Think that Apple's Siri snooped on your private conversations in the past? If so, you may be able to snag a slice of the 95 million that Apple is paying out to settle a class action lawsuit. A settlement page published Friday in the case of Lopez v. Apple Inc. explains the steps and deadlines for people who want to make a claim. The settlement is geared toward current or former users of a Siri device in the US whose conversations with the voice assistant were captured by Apple or shared with third parties due to an "unintended Siri activation." To qualify, you must have been using the device between Sept. 17, 2014, and Dec. 31, 2024.

Chief human resources officers (CHROs) plan to expand their digital labor in the next two years, investing in AI agents to increase productivity, according to the latest Salesforce global research. The research surveyed 200 global human resource executives to gather their perspectives on integrating AI into the workplace. The findings indicate a strong consensus among CHROs about the transformative potential of AI agents. Also: 60% of AI agents work in IT departments - here's what they do every day Most (77%) respondents believe agents will become a fundamental part of the workforce, transforming the organizational makeup. This result signals that digital labor is not merely a peripheral development but a central pillar of future business strategy that demands serious consideration.

In a development that can only be seen as positive, non-consensual deepfake porn site Mr. Deepfakes has shut down for good, reports 404 Media. This news comes due to the site losing one of its service providers. "A critical service provider has terminated service permanently. Data loss has made it impossible to continue operation," a notice on the site reads. "We will not be relaunching. Any website claiming this is fake. This domain will eventually expire and we are not responsible for future use. This message will be removed around one week."

Mobile translation apps have improved substantially in recent years--with a little help on speech recognition from AI. Most apps can now keep up with real-time conversations, if your phone has a strong enough internet connection (so the audio can be processed and converted in the cloud). It means if you're trying to hold a conversation with someone in a language you don't know, you no longer need to spend time typing out words and phrases, or trying to figure out spellings and pronunciations. Instead, simply place your phone between you and the other person, and start chatting. There are several apps that can do this for you, but here we'll focus on the free translation apps on your Pixel phone, Galaxy phone, or iPhone.

If you were asked to visualise a stereotypical British man, what would you think of? According to AI, the answer is an overweight man wearing a football shirt. Instagram account @reimagineuk asked AI to create videos of the most stereotypical men around the world - with hilarious results. While the British man looks casual in his football shirt, men from other countries are depicted with fancier outfits. The stereotypical man from Portugal sports a white shirt and a waistcoat, while the man from Nigeria can be seen wearing a bright orange suit.

This post contains a list of the AI-related seminars that are scheduled to take place between 5 May and 30 June 2025. All events detailed here are free and open for anyone to attend virtually. Gurobi Machine Learning Speaker: Roland Wunderling (Gurobi Optimisation) Organised by: Association of European Operational Research Societies To receive the seminar link, sign up to the mailing list. Beyond Returns: A Candlestick-Based Approach to Covariance Estimation Speaker: Yasin Simsek (Duke University) Organised by: Statistics and Machine Learning in Finance, University of Oxford Join the mailing list to receive notifications about the seminar series. Robust and Conjugate Gaussian Processes Regression Speaker: François-Xavier Briol (University College London) Organised by: Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence Zoom link is here.

Russia has reported that it repelled a drone attack on Moscow as the capital city prepares to host a major military parade with foreign leaders in attendance. Russia's air defence systems intercepted "four drones flying towards Moscow", Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on Monday. The attack appears intended to unsettle Moscow's preparations for events marking the end of the Great Patriotic War, commonly known as World War II elsewhere, on May 9. President Vladimir Putin has called for a 72-hour ceasefire to mark the occasion starting on May 8. However, Ukraine has demanded instead a 30-day truce aimed at agreeing to a permanent ceasefire in the conflict that began when Russia invaded in February 2022. Sobyanin said in a post on Telegram that there were no reports of injuries or damage.

I sat down with Johnson at an event for people interested in longevity in Berkeley, California, in late April. We spoke on the sidelines after lunch (conference plastic-lidded container meal for me; what seemed to be a plastic-free, compostable box of chicken and vegetables for him), and he sat with an impeccable posture, his expression neutral. Earlier that morning, Johnson, in worn trainers and the kind of hoodie that is almost certainly deceptively expensive, had told the audience about what he saw as the end of humanity. Specifically, he was worried about AI--that we face an "event horizon," a point at which superintelligent AI escapes human understanding and control. He had come to Berkeley to persuade people who are interested in longevity to focus their efforts on AI.

Apple is best known for its futuristic, spaceship-like headquarters in Cupertino, California. But what many people don't know is that the tech giant also has a huge campus in Ireland. Apple's Cork campus opened its doors in 1980 with a single manufacturing facility and just 60 employees. Fast-forward to today, the site is home to more than 6,000 employees, and serves as Apple's European headquarters. The tech giant is usually extremely private about what happens behind closed doors.

Russian forces repelled four drones flying towards Moscow, the capital's mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, said in a post on Telegram. There were no initial reports of damage or casualties, Sobyanin said, adding that emergency services were working at the scene. Ukrainian forces attacked a factory in Russia's Bryansk region, destroying much of the plant, Governor Alexander Bogomaz said on Telegram. There were no casualties, Bogomaz said. Russian forces destroyed 13 Ukrainian drones overnight over Russia's Rostov, Belgorod and Bryansk regions, Moscow's Ministry of Defence said on Sunday.