Young people turn to AI therapist bots, 1 in 5 new cars are electric

Harry Potter, Elon Musk, Beyoncé, Super Mario and Vladimir Putin. These are just some of the millions of artificial intelligence (AI) personas you can talk to on Character.ai - a popular platform where anyone can create chatbots based on fictional or real people. It uses the same type of AI tech as the ChatGPT chatbot…

Musk claims consensus on AI regulation, goodbye ‘Yours Sincerely’

Tesla CEO Elon Musk says there was "overwhelming consensus" for regulation on artificial intelligence after tech heavyweights gathered in Washington to discuss AI. Tech bosses attending the meeting included Meta's Mark Zuckerberg and Google boss Sundar Pichai. Microsoft's former CEO Bill Gates and Microsoft's current CEO Satya Nadella were also in attendance. The Wednesday meeting…

ShinyShiny snippets: Amazon to put price of Prime up £1 a month

Amazon is to increase the price of its monthly Prime subscription service by 12.5% – or £1 – to £8.99 from September in the latest sign that delivery costs are rising. The company said the cost of an annual Prime package, which includes unlimited deliveries for online shopping, access to its video and music streaming…

Tech is giving us our time back – and it’s the most valuable thing

You can always earn more money, try new experiences, improve your appearance or whatever else it may be - but the one thing you can't do is get your precious time back once it's already been wasted. Time is something we're all acutely aware of passing, and yet in our busy lives, we're forced to…