West Midlands Police trialled a voice assistant powered by artificial intelligence (AI) in a bid to deal with rising volumes of non-emergency calls. Sensitive technical details of the plan were erroneously published online in a document seen by the BBC.…
A former Google software engineer has been charged by the US with stealing trade secrets about artificial intelligence (AI) while secretly working for two Chinese companies. Linwei Ding, also known as Leon Ding, was indicted in California on four charges…
Courses in cyber, IT and AI are helping to address Gloucestershire’s digital skills shortage. There are calls for more people to train in those areas to keep up with a “rapidly changing need”. Gloucestershire is home to the largest cluster…
Nhung Ho, vice president of artificial intelligence at Intuit, enters the BBC’s Executive Lounge to talk about finding data-driven answers in the dark, and how it’s never too late to innovate. When Nhung Ho moved from Vietnam to the US,…
Amid allegations that an official photograph of the Princess of Wales had been “manipulated”, here are some clues that can help you identify if an image has been altered or faked. In a world where pictures can be digitally altered…
Google has confirmed it is restricting the types of election-related questions users can ask its Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbot Gemini. In a blog post, it said the policy had been rolled out in India, which will hold elections starting in…
The European Parliament has approved the world’s first comprehensive framework for constraining the risks of artificial intelligence (AI). The sector has seen explosive growth – driving huge profits but also stoking fears about bias, privacy and even the future of…
An AI weapons-scanning company has backtracked on claims its technology has been tested by the UK government. Evolv Technology makes “intelligent” scanners designed to replace metal detectors by identifying people with concealed guns, knives and bombs. But the company has…
When Melissa Heikkil looks back on her past four years writing about artificial intelligence (AI), two key things jump out to her, one good, one bad. “It’s the best beat… AI is a story about power, and there are so…