US firm says it will convene policymakers for discussion of dangers, in post detailing progress of its Claude model

Anthropic has floated the idea of a worldwide “temporary pause” on AI development – and said it was going to convene “policymakers

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Teenage girls discuss the horrors they have seen via their phones as Georgie Dettmer’s reckoning with internet culture is brutally realised by director Jess Edwards

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As demand for cobalt, gold and other minerals grows, mining is accelerating deforestation in the Congo basin – and increasing the risk of deadly Ebola outbreaks

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Jess Asato’s lawyer says others want to take action over demeaning sexualised material created by Grok AI tool

New claimants have come forward to take legal action against Elon Musk’s company xAI after the Labour MP Jess Asato launched a test cas

Tech giants claim Australia’s free trade agreement with US will be violated as they try to kill a proposal to force them to pay news companies

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Without disclosing that work has been generated using the technology, faith in existing industries will continue to be undermined

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PM says Britons are ‘reasonable, tolerant people’ and backs MP’s legal action against Grok firm over fake sexualised images

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Elon Musk is “interfering in our politics” and attempting to cre

Ministers should end Palantir’s contract before medical confidentiality is sacrificed to Silicon Valley’s appetite for public data

Alarm bells ought to have rung when it emerged last month that Palantir engineers could gain “unlimited access” to

Deliveries in 30 minutes or less coming to Manchester and Birmingham and fresh groceries service to start in London

Amazon is expanding fast-track deliveries in the UK, including adding fresh fruit and vegetables to same-day services, after clos

Nothing does more for your ego than realising you can make a better decision than a bot with all of human knowledge at its digital fingertips

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IPO could raise up to $75bn, giving SpaceX market value of $1.77tn as it sets up Musk for extraordinary wealth

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is looking to raise $75bn (£55bn) from its blockbuster stock market listing next week as the rocket company aims for

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Stronger checks likely to be needed in England to safeguard reputation of GCSEs and A-levels, says Ian Bauckham

Cheating in exams could be magnified by the new generation of wearable hi-tech devices such as smartglasses or invisible earpieces, ac

In 2025, the tech journalist invited artificial intelligence to do nearly everything for her, including editing the book she was writing about the experiment. Some of it was useful, some not – but it was her time with a chatbot companion that really sh

Silicon Valley is fighting against AI regulation and taxation and will benefit from having political leverage

Silicon Valley had a big night in California’s primary election, proving that the tens of millions of dollars funding candidates across

Measure in Amazon and Microsoft’s backyard expected to succeed next week as backlash grows amid AI boom

Seattle’s city government is on the verge of passing a year-long ban on the construction of new datacenters, the largest city yet in the US to

While many US city councils have passed moratoriums, Monterey Park is first where residents have voted on a ban

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Consumer advocates decry Democrat Jared Polis for ‘choosing to side with dominant corporations’ over workers

Colorado’s governor vetoed a bill on Tuesday that would have banned companies from using surveillance pricing to set workers’ wages and p

Jess Asato was portrayed wearing a bikini in Grok-generated images after she criticised creation of such non-consensual pictures

A Labour MP has taken legal action against Elon Musk’s xAI company after saying its Grok tool helped a user produce f

Giving news websites the power to block their content from being used in AI summaries will have global ramifications

The UK’s competition watchdog has ordered Google to change how it uses publishers’ content in its AI-powered search results, in a

Christi Hill and male officer misidentified in Vickrum Digwa murder case on AI platforms including Grok

A former police officer has been forced to flee to a safe space after she was falsely accused online of being involved in the arrest of Henry

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In the March quarter Australia’s economy grew 0.3%. But the real issue is what drove that growth

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DfE plans to withdraw funding for assistive software, saying it is now rarely needed due to ‘widely available free tools’

Disability campaigners have called on the government to halt plans to cut funding for specialist tech support for tens of th

The director defends investment in and use of AI-generated storyboards, saying the immediacy of communicating his vision to cast and crew is ‘creatively freeing’

Martin Scorsese’s announcement that he has invested in an AI company and uses the te

The PS5 era has been in some ways disappointing for Sony – on Tuesday, the company revealed a slate of games they hope will change that

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While the technology is set to play a growing role in modern warfare, there remains an unresolved ethical challenge

Should the AI-powered drones of the future have a licence to kill? The question is becoming ever more pressing as governments and

With rivals racing to market to raise ‘eye-popping sums’, the spotlight is now on the AI sector’s one-time ‘poster child’

A year is a long time in AI. Just 12 months ago, Sam Altman was predicting his company OpenAI would build a super intelligen

Watchdog makes ruling on search summaries after publishers complain about drop in click-through traffic and revenue

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Online publishers and news organisations are now able to block their conten

It should have taken years, but Ash Koosha made a drama about Iran’s anti-government protests in weeks – and now it’s the first AI-made movie to screen at a major film festival. It could transform indie film-making, claims the director

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With the constant risk of being recorded, many young people are afraid of showing enthusiasm – let alone doing something so potentially embarrassing as dancing in public. Is there a way to set themselves free?

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Sydney Morning Herald removes piece by Cath Ellis, despite Western Sydney University saying her use of AI was ‘appropriate’

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South Korea’s Kospi stock market has hit record highs thanks to AI, but experts urge caution over boom-bust cycles and a heavy reliance on two chipmakers

South Korea has leapfrogged India to become the world’s sixth largest share market, leaving

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Under new rules, tech companies will be asked to share AI models with government for review before public release

Donald Trump signed an executive order to create a voluntary framework for the federal government to vet powerful new AI models befo

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Markets take note as world’s biggest equity fundraiser bids to garner more money than three biggest-ever IPOs combined

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In today’s newsletter: Its software is used from health services to militaries. But controversies and criticism of the $375bn company are leading some to ask if Palantir is too powerful

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Breach of high-profile accounts raises concerns about reliance on AI for security measures such as passwords

Hackers used Meta’s AI-powered support chatbot to infiltrate high-profile Instagram accounts, the company has confirmed, saying it resolv

State sues maker of ChatGPT and CEO Sam Altman, alleging company ‘allowed a dangerous product to reach millions’

Florida filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, and its CEO, Sam Altman, on Monday alleging that the company concealed

Financial stakes of AI race rise as Elon Musk’s SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic are slated to go public this year

Anthropic has filed confidentially for an initial public offering on the US stock market, the company announced on Monday. The AI firm

Record-breaking box office for Backrooms and Obsession has opened the door for twentysomething YouTube creators as the industry rethinks what audiences want

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From Google co-founder Brin spending $82m to fight a billionaire tax to Google and Meta funding a joint Super Pac, Silicon Valley is engaged in an existential fight for its political power at home

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Launching in the UK this month, this new pint-sized console revives the motion-controlled video game boom of the 00s – with better, safer tech

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The roots of AI in rightwing ideology is examined in Valerie Veatch’s enjoyable doc, including an array of colourful, often crazed, figures

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Firm says its RTX Spark PC chip for Microsoft Windows will let AI agents replace the mouse and keyboard

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A new front has opened up in the battle for dominance in AI chips, as Nvidia said its l

Coalition of more than 100 organisations says move could lead to more children ending up in adult detention facilities

A coalition of more than a hundred refugee children’s organisations has said controversial plans to use AI to assess the age of

Sarah Wynn-Williams did not speak during event after lawyers warned of possible sanctions from tech firm

Facebook whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams was forced to sit in silence on stage at an event at Hay festival, after lawyers advised her not t

From digital twins to models ‘sculpted’ by programmers, generative AI has been popping up all over the fashion industry. When an Australian e-commerce retailer started using AI-generated models to sell products, lifestyle editor Alyx Gorman had to see

A new belief set is uniting some of the wealthiest men in the world around a ‘transhuman’ future – actual humanity be damned

Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, took to the Internet a few years ago to propose that homo sapiens would be the