Quit if you don’t like our office-working policy, Amazon executive suggests

An Amazon Web Services data centre in Stone Ridge, Virginia, US. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images An Amazon Web Services data centre in Stone Ridge, Virginia, US. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images Amazon This article is more than 1 month old Quit if you don’t like our office-working policy, Amazon executive suggests This article is more than 1 month … Read more

French AI summit to focus on environmental impact of energy-hungry tech

Google and Microsoft have both said their AI strategies rely on energy-hungry datacentres to develop and operate AI models. Photograph: NurPhoto/Getty Google and Microsoft have both said their AI strategies rely on energy-hungry datacentres to develop and operate AI models. Photograph: NurPhoto/Getty Artificial intelligence (AI) This article is more than 2 months old French AI … Read more

Elon Musk’s SpaceX accuses California of political bias over launch limits

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from US Vandenberg space force base in California, on 2 December 2023. Photograph: SpaceX/Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from US Vandenberg space force base in California, on 2 December 2023. Photograph: SpaceX/Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock SpaceX This article is more than 2 months old … Read more

Boost UK defence spending to win Trump’s support, former navy chief urges Starmer

Sir Keir Starmer meets British soldiers on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire where he saw Ukranian soldiers being trained by the army as part of Operation Interflux in 2022. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA Sir Keir Starmer meets British soldiers on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire where he saw Ukranian soldiers being trained by the army as part of … Read more

Claude AI tool can now carry out jobs such as filling forms and booking trips, says creator

Anthropic, a competitor to ChatGPT owner OpenAI, is making the Claude 3.5 Sonnet model available to developers but admits it can be prone to errors. Photograph: Canadian Press/Rex/Shutterstock Anthropic, a competitor to ChatGPT owner OpenAI, is making the Claude 3.5 Sonnet model available to developers but admits it can be prone to errors. Photograph: Canadian … Read more

Microsoft introduces ‘AI employees’ that can handle client queries

Microsoft’s corporate vice-president said the agents would do away with the ‘mundane, monotonous’ aspects of a job. Photograph: Sipa US/Alamy Microsoft’s corporate vice-president said the agents would do away with the ‘mundane, monotonous’ aspects of a job. Photograph: Sipa US/Alamy Microsoft This article is more than 1 month old Microsoft introduces ‘AI employees’ that can … Read more

Woman who fell to her death from Hackney council flat ‘was trying to fix drainpipe’

Hackney council said: ‘We do not expect anyone living in a Hackney council home to clean their own guttering and like the coroner we want to ensure an incident like this doesn’t happen again.’ Photograph: Marc Zakian/Alamy Hackney council said: ‘We do not expect anyone living in a Hackney council home to clean their own … Read more