Since the adoption of ChatGPT, governments around the world are seeing surges in complaints and requests. Since the adoption of ChatGPT, governments around the world are seeing surges in complaints and requests. The government says it can transform the state with AI, but it is no match for the resulting stream of machine-generated slop. Even after a guilty cull, my inbox is sitting at well over 7,000, but lately I've started subscribing to the Quentin Crisp theory of housework: why bother, when after four years or so you stop noticing the accumulating dust? Empty inboxes just fill up again anyway.

Experts say recent market corrections may reflect investors taking a'more balanced approach', rather than it being a sign the entirety of the AI market is at risk. Experts say recent market corrections may reflect investors taking a'more balanced approach', rather than it being a sign the entirety of the AI market is at risk. Is this the beginning of the end of the AI stock market boom? The world is holding its breath as it waits to find out whether this year's estimated $US1tn investment in artificial intelligence is resting on a castle made of sand. Last week, the Nasdaq 100 - an index of the 100 biggest non-financial stocks on the American tech-heavy Nasdaq exchange - dropped by 5.5%, triggering the usual angst that the AI boom is about to go bust.

The study is one of the most comprehensive demonstrations yet of how AI analysis of a selfie could help to assess a patient's health and guide their medical care. The study is one of the most comprehensive demonstrations yet of how AI analysis of a selfie could help to assess a patient's health and guide their medical care. System can estimate a person's biological age and predict chances of cancer survival from a single photograph Doctors have developed an artificial intelligence tool that can predict a cancer patient's chances of survival from a single photograph of their face. The AI system was custom-built by experts at Mass General Brigham, a nonprofit, integrated academic healthcare system in Massachusetts, to estimate biological age and directly predict survival outcomes in patients diagnosed with cancer. It is one of the most comprehensive demonstrations to date of how AI analysis of a selfie could help assess a patient's health and potentially guide their medical care, and was trained on data from more than 40 million facial photographs across a range of ethnicities and ages.

Employees are increasingly being surveilled through CCTV, tracking instant messaging and monitoring card swipes and keystrokes. Employees are increasingly being surveilled through CCTV, tracking instant messaging and monitoring card swipes and keystrokes. Employers are increasingly using technology, from CCTV to keystroke monitoring, to track workers' moves and it is being accelerated by the use of AI, the Human Technology Institute has warned. Examples provided to Guardian Australia by the institute include a fast-food restaurant using surveillance cameras to stop workers using their phones, and AI tracking leading to a cashier warned over making a mistake once every 533 scans. In a report released on Tuesday, the University of Technology Sydney institute said workplace monitoring tools were increasingly common in a range of workplaces, including in factories, office jobs, delivery work and in retail - often without employees being aware of the monitoring.

They are among Australian artists whose music has been used to train AI. They are among Australian artists whose music has been used to train AI. Kylie Minogue songs already used to train AI as tech firms'strong-arm' Australian government, music body warns Of the dozens of countries approached to water down their laws, Australia appears to be the only one considering it, publishers' group says John Phelan, the ICMP's managing director, told Guardian Australia AI companies were asking policymakers to "legitimise larceny". David Pocock concerned senior Albanese adviser'vetted' bipartisan AI letter that was sent to PM "They're trying to strong-arm Australian policymakers into'if you don't do this, we won't invest'." In July, Anthony Albanese said it would be "theft" if artists did not retain control over whether their work was used to build and train AI, and what they were paid for its use.

'Whatever claims the labs are making, they are not warning us enough. We need to understand that nobody can stop the AI storm.' 'Whatever claims the labs are making, they are not warning us enough. We need to understand that nobody can stop the AI storm.' What are self-replicating'AI worms', and why is Anthropic worried about them? Warnings about what artificial intelligence might do in the future - together with alarming reports of what it has gotten up to already - are being issued so quickly that even security experts have difficulty triaging what to worry about. Yet a report this week from Anthropic's offensive research team grabbed attention by describing a new, practical threat, one devoid of human characteristics or apocalyptic musings.

'Small AI' models can run on a mobile phone with low connectivity, and could help accelerate development for emerging economies. 'Small AI' models can run on a mobile phone with low connectivity, and could help accelerate development for emerging economies. World Bank says'small AI' could transform developing countries Bank's chief knowledge officer says the tech could speed up economic development from centuries to decades The World Bank is urging developing countries to kickstart the creation of "small AI" models, which can run on a mobile phone with low connectivity, to reap the full benefits of artificial intelligence. While Silicon Valley big tech firms are focused on ever more sophisticated consumer products, Paschal Donohoe, the World Bank's chief knowledge officer, said AI could also accelerate development for emerging economies - but only if it was adapted to local needs. Small AI uses specialised models that are trained using narrower datasets for a specific purpose.

Models such as DeepSeek allow users to take the core software and use it without paying an expensive ongoing licence. Models such as DeepSeek allow users to take the core software and use it without paying an expensive ongoing licence. There is much to fear from artificial intelligence developed in China and handed to businesses and governments in the west almost free of charge. Every month Chinese AI developers such as DeepSeek and Xiaomi dispatch the latest versions of their "open-weight" models that allow users to take the core software and use it without paying an expensive ongoing licence. In Britain, we love cheap Chinese kit, usually setting aside any concerns about how it was made and who by.

Meta says its new open-weight AI model rivals and in some cases outperforms Chinese equivalents. Meta says its new open-weight AI model rivals and in some cases outperforms Chinese equivalents. Meta releases Muse Spark Open, a new'open-weight' AI model Meta says Muse excels at'multi-step reasoning' and'complex software engineering' as it races to catch up to Chinese rivals Meta on Thursday launched a new open-weight AI model which it claims rivals, and in some cases outperforms, similar products from leading Chinese developers. Muse Spark Open "is the most capable US open-weight model to date," Meta's chief of AI Alexandr Wang wrote on X. Unlike so-called closed models - such as Anthropic's Claude or OpenAI's ChatGPT - developers can download the parameters, known as weights and biases, of an open-weight model and modify them.

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