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Thousands of UK Students Caught Using AI to Cheat
More and more students in the UK are getting caught using AI to cheat on assignments, according to a new survey by The Guardian. During 2023

New AI Camera Prints Poems Instead of Pictures
“They should have sent a poet.” Jodie Foster’s character says this in the 1997 movie Contact, as she flies through space and realizes she doesn’t have

England Lets Teachers Use AI for Marking
England’s Department for Education (DfE) has said teachers can use artificial intelligence (AI) for marking and for writing letters to parents, the BBC reports. The BBC says it has

Many in US, Japan Don’t Trust Country to Regulate AI
A quarter of people around the world don’t understand what artificial intelligence (AI) is, according to new research. Polling company Ipsos Mori surveyed 23,000 adults

Journalist Fired for AI-Generated Summer Reading List
A writer has lost his job after he used artificial intelligence (AI) to produce a story on summer reading suggestions that contained books that didn’t

Google Changes Online Searches with ‘AI Mode’
Google has released another wave of artificial intelligence (AI) technology to accelerate a year-long makeover of its search engine that is changing the way people

How AI Is Changing the Way We Write
In a post on LinkedIn this spring, the comedian Ken Cheng wrote: “AI will never be able to write like me. Why? Because I am now inserting

Young and Old Turn to AI Chatbots for Companionship
In the 2013 movie Her, a lonely man going through a difficult divorce finds himself falling in love with an artificial intelligence (AI) companion. When that

AI Puts Women’s Jobs at Higher Risk, Says UN Study
New artificial intelligence (AI) tools are changing the way we live, work and study. And while many people are excited for these changes, there are concerns

Meta is building a giant AI model to power its ‘entire video ecosystem,’ exec says
Meta’s hefty investment in artificial intelligence includes development of an AI system designed to power Facebook’s entire video recommendation engine across all its platforms, a company

China pits humanoid robots against humans in half-marathon for first time
Twenty-one humanoid robots joined thousands of runners at the Yizhuang half-marathon in Beijing on Saturday, the first time these machines have raced alongside humans over

AI used for skin cancer checks at London hospital
An NHS hospital in west London is pioneering the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help check for skin cancer. Chelsea and Westminster Hospital said