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ChatGPT might follow Claude’s watermark pledge – but Grok to swerve it

Elon Musk’s Grok is poised to swerve rivals’ plans to ‘watermark’ all artificially-generated content, after refusing to sign up to a European push forcing firms to make AI content traceable. xAI was the only major large language model maker to shun a European Union-led move to tighten AI transparency rules that means the likes of [...]

Business

John Lewis’ new boss faces a battle to boost online sales

Another cloud appeared in an already gloomy sky for John Lewis on Monday, when its managing director, Peter Ruis, announced his surprise departure. Just days before, an internal interview with the group’s chair, Jason Tarry, was leaked to the press, in which he warned of a “really tough” period for the firm. Ruis’s decision to [...]

AI

Sovereign AI starts long before the AI model

Over the past year, I’ve noticed something interesting. Infrastructure discussions have started sounding very different. Not because the technology has fundamentally changed—we’re still talking about…

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