2 hours ago ShareSave Lily JamaliNorth America Technology correspondent ShareSave Tesla boss Elon Musk has had a record-breaking pay package that could be worth nearly $1tn (£760bn) approved by shareholders. The unprecedented deal was approved by 75% of votes and drew huge applause from the audience at the firm’s annual general meeting on Thursday. Musk, […]
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King handed Nvidia boss a letter warning of AI dangers
3 hours ago ShareSave Zoe KleinmanTechnology editor ShareSave BBC Jensen Huang, the head of the world’s most valuable company Nvidia, says King Charles III personally handed him a copy of a speech he delivered in 2023 that included a warning about the dangers of artificial intelligence. “He said, there’s something I want to talk to […]
Tesla says Musk should be paid $1tn – will shareholders agree?
2 hours ago ShareSave Lily JamaliNorth America Technology Correspondent, San Francisco ShareSave Getty Images Ahead of Tesla’s annual general meeting (AGM) on Thursday there’s been one key message the electric car-maker has been hammering home to shareholders: the boss is worth $1tn. It has taken out digital ads to make the case for Elon Musk’s […]
Online porn showing choking to be made illegal, government says
Online pornography showing strangulation or suffocation is to be made illegal, as part of government plans to tackle violence against women and girls. It follows a review which found depictions of choking were “rife” on mainstream porn sites and had helped normalise the act among young people. Both the possession and publication of such material […]
Will AI mean the end of call centres?
4 hours ago ShareSave Jane WakefieldTechnology reporter ShareSave Getty Images Ask ChatGPT whether AI will replace humans in the customer service industry, and it will offer a diplomatic answer, the summary of which is “they will work side by side”. Humans though, are not so optimistic. Last year, the chief executive of Indian technology firm […]
Pornhub says UK visitors down 77% since age checks came in
1 day ago ShareSave Chris VallanceSenior technology reporter ShareSave Getty Images Pornhub says the number of UK visitors to its website is down 77% compared with July, when more rigorous age checks for sexually explicit sites were introduced under the Online Safety Act. It claims sites that are ignoring the new requirements are benefiting. The […]
Watchdog slams O2 over unexpected price rise
The UK’s media regulator has criticised O2 for raising its prices by more than it promised customers when they took out their phone contracts. Ofcom said it was “disappointed” with the firm, and said it was going against “the spirit of our rules” around being transparent to customers about price rises. In January, new rules […]
Websites disabled in Microsoft global outage come back online
4 hours ago ShareSave Imran Rahman-Jones,Technology reporter and Lily Jamali,North America Technology correspondent ShareSave Getty Images Websites for Heathrow, NatWest and Minecraft returned to service late on Wednesday after experiencing problems amid a global Microsoft outage. Outage tracker Downdetector showed thousands of reports of issues with a number of websites around the world over several […]
OpenAI completes shift to becoming for-profit
7 hours ago ShareSave Lily JamaliNorth America Technology Correspondent, San Francisco ShareSave Reuters OpenAI has completed its conversion to a for-profit entity, a move that could allow it to raise billions of dollars in investment and potentially clear the way for a stock market debut. As part of the arrangement, OpenAI and Microsoft announced changes […]
Turing AI Institute boss denies accusations of ‘toxic internal culture’
The Alan Turing Institute Chair has told the BBC there is “no substance” to a number of serious accusations which rocked the organisation in the summer. In August, whistleblowers accused the charity’s leadership of misusing public funds, overseeing a “toxic internal culture”, and failing to deliver on its mission. They said the Turing Institute, the […]