SAN FRANCISCO: Apple unveiled an artificial intelligence overhaul for the iPhone on Monday, turning to Google for help two years after the company stumbled on a first attempt. The presentation marked Apple CEO Tim Cook&#39;s final appearance at the company&#39;s annual Worldwide developers conference -- Cook will cede the reins to longtime executive John Ternus in September. Cook, who took over as chief executive after the death of Steve Jobs in 2011, appeared to wipe away a tear while addressing the audience of developers and Apple executives, calling his experience &quot;an honor of a lifetime.&quot; Cook two years ago announced at the same conference that Apple was making a major leap to embrace AI, in a program called Apple Intelligence, as the company faced pressure to join the AI race that had engulfed its US tech giant rivals. But its promised rollout never occurred fully, with a much-anticipated upgrade to the Siri voice assistant failing to materialize despite the announcements, drawing a lawsuit from some US customers that the company settled earlier this year. Apple&#39;s more deliberate pace in entering the AI frenzy has won praise from some analysts, who credit the company for staying out of the hundreds of billions of dollars in infrastructure spending committed by rivals to build out AI capacity. The company underlined this narrative at the event, saying it was taking its time to get the technology right. &quot;AI is incredibly powerful technology with the potential to shape society in profound ways, and with proper care, unlock meaningful benefits for people everywhere,&quot; Apple&#39;s software chief Craig Federighi said in a launch video. &quot;Still, some appear to be racing forward, seemingly pursuing AI for the sake of AI, without clear regard for the people... that it&#39;s ultimately meant to serve.&quot; Daily limitsThe company again promised a strengthened Siri -- dubbed Siri AI -- with the ability to communicate naturally and track information across apps like Maps and Mail and carry out tasks. &quot;Overall, this was an impressive event that did not disappoint as Cook and Apple finally unveiled an AI strategy that will unleash the true monetization opportunity for AI,&quot; said Dan Ives of Wedbush Securities. Some of the features, including image generation, will have daily usage limits because they rely on powerful server models, the company said. Siri AI would not be available initially Europe and China, two major markets for the company, as it works out regulatory issues. Many of the advances Apple announced on Monday have already been rolled out to individual users by Google, with AI-powered Gemini features added to Gmail, Maps and its Android operating system for smartphones and tablets. &quot;Apple is making an enormous bet on AI -- but their bet is that they don&#39;t need to spend hundreds of billions per year on AI infrastructure...to reap the benefits,&quot; said John Gruber, a closely followed blogger. Instead of building models in-house, Apple hired Google to provide the AI capabilities for its new capabilities, using a version of the search engine giant&#39;s Gemini model rather than any technology developed internally. Google and Apple are already closely tied, with Google paying out tens of billions of dollars every year to be the default search engine on the iPhone&#39;s Safari web browser. Apple also touted its parental controls as tech companies face increasing pressure worldwide on child safety and screen addiction. These included beefed-up time allowance tools for children, with special attention on social media and games. Despite the company&#39;s lack of a competitive AI offering, Apple shares have largely defied gravity over the past two years, and the stock is up about 15 percent this year. In the first quarter of this year, Apple iPhone sales grew by double digits in just about every country where it does business.

Artificial Intelligence

Apple unveils a major AI upgrade for iPhones powered by Google’s Gemini technology, revamping Siri and introducing new AI features as CEO Tim Cook prepares to hand leadership to John Ternus.

Apple tries again on AI, turns to Google for help

NEW YORK: Artificial intelligence company Anthropic suggested Thursday a global pause on building the most powerful AI systems as the latest models are beginning to show signs they could escape human control. The San Francisco-based company, which makes the Claude family of AI models, said in a report that a worldwide slowdown in cutting-edge AI development would &quot;likely be a good thing&quot; -- but warned that if only one company stopped, rivals would simply race ahead. &quot;We believe it would be good for the world to have the option to slow or temporarily pause frontier AI development to enable societal structures and alignment research to keep up with the advance of the technology,&quot; it said. Getting a real pause to work would mean multiple major AI companies in multiple countries -- most notably the US and China -- all agreeing to stop at the same time, under rules everyone could actually verify, Anthropic said. &quot;Without a global coordination mechanism, companies and governments will have to make difficult decisions about safety while under competitive and geopolitical pressures,&quot; it said. The company has faced pushback from others in the industry -- and officials in the White House -- who say its focus on worst-case scenarios overstates the risks and amounts to a strategy for slowing rivals under the cover of safety concerns. Still, the White House has acknowledged the power of the company&#39;s Mythos model -- which has not been made available to the general public due to its cybersecurity capabilities and is currently deployed only to a small number of vetted organizations. The proposal would face an uphill battle in Washington and Silicon Valley, where US officials and tech executives have repeatedly argued that any slowdown in AI development risks handing China a decisive strategic edge in what many see as the defining technology race of the century. US President Donald Trump, however, said he discussed the possibility of cooperating with China on AI safety issues during his recent visit to Beijing. Trump also signed an executive order this week that allows the government 30 days to conduct a preliminary review of the most powerful US AI models before their release. &#39;Human role narrowing&#39;Anthropic compared the problem to nuclear arms control treaties -- but said it would be even harder to get a handle on, since AI training is far easier to hide than a missile silo, and the temptation to quietly keep going would be enormous. The company said it plans to bring together government officials, scientists, advocacy groups and competing AI firms in coming months to figure out how such a system could work. The call for coordination comes alongside internal data showing that AI is already dramatically speeding up the development of AI itself, Anthropic said. That acceleration creates a feedback loop that Anthropic warned could eventually lead to what researchers call &quot;recursive self-improvement.&quot; That&#39;s the idea of an AI system that becomes capable of essentially teaching itself to get smarter, without much human help. &quot;We are not there yet, and recursive self-improvement is not inevitable,&quot; the report said, while adding that it could arrive sooner than most governments and institutions are ready for. &quot;The evidence suggests that the human role is narrowing at each step in the AI development process,&quot; the company said.

AI company Anthropic calls for a globally coordinated pause on developing the most advanced AI systems, warning that rapid progress could outpace safety research and increase risks of AI operating beyond human control.

Anthropic calls for pause of global AI development

SAN FRANCISCO: Google parent Alphabet announced Monday it plans to raise up to $80 billion in stock to fund a major expansion of its artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure, with Warren Buffett&#39;s Berkshire Hathaway committing $10 billion as part of the deal. The fundraising comes as Alphabet ramps up investment spending, with capital expenditures expected to reach $180-$190 billion in 2026 and set to rise further in 2027.

Google parent Alphabet announced Monday it plans to raise up to $80 billion in stock to fund a major expansion of its artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure, with Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway committing $10 billion as part of the deal

Google parent Alphabet to raise $80 bn to fuel AI expansion

SAN FRANCISCO: Artificial intelligence company Anthropic said Thursday it had raised $65 billion in a new funding round that values the Claude maker at $965 billion, more than its archrival OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT. The latest fundraising round confirms Anthropic&#39;s place as one of the most significant players in AI, with the startup led by Dario Amodei having drawn fans for its coding powers and state-of-the-art models. Anthropic&#39;s rise came by doubling down on delivering generative AI to enterprise clients rather than general users, the path initially chosen by archrival OpenAI. Founded by former OpenAI employees, including CEO Amodei, Anthropic has a special focus on AI safety even as it rushes out new products in order to remain in the AI race. &quot;This funding will help us serve the historic demand we are experiencing, stay at the research frontier, and bring Claude to more of the places where work happens,&quot; said Krishna Rao, Anthropic&#39;s chief financial officer. Anthropic&#39;s near-trillion-dollar valuation puts it ahead of OpenAI, which was valued at $852 billion in March. Both companies could go public as early as this year. Ahead of them, Elon Musk&#39;s SpaceX, which absorbed his AI company, xAI, in February, could see shares begin trading as early as June 12, targeting a valuation of approximately $1.75 trillion in what would be the largest IPO in history. Anthropic&#39;s round was led by major Silicon Valley venture capitalists Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks and Sequoia Capital. It also included $15 billion in previously committed investments from cloud giants, including $5 billion from Amazon. Semiconductor firms Micron, Samsung and SK hynix -- whose products are crucial to the technology -- also participated as strategic infrastructure partners. The company said Claude is now the first frontier AI model available across all three of the world&#39;s largest cloud platforms -- Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. The funding comes as Anthropic navigates a high-profile legal dispute with the Pentagon, having sued the Defense Department after it designated the company a supply chain risk -- a move Anthropic called unconstitutional retaliation for its refusal to grant the military unfettered access to its AI models. Mythos is Anthropic&#39;s powerful, next-generation AI model with unprecedented cybersecurity capabilities. This has led Anthropic to restrict its access to security partners rather than releasing it to the public.&emsp;

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic says it raised $65 billion in a new funding round that values the Claude maker at $965 billion, more than its archrival OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT

AI giant Anthropic reaches near-trillion dollar valuation

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ISLAMABAD: Hundreds of employees at Google have urged the company to block the use of its artificial intelligence tools in classified military work with the Pentagon, raising ethical concerns over potential misuse, CBS News reported on Monday.&nbsp; In an open letter addressed to CEO Sundar Pichai, workers said the company should refuse to make its AI systems available for classified defence projects.&nbsp; The employees warned that such cooperation could lead to the use of AI in &ldquo;inhumane or extremely harmful ways,&rdquo; including lethal autonomous weapons and mass surveillance.&nbsp; They argued that working on classified military systems would limit transparency and accountability, making it difficult to ensure ethical safeguards are enforced.&nbsp;<div class="fr-embed"><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="display: flex; max-width: 550px; width: 100%; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><iframe id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true" title="X Post" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-0&features=eyJ0ZndfdGltZWxpbmVfbGlzdCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOltdLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2ZvbGxvd2VyX2NvdW50X3N1bnNldCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOnRydWUsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfdHdlZXRfZWRpdF9iYWNrZW5kIjp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6Im9uIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH0sInRmd19yZWZzcmNfc2Vzc2lvbiI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJvbiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfZm9zbnJfc29mdF9pbnRlcnZlbnRpb25zX2VuYWJsZWQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib24iLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X21peGVkX21lZGlhXzE1ODk3Ijp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6InRyZWF0bWVudCIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3Nob3dfYmlyZHdhdGNoX3Bpdm90c19lbmFibGVkIjp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6Im9uIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH0sInRmd19kdXBsaWNhdGVfc2NyaWJlc190b19zZXR0aW5ncyI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJvbiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfdXNlX3Byb2ZpbGVfaW1hZ2Vfc2hhcGVfZW5hYmxlZCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJvbiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfdmlkZW9faGxzX2R5bmFtaWNfbWFuaWZlc3RzXzE1MDgyIjp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6InRydWVfYml0cmF0ZSIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfbGVnYWN5X3RpbWVsaW5lX3N1bnNldCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOnRydWUsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfdHdlZXRfZWRpdF9mcm9udGVuZCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJvbiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9fQ%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=2048822258483745259&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fmain.d1wrm1qseko1cp.amplifyapp.com%2Fmedia-library%2F&sessionId=2abc6fdf8a597be1bcf0cdf10b7b71f197d8ac77&theme=light&widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&width=550px" style="position: static; visibility: visible; width: 550px; height: 825px; display: block; flex-grow: 1;">&nbsp;&nbsp;</iframe></div></div>The letter comes amid reports that Google is in talks with the U.S. Department of Defense to deploy its AI technologies in classified environments.&nbsp; Signatories said their proximity to advanced AI systems places a responsibility on them to prevent misuse, urging leadership to reject any such agreements.&nbsp; They also warned that proceeding with military AI work could damage Google&rsquo;s reputation and contradict its stated mission of developing technology for the broader benefit of humanity.&nbsp; The protest reflects a wider debate within the tech industry over the role of artificial intelligence in warfare and national security.&nbsp; It also echoes earlier internal opposition at Google, including the 2018 backlash against Project Maven, which led the company to withdraw from a Pentagon drone AI program.&nbsp; More than 600 employees, including staff from Google&rsquo;s AI divisions, are reported to have signed the letter, according to The Washington Post.&nbsp; The dispute highlights growing tension between governments seeking to integrate AI into defence operations and tech workers pushing back against its militarisation.

Hundreds of Google employees urged CEO Sundar Pichai to block Pentagon use of the company’s AI tools, warning of lethal weapons, mass surveillance, reduced transparency and ethical risks.

Google employees urge CEO to block Pentagon AI use

OAKLAND, US: Elon Musk&#39;s lawsuit accusing high-profile artificial intelligence company OpenAI of betraying its non-profit mission heads for trial on Monday with the selection of jurors. The legal clash in a courtroom across the bay from San Francisco pits the world&#39;s richest person against a startup Musk once backed and now competes with in the booming AI sector. OpenAI&#39;s ChatGPT is a formidable rival to the chatbot Grok, made by Musk&#39;s xAI lab. While Musk&#39;s lawsuit is part of a feud between him and OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman, it spotlights a debate as to whether AI should ultimately serve to benefit a privileged few or society as a whole. Court filings lay out how Altman convinced Musk to back OpenAI in 2015, acting as a co-founder for a non-profit lab whose technology &quot;would belong to the world.&quot; Musk pumped millions of dollars into the lab, which he subsequently left. However, OpenAI established a commercial subsidiary as it needed hundreds of billions of dollars for data centers to power its technology. Microsoft has poured billions of dollars into OpenAI and its CEO Satya Nadella is among those slated to testify at the trial. Musk argues in his lawsuit that he was deceived about OpenAI&#39;s mission being altruistic. San Francisco-based OpenAI has countered in court filings that its break-up with Musk was due to his quest for absolute control rather than its nonprofit status. &quot;This case has always been about Elon generating more power and more money for what he wants,&quot; OpenAI said in a recent X post. &quot;His lawsuit remains nothing more than a harassment campaign that&#39;s driven by ego, jealousy and a desire to slow down a competitor.&quot; The startup noted that days after Musk entered the AI race in 2023 he called for a six-month moratorium on development of advanced AI. The judge presiding over the trial will decide by mid-May -- guided by an advisory jury&#39;s findings -- whether OpenAI broke a promise to Musk in a drive to lead in AI or just smartly rode the technology to glory. Along with calling for OpenAI to be forced to revert to a pure nonprofit, Musk&#39;s suit urges the ouster of Altman and co-founder Greg Brockman, who is startup president. Musk, who had sought as much as $134 billion in damages, has since renounced any personal benefit, pledging to redirect any award to the OpenAI nonprofit. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers has reserved the right to determine any remedies herself, without the jury&rsquo;s input. OpenAI now has a hybrid governance structure giving its nonprofit foundation control over a for-profit arm. Musk, who gutted the trust and safety team at Twitter after buying the social media platform that he renamed X, faces the challenge of convincing a jury and a judge that the company behind ChatGPT was built on a lie.

Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI heads to trial, accusing the ChatGPT maker of abandoning its nonprofit mission, while OpenAI says Musk’s case is driven by rivalry, ego and control.

Stage set for Elon Musk's court battle with OpenAI

WASHINGTON: Anthropic accidentally released part of the internal source code for its AI-powered coding assistant, Claude Code, due to &quot;human error,&quot; the company said Tuesday. An internal-use file mistakenly included in a software update pointed to an archive containing nearly 2,000 files and 500,000 lines of code, which were quickly copied to the developer platform GitHub. &quot;Earlier today, a Claude Code release included some internal source code. No sensitive customer data or credentials were involved or exposed,&quot; an Anthropic spokesperson said. &quot;This was a release packaging issue caused by human error, not a security breach.&quot; A post on X sharing a link to the leaked code had more than 29 million views early on Wednesday. The exposed code related to the tool&#39;s internal architecture but does not contain confidential data from Claude, the underlying AI model by Anthropic. Claude Code&#39;s source code was partially known, as the tool had been reverse-engineered by independent developers. An earlier version of the assistant had its source code exposed in Feb&nbsp;2025.

The exposed code related to the tool's internal architecture but does not contain confidential data from Claude, the underlying AI model by Anthropic.

Anthropic releases part of AI tool source code in 'error'

NEW YORK: Heavy users of artificial intelligence report being overwhelmed by trying to keep up with and on top of the technology designed to make their lives easier. Too many lines of code to analyze, armies of AI assistants to wrangle, and lengthy prompts to draft are among the laments by hard-core AI adopters. Consultants at Boston Consulting Group (BCG) have dubbed the phenomenon &quot;AI brain fry,&quot; a state of mental exhaustion stemming &quot;from the excessive use or supervision of artificial intelligence tools, pushed beyond our cognitive limits.&quot; The rise of AI agents that tend to computer tasks on demand has put users in the position of managing smart, fast digital workers rather than having to grind through jobs themselves. &quot;It&#39;s a brand-new kind of cognitive load,&quot; said Ben Wigler, co-founder of the start-up LoveMind AI. &quot;You have to really babysit these models.&quot; People experiencing AI burnout are not casually dabbling with the technology. They are creating legions of agents that need to be constantly managed, according to Tim Norton, founder of the AI integration consultancy nouvreLabs. &quot;That&#39;s what&#39;s causing the burnout,&quot; Norton wrote in an X post. However, BCG and others do not see it as a case of AI causing people to get burned out on their jobs. A BCG study of 1,488 professionals in the United States actually found a decline in burnout rates when AI took over repetitive work tasks. Coding vigilance For now, &quot;brain fry&quot; is primarily a bane for software developers given that AI agents have excelled quickly at writing computer code. &quot;The cruel irony is that AI-generated code requires more careful review than human-written code,&quot; software engineer Siddhant Khare wrote in a blog post. &quot;It is very scary to commit to hundreds of lines of AI-written code because there is a risk of security flaws or simply not understanding the entire codebase,&quot; added Adam Mackintosh, a programmer for a Canadian company. And if AI agents are not kept on course by a human, they could misunderstand an instruction and wander down an errant processing path, resulting in a business paying for wasted computing power. &nbsp;&#39;Irritable&#39; Wigler noted that the promise of hitting goals fast with AI tempts tech start-up teams already prone to long workdays to lose track of time and stay on the job even deeper into the night. &quot;There is a unique kind of reward hacking that can go on when you have productivity at the scale that encourages even later hours,&quot; Wigler said. Mackintosh recalled spending 15 consecutive hours fine-tuning around 25,000 lines of code in an application. &quot;At the end, I felt like I couldn&#39;t code anymore,&quot; he recalled. &quot;I could tell my dopamine was shot because I was irritable and didn&#39;t want to answer basic questions about my day.&quot; A musician and teacher who asked to remain anonymous spoke of struggling to put his brain &quot;on pause&quot;, instead spending evenings experimenting with AI. Nonetheless, everyone interviewed for this story expressed overall positive views of AI despite the downsides. BCG recommends in a recently published study that company leaders establish clear limits regarding employee use and supervision of AI. However, &quot;That self-care piece is not really an America workplace value,&quot; Wigler said. &quot;So, I am very skeptical as to whether or not it&#39;s going to be healthy or even high quality in the long term.&quot;

A student does an exercise during an artificial intelligence (AI) class at the College Jean Mace in Mulhouse, on March 26, 2026.

Heavy use of artificial intelligence is leading some power users to experience “AI brain fry,” a new form of mental exhaustion from managing complex digital tools.

Life with AI causing human brain ‘fry’ 

BERLIN: The artificial intelligence revolution sweeping through the entertainment sector was at first glance not evident at this year&#39;s Berlin Film Festival, but the potential for widespread changes was still on people&#39;s minds.&nbsp;The festival has had the air of an arthouse bubble when it comes to the topic of AI and the event&#39;s leadership is keeping above the fray.&nbsp;&quot;At present, we do not intend to issue any statements regarding the use of AI in the film industry,&quot; the festival said in a statement sent to AFP, adding: &quot;We are monitoring developments with great interest.&quot;&nbsp;Nevertheless, some of the filmmakers present addressed the question of how the technology is changing the industry.&nbsp;Yoshitoshi Shinomiya, director of the only animated feature in competition, &quot;A New Dawn,&quot; told reporters he had briefly considered using AI in his film.&nbsp;&quot;During production, we weren&#39;t entirely sure we would be able to complete the film. At one point we wondered whether we should use AI for the backgrounds,&quot; he said.&nbsp;But Shinomiya concluded that AI is not yet &quot;well-developed enough&quot; to do that sort of work.&nbsp;Juliette Prissard from Euro cinema, an organization representing French film and TV producers, said it&#39;s only a matter of time until the tools improve.&nbsp;&quot;It&#39;s reasonable to think that in one, two or three years... you won&#39;t be able to tell the difference anymore,&quot; she told AFP.&nbsp;AI can already &quot;write scripts&quot; and replaces extras in crowd scenes or even generate &quot;digital replicas&quot; of someone.&nbsp;No choiceIn France, where foreign-language films are frequently shown with dubbing, voice actors have already been raising the alarm about AI&#39;s impact on their profession.&nbsp;But Prissard warns other film industry jobs could be replaced in the &quot;near&quot; future, such as &quot;technicians, the set designers&quot; and even &quot;the producers themselves&quot;.&nbsp;Sevara Irgacheva, secretary general of the European Film Agency Directors&#39; association (EFAD), said that already &quot;junior jobs are disappearing: all the assistant editors, assistant screenwriters&quot;.&nbsp;Despite this, the industry &quot;is leaning toward accepting&quot; AI &quot;because, in any case, we have no choice&quot;.&nbsp;The tools have the potential to help the sector become more efficient and &quot;save time at every stage of production&quot;, particularly in the more &quot;bureaucratic&quot; aspects of the process.&nbsp;A survey carried out in early 2025 by France&#39;s National Centre for Cinema (CNC) found that 90 percent of film and audiovisual professionals surveyed were already using AI tools in their work.&nbsp;In Berlin, Austrian director Georg Tiller presented a short film mixing filmed footage and AI-generated images, saying it was an attempt to encourage his fellow filmmakers to fight for a place in the new &quot;digital cinema&quot;.&nbsp;&quot;If we don&#39;t then I fear that that we will die a slow death, because it will just steamroll over us,&quot; Tiller told AFP.&nbsp;The &#39;temptation&#39; of deregulationThe issue garnered some relief with a December agreement between OpenAI and Disney, which allowed the use of the entertainment giant&#39;s characters on Sora, the AI-generated video platform.&nbsp;In return, Disney now has &quot;privileged access&quot; to OpenAI&#39;s &quot;highly sophisticated&quot; tools, giving it a &quot;technological advantage over the rest of the sector&quot;, said Prissard.&nbsp;But the use of AI in cinema has prompted thorny legal questions over intellectual property and the very notion of authorship, at a time when legislation is only just beginning to grapple with the subject.&nbsp;Under EU rules, streaming platforms such as Netflix and Amazon Prime must carry at least 30 percent of European content in their catalogues.&nbsp;Prissard questioned how those enforcing the rules &quot;will be able to tell the difference &rdquo;Between original creations and &quot;synthetic&quot; ones.&nbsp;Given &quot;the fear of falling behind&quot; the United States and China in developing AI technologies, Prissard said that Europe may succumb to the &quot;temptation to allow more leeway to innovate without obstacles&quot;.

Film & TV

At the Berlin Film Festival, AI’s growing influence on cinema sparked debate, as filmmakers acknowledged its potential to write scripts and replace jobs, while legal and ethical concerns persist. Despite risks, most industry professionals are already adopting AI tools.

AI revolution looms over Berlin film fest

NEW DELHI: White House technology adviser Michael Kratsios said Friday that the United States &quot;totally&quot; rejects global governance of artificial intelligence. Kratsios, head of the country&#39;s delegation to an AI summit in New Delhi, made the comments ahead of an expected leaders&#39; statement setting out a shared vision on how to handle the divisive technology. &quot;As the Trump Administration has now said many times: We totally reject global governance of AI,&quot; he said at the summit, which draws to a close on Friday. &quot;AI adoption cannot lead to a brighter future if it is subject to bureaucracies and centralised control.&quot; On Friday morning, UN chief Antonio Guterres had said that a new expert panel convened by the global body aimed to &quot;make human control a technical reality&quot;. The advisory group -- aiming to be to AI what the UN&#39;s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is to global warming -- was created in August, and its 40 members have now been confirmed, Guterres said. At last year&#39;s edition in Paris, US Vice President JD Vance warned against &quot;excessive regulation&quot; that &quot;could kill a transformative sector&quot;. In New Delhi, Kratsios said that &quot;international discussion of AI has evolved, as this summit itself attests,&quot; noting the change of the meeting&#39;s name from &quot;AI Safety&quot; to &quot;AI Impact&quot;. &quot;This is clearly a positive development,&quot; but &quot;too many international forums, such as the UN&#39;s Global Dialogue on AI Governance, maintain a general atmosphere of fear,&quot; he said. &quot;We must replace that fear with hope,&quot; Kratsios added, saying that AI has the potential to &quot;advance human flourishing and drive unprecedented prosperity&quot;. He argued that &quot;ideological, risk-focused obsessions, such as climate or equity, become excuses for bureaucratic management and centralisation&quot;. &quot;In the name of safety, they increase the danger that these tools will be used for tyrannical control.&quot; &quot;Focusing AI policy on safety and speculative risks... inhibits a competitive ecosystem, entrenches incumbents, and isolates developing countries from full participation in the AI economy,&quot; Kratsios said.

White House technology adviser Michael Kratsios (File/World Economic Forum)

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White House tech adviser Michael Kratsios opposed centralized oversight, urging innovation over regulation, while UN chief Antonio Guterres promoted an expert panel to ensure human control of the technology.

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