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Featured Article : ChatGPT Gets Image Upgrade and Fewer Restrictions

ChatGPT’s image generation tools have just received a major upgrade, and while everyone is busy turning politicians into dreamy ‘Studio Ghibli’ characters, OpenAI’s (quiet) policy changes may prove to be the bigger story. A New Visual Brain for ChatGPT At the centre of this update is GPT-4o, OpenAI’s new omnimodal model. Unlike previous tools like…
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Featured Article : ChatGPT’s False Murder Claim

In this week’s featured article, we look at how a false murder claim by ChatGPT has fuelled fresh concerns over AI accuracy and hallucinations. A Father Falsely Accused by AI In quite a shocking story, a Norwegian man has filed a formal complaint after ChatGPT falsely claimed he murdered two of his sons! The case,…
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Featured Article : OpenAI Launches Sora (in the UK) and GPT-4.5

OpenAI has launched Sora, its AI-powered video generation tool, and GPT-4.5, its latest and most advanced language model, in the UK, marking a major leap in artificial intelligence technology and sparking debate across creative and technological industries. What is Sora and Why Has It Only Just Arrived in the UK? Sora is OpenAI’s revolutionary text-to-video…
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Featured Article : Is DeepSeek Safe?

Following the surprise introduction of Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek, here we look at what makes it different, and why concerns are growing over its safety and privacy implications. What is DeepSeek? DeepSeek is a Chinese-developed AI chatbot that functions much like OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Google’s Gemini. The app exploded in popularity following its release in…
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Featured Article : DeepSeek? Here’s The $500 Billion Stargate

At a time when China’s “DeepSeek” chatbot has jolted the AI industry (having developed incredibly quickly and on a shoestring budget), we take a look at the US “Stargate Project,” a $500 billion initiative aimed at cementing the United States’ leadership in artificial intelligence (AI) by constructing cutting-edge infrastructure. Heated Debate Announced by President Donald…
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Featured Article : Tech Trends For 2025

As 2024 draws to a close, here we explore 15 key technological trends expected to shape 2025, highlighting innovations likely to influence business operations and strategies. Agentic Artificial Intelligence (AI) ‘Agentic’ AI refers to a new wave of AI systems that can autonomously plan and execute tasks based on user-defined objectives. Unlike traditional AI systems…
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Featured Article : Trump’s Tech Transitions

Following Trump’s dramatic election for a second term, we look at what this means for the tech industry, examining the potential impacts on major companies, regulation, cryptocurrency, autonomous vehicles, AI, social media, markets, and the influence of key players like Elon Musk. An Era of Change, Uncertainty, and Opportunity The re-election of Donald Trump as…
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Featured Article : Prove You’re Human

Following OpenAI’s Sam Altman recently renaming his Worldcoin project simply ‘World,’ we take a look at World’s iris-scanning technology, what it’s for, its potential benefits, and its possible drawbacks.  World – Providing ‘Proof of Personhood’  In an age where AI now appears to be blurring the lines between human and machine interaction, the ability to…
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Featured Article : ChatGPT Now Offers Complex Reasoning

ChatGPT’s maker, OpenAI, has announced the introduction of its new OpenAI o1 large language model that can use “complex reasoning” to fact-check its own answers before giving them.  ChatGPT Plus and Teams Users Can Try It Now  The new o1 model is already available to ChatGPT Plus or Team users, and in OpenAI’s API. OpenAI…
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Featured Article : Try Being Nice To Your AI

With some research indicating that ‘emotive prompts’ to generative AI chatbots can deliver better outputs, we look at whether ‘being nice’ to a chatbot really does improve its performance.  Not Possible, Surely?  Generative AI Chatbots, including advanced ones, don’t possess real ‘intelligence’ in the way we as humans understand it. For example, they don’t have…
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