• Reuters

    Biden supporters bank on debate with Trump to ease age concerns

    For 90 minutes on Thursday night, U.S. President Joe Biden has the chance to show doubting Americans that, at age 81, he is capable of handling the rigors of another four-year term, when he faces off in a debate against Republican Donald Trump. A weak performance could dampen fundraising and push Trump further ahead in the polls. Trump is 78 and prone to making outlandish statements and mangling his sentences on the campaign trail.

  • Reuters

    AI dataset licensing companies form trade group

    OkSeven content-licensing sellers of music, image, video and other datasets for use in training artificial intelligence systems have formed the sector's first trade group, they said on Wednesday. The Dataset Providers Alliance (DPA) will advocate for "ethical data sourcing" in the training of AI systems, including rights for people depicted in datasets and the protection of content owners' intellectual property rights, the companies said in a statement. Founding members include U.S. music dataset company Rightsify, image licensing service vAIsual, Japanese stock photo provider Pixta and Germany-based data marketplace Datarade.

  • Evening Standard

    Police arrest 'coconut protesters' outside court appearance of woman charged over placard

    Marieha Hussain, of High Wycombe, is accused of a racially aggravated public order offence