NEW YORK (ANP/DPA) - Google heeft voor 10 miljoen dollar een grote hoeveelheid data gekocht van de failliete Amerikaanse luchtvaartmaatschappij Spirit Airlines. Met de gegevens wil het bedrijf zijn systemen voor kunstmatige intelligentie trainen, staat in faillissementsdocumenten.

Het geveilde pakket bevat ongeveer 100 miljoen e-mails en 500 miljoen gesprekken via chat- en vergaderdienst Teams. Ook koopt Google data over prijzen en software. Alle persoonlijk herleidbare gegevens worden door een ander bedrijf verwijderd voordat de data worden overgedragen, zegt Google.

Geavanceerde AI-systemen werken met grote hoeveelheden data, waar ze patronen in zoeken om zichzelf te trainen. AI-ontwikkelaars proberen steeds vaker data rondom de interne communicatie bij bedrijven op te kopen. Daarmee hopen ze bedrijfsprocessen waarheidsgetrouw te kunnen simuleren.

Spirit Airlines ging in mei bankroet en beëindigde alle activiteiten.

De opkomst van talloze nieuwe automerken zorgt voor een opmerkelijk probleem. Reparaties zijn lang niet altijd mogelijk, waardoor bij een kleine schade een wagen total loss verklaard kan worden. Dat signaleert verzekeraar Univé, die waarschuwt dat de dekking voor zo'n auto op de tocht kan staan, meldt De Telegraaf.

Brancheorganisaties als de ANWB en de Bovag herkennen zulke 'opstartproblemen'. Het gevolg is dat de schadelast, en daarmee verzekeringspremies, omhooggaan.

Univé adviseert autokopers niet alleen te kijken naar prijs, actieradius, veiligheid en uitrusting. Ook de vraag of bij problemen snel en goed herstel mogelijk is, moet meewegen. Het kan bij nieuwe automerken namelijk goed voorkomen dat onderdelen van ver moeten komen of dat maar enkele bedrijven een reparatie kunnen uitvoeren. Daardoor kan het na schade ook langer duren voordat een eigenaar zijn auto terugkrijgt.

Bron: De Telegraaf

DIEREN (ANP) - Bij een brand in een zorginstelling aan de Zutphensestraatweg in het Gelderse Dieren is veel rook vrijgekomen. De brand zelf was vrij snel geblust, maar de rook was het grootste probleem, meldt de veiligheidsregio. Vijf mensen zijn door ambulancemedewerkers nagekeken, omdat zij rook hadden ingeademd. Uiteindelijk heeft niemand van hen extra zorg nodig.

Het gaat om een zorginstelling waar onder meer mensen met dementie wonen. Uit voorzorg zijn de mensen van de afdeling op de eerste verdieping, waar de brand woedde, naar het restaurant op de begane grond gebracht. "Er zijn meerdere hulpverleners aanwezig om de betrokken mensen goed op te vangen en waar nodig zorg te bieden", aldus de veiligheidsregio.

De brand ontstond in een magnetron in de centrale ruimte op de eerste verdieping van de zorginstelling. De begane grond en de tweede verdieping van het pand hoefden niet te worden ontruimd. "De zorg van alle bewoners kan gewoon doorgaan", meldt de veiligheidsregio.

Brent crude rises above $90 a barrel for the first time since 30 July after US president tells Tehran to surrender

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Oil prices have risen again after the two-month window to negotiate a peace deal in the US-Israel war on Iran expired on Monday with no end to the conflict in sight.

Iran said on Monday that it would take a more aggressive stance if talks with the US failed, while Donald Trump demanded Tehran “put up the white flag of surrender” in an interview with Fox News.

An Australian court will consider two appeals from Wednesday: whether Patterson’s convictions should be quashed, and if she should remain in prison for life without parole

It was a Sunday lunch in a sleepy Australian town that was at the heart of one of the country’s most high-profile murder trials.

A central question fascinated people around the world: did Erin Patterson deliberately serve her in-laws poisoned beef wellingtons on 29 July 2023?

There will be some familiar faces involved in this week’s European qualifiers as a number of smaller clubs have a chance to make their mark

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Romelu Lukaku is the latest familiar face to rock up at Fenerbahce. The 33-year-old striker is, however, unlikely to be fit for Lyon’s visit to Istanbul on Tuesday – he sat out Saturday’s 2-1 defeat to Genclerbirligi, the club his father played for in the 1990s. “This beautiful country is a second home to me,” Lukaku, who spent part of his childhood in Turkey, said last week. Fenerbahce have also added Mason Greenwood and Nathan Aké to a squad that includes Ederson, N’Golo Kanté and Marco Asensio. Failure to get past Lyon, who are aiming to qualify for the Champions League for the first time since reaching the semi-finals in 2019-20, would not be the best start to Ismail Kartal’s fourth spell as head coach.

Director Joe Pearlman says he expected Real Madrid manager to ‘try to manipulate us’ in making of Netflix series

Even in the hyperreal world of football, there are few characters more compelling, more polarising, or more everything than José Mourinho, the best and worst of public him on full display in a new three-part Netflix series. “It reminded me how good he was,” says Joe Pearlman, who directed Mourinho, and the actual Mourinho is, believe it or not, keen to communicate the same. As he puts it in the show: “I look, you look, I see more than you.”

Making documentaries, though, is often about taking people to the places they’re most skilled at avoiding. “I knew the interviews were going to be very intense,” says Pearlman, “and he was going to try and control the narrative and manipulate us. Everything bad is everyone else’s fault and everything he’s done is validated by winning. Because that’s all that’s important.”

State attorneys general allege that tech company intentionally designed addictive products that harm young people

More than half of the states in the US have joined together in a sizable fight against Meta, the parent of Instagram and Facebook. Their landmark legal challenge goes to trial Tuesday.

An unprecedented lawsuit, first filed by 29 state attorneys general in 2023, accuses the social media company of deliberately designing addictive products that lured in young people and caused them harm.

A movement with safety, dignity and equality at its heart may now be blamed for the rightwing backlash. But within it were principles worth carrying forwards

Every once in a while, the discourse gods send a tablet down to the people, announcing that a previous era is dead and a new age is upon us. Recently, it was the “vibe shift” – a post-pandemic change in culture that encompassed everything from fashion to politics. The vibe shift consolidated with Donald Trump’s second election, a harbinger of the end of fragility and of movements for racial and gender equality – a rejection of the long 2010s with their hashtags and pink pussy hats and women’s marches and protests. The vibe shift has recently been followed by a calling of time on what has come to be known as “Woke 1.0” – a term that represents what is now seen as a culture of hysterical overreach triggered by the momentary breakthrough of movements such as #MeToo and Black Lives Matter. “Woke 1 was crazy,” said Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez this month, quoting a New York City councilman. And there we have it, time to walk back some things said and done in the giddy heat of those moments. It was crazy!

This rush to the future away from what some perceive to be an embarrassing past groups together various disparate phenomena. But I’m afraid it’s not that simple. Woke 1.0 (or “peak wokeness” – I wish the gods would use less trivialising ways to refer to roiling social tides, but there we are) was about politics and culture and also about the behaviours and trends it triggered. It was about concrete problems: policing of minority communities, the right of women not to be sexually harassed or violated, the systemic racism and sexism that damaged both. And it was about reforming the cultural structures that created and perpetuated those systems; asking university curricula to expand and diversify intellectual sources, recognising the long shadow of glorified imperial histories, and updating institutions – from the media to the academy – in order to enfranchise change. None of this is “crazy”.

Nesrine Malik is a Guardian columnist