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Dungeons & Dragons tells illustrators to stop using AI to generate artwork for fantasy franchise (3 minute read)
The Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game franchise says it won’t allow artists to use artificial intelligence technology to draw its cast of sorcerers, druids and other characters and scenery. D&D art is supposed to be fanciful. But at least one ax-wielding giant seemed too weird for some fans, leading them to take to social media to question if it was human-made.

Is AI a threat to the world of fabric design? (2 minute read)
"Fabric Genie is a classic example of how artificial intelligence is encroaching into so many fields," says Mr Richman. "There's a huge amount of code that runs the whole process. I've built it for Carl, but I'm not a coder. Instead, I used an AI to generate the code that is running this whole platform. So it's enabling all kinds of people, not just in the field of design, to take something that is an idea, and, without any friction whatsoever, turning that idea into a reality."

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China’s internet giants order $5bn of Nvidia chips to power AI ambitions (5 minute read)
Baidu, ByteDance, Tencent and Alibaba have made orders worth $1bn to acquire about 100,000 A800 processors from the US chipmaker to be delivered this year, according to multiple people familiar with the matter. The Chinese groups had also purchased a further $4bn worth of the graphics processing units to be delivered in 2024, two people close to Nvidia said.

UK allocates £13m to boost use of artificial intelligence in healthcare (3 minute read)
The government has allocated a £13m investment aimed at advancing research in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) within healthcare. The move, announced by Technology Secretary Michelle Donelan, coincides with the appointment of two leading experts tasked with leading the preparations for the upcoming first major international summit on the responsible use of AI.

Meta disbands protein-folding team in shift towards commercial AI (5 minute read)
Meta has axed a team that used artificial intelligence to create the first database of more than 600mn protein structures, in a signal the company is abandoning purely scientific projects in favour of building moneymaking AI products.

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Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas (5 minute read)
A New Zealand supermarket experimenting with using AI to generate meal plans has seen its app produce some unusual dishes – recommending customers recipes for deadly chlorine gas, “poison bread sandwiches” and mosquito-repellent roast potatoes.

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