The US president’s reversal on calling for a safety review of new AI models is a green light for tech’s unchecked power

Only hours before Donald Trump was set to sign a long-awaited executive order on Thursday that would have called for a governm

Growing numbers of people are seeking improbable cosmetic surgery based on chatbots’ recommendations

Plastic surgeons are increasingly concerned about the rise of “AI face”, as more and more clients arrive in their offices with unrealistic AI-gen

BioOrbit hopes drug-crystallisation technology will lead to self-injected cancer treatment that could save millions

Onboard a SpaceX flight last week was a remarkable piece of cargo – a hi-tech box destined for the International Space Station to

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London mayor accused of ‘putting politics above public safety’ for rejecting deal to use AI in intelligence analysis

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Palantir has accused Sadiq Khan of “putting politics above public safet

US social media firms acting on orders from Middle East kingdom accused of being ‘instruments of repression’

Major US social media companies including Meta’s Facebook and Instagram platforms have blocked the accounts of Saudi Arabian dissidents s

Bill Winters faced backlash over remarks about some of near 8,000 staff set to lose roles to AI

The chief executive of Standard Chartered has apologised for referring to some of the almost 8,000 staff that are set to lose their jobs to artificial

IPO filing from Elon Musk’s company reveals closer look at finances, cosmic ambitions and tech empire’s quirks

SpaceX publicly released an investor prospectus on Wednesday as part of its plan for a $1.75tn debut on the US stock market next month,

Licensing agreement will allow listeners to use AI to create content on streaming platform for first time

Spotify and Universal Music Group have agreed on a deal that will allow subscribers to generate song covers and remixes using artificial int

Exclusive: Scotland Yard criticises London mayor’s decision as disappointing and warns it could hit policing

Sadiq Khan has blocked a £50m Metropolitan police deal with the controversial US tech company Palantir, sparking a bitter row between th

Company says work on Paul Erdős planar unit distance problem shows advance in AI reasoning

OpenAI has claimed a further advance in AI reasoning after its technology successfully tackled an 80-year-old maths problem.

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ASX-listed company announced in February it would lay off almost 30% of its 7,000-strong workforce across 40 countries

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Telecoms company CEO says tech firms are buying up memory chips to power datacentres relied on by AI

BT has said the cost of smartphones could rise as technology companies buy up semiconductor chips because of the boom in artificial intelligence,

Jack Clark describes ‘vertiginous sense of progress’ and ‘profound changes’ to society alongside risks of technology

An AI system will work with humans to make a Nobel prize-winning discovery within 12 months and tradespeople will be helped by bi

Many analysts view company’s financial performance as a broader referendum on AI buildout

Nvidia continued its years-long streak of beating Wall Street’s expectations for growth on Wednesday, reassuring most investors that the AI boom, particular

Police said the vehicle became disabled and took on water, prompting the driver and passengers to abandon it before calling for help

Authorities in Texas have removed a Tesla Cybertruck from a lake after the driver intentionally drove into it in

Exclusive: Electoral Commission calls for new controls as Demos finds tools made up fake scandals, invented candidates or gave wrong date

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The Electoral Commission has called for new legal

Exclusive: Google DeepMind agrees to Acas talks after workers sign petitions about governments’ use of AI for defence and intelligence

Google DeepMind has agreed to enter formal talks with UK tech workers that could lead to trade union representa

Driving sims were overtaken by open world fantasy adventures, but new upgrades show how much joy there is in the genre

I have spent the last week careening around Japan in a Porsche 911, seeing the sights, racing other cars and occasionally veeri

Almost 50 years after he first got his hands on a computer, the Oxford professor still believes in the power of technology. Can his beloved game theory explain why Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurs consistently misuse it?

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Groups claim game platform’s design and business model conflict with children’s developmental needs

Online child safety campaigners including Jonathan Haidt, the bestselling writer on the mental health impacts of social media, have called on the

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Campaigners warn against blanket restrictions and say focus should be on blocking teenagers from platforms with ‘risky’ features

Online safety campaigners have urged Keir Starmer to block under-16s from accessing social media apps that do not mee

Exclusive: Employment tribunal claim says worker lost his job after distributing leaflets throughout London office

Google is facing a legal challenge from an AI engineer who claims he was unfairly dismissed after he protested against its work for

Special anniversary edition of award-winning headphones are some of the best sounding you can buy, but cost far more than top Sony noise cancellers

Sony’s latest noise-cancelling headphones are a special anniversary set made to celebrate a decade

At annual I/O conference, company debuts a product for everyday consumers to create autonomous AI agents

Google announced on Tuesday that it would expand its search bar, the centerpiece of the most-visited website in the world, with a heavy dose

Granta publisher says ‘perhaps we never will know’ true authorship of work that won Commonwealth prize

A few syntactical tics – and the verdict of an AI detection platform – have sparked a furore over the possibility that a short story given a p

Some employees will be moved to new teams focused on AI agents and cloud infrastructure

As Meta races to recenter itself around artificial intelligence, the tech giant is mandating that more than 7,000 workers must move to new teams, and it’s rad

A long and bitter legal battle between tech billionaires Elon Musk and Sam Altman has culminated in victory for the OpenAI boss. Musk has vowed to appeal the verdict. But what did the trial reveal about big tech and the global AI race. Lucy Hough speak

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London-headquartered bank will reduce back-office jobs and aims to move some workers to new roles

Standard Chartered plans to cut more than 7,000 jobs over the next four years as it increasingly uses artificial intelligence.

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Independent senator warns budget reform could drive tech investment offshore, as PM thanks startups for ‘very flattering’ images

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OpenAI’s plans now seem all but guaranteed, given that the world’s richest man couldn’t put a stop to them

On Monday morning, a jury in Oakland, California, handed a resounding victory to Sam Altman and OpenAI in their long, bitter courtroom batt

Tracker of attitudes towards artificial intelligence also finds almost half of the public would prefer to avoid it

One in three university students think AI will wipe out jobs so rapidly it will trigger civil unrest, according to a survey by King

OpenAI CEO and president found not liable for breaking contracts made with Musk when founding the startup

A jury ruled in favor of Sam Altman in the culmination of a long and bitter legal battle that pitted the richest person in

The pope’s encyclical will address ‘the protection of the human person in the age of AI’, the Vatican says

In the first major text of his papacy, Pope Leo will address the rapid rise of artificial intelligence.

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Ofcom to update codes of practice amid rise in ‘revenge porn’ and AI-generated deepfakes targeting women and girls

Social media, messaging platforms and online forums that publish intimate image abuse – often intended to humiliate women and girls

Registration form informs patients that if they do not wish AI to be used, they will need their referring doctor to refer them to a different service provider

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Startup has declined to release Claude Mythos AI model publicly amid fears it could be used by hackers

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Pew research shows Americans are more worried than excited about AI as graduates voice fears over jobs

A former Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, was met with students’ boos at a university commencement address in Arizona on Sunday when he raised the top

Mordecai Kurz argues tech oligarchs erode democracy through monopolies – and predicts how the trend may end

The billionaires of today are unusually aggressive in their hoarding of cultural and technological influence, according to Mordecai Kurz,

Use of AI is a valuable tool for weather prediction but only when it’s trained with ample data, experts say

As the US prepares for hurricane season and a summer of record-breaking heat, experts fear the Trump administration’s cuts to climate and

Mid-range Android stands out with huge screen, slick software and dot-matrix display, but falls just short of greatness

Nothing’s latest quirky smartphone is a huge aluminium Android with three cameras and a big LED matrix screen on the back that

Requests for gas connections by operators amount to more than 15 terawatt hours per year, endangering climate targets

More than 100 new datacentres in the UK plan to burn gas to generate electricity, some potentially doing so permanently.

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Journalist Simone Stolzoff in a new book explores why modern life makes not knowing harder – and how to learn to live with it

Simone Stolzoff describes himself as “naturally an uncertain person” inclined to rumination and self-doubt. This tendenc

Known for his ‘Manitowoc Minute’ skits and midwestern humor, the journalist turned comedian is speaking out against the AI datacenter boom in Wisconsin

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