
Matt Lucas and Hugh Bonneville among actors calling for law on AI voice cloning
Actors including Matt Lucas, Hugh Bonneville and Nicola Coughlan have written to the UK government demanding greater protection against their voices being used by AI.
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Actors including Matt Lucas, Hugh Bonneville and Nicola Coughlan have written to the UK government demanding greater protection against their voices being used by AI.

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All of social media should be designed to be safe for children, the UN human rights chief has said after Meta settled a massive court case in the US.

A group of 100 firms, including Google, Microsoft, Anthropic and OpenAI, have signed an open letter calling on countries and organisations around the world to beef up their cyber defences before AI grows powerful enough…

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Nvidia's business has grown significantly amid the AI boom.

Xbox chief executive Asha Sharma says the gaming giant needs to be "thinking about" affordability for its next-generation console, amid a "crisis" in computing prices.

Social media giant Meta has reached a settlement with US states and territories to resolve a court case related to child safety on Facebook and Instagram.

SpaceX already has facilities in Texas and Florida Multi-billionaire Elon Musk's rocket company SpaceX has announced that it will build its largest launch site yet in the southern US state of Louisiana.

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A power cut caused chaos across the Iberian peninsular in April 2025 On the 28 April last year, Portugal and Spain went dark for several hours.

Songs must be "substantially human made" to be included in Australia's charts Songs that are largely or wholly created by AI have been banned from Australia's music charts.

Amazon is facing a lawsuit , external over its move to train its AI models on videos people broadcast on the popular streaming platform Twitch.

PC Tom Clough (left) and PC Matthew Blades were killed in a crash when a car travelling the wrong way down a dual carriageway crashed into their vehicle on Saturday The government has urged social media companies to rem…

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TikTok has been under pressure in the US since 2024.

Autumn can be a noisy time when the leaf blowers are out Part of the soundtrack to a day in southern California is the drone of petrol-powered gardening equipment.

A new app seen as a spiritual successor to short-form video service Vine has been released to the public.

Richard Haldenby said he was "in shock" when he received an email detailing the price increase Customers have shared their outrage after an app used by many businesses to track timesheets and produce invoices hiked bill…

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) sent more than 81,000 letters warning cryptocurrency holders they may owe capital gains tax in the past year.

Monzo says a technical issue which left users unable to use their card for payments or transfers has now been resolved.

OpenAI says it has slowed down training some of its most advanced AI models to improve security.

"Like lighting a rocket" the Earthgrid machine operates at very high temperatures A wall of white granite towered above a small team of engineers gathered in a California quarry.

Lawyers for Meta have been defending the company this year against several major lawsuits.

The maker of ChatGPT is rolling out a range of new safety features today for under-18s who use the AI chatbot.

Contrails are formed when exhaust fumes from planes turn into ice crystals We've all looked up and seen the white lines trailing behind aircraft in the sky.

Meta has been hit with successive losses in court over how its platforms have targeted and harmed young users, but a jury trial set to begin on Tuesday may pose the biggest threat yet to its operations.

Players in the prime minister simulator No 10: Full Confidence must balance the moods of factions including their cabinet and the media A mobile game made by a developer in Manchester has recently beaten the global phen…

Something mysterious has been happening in the world of secondhand books.

Mark Zuckerberg is the latest big tech boss to have penned a lengthy message to enshrine his vision for AI This past week, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500 word open letter , external entitled "The Future is f…

Magnum's R&D centre improves existing recipes and works on new ones I'm at the research and development centre of the world's biggest publicly listed ice-cream maker, Magnum.

Yongjoon Kim, pictured with his partner, planned to use his investments to fund a new home as they are getting married later this year Bank worker Yongjoon Kim lost 20 million Korean won ($14,000; £10,500) on the South…

Bumble had long promoted itself as a platform where women "make the first move" Dating app Bumble has divided its users by dropping its famous rule which allowed only women to send the first message to a match.

Flock founder and chief executive Garrett Langley Flock, the US surveillance firm, is rolling out new safeguards to prevent police misuse of its technology which, its founder and chief executive admits, should have happ…

Watch: Amazon is using Twitch to train AI - and people aren’t happy Twitch has been criticised by users after it emerged the popular streaming platform allowed their content to be used to train Amazon's AI models.

Studies show that Japanese firms are dragging their feet when it comes to using AI Facing acute labour shortages, ageing demographics and chronic productivity problems, Japanese companies should be fertile ground for th…

Brazil's data protection authority (ANPD) has ordered Discord to suspend its livestreaming feature after a teenage girl was allegedly encouraged to take her own life in a broadcast on the platform.

It's a familiar experience: racing against masses of anonymous netizens online to get yourself on the list for an in-demand event.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has seen his company's value soar amid the AI boom in tech.

For years now, executives at companies that are pouring hundreds of billions of dollars a year into developing various artificial intelligence tools have insisted that the technology will ultimately mean people will spe…

Joshua Kushner runs the investment group behind the plan to buy a minority stake in the World Cup Fifa has been forced to U-turn on plans to sell off a slice of the World Cup after fierce opposition, with threats of fut…

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has seen his company face an increasing number of lawsuits over child safety.

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Over the last fortnight, reports of AI models going beyond their expected bounds - be that technically or morally - have been seemingly unavoidable.

Andre Lavoie joined SpaceX in 2009 as an engineer, designing the pressure tanks that help power its rocket.

Disney and TikTok have agreed a deal which will allow creators to use clips from Disney films, including its subsidiaries, in their videos.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has seen his company's models come under increased scrutiny.

France's Gironde region has been hit by devastating wildfires this summer The pictures are familiar, terrifying fires being tackled by firefighters and planes dropping water.

EA's football titles - from Fifa to EA FC - have sold over 325 million copies since the first release in 1993 The sale of gaming giant Electronic Arts (EA) for $55bn (£41bn) to a group of buyers including Saudi Arabia's…

The Philippines is known as the call centre capital of the world For 15 years, single mother Lisa made a living from content writing.

Elon Musk's SpaceX in June became a publicly traded company.

Apple has confirmed it has launched a new legal complaint against the UK government at a court that deals with objections to the use of covert surveillance powers.

The big AI firms sell paid-for versions of their tech If you have used a free version of an ChatGPT or its AI rivals, then you are obviously getting a good deal.

Microsoft has increased the price of Xbox consoles worldwide, citing rising memory and storage chip costs .

Snapchat is trying to tamp down on AI-generated videos.

The boss of one of the companies recently hacked by out-of-control artificial intelligence (AI) says bot makers must be accountable for cyber attacks carried out by their creations.

Leaders of tech companies Meta, Amazon and Google all reported quarterly financial results in in recent days The world's biggest technology companies - including Microsoft, Meta, Google, Apple and Amazon - updated Wall…

Lucas said he felt a "sense of achievement" from hacking Lucas was 16 when he got into trouble for hacking his school computers.

India relies on strawberry varieties from the US and Europe In the west of India, the mountainous region of Mahabaleshwar is home to most of India's strawberry farms.