us, you are in time for the top business stories. we start in the us where, as you ve been hearing in the last few hours, meta, the owner of facebook, instagram and whatsapp, has launched its widely anticipated new conversation app, threads. it allows users to create posts of up to 500 characters and is being seen as a clear rival to twitter. threads is available to download in more than 100 countries around the world, including here in the uk, but not as yet in the european union because of concerns over privacy regulations. meta boss mark zuckerberg says 5 million users have already signed up to threads in the first four hours. and many tech industry watchers say it poses a very real threat to twitter. i think threads will pose a huge threat to twitter because it is coming from the matter and instagram family of apps. instagram has 2 million users compared to around 250 million of twitter so about ten times bigger already. of twitter so about ten times biggeralready. if of
the us state department said real progress had also been made in negotiations to open the border to foreign nationals. we are also hearing reports from gaza s largest telecommunications provider saying that all communications and internet services have again been cut off. that news comes as israel confirmed that it carried out an air strike near the jabalia refugee camp in northern gaza. the hamas run health ministry and a hospital director say at least 50 people were killed israel says its strike killed a senior hamas commander and caused the collapse of hamas underground infrastructure. bbc verify have located the exact position of the blast which you can see here and you can see how built up it is. more now from our international editor jeremy bowen. and a warning, his report contains images some may find distressing. israel says the destruction came from air strikes that killed a senior hamas commander and some of his men. it said hamas was using these civilians as huma
Addressing the first-ever ‘AI Safety Summit’ in the UK, the minister said that a new framework needs to be built, where there is greater accountability of Internet platforms on the issue of user harm
purposes. it is about digging about how we develop it, what we ve released how we develop it, what we ve released publicly, what is more tightly released publicly, what is more tightly held. i don t pretend to have tightly held. idon t pretend to have all tightly held. i don t pretend to have all the answers, no one does. but working have all the answers, no one does. but working together we can analyse some of but working together we can analyse some of the challenges and look carefully some of the challenges and look carefully at what we do to protect ourselves carefully at what we do to protect ourselves internationally whilst also helping. ourselves internationally whilst also helping - ourselves internationally whilst also helinu. ., ., , also helping. you ve got countries like china that also helping. you ve got countries like china that are also helping. you ve got countries like china that are behind also helping. you ve got countries like china that are be
this inexact way now. i think we have to look at this inexact way out now. i think we have to look at this inexact way out of - now. i think we have to look at this inexact way out of these i this inexact way out of these models work. in many respects, they are generic. they are learning along with us. each time someone wearies a gpt and get answer, they are educating the system and it is learning from those. human interaction can bias the system. also, these systems have been trained often on western data, nothing from the global south, etc, so there are all kinds of bias is built in. we have to do is we have to have barb rails. the uk government recently has announced a summit for al safety summit later this year, and i think this is a really important breakthrough, along with the models, foundational models task was to understand how these models work and to make sure there are a guard rails to protect them from generating output that could be potentially dangerous. haifa potent