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Bicycling Dutch historian Rutger Bregman does not identify as an optimist.

Companies will pay for upgrades and new electricity generation in agreement to mitigate concerns of rising bills

Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon and several artificial intelligence companies signed a pledge at the White House on Wednesday to bear

CEO’s claims come amid increased scrutiny of US military’s use of the technology and ethics concerns from AI workers

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Twitter investors allege the billionaire publicly derided the social network to sink its stock price and buy it at a bargain

Elon Musk took the stand on Wednesday in a trial brought by Twitter investors, who allege the billionaire committed secur

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Dassault Aviation says €100bn project may soon be ‘dead’ if Airbus will not agree on how to share workload

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Democratic rematch in Durham-area district draws focus to fight over AI datacenters increasingly shaping US elections

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Lawsuit is first wrongful death case brought against Google over flagship AI product after death of Jonathan Gavalas

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Oxford-based firm has raised $103m for commercial development of software for self-driving industrial vehicles

Nvidia is investing in the British autonomous driving startup Oxa, alongside backing from the UK’s National Wealth Fund, in a boost to

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Jack Dorsey cited AI as the driving force behind cutting 40% of his company’s employees, but other factors such as a weak crypt

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ChatGPT owner’s CEO says it will bar its technology being used for mass surveillance or by intelligence services

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OpenAI is amending its hastily arranged deal to supply artificial intelligence

Speed and scale of US military’s AI war planning raises fears human decision-making may be sidelined

The use of AI tools to enable attacks on Iran heralds a new era of bombing quicker than “the speed of thought”, experts have said, amid fears hum

I was a newcomer, negotiating all of usual classroom difficulties for the first time. Throwing AI into the mix felt like downing a coffee in the middle of a panic attack

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Claude climbs to top of app store charts in US and UK after being blacklisted by Pentagon over ethics concerns

The AI model Claude has surged in popularity after being blacklisted by the Pentagon last week over ethics concerns.

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The rapid rollout of datacenters across the US is creating a divide between municipal governments and residents

Wilmington, Ohio, resident Quintin Koger Kidd was so concerned last June with his local public officials’ alleged misdoings – open mee

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AI is transforming our world. Accepting independent oversight is the least companies can do to protect our rights

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Our new free course AI for the People will show you practical ways to work with AI –without giving up judgment, privacy or your humanity

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Trials to form part of three-month consultation on Keir Starmer’s plans to tackle negative effects of smartphone use

Hundreds of teenagers will be enlisted to trial social media bans in the coming months with overnight digital curfews and daily s

Campaign groups write to technology secretary amid concerns that sites could double overall electricity demand

Datacentre developers are facing pressure to reveal whether their projects will increase the UK’s net greenhouse gas emissions, amid co

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions asks whether we could cope with a world where computer gave up saying no …

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The record sum paid at auction for a rare example is part of a boom in trading cards – and the prices can be staggering

For £12m, you could buy a seven-bedroom mansion in Hampstead, north London, or a Bugatti La Voiture Noire, one of the world’s

CEO Sam Altman claims military will not use AI product for autonomous killing systems or mass surveillance

OpenAI said it had struck a deal with the Pentagon to supply AI to classified US military networks, hours after Donald Trump ordered the go

Kate Fox says Joe Ceccanti was the ‘most hopeful person’ before he started spending 12 hours a day with a chatbot

On 7 August, Kate Fox received a phone call that upended her life. A medical examiner said that her husband, Joe Ceccanti – who had

Feature for supervised accounts rolls out as Meta platform faces US trials over alleged harms to children

Instagram will start alerting parents if their kids repeatedly search for terms clearly associated with suicide or self-harm.

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As Pokémon turns 30, we would like to hear what the franchise means to you

It is 30 years since the game Pocket Monsters was released for the Nintendo Game Boy in Japan. Many more video games, trading cards, toys, an animated series and films fol

With original dialogue in Turkish, this shuffling of potential partners in a sequence of meaningless encounters ranks with the finest auteur movies

I spent Valentine’s Day not with my wife but with 18 Turkish women. No, wait, I can explain. It’s

OpenAI-powered assistant will help to ‘understand overall service patterns’, company says, as move sparks backlash

From hospitality workers to retail employees, the exaggerated “customer service voice”, often mocked in internet memes as wildly di

Pete Hegseth has threatened to cancel $200m contract unless it is given unfettered access to Claude model

Anthropic said Thursday it “cannot in good conscience” comply with a demand from the Pentagon to remove safety precautions from its artifici

The UK will phase out traditional home phones by 2027, but the switchover has been stressful for some. How do you feel about the change?

UK telecoms companies are retiring traditional landline services and replacing them with internet-based home

Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases

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Fear, fights and feverish fanservice collide in this celebration of Resident Evil’s recent and retro legacy
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There’s often an undercurrent of existential fatigue in games tha

A handful of companies monopolise the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical – and often distinctively European – alternatives

There’s not much to love about big tech these days. So many ills can be laid at it

Some say the technology is devaluing their work, while others reckon it is not yet – and might never be – good enough to replace them entirely

Workers grappling with the rapid growth of artificial intelligence have said they feel “devalued” by th

Resembling cigarette packet warnings, the ads highlight dangers and urge people to email MPs

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Chipmaker’s quarterly earnings surpassed Wall Street’s expectations every quarter for multiple years

Nvidia released its quarterly earnings on Wednesday, with the chipmaker revealing higher than expected revenues and extending its years-long stre

Officers say flood of low-quality reports is draining resources and slowing cases amid New Mexico lawsuit

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Unimpressed tech equity campaigners compare move to ‘inviting in foxes to consult on the future of the henhouse’

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Police arrested a man for a burglary in a city he had never visited after face scanning software depl

With ​i​ts longtime figureheads stepping aside, Microsoft’s gaming division faces a pivotal moment​, raising questions about whether ​i​t can still balance creative ambition with corporate strategy​ in the age of AI

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He was at the heart of 1960s counterculture, then paved the way for the libertarian mindset of Silicon Valley. At 87, Brand is still keen to ensure the world is maintained properly – not just today, but for the next 10,000 years

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Toby Walsh says he despairs at Australian government’s lack of regulation of artificial intelligence

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Information Commissioner’s Office imposes largest fine yet for a breach of children’s privacy

The UK information regulator has fined the social news service Reddit £14.5m for using the data of children under the age of 13 unlawfully and potentia