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Irish data centres are facilitating surveillance and targeting of Palestinians, reports The Guardian

Some incredible new investigative reporting from The Guardian revealed today that Irish based Microsoft data centres are likely involved in a population scale Israeli military effort to surveil and plan airstrikes on Palestinians. The reporting is here - it is by Harry Davies and Yuval Abraham. They found that the

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Are politicians' AI dreams making them the electric sheep?

What Keir Starmer’s recent policy announcements show about his hopes and fears for AI, and the potential folly of his FOMO

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Did AI hallucinate a Halloween Parade and put hundreds of people on Dublin's streets? {Updated}

Last night hundreds of people gathered on Dublin's O'Connell St to watch a Halloween Parade that did not exist; a spookily well timed rise of the Zombie Internet?

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Budget reaction: the quiet triumph of the data centre lobby

In amongst the giveaways, was a opening for the Apple Tax windfall to be siphoned into state subsidies for data centres.

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Here's how our MEPs voted on Europe's new A.I. rules

I’m in Brussels this week, and our 13 MEPs are up the road in Strasbourg voting on Europe’s first substantive piece of regulation on Artificial Intelligence, the A.I. Act. The regulation passed in a landslide - 523 of Europe’s elected reps voted for the regulation, or