since Apple announced its most important Apple Intelligence feature would be delayed indefinitely. Facing a huge crisis with its AI platform, the company has shaken up its structure to finally deal with Siri and give it a proper revamp.After all, the last time Apple announced a product that wasn’t ready…

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Fintech body calls on government for national anti-fraud centre

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Fintech trade body calls on the government to establish a national centre to help businesses across different sectors fight fraud through data sharing. Innovate Finance said that current data sharing initiatives designed to fight fraud operate in silos, which means the country lacks the “critical mass” or “scale” needed to stop fraudsters. The call for…

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Facebook fact-checking program shutting down Monday and will be replaced by Community Notes

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In January, Meta announced it would phase out its fact-checking program for Facebook in the US and replace it with X-like Community Notes. Now, Meta’s Chief Global Affairs Officer, Joel Kaplan, has revealed that this change will occur on April 7.In a post on X, Kaplan wrote: “By Monday afternoon, our fact-checking program in the…

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This AI can create talking characters that are good enough for a movie

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ChatGPT’s ability to ignore copyright and common sense while creating images and deepfakes is the talk of the town right now. The image generator model that OpenAI launched last week is so widely used that it’s ruining ChatGPT’s basic functionality and uptime for everyone.But it’s not just advancements in AI-generated images that we’ve witnessed recently.…

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What happened when a tech journalist experimented with AI on a PC?

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Over the past few months, the editorial team at Computer Weekly’s French sister title, LeMagIT, has been evaluating different versions of several free downloadable large language models (LLMs) on personal machines. These LLMs currently include Google’s Gemma 3, Meta’s Llama 3.3, Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet, several versions of Mistral (Mistral, Mistral Small 3.1, Mistral Nemo,…

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Understanding RAG architecture and its fundamentals

9 minutes of reading / AI, API, Azure, Google, IBM, machine learning, Meta, Microsoft, open source, Tech / By

All the large language model (LLM) publishers and suppliers are focusing on the advent of artificial intelligence (AI) agents and agentic AI. These terms are confusing. All the more so as the players do not yet agree on how to develop and deploy them. This is much less true for retrieval augmented generation (RAG) architectures…

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Apple slated in CMA mobile browser investigation

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The Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) final report into the mobile browser market has found innovation is being held back by a lack of competition, which could be limiting growth in the UK. Margot Daly, chair of the CMA’s independent inquiry group, said: “Following our in-depth investigation, we have concluded that competition between different mobile…

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Meta AI is coming to Meta chat apps in Europe, whether you want it or not

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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 Safety Act measures come into effect

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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…

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