OpenAI announces “pause” on a ChatGPT voice avatar after it drew comparisons Scarlett Johansson’s speaking style - and Hollywood actress called in the lawyers. Legal and policy challenges for AI Seoul Summit, with Eleanor Shearer, senior research fellow at London’s Common Wealth think tank. Infected blood scandal: police examine manslaughter charges. 

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• Microplastics found in ‘every study testicle’
• New (but fading) chance to see Northern Lights
• Tech firms ‘failing on pre-election misinformation’
• Cob-erating theatre...tiny robot’s corn-sized surgery

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