This week’s UK tech funding deals include AI customer support company PolyAI, remote and freelance worker management platform Native Teams, sustainable fintech Ekko and more. UKTN tracked £99.8m worth of UK tech investment this week (13 May to 17 May), a 95% week-on-week decrease across 12 funding rounds. Here’s your weekly roundup of UK tech […]
The Department for Work and Pensions is investing £70million into high-tech 'machine learning' in an attempt to identify patterns and anomalies among welfare applications that could be fraud.
OpenAI and Google kicked off the week by releasing competing multimodal artificial intelligence products. On Monday, OpenAI announced its flagship model ChatGPT-4o — a multimodal chatbot that can see, hear, and have real-time conversations. On its heels, Google unveiled a prototype of its AI assistant that it says can see through a user’s phone and other objects like smart glasses. Read these stories and more from this week in AI news. Microsoft asks AI employees in China to relocate amid...
Jamey Tucker explains how a strong router password keeps you safe.
Technology experts from Liberty Global, Microsoft and EY offered a different perspective on the potential dangers posed by AI, noting a lack of education about the technology could be as damaging as the potential to promote misinformation and deepfakes.
United Way of Greater Kansas City, Chiefs partnered to create “The KC Strong Fund” the day after shooting, but 3 months later, nobody has received a dime
United Way of Greater Kansas City, Chiefs partnered to create “The KC Strong Fund” the day after shooting, but 3 months later, nobody has received a dime
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Putin, a new political biopic being shopped to international distributors
Apple is planning to enhance its iPhone virtual assistant Siri with artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, The New York Times reported citing three people familiar with the company's work. Th
The biopic from Polish director Besaleel and featuring an AI-generated Vladimir Putin will be shopped to international distributors in Cannes next week.
Officials in the southern state of Tamil Nadu are using AI to monitor animal movement on tracks.