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Big Tech emissions rose 150% in 3 years as AI booms, UN body says

The world’s biggest tech companies saw their indirect carbon emissions grow by 150 per cent from 2020 to 2023 as AI use expands, a new UN report found.

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Pace of AI revolution 'unprecedented' in human history, report finds

A new report from Mary Meeker, dubbed the "Queen of the Internet," shows that the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) is the fastest technological change in history.

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The 100 ways Elon Musk allegedly benefited from Trump's White House

A new report accuses Elon Musk and the Trump administration of taking over 100 actions to benefit Musk’s companies. Here's what the report outlined.

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AI pioneer launches non-profit to develop safe-by-design AI models

Yoshua Bengio is launching LawZero, a Canada-based non-profit that will prioritise the development of safe, honest artificial intelligence (AI).

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AI companions pose risk to humans with over dozen harmful behaviours

New research has found that artificial intelligence (AI) companions pose understudied risks and harms to the people who engage with them.

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The long-range weapons Ukraine could begin using against Russia

Following comments by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Ukraine may now be able to use some of these weapons unreservedly to defend itself.

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Women three times more likely to have job taken by AI than men

A new UN-led report found that women's jobs in high-income countries are more likely to be replaced or touched by artificial intelligence than their male peers.

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What we know about Trump's plans for a 'Golden Dome' defence system

US President Donald Trump announced the Iron Dome-like missile defence project this week. Euronews Next takes a look at what we know so far about it.

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This is who AI models think will be the next pope

Cardinals are starting the next conclave to select the next pope on Wednesday. Here’s who AI has pegged as the potential successor to Pope Francis.

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How tech is being used to preserve the secrecy of the conclave

As the Vatican gears up to elect the successor to Pope Francis, technology is being deployed to prevent leaks during the secretive papal vote.

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Half of employees who use AI at work don’t trust it, new survey shows

A new study shows that most employees use artificial intelligence (AI) regularly but admit they don’t fact-check its results before using it at work.

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How engineers got power back on after Spain and Portugal's blackout

Monday's unprecedented power outage left much of the Iberian Peninsula in the dark. This is how operators got electricity flowing again on after the blackout.

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What could have caused the major power outage in Spain and Portugal?

Several scenarios have been put forward by experts as a possible cause behind the major power outage that plunged Spain and Portugal into disarray.

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Europe wants to poach US academics but does it have enough to offer?

Europe is trying to woo American researchers threatened by Trump’s research cuts to this side of the Atlantic. But what will make them stay?

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An Italian newspaper let AI write all its content for a month

Using artificial intelligence in the newsroom is like having a new collaborator who’s quick, irreverent, and very ironic, according to the editor of an Italian daily newspaper.

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OpenAI could ‘adjust’ its AI safety if a competitor makes high-risk AI

If a competitor releases an AI model that has a high level of risk, OpenAI says it will consider adjusting its safety requirements so that it might be able to as well.

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Google faces €5.8 billion lawsuit in UK for 'overcharging' for search

A class action is demanding Google pay out £5 billion (€5.83 billion) to British companies that have been forced to buy ads on its search engine.

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Minority Report: UK forges 'murder prediction' project to stop killers

A new report from UK-based charity Statewatch says the UK is trying to develop a programme that will use police and government data to decide how likely someone is to kill.

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Europe says hypersonic weapons are 'critical' tech. What are they?

Anglo-American researchers have completed tests on a propulsion system that should power a cutting-edge hypersonic missile before the end of the decade. What about Europe?

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AI could affect 40 per cent of global jobs, warns UN

Forty per cent of jobs globally could be impacted by the growth of artificial intelligence (AI) in the next decade, a new report from the United Nations said

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