US, India partnership targets arms and AI to compete with China
The White House faces a battle on each front, including US restrictions on military technology transfer and visas for immigrant workers, along with India's longstanding dependence on Moscow for military hardware.
As courts test AI sentencing, some lawyers fear for justice
Authorities meanwhile say AI-based systems make sentencing more consistent and can clear case backlogs quickly and cheaply, helping all parties in legal proceedings to avoid lengthy, expensive and stressful litigation.
Facebook parent Meta says its new AI supercomputer will be world’s fastest
Meta says its new AI Research SuperCluster will help the company build better AI models that can learn and analyse to determine if content was harmful.
British MI6 spy chief warns the race is on for mastery of AI
The world's spies, from Langley and London to Moscow and Beijing, are trying to grapple with seismic advances in technology that are challenging traditional human-led spying operations which dominated for thousands of years.
Amazon signs deal with British spy agencies to boost use of AI for espionage, says report
Britain's GCHQ spy agency champions the procurement of a high-security cloud system and it will be used by sister services MI5 and MI6, as well as other government departments during joint operations.
US has lost AI battle to China, Pentagon’s ex-software chief says
China, the world’s second largest economy, is likely to dominate many of the key emerging technologies, particularly artificial intelligence, synthetic biology and genetics within a decade.
As workers age, robots take on more jobs, says study
The research shows age alone accounts for 35% of the variation between countries in their adoption of robots, with those having older workers far more likely to adopt the machines.
