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A new study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is the latest research to find that relying too much on chatbots can diminish critical-t

When a company decided to shut down an online game’s servers, there wasn’t much the players who had bought that title could do – until a group called Stop Killing Games began lobbying for new consumer protection laws

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Investigation: The entrepreneur was once the toast of London’s tech scene, a ‘global leader of tomorrow’ who starred on Dragons’ Den and promised untold riches for the startups she championed. But people she worked with in the last dec

Exclusive: Telegram urged to clarify how it detects illegal incitement after attacks were coordinated using app

Telegram is facing questions from Ofcom over how it detects and prevents illegal incitement after a Ukrainian man was found guilty of

Wealth tax criticized by billionaires and Gavin Newsom would levy a one-time 5% tax on residents worth over $1bn

A popular proposal in California to impose a wealth tax on billionaires has gained enough signatures to qualify for the ballot in Nov

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The attorney general for England and Wales has told his office to no longer post on X, making it the first UK government department to stop

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Reform UK leader used private meeting at Bank of England to urge governor to drop plans for state-run cryptocurrency

Nigel Farage has been trying to block a Bank of England cryptocurrency plan that could be costly for the billionaire bankrolling

As companies integrate AI and hire fewer employees, a shift toward a ‘gig economy’ will commence

In 2024, the buy-now-pay-later company Klarna announced that it would cut hundreds of customer service roles and begin using an artificial intelligen

Directive aimed at government workers, but reports of wider implementation spark warnings of future Afghanistan-wide prohibition

The Taliban have ordered a sweeping ban on the use of smartphones by government officials – in what some analysts say

As the pornography platform has exploded in popularity, a side industry has emerged: middlemen who encourage young women into the industry, then take a large cut of their earnings

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Ordinary Taiwanese, young and old, are joining courses to learn how to fly drones amid looming China military threat

In a small, crowded room in Taipei, Pan Chien-chin is trying to keep a drone hovering steadily. Imagining himself flying a plane,

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Rouser Lab says the steel structure will record ‘every step’ humanity takes towards climate catastrophe

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Head of National Cyber Security Centre says UK in ‘ongoing contest with capable adversaries’ and AI could add to threat

The UK’s critical national infrastructure has been hit by more than 200 cyber incidents over the past year and state-linked a

After the billion-dollar company’s leaders sent staff a memo saying the brand had ‘over-extended’, game studios may be in the firing line

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Josh Shapiro, Pennsylvania’s governor, squares off with state lawmakers over the facilities powering an AI boom

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Elon Musk’s firm briefly reached $2.97tn valuation days after its IPO following purchase of AI coding startup Cursor

SpaceX has overtaken Amazon to become the world’s fifth most valuable company days after its stock market debut.

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The world’s most successful gamer content creators, many of whom have spent their entire adult life on the platform, have met up at TwitchCon in Rotterdam

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No 10 is worried about retaliation from White House over restrictions on under-16s’ internet use

Ministers have embarked on a concerted lobbying operation to prevent a backlash from the Trump administration to the under-16s social media ban annou

Tech is helping to identify and save new specimens and could open ‘genomic goldmine’ of fungi data

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State’s attorney general alleges TikTok exposed children to harmful sexual content and addictive features

Florida became the latest state to sue TikTok on Monday after the attorney general accused the company of violating a state law that limits

Meta, YouTube and Snapchat say ban, which would stop children using their platforms, will drive them to ‘less safe services’

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Prime minister announces ban, saying social media is making children unhappy and unsafe

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Liberal MP says Australia risks sovereignty and strategic independence being ‘constrained by the AI superpowers reshaping the global order’

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Sources say hardline measures will also prevent young users from being able to talk to strangers on gaming apps

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Site takes no action over hate posts against UK politicians including Kemi Badenoch, Shabana Mahmood and Zia Yusuf

X has refused to take down dozens of social media posts reported as “hate, abuse or harassment” in which prominent UK politicians,

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Company said US government believes safeguards can be bypassed and product used to identify software vulnerabilities

Anthropic said it will “abruptly disable” its most advanced AI models for all users after the US government ordered it to suspend

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Geert Wilders’ PVV altered sketch of jailed Syrian brothers to make them look more menacing

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Initial public offering for aerospace and AI company made Musk the world’s first trillionaire as share prices jumped

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Unidentified officer removed from frontline duties in the first known case of its kind in the UK

A police officer is under criminal investigation over the alleged use of artificial intelligence and has been removed from frontline duties in the fi

Australian Human Rights Commission has called for a digital duty of care to prevent social media algorithms from incentivising ‘racist’ content

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Location scans from the globally popular augmented reality game have helped train AI to recognise and interpret physical spaces

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Suit filed in US alleges chatbot told Alice Carrier, 24, ‘maybe this is just the end’ as she struggled with suicidal thoughts

A Canadian mother sued OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, in US court on Thursday, alleging that ChatGPT encouraged her dau

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