#ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)

OpenAI and its largest financial backer, Microsoft, were sued in California state court on Thursday over claims that OpenAI’s popular chatbot ChatGPT encouraged a mentally ill man to kill ...

In a world ever more treacherous to navigate, its certainties drowned in a rising tide of noise and falsehood, a new initiative promises to hand the public a compass. EnPsema? (...

An Akel MP has tabled legislation to tackle the phenomenon of ‘deepfakes’ and AI manipulation of audio-visual material. The bill from Akel’s Christos Christofides would make a criminal offence ...

By Alexandra Attalides “Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master,” wrote Nobel laureate Christian Lous Lange a century ago. In the age of artificial intelligence (AI), this observation ...

The European Parliament on Wednesday approved a non-binding resolution which calls for a default minimum age of 16 to access social media and AI chatbots to ensure “age-appropriate online engagement”. Regulated ...

The effects of artificial intelligence (AI) on democracy, the rule of law and its potential influence on future elections were at the core of the discussion at the House institutions ...

The island’s first interactive museum guide powered by artificial intelligence, called Tefkros, was unveiled by the Bank of Cyprus cultural foundation on Monday. The innovation marks a new step ...

A forum focusing on humanity’s shared future – covering artificial intelligence, ethics, and cultural exchange – was held on Wednesday in Nicosia. It was organised by the Embassy of the People’...

Cyprus will strengthen its position on the EU innovation and AI map after the island’s participation in the European AI Factories programme, the research deputy ministry said on Wednesday. ...

The police leadership has ordered members of the force not to use artificial intelligence (AI) to process any official documents or information, media reports said on Tuesday. According to daily ...

Seven EU member states, including Cyprus, will host an AI Factory Antenna, the European Commission announced on Monday at the programme’s launch. The other countries are Belgium, Hungary, Ireland, ...

Many will be wondering whether the Deputy Minister for Innovation, Research and Digitalisation Nicodemos Damianou was joking on Wednesday when he said the government would introduce AI into the public ...

Artificial intelligence is “not a competitor, but a power multiplier for the media”, the European Commission’s director-general for translation Christos Ellinides said on Friday. Speaking to the Cyprus News ...

The government is to begin introducing artificial intelligence into the civil service to “support civil servants in their work”, Research Deputy Minister Nicodemos Damianou said after Wednesday’s cabinet meeting. ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) can assist journalists, but it cannot replace them, the press ethics committee clarified on Wednesday. Updated guidelines emphasise that human oversight is mandatory at every stage of ...

Chinese Premier Li Qiang on Saturday proposed establishing an organisation to foster global cooperation on artificial intelligence, calling on countries to coordinate on the development and security of the fast-evolving ...

The digital assistant tool available through the gov.cy portal has answered more than 104,000 citizen queries in the six months since its launch, the research and innovation ministry said on ...

A new artificial intelligence (AI) tool is being developed to monitor the vast amount of data recorded in Cyprus’ national health scheme (Gesy), aiming to expose potential fraud, misuse, or ...

The creation, possession and distribution of AI-generated child pornography is now a criminal offence, carrying with it prison sentences of up to 15 years, under a law passed by parliament on ...

President Nikos Christodoulides spoke of how Cyprus can become an “emerging hub” for artificial intelligence on Tuesday. Government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said after a meeting between Christodoulides and OpenAI’s ...

World leaders and technology executives convened in Paris on Monday to discuss how to safely embrace artificial intelligence at a time of mounting resistance to red tape that businesses say ...

Deputy Minister of Research, Innovation and Digital Policy, Nikodemos Damianou, is participating in an international artificial intelligence (AI) summit on Monday, aimed at intensifying cooperation to ensure the technology’s ...

France’s privacy watchdog said on Thursday it will question DeepSeek to gain a better idea of how the Chinese startup’s AI system works and any possible privacy risks ...

By Euripides Evivriades AI is not a distant challenge; it is already reshaping our economies, democracies and societies. However, the debate remains dominated by a few corporations amassing billions in ...