Eight people have now been fined up to £10,000 after an illegal rave that attracted 3,000 people, with arrests also made for public order offences and driving under the influence of drugs. The unlicensed event at Banwen, on the edge of the Brecon Beacons, started Saturday night. There were still 400 people at the site on Monday morning. South Wales Police Assistant Chief Constable Dave Thorne said drone footage would help identify organisers. A student who attended the rave admitted being taken aback by the scale of the event and likened it to a festival.

As of today, Amazon is officially an "air carrier." The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) granted Amazon Prime Air the designation, which allows Amazon to begin its first commercial delivery trials in the US, Bloomberg reports. The company will use the hexagon-shaped next-gen hybrid drone it showed off last year. Amazon has not revealed when or where it will begin its commercial delivery trials, but as Bloomberg points out, it does have test sites in the Northwest and in the nearby Vancouver area. Amazon has also tested drones in the UK.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is just one of a plethora of skills in the digital toolbox which stands to have a profound impact on the future of the everyday lives of citizens. But with great power comes great responsibility, and Europe is already a world leader both in terms of ensuring that AI is ethical and human centric, as well as in terms of technological development. However, support is needed if Europe is to maintain this position and, moreover, if digital is to be able to fulfil its potential in helping to achieve Europe's green goals and, indeed, in helping to overcome some of the societal challenges expected to result from the COVID-19 pandemic. With these challenges and opportunities in mind, The Innovation Platform spoke to DIGITALEUROPE's Director General, Cecilia Bonefeld-Dahl, about potential future action that could build on the solid foundations that Europe has already built in this exciting and innovative area. I think that Europe is making good progress on AI.

In April 2020, Amazon, the world's wealthiest technology company, received a shipment of 1,500 heat-mapping camera systems from the Chinese surveillance company Dahua. Many of these systems will be installed in Amazon warehouses to monitor the heat signatures of employees and alert managers if workers exhibit Covid-19-like symptoms. Other cameras included in the shipment will be distributed to IBM and Chrysler, among other buyers. While Amazon's move to protect workers from Covid-19 is welcome, it acquired this technology from a company from a company researchers have shown is involved in human rights abuses. As Sanjana Varghese noted recently, the "humanitarian experimentation" work in pandemic surveillance of companies like Dahua doubles as technologies of population management.

China announced in 2017 its ambition to become the world leader in artificial intelligence (AI) by 2030. While the US still leads in absolute terms, China appears to be making more rapid progress than either the US or the EU, and central and local government spending on AI in China is estimated to be in the tens of billions of dollars. The move has led – at least in the West – to warnings of a global AI arms race and concerns about the growing reach of China's authoritarian surveillance state. But treating China as a "villain" in this way is both overly simplistic and potentially costly. While there are undoubtedly aspects of the Chinese government's approach to AI that are highly concerning and rightly should be condemned, it's important that this does not cloud all analysis of China's AI innovation.

The Department of Health and Social Care has announced £50m funding for three digital pathology and imaging artificial intelligence (AI) centres in Coventry, Leeds and London. The centres were set up in 2018 with funding from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. Two other centres are located in Oxford and Glasgow. The three centres to share the latest tranche of funding will deliver digital upgrades to pathology and imaging services across an additional 38 NHS trusts, said the department. Health and social care secretary Matt Hancock said: "I am determined we do all we can to save lives by spotting cancer sooner. Bringing the benefits of artificial intelligence to the front line of our health service with this funding is another step in that mission."

Recently, the UK Department of Education discarded grades generated by an algorithm designed to predict the performance of annual A(advance) Level qualification. This initiative was taken due to the COVID pandemic and the result predicted by the algorithm was downgraded by more than a third of A level results in the UK. The developed model primarily focussed on two features'student's past performance' and'school's historical performance' to predict the grades of the students. The prediction of the algorithm went in favor of the private schools and the secondary selective and sixth form schools where teacher assessment used to be good severely impacted. Unethical facial recognition -- In the Washington Post article, it was published that how US's Immigration and Customs Enforcement unethically collected a large volume of data to analyze day-to-day activities of immigrant communities.

Google could soon offer an ethics consultation service to companies building Artificial Technology solutions. According to a report in Wired, the search giant may soon offer the service to companies developing AI projects. The report suggests that Google might launch the service before the end of 2020 and initially, it would offer only advice on tasks such as spotting racial bias or creating guidelines to govern the AI projects. Google's plan to offer ethics advice to companies building AI solutions is being mocked even before it could be officially launched and there is a reason for that. Google doesn't have a good track record when it comes to the company's own ethics policy as it has been mired in several controversies in the past few years.

Skynet, Terminator or maybe Matrix these are the names that might come to our minds when we think of robots combined with artificial intelligence (AI). And what does these cults represent, fear! A threat that has been a common motif since Frankenstein and R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots). The consequence of creating artificial life; or the impossibility of co-existence of people and artificial machines always seems to be a far-fetched dream. Meanwhile in Japan, the take is completely different.

The U.S. intelligence community (IC) on Thursday rolled out an "ethics guide" and framework for how intelligence agencies can responsibly develop and use artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. Among the key ethical requirements were shoring up security, respecting human dignity through complying with existing civil rights and privacy laws, rooting out bias to ensure AI use is "objective and equitable," and ensuring human judgement is incorporated into AI development and use. The IC wrote in the framework, which digs into the details of the ethics guide, that it was intended to ensure that use of AI technologies matches "the Intelligence Community's unique mission purposes, authorities, and responsibilities for collecting and using data and AI outputs." "The IC leads in developing and using technology crucial to our national security mission, and we cannot do so without recognizing and acting on its ethical implications," Director of National Intelligence John RatcliffeJohn Lee RatcliffeRubio says congressional oversight of intelligence faces'historic crisis' following DNI announcement Warner calls Intelligence chief's decision to scale down congressional election security briefings'outrageous' Pelosi, Schiff pan director of national intelligence for canceling election security briefings MORE said in a statement Thursday. "These principles and their accompanying framework will help guide our mission leads and data scientists as they implement technology to solve intelligence problems."