Experts have warned that action needs to be taken on the use of artificial intelligence-generated or enhanced images in politics after a Labour MP apologised for sharing a manipulated image of Rishi Sunak pouring a pint. Karl Turner, the MP for Hull East, shared an image on the rebranded Twitter platform, X, showing the prime minister pulling a sub-standard pint at the Great British beer festival while a woman looks on with a derisive expression. The image had been manipulated from an original photo in which Sunak appears to have pulled a pub-level pint while the person behind him has a neutral expression. The image brought criticism from the Conservatives, with the deputy prime minister, Oliver Dowden, calling it "unacceptable". "I think that the Labour leader should disown this and Labour MPs who have retweeted this or shared this should delete the image, it is clearly misleading," Dowden told LBC on Thursday.

Australia's Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme has published its findings. Various unnamed individuals are referred for potential civil or criminal investigation, but its publication is a timely reminder of the potential dangers presented by automated decision-making systems, and how the best way to mitigate their risks is by instilling a strong culture of ethics and systems for accountability in our institutions. The so-called Robodebt scheme was touted to save billions of dollars by using automation and algorithms to identify welfare fraud and overpayments. But in the end, it serves as a salient lesson in the dangers of replacing human oversight and judgement with automated decision-making. It reminds us that the basic method was not merely flawed but illegal; it was premised on the false belief of treating welfare recipients as cheats (rather than as society's most vulnerable); and it lacked both transparency and oversight.

For all the hype around folding phones, there's plenty of anxiety concerning how well those bendable screens survive long term. Depending on who you ask, they're either weaker than spider silk or hardy enough to make your average lumberjack weep with envy. That's why Sam Rutherford took matters into his own hands, spending the last year running his own durability test. He's been using his Z Fold 4 without a case, leaving its factory-installed screen protector as the only defense. At the dawn of the Z Fold 5, Rutherford is now ready to reveal how well he got on with its predecessor.

Artemis was the twin sister of Apollo and goddess of the moon in Greek mythology. NASA has chosen her to personify its path back to the moon, which will see astronauts return to the lunar surface by 2025 - including the first woman and the next man. Artemis 1, formerly Exploration Mission-1, is the first in a series of increasingly complex missions that will enable human exploration to the moon and Mars. Artemis 1 will be the first integrated flight test of NASA's deep space exploration system: the Orion spacecraft, Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the ground systems at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Artemis 1 will be an uncrewed flight that will provide a foundation for human deep space exploration, and demonstrate our commitment and capability to extend human existence to the moon and beyond.

Fox News correspondent Gillian Turner has the latest on the president's focus amid calls for an impeachment inquiry on'Special Report.' EXCLUSIVE: Republican groups are calling on Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., to recuse himself from efforts to regulate artificial intelligence because of his daughters' work with Big Tech firms Meta and Amazon. Schumer has been leading a bipartisan group of senators that are examining guardrails for AI. But Republican groups Bull Moose Project and New York Young Republican Club, among other organizations, argued in a letter to Schumer that his family ties to these companies should disqualify him from the push to regulate AI. "As the Senate considers regulatory approaches to artificial intelligence (AI), it is crucial that lawmakers' personal conflicts of interest do not impact policy decisions," the representatives of the groups wrote. The groups said during last year's push to regulate Big Tech, some said the fact that his daughter Alison Schumer worked at Meta as a privacy and politics product marketing manager and his daughter Jessica Schumer was a registered Amazon lobbyist created a conflict of interest.

Members of Congress shared whether Hollywood's striking actors and writers should be concerned about artificial intelligence ultimately taking their jobs. WASHINGTON, D.C. – Lawmakers were torn on whether actors and writers should be concerned about artificial intelligence taking their jobs, with one Republican lawmaker saying the "spoiled" Hollywood professionals should get back to work at their "overpaid" jobs. "Hollywood is a bunch of spoiled brat degenerates, and they ought to get back to work," Tennessee Rep. Tim Burchett, a Republican, said. "They are overpaid and under worked. The rest of this country gets by on a lot less."

A larger-than-life Michelle Donelan beams on to a screen in Google's London headquarters. The UK science and innovation secretary is appearing via video to praise the US tech behemoth for its plans to equip workers and bosses with basic skills in artificial intelligence (AI). "The recent explosion in the use of AI tools like ChatGPT and Google's Bard show that we are on the cusp of a new and exciting era in artificial intelligence, and it is one that will dramatically improve people's lives," says Donelan. Google's "ambitious" training programme is "so important" and "exceptional in its breadth", she gushes in a five-minute video, filmed in her ministerial office. Welcome to the AI arms race, where nations are bending over backwards to attract cash and research into the nascent technology.

Countries looking to fully utilize artificial intelligence (AI)'s potential and capabilities will need to look for upgrades to data storage and processing, turning to either blockchains or quantum computing for the way forward, experts told Fox News Digital. "You're going to have massive data storage issues and issues for computation when you get into pattern recognition," Christopher Alexander, chief analytics officer of Pioneer Development Group, told Fox News Digital. The race to develop and implement AI systems cannot occur without proper infrastructure, according to TS2 Space, a Polish internet service provider for the U.S. Army in areas like Iraq and Afghanistan. In a blog post on the company website, TS2 Space highlighted the challenges AI infrastructure faces, including "the sheer volume of data" and "the complexity of AI algorithms and models." "Developing and deploying AI applications require a deep understanding of the underlying algorithms and models, as well as the ability to fine-tune them for specific use cases," the company wrote.

Fox News contributor Dr. Marc Siegel weighs in on how artificial intelligence can change the patient-doctor relationship on'America's Newsroom.' Artificial intelligence-powered ultrasounds are now one step closer to becoming part of routine prenatal care. Sonio Detect, an AI-powered ultrasound scanning technology, has become the first product of its kind to land FDA approval. Made by Sonio, a "femtech" company based in Paris, France, the AI product functions as a high-tech helper for maternity care professionals, scanning for warning signs that could indicate fetal health issues. WHAT IS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)?

NASA estimates that its Earth science missions will generate around a quarter million terabytes of data in 2024 alone. In order for climate scientists and the research community efficiently dig through these reams of raw satellite data, IBM, HuggingFace and NASA have collaborated to build an open-source geospatial foundation model that will serve as the basis for a new class of climate and Earth science AIs that can track deforestation, predict crop yields and rack greenhouse gas emissions. For this project, IBM leveraged its recently-released Watsonx.ai to serve as the foundational model using a year's worth of NASA's Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 satellite data (HLS). That data is collected by the ESA's pair of Sentinel-2 satellites, which are built to acquire high resolution optical imagery over land and coastal regions in 13 spectral bands. For it's part, HuggingFace is hosting the model on its open-source AI platform.