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Spain to fine AI companies up to €35 million for mislabelling content

Spain’s council of ministers approved a draft law that would fine AI companies up to €35 million for not correctly labelling their content.

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ChatGPT gets 'anxiety' from traumatic content, researchers say

New research has found that OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4 gets anxiety when responding to a user’s trauma and that therapy relaxation prompts could bring better outcomes.

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Eutelsat working to increase satellite service in Ukraine

European authorities are working with Eutelsat, a French satellite operator, to deploy more satellites in Ukraine.

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Women largely underrepresented in European tech, index finds

Women are underrepresented in the entire EU tech ecosystem from the classroom to the C-suite, a new gender and diversity index found.

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Tech needs to ‘pick up the pace’ on decarbonising AI, CEOs say

Energy and AI leaders say their industries must pick up the pace to stop powering data centres with fossil fuels.

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Mobile World Congress: CEOs renew call for consolidating EU telecoms

Telecoms and artificial intelligence (AI) leaders argue consolidation is the best way to keep Europe's industry competitive.

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Here's the new AI tech unveiled at Mobile World Congress

Here is Euronews Next's round-up of some of the tech displayed at the Mobile World Congress this week in Barcelona.

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Big Tech shares millions of user accounts with US authorities - report

A new analysis from Swiss privacy firm Proton found that government-backed requests for user data from Apple, Google, and Meta have increased.

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Is overreliance on US Big Tech a threat to Europe?

Experts say there are concerns that US President Donald Trump could get access to European data with many Dutch ministries, for instance, operating on the public cloud.

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Bybit closes $1.5bn gap after ‘largest crypto heist of all time’

A Dubai-based crypto exchange lost $1.5 billion to hackers in what is being called the biggest digital heist of all time.

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3 years since the invasion, Ukraine's defence tech industry is booming

Ukraine's defence technology industry has grown in the three years since Russia's invasion, continuing to innovate despite the threat of reduced US assistance.

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New apps encourage Canadians to buy local in response to US tariffs

A handful of barcode scanning apps have popped up in Canada to help customers avoid American products in grocery stores.

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Need armed guards at the push of a button? There's an app for that

The Protector app has seen an uptick in downloads following the assassination of UnitedHeathcare’s CEO, Brian Thompson.

Space

Red Planet or bust: Can the US get to Mars in Trump's second term?

Trump put Mars missions in the spotlight in his January inauguration speech. Experts don’t believe a flag-planting will be possible until well beyond Trump’s second mandate.

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NASA data shows asteroid may hit one of world’s most populated regions

New data from US space agency believes that the 2024 YR4 asteroid now has over a 3 per cent chance of hitting the planet in 2032, making it the highest-threat asteroid ever detected.

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Meta to build 50,000 km subsea cable around the globe

The social media giant says it will build the world’s longest subsea cable to link the United States, India, Brazil, and South Africa.

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What is Gravehawk, the new air defence system heading to Ukraine?

A new Anglo-Danish weapon system disguises short-range Soviet-era weapons in containers the size of storage containers to take down their targets.

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Should European banks consider holding crypto in their reserves?

The Czech National Bank (CNB) is the first in Europe to examine whether to add cryptocurrency to its reserve assets. Will other countries follow suit?

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Hate speech on X up 50% under Musk, new study finds

A new study by the University of California, Berkeley found that hate speech rose by 50 per cent in the months after billionaire Elon Musk purchased X, formerly Twitter.

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ChatGPT may be shifting ‘rightward’ in political bias, study finds

ChatGPT is seeing a rightward shift on the political spectrum in how it responds to user queries, a new study has found.

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