Why Spotify has no button to filter out AI music

It is a challenge, acknowledges Manuel Moussallum, Deezer’s head of research, but the company’s detection technology has so far maintained a low false positive rate, he says, and research to better understand hybrid cases, where AI is only partially used, is ongoing.

I brought my husband back for his funeral as a hologram

“The problem today, in my view, is the platformisation of grief – datafying our dead, commodifying them, curating their presence in our lives, and making mourners financially and psychologically dependent upon the platforms that reanimate and house them.”

The viral manifesto of ‘anti-woke’ tech boss with NHS and defence contracts

Dr Rhiannon Mihranian Osborne of the health campaign group Medact told the BBC: “Every day that the NHS continues this contract with Palantir makes our health system complicit in Palantir’s violent operations, such as AI warfare, and deeply alarming ideology, which includes powering America and its allies to their ‘innate superiority’.”

White House memo claims mass AI theft by Chinese firms

Earlier this year, Anthropic described distillation “attacks” by three AI laboratories, DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax, saying it had found them all to be working to copy Anthropic models through distillation campaigns. All three of the labs are based in China.

The ‘dumb machine’ promising a clean energy breakthrough

In their favour is Germany’s expertise in manufacturing. For example, Sciortino cites the impressive number of workers who can operate CNC machines – a type of computer-controlled machine tool which can cut, carve, or shape materials including wood, metal, or plastic.

Could a digital twin make you into a ‘superworker’?

“The moment an AI tool is trained on an individual’s emails, meetings and work product, you’re dealing with issues that sit right at the heart of the employment relationship: consent, control of personal data, performance, substitution of labour, and what happens when someone leaves,” says Anjali Malik, an associate at Bellevue Law, which specialises in […]