ShinyShiny snippets: AI poses similar risk to ‘nuclear war’, experts warn

Artificial intelligence poses a similar risk of human extinction as pandemics and nuclear war, experts have warned. The boss of the firm behind ChatGPT, the head of Google's AI lab, and CEO of Anthropic - another major AI firm, have all signed an open letter. It reads: "Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a…

Shiny snippets: Google releases first smartwatch, the Pixel Watch

Technology company Google has released the Google Pixel Watch which has a sleek circular face and includes a Fitbit activity tracker. The Google Pixel Watch is the latest edition to the company's Google Pixel collection of digital devices, which includes smartphones, laptops and tablets. The Google Pixel Watch is the company's first smartwatch. Comprising a bulbous dome-shaped glass watch face mounted on…

Shiny Shiny tech round up: Bumble founder joins Super-Rich list

You may never have heard of her - but the founder of dating app Bumble, Whitney Wolfe Herd, has joined Forbes list of the super-rich. And while others, such as fellow billionaire Kim Kardashian, are grabbing the headlines, there is an argument that the lesser-known Wolfe Herd could serve as an equally strong role model.…