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Microsoft announced that it has resolved a global outage affecting services like Teams, Outlook, and Copilot, restoring communications for businesses and governments worldwide. The issue, which lasted over 24 hours, has been fully addressed.
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Jitters over the risks of AI have mostly stemmed from incidents at US labs, but evidence is also growing of worrying behaviour from Chinese models
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A UN conference in Geneva will discuss the regulation of lethal autonomous weapons, but there is skepticism about its effectiveness. These AI-driven weapons could change warfare dramatically.
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Lethal autonomous weapons powered by artificial intelligence are set to revolutionise warfare but there is no proper regulatory or legal framework governing the new technology. A conference starting Monday at the United Nations in Geneva will discuss how to establish curbs and prohibitions on such weapons, called killer robots by some. But some analysts doubt the discussions at the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) will keep pace with the fast-changing weapons.
