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China bogeyman looms large over American firms’ AI doomsday scenario

Silicon Valley China hawks, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei among them, fear the country surpassing US’s…

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‘Cost of housing’ crunch looms for low-income families, warns Resolution Foundation

Thinktank calls on chancellor to end housing allowance freeze with typical two-bedroom household facing £158…

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How to flood-proof your home: from water-thirsty plants to deflated footballs

After summer’s heatwaves, prepare for winter of storms and heavy rain, with millions of UK…

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Cowboy traders: can a new clampdown stamp out the builders from hell?

An app and a register of trusted traders may give greater protection to consumers but…

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Why Europe has been absent from the great AI safety debate

Though Europe has measures that address how consumers might encounter AI, technology will impact them…

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Sensitive UK police data vulnerable to ‘compromise’ by US government and foreign actors

Exclusive: Official UK security assessment found Microsoft cloud platform storing files was at potential risk…

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‘A critical moment’: concern UK is not up to speed in acting on AI risks

Andy Burnham’s focus on immediate domestic problems leads some to fear issue has dropped off…

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OpenAI ‘ethically hacked’ with help of Anthropic’s Claude chatbot

US cybersecurity researchers who conducted hack say ‘scope of what we could theoretically access was…

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Disabled people in UK need right to travel abroad, say MPs, after ‘ridiculous’ restrictions

Campaigners describe ‘brazenly discriminatory’ practices around funding from NHS care boards UK politics live –…

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Could AI really end humanity? Post your questions for our tech reporters now

After a week of alarming warnings about the technology’s potential to destroy the world as…

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