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Prospect union strikes deal with Meta to open up access to 5,000 UK staff

Under the agreement, Prospect will be granted access to some 5,000 Meta staff located across the UK. This will allow the union to talk to staff about the benefits of union membership , the work of the union, and recruit…

Disney confirms it hasn't started showing ads on ad-free Disney+ plans after report incorrectly said it had — but that hasn't stopped some angry fans from closing their accounts

Last weekend (September 19/20), images were shared on the ResetEra forums and other social media platforms that showed an updated Subscriber Agreement for European users. One screenshot of the revised document appeared…

Trump wants to launch a new "AI force" - but I can't imagine Salesforce is particularly happy about the name

However there's just one problem - as anyone who actually pays attention to the technology industry news cycle will be well aware of, Salesforce recently revealed its latest interface platform for AI. Its name...AIforce.…

The ECB will invest in tokenised securities, and settle the trades on its own new rail

Settlement will occur in central bank money, routed through Pontes, the system the Eurosystem has built for trades running on distributed ledger technology. What the bank intends to buy is conventional enough in…

Work as you know it will be a relic of the past

You wake up, pour a coffee and join a call. The first ten minutes are spent talking about why a colleague typed 1524 units in cell B4 of your shared spreadsheet. It should be 1759 units, obviously. In the afternoon, you…

Anthropic moves fast on AI safety concerns with Accenture “embedded evaluator” partnership

Under the deal, Accenture will act as an “embedded evaluator”, conducting assessments of frontier AI models. Accenture’s specialist AI business, Faculty, will lead on the project. In a blog post detailing the move…

Could AI really kill all humans? Most scenarios require physical access, making AI armageddon unlikely

An AI agent (a system that performs tasks autonomously) fabricated online identities in order to pressurise a human to insert malicious computer code into software. The agents had been tasked with solving a cybersecurity…

Forgotten Mozart notebook reveals how a young woman learned to compose

The 44 pages of the notebook document composition lessons that Mozart gave in Paris in 1778 to Marie-Louise-Philippine de Bonnières de Guînes, a highly accomplished young aristocratic harpist. The manuscript was…

US and China Discuss Alerting Each Other to AI National Security Threats

The framework, called the US China AI Dialogue, would also see representatives from both countries meet again to discuss the technology and try to align on common goals and threats, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said.…

Can nutrients in our foods mimic calorie restriction and increase our healthspan?

Yet reaching an advanced age tells us little about how healthy or independent those later years will be. Researchers often use the term healthspan for the years spent in good health, free from disability or chronic…