the eu has moved closer to passing one of the world s first loss to control artificial intelligence. eu lawmakers agreed on wednesday to changes in draught artificial intelligence rules proposed by the european commission in a bid to set a global standard for a technology used everything from automated factories to self driving cars to chatbots. let s get more in this and speak to the independent tech analyst stephanie here, he will speak to me now. what is this legislation trying to lay down for al developers? it is massive. i ai developers? it is massive. i don t think we can underestimate the importance of this legislation, which was just the first step, they have a few more to go. we would expect this to pass by the end of the year, so there ai developers you have mentioned by plenty of time to get up to speed. what do they need to get up to speed with? that is the devil any detail as always. the really big one will be about the police use of things like real time biometr
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Territory. We will have a look at the markets later. And piggy backing a mobile network. Well be looking at the growing trend of Virtual Network operators and ask whos winning the consumer or the company . And as facebook earnings surge 71 and its number of friends swell to over 2 billion, today we want to know are you a facebook Friend Or Foe and why . Let us know. Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. I have just sent to a Friend Request, i hope it will be accept it hello and welcome to Business Live. We start in Silicon Valley where it seems there is no stopping the worlds biggest social network. Facebook has seen another huge jump in profits as Advertising Revenues keep on rising lets show you just how big. In the three months to the end ofjune, facebook made a net profit of 3. 89 billion. Thats a jump of 71 on the same period last year and better than wall street was expecting. Injune, the number of active monthly users crossed the two billion mark. That means more than one in every fo
37th London Marathon. A lot of activity trying to get everything ready for the race, which starts at ten oclock. There are 40,000 people expected to take part this year. Also in the sport, chelsea are unstoppable, theyre already top of the Premier League, and now theyre into the fa cup final. A rare sight on the railways this morning as four engines including The Flying Scotsman line up to celebrate the past, present and future of rail transport. And ben has the weather. Good morning. Quite a decent datacom for many of us today. There will be spills of sunshine, but there is a big change for the start of the week. Something much colder on the way. All the details coming up. Good morning, first our main story. Labour is attempting to win over voters ahead ofjunes General Election, with the promise of four extra uk wide Bank Holidays. They would fall on the patron saints day of each of the home nations. The conservatives have responded by saying the british economy would be on a permanen
37th London Marathon. A lot of activity trying to get everything ready for the race, which starts at ten oclock. There are 40,000 people expected to take part this year. Also in the sport, chelsea are unstoppable, theyre already top of the Premier League, and now theyre into the fa cup final. A rare sight on the railways this morning as four engines including The Flying Scotsman line up to celebrate the past, present and future of rail transport. And ben has the weather. Good morning. Quite a decent datacom for many of us today. There will be spills of sunshine, but there is a big change for the start of the week. Something much colder on the way. All the details coming up. Good morning, first our main story. Labour is attempting to win over voters ahead ofjunes General Election, with the promise of four extra uk wide Bank Holidays. They would fall on the patron saints day of each of the home nations. The conservatives have responded by saying the british economy would be on a permanen