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Assisted Suicide
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Meta faces legal challenge for addictive featuresMeta, the company that runs Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, has been accused of intentionally producing addictive products for children in a trial which began on Tuesday.
Pornography
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OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Teens in response to safety concernsOpenAi, the company behind popular AI chatbot ChatGPT, has announced ChatGPT for Teens. The new platform introduces a range of protections in response to recent concerns about online safety for teenagers.
Artificial Intelligence
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Disability campaigners call for delay to assisted suicide bill
Assisted Suicide
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Councils given greater power to block betting shopsThe Prime Minister has announced the end to “Aim to Permit” rules which prevented local councils from blocking the proliferation of betting shops on high streets.
Gambling
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Watermarks used to stop AI cheating
Artificial Intelligence
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Meta fined $567m over child safety
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has been ordered to pay a fine of $567 million by a U.S. judge over their failure to warn people about the dangers of…
Pornography
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AI used to create new biological virusesArtificial intelligence has been used to create entirely new biological viruses in the laboratory for the first time.
Artificial Intelligence
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Single-sex spaces guidance comes into forceNew guidance on single-sex spaces such as toilets and changing rooms comes into force today. This guidance means that these spaces should be organised by biological sex, and not gender identity.
Transgender
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High Court rules puberty blocker trial can beginA controversial trial of puberty blockers for children aged 11 and 12 can now start after an attempt to stop it was thrown out by the High Court.
Transgender
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Fix palliative care before debating assisted suicide says PMPrime Minister Andy Burnham has said that fixing the funding of palliative care must come before any debate on assisted suicide.
Assisted Suicide
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CARE writes to Charity Commission over Amnesty reportCARE, alongside other Christian charities, has written to the Charity Commission in response to Amnesty International’s report categorising them as ‘anti-rights’.
Freedom of Speech
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Some Claude AI chats publicly available onlineHundreds of transcripts of chats with Anthropic’s AI service Claude have been found publicly available and accessible to anyone online
Artificial Intelligence