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GuardianSep 27Preview

Bill Gates says unchecked AI could ‘cause a billion deaths’ in call for regulation

Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist speaks with NBC’s Kristen Welker in interview airing on SundayBill Gates has called on the US’s federal legislators and law enforcers to regulate the development of artificial intelligence (AI), saying in an interview airing on Sunday that the technology left unchecked could cause “a billion deaths” and “no one thinks self-regulation is enough”.“You need law enforcement and the politicians to get into the discussion about what safeguards and monitoring look like,” the Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist said to Kristen Welker, the NBC Meet the Press host. “And that has to be a required thing.” Continue reading...

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GuardianSep 26Preview

The moment I knew: My late fiance’s favourite song was playing – and Billy said ‘Jamie’s here, isn’t that nice?’

After the death of his partner, Anthony Nocera had almost given up on love. Then Billy walked through the doorFind more stories from the moment I knew seriesIn 2024, about 18 months after my fiance Jamie passed away, I decided I was lonely and horny and so put myself out there on the apps. I’d placed Jamie’s ashes on the TV cabinet in the living room, so he was smack bang in the middle of his two favourite places: his spot on the couch and his coffee machine. It also meant he was in the centre of the house, which made dating hard.I had a guy over for a hook-up one night and he kept fixating on the urn. “So … He’s dead?” Continue reading...

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GuardianSep 26Preview

Vaughan Tomlinson on billionaires and their kids – cartoon

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GuardianSep 24Preview

Yellow Dog by Martin Amis review – Bill Nighy has a ball

From spoof monarch to porn tycoon, the actor narrator goes to town on the larger-than-life characters in this Booker-nominated satire In the 2003 novel Yellow Dog, Xan Meo is set upon by two men in a pub who cosh him over the head: “Like the statue of a fallen tyrant, he crashed sideways into the damp paving, and lay still.” Meo is a writer and actor whose late father was a dangerous gangster; the attack is in revenge for Meo naming an old associate of his father in print. Meo survives, though the injury leaves him with an altered personality. Where he was previously a conscientious husband and father, now he is a chip off the old block.While Meo languishes in hospital, King Henry IX – who is struggling to conceal his boredom with the job – is informed that images of his 15-year-old daughter in the bath are in circulation. And Clint Smoker, star reporter and gossip peddler at the tabloid

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GuardianSep 23Preview

Indian billionaire’s payments firm plots biggest London flotation in years

Sunil Bharti Mittal’s Airtel Money targets $9bn IPO in boost for ailing UK stock marketNils Pratley: Does this mark the end of London’s listing drought? Not yetA payments business that operates across Africa and is ultimately controlled by an Indian billionaire has announced its intention to float on the struggling London Stock Exchange.Airtel Money, the mobile money arm of Airtel Africa, is planning one of the biggest UK listings in years, in a boost for the shrinking London market that has faced a string of recent departures. Continue reading...

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BBCSep 11Preview

An extraordinary result - why did MPs reject assisted dying bill this time?

Although supporters say they will try again, for now the momentum has fallen away from a change in the law.

Al JazeeraSep 27Preview

Bill Gates says AI without regulation is ‘completely irresponsible’

The billionaire cofounder of Microsoft says, without restrictions, AI could 'cause a billion deaths'.

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