Google is testing whether artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to write news articles – but insists it won’t replace journalists. A spokesperson for the search giant said it was in the “earliest stages of exploring ideas” for how the technology could enhance “work and productivity” in a newsroom. They cited coming up with headlines
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Tesla has shared a new look of its upcoming Cybertruck vehicle – almost four years after it was announced. The unusual looking electric pick-up truck, first unveiled back in 2019, is nearing full production – and company boss Elon Musk has said deliveries should begin by the end of the year. He provided the update
The owner of Facebook has announced plans to make its version of the artificial intelligence technology behind ChatGPT free for researchers and companies to use. The latest version of Meta’s large language model, called LLaMa 2, will rival OpenAI’s GPT-4, which powers the chatbot app. The technology came to the fore last November after the
The Los Angeles County sheriff has said an incident where a police officer punched a woman twice in the face while she held her three-week-old baby was “completely unacceptable”. Sheriff Robert Luna said in a news conference that he has sent the case to the county district attorney’s office, which will decide whether to file
President Joe Biden has described the US-UK relationship as “rock solid”, despite reported disagreements over Ukraine. Mr Biden told Prime Minister Rishi Sunak he “couldn’t be meeting with a closer friend and greater ally” as the pair met this morning in Downing Street. He joined the prime minister in the Downing Street garden at the
A Tennessee soccer coach has been detained after videos of him allegedly sexually assaulting children were found on a phone he left behind in a restaurant, police have said. Camilo Hurtado Campos, 56, has been charged on allegations of child rape and sexual exploitation of a minor, after workers in the restaurant searched the left
Two-time women’s football World Cup champion Megan Rapinoe has announced her retirement. The 38-year-old said the current National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) season will be her last with a statement on social media. Posting a picture of her as a little girl, Rapinoe wrote: “I never could have imagined the ways in which soccer would
President Biden has agreed to give Ukraine controversial cluster munitions to use against Russian troops. Thousands will be sent as part of a new US aid package worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Cluster munitions detonate in the air and release smaller “bomblets” that scatter over a large area. Ukraine war latest: Deadly blast at
A Texas man who allegedly disappeared eight years ago as a teenager was never really missing and had been living with his mother almost the whole time, police have said. Rudy Farias made international headlines over the weekend when it was reported he had been “located safe” in Houston after going missing in March 2015
The gloves are (about to be) off: Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg show no signs of backing down from their commitment to a supposed cage fight. Rumours of a fight between the Twitter owner and the boss of Meta have been swirling for weeks. But how did the idea start, is the fight actually going
Electric car company Tesla has delivered a record number of cars in the second quarter – as its strategy to lower prices paid off and US consumers took advantage of tax credits. The carmaker beat market expectations and delivered 466,140 cars in the three months to the end of June, up 83.5% on a year
Apple has entered the history books as the first public company to be valued at $3trn. The 47-year-old technology juggernaut, co-founded by Silicon Valley legend, the late Steve Jobs in 1966, officially closed up 2.3% at $193.97 per share at the end of trading on Friday. This brought its market value to $3.04trn – equivalent
Donald Trump is suing a woman he was found to have sexually abused – claiming she falsely accused him of rape. E. Jean Carroll won a civil case against the ex-president in May. Jurors found Mr Trump sexually assaulted and defamed Ms Carroll. However, they stopped short of finding that Mr Trump had raped her.
MrBeast, the most-followed person on YouTube, says he turned down an invitation to travel on the doomed Titanic submersible. Five people were killed when OceanGate’s Titan submersible imploded during a trip to the Titanic wreck last week. In a tweet, MrBeast – whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson – shared a text message which he
Two New York lawyers have been fined after submitting a legal brief with fake case citations generated by ChatGPT. Steven Schwartz, of law firm Levidow, Levidow & Oberman, admitted using the chatbot to research the brief in a client’s personal injury case against airline Avianca. He had used it to find legal precedents supporting the
Microsoft’s record takeover bid for video games giant Activision Blizzard has gone before a US federal court. The Windows and Xbox maker wants to buy the company best known for the Call Of Duty, Warcraft, and Diablo franchises for $69bn (£54.2bn). It would be the largest tech acquisition ever. But the UK competitions watchdog blocked
Billionaire technology rivals Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have agreed to fight each other in a cage match. Twitter owner Musk, 51, said on his social media platform he was “up for a cage fight” with Zuckerberg, 39. The Facebook founder and Meta chief executive and chairman then captioned a post “send me location” to
China says comments by Joe Biden describing its leader Xi Jinping as a dictator are “extremely absurd and irresponsible”. The latest clash comes right after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken concluded a visit to Beijing that had sought to break the ice in what has become an increasingly strained international relationship. Issues such as
Donald Trump and his lawyers have indicated how they will present the former president’s defence – both in the federal court and the court of American public opinion. So what will his defence look like? He will claim there has been no crime Trump claims that he did nothing wrong and that to charge him
A US regulator has succeeded in a bid to temporarily block Microsoft’s £55bn takeover of video game maker Activision Blizzard, preventing the deal being completed this week. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which opposes the tie up on competition grounds, went to court last night for a preliminary injunction. A two-day hearing, in which all
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