Tech 24
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We explore the digital revolution and check out the latest technological trends. Every Sunday live at 3.22pm Paris time.
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Is this the beginning of the end for the Metaverse?
Five years and more than $80 billion later, Mark Zuckerberg's virtual reality dream seems to be being dismantled, and replaced with equally ambitious...
#QuitGPT: Can an AI boycott really change big tech?
It started quietly, with a handful of posts on tech forums and Reddit explaining why and how you should uninstall and unsubscribe from ChatGPT. Now th...
Trump announces AI chatbot ban while Pentagon uses it to prepare Iran attacks
In the hours leading up to the US attack on Iran, Donald Trump announced that technology company Anthropic would be banned from all work with the fede...
Trump's Claude ban: the first salvo in a long battle over who controls AI
A struggle to control artificial intelligence is playing out just as the United States increasingly deploys the technology in conflicts from Venezuela...
First victim of AI agent harassment warns 'thousands' more could be next
Slandered by one AI robot and misquoted in a news article by another, US-based software engineer Scott Shambaugh has made it his mission to become the...
Anthropic’s Claude helped Pentagon raid Caracas and seize Maduro: US media
The Wall Street Journal has reported that the Pentagon used Anthropic's AI model, Claude, as part of its operation to capture Venezuelan President Nic...
Latest Epstein files reveal disgraced financier's Silicon Valley connections
A newly released batch of more than three million documents from the US Department of Justice is casting fresh light on convicted sex offender Jeffrey...
China accused of erasing Mongolian language and culture online, new study finds
When the Mongolian language started to disappear from classrooms in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in China's north, many turned to the internet...
France set to fast track under-15s social media ban
French President Emmanuel Macron wants to fast-track legislation to ban social media for teens under the age of 15, with parliament slated to vote on...
Iran internet shutdown: activists warn of 'permanent' blackout
Iran is 10 days into an internet blackout, which rights groups say is intended to prevent further protests and conceal the regime's deadly crackdown. ...
"It's a scam": French AI envoy on X making Grok chatbot pay-to-perve
France's AI and Digital Ambassador Clara Chappaz says making public image generation a paid feature of Grok is a "scam", adding to the outcry over how...
Caracas smash-and-grab underscores dominance of US military tech
How did the US pull off its complex extraction operation in the heart of Caracas that captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro? The answer is less...
Days before Australia's social media ban, teens race to find loopholes
Australia is about to become the first major democracy to impose a nationwide ban on social media access for under-16s. When the world-first measure c...
3 years of ChatGPT: China surges, Europe retreats, and we all drown in AI slop
With the launch of ChatGPT three years ago to the day, it looked like America had won the next major technology race before it had even started. But t...
Brussels under fire for softening grip on Big Tech
The European Commission triggered a political meltdown this week with proposals to loosen some of the EU's landmark digital regulations. The package,...
AI pioneer Yann Le Cun is quitting Meta over the future of intelligence
Reports suggest Yann Le Cun, one of the "godfathers of AI", is leaving Meta after over a decade pioneering artificial intelligence research at Mark Zu...
AI chip rush: From Nvidia's triumph to Musk's megaplan
From Nvidia's record-breaking demand to Elon Musk's latest factory ambitions, the race to secure the hardware behind artificial intelligence is accele...
Google review blackmail targets small businesses across Europe
Small businesses worldwide are being targeted by scammers using fake Google Maps reviews to extort money. The fraudsters post one-star reviews – ever-...
Nigerian regulator wants more control of TikTok: 'It eats our youth's time'
Nigeria's technology regulator says the country must wield more power over TikTok, setting its own rules rather than relying on global content policie...
China and the Netherlands wrestle to control key chipmaker Nexperia
Major chipmaker Nexperia is being torn apart by a tug-of-war between China and the Netherlands, sparking concerns from the global automotive industry....
Meta and Fortnite push AI video game characters into the mainstream
We're used to video game characters repeating the same lines of scripted dialogue. But artificial intelligence is now allowing players to have unique,...
From Bollywood to Hollywood, artists push back against AI
It's artificial intelligence versus the entertainment industry, as Bollywood stars sue YouTube and an AI-generated actor makes her world stage debut....
Concerns mount over EU plans to scan private pics for child sexual abuse content
It's crunch time for "chat control", the European Commission's plan to scan private messages and report content suspected of being child sexual abuse....
Artificial intelligence saves tech giant Google from divest order... for now
It's been a week for the history books for Google. The tech giant dodged an order to sell off significant parts of its business in a landmark antitrus...
Summer of AI psychosis: Stories of tragic chatbot interactions multiply
Stein-Erik Soelberg killed his mother and himself in Connecticut earlier this month, with the Wall Street Journal reporting that ChatGPT fuelled his i...
EU orders AI companies to clean up their act, stop using pirated data
The European Commission wants AI companies to stop using pirated data and allow creators to withhold their copyrighted material. This comes amid the r...
Telegram boss Durov speaks out before French hearing, hopes to get charges lifted
Pavel Durov, the enigmatic Russian-born billionaire boss of messaging app Telegram, has his third audience with a French investigating magistrate in t...
Is energy security a threat to Europe's AI ambitions?
This week's massive power outage in Spain and Portugal has raised questions over whether Europe's power grid is ready for a surge in demand, given the...
Google keeps growing, as federal judges decide whether to break it up
Google is still making lots of money. Its parent company Alphabet reported $90.2 billion in revenue for the first quarter, up 12 percent from the same...
Bruised by Washington's chip controls, Nvidia turns to China
"I'm not worried about Jensen [Huang] at all," said US President Donald Trump, commenting on the Nvidia CEO's visit to Beijing. The trip was the lates...
Are claims that AI is accelerating climate change 'overstated'?
One concern around artificial intelligence is its voracious appetite for energy. Electricity demand for data centres specialised in AI will quadruple...
US trade war: EU prepares to retaliate with Big Tech in its sights
France says a response from the EU to Trump's new 20 percent tariff will "probably" come at the end of the month. A government spokesperson told Frenc...
Boycotters attempt to unplug from tentacular US tech sector
Anti-American sentiment is surging amid the second term of US President Donald Trump. Ifop research found this week that two thirds of French people s...
Trump's assault on knowledge: Department of Education closure follows attacks on science
US President Donald Trump’s announced shuttering of the Department of Education comes amid a broader attack on knowledge and research. Since Trump ret...
French hackers show how easy it is to 'jailbreak' Musk's new AI model Grok 3
Elon Musk is starting to see the fruits of his AI shopping spree with the release of Grok 3, one of the most capable AI models yet. But according to F...
Snooping Siri: Apple hit with another privacy lawsuit, this time in France
A French human rights NGO has filed a lawsuit in Paris against Apple, alleging massive collection and processing of voice recordings via the tech gian...
'France can be a bit bolder': Paris AI summit draft declaration sparks concern for civil society
A draft declaration of the Paris AI Action Summit has raised concerns for The Future Society, a nonprofit tasked by organisers to provide recommendati...
TikTok limbo: US Congress stays quiet as Trump breaks its law
It’s becoming less clear by the day who is supposed to be buying TikTok. One of Donald Trump's first acts on his return as US president was to delay a...
Why does Donald Trump see China as a threat on AI, but not on TikTok?
“This is money that normally would have gone to China,” Trump proclaimed on Tuesday while unveiling Stargate, an artificial intelligence project that...
Top AI companies score badly on risk and safety assessments, ahead of Paris summit
Are leading artificial intelligence companies doing enough to keep us safe from the potential harms of their products? According to the nonprofits Saf...