More than a dozen private sector lobbyists and consultants have been embedded in Labour’s shadow cabinet teams after the party approached businesses for help with shaping its policies. This includes firms like Faculty AI, FGS Global, Baringa, and Arup, which have sent staff to assist Labour with policy work, particularly in complex areas such as…
Australian children’s photos have been included in an AI image-generating tool dataset without their knowledge or consent. An analysis of 0.0001% of the 5.85 billion images contained in the Laion-5B dataset found 190 photos of Australian children scraped from the internet. The photos were easily identifiable, with some names and information about when and where…
Industry leaders are urging the next UK government to prioritize technological innovation and efficiency to drive growth and maintain the country’s competitive edge. Rupal Karia, Country Leader UK&I at Celonis, emphasizes the need for immediate action to address inefficiencies in both private and public sectors, suggesting that leveraging technology for efficiency gains could yield more…
Google is developing “Pixel Screenshots” feature that can process and save helpful details from manually taken screenshots, allowing users to search through them. The feature will be part of Google AI and can summarize screenshots or answer questions about the information in them. Users will have control over enabling or disabling AI processing for their…
Google’s greenhouse gas emissions have increased by 48% since 2019, making it harder for the company to meet its goal of cutting emissions in half by 2030. The main contributor to this increase is data center energy use and supply chain emissions, with electricity consumption from data centers growing by 17% in 2023. As Google…
