Cannes film festival: Succession of pointless AI-generated snippets does nothing for film about the artist’s final interview, which took place on the day of his murder

Coming just after his superb feature The Christophers, Steven

Two of the world’s richest people faced an airing of their dirty laundry amid their messy, bitter feud over OpenAI

A nine-person jury is set to decide whether Elon Musk’s allegations of “stealing a charity” against Sam Altman and OpenAI are legit

Media regulator announces commitments by Elon Musk’s platform to crack down on terrorist and hate content

Elon Musk’s X platform has promised to block UK access to accounts linked to banned terrorist groups under an agreement with the communicati

Tech workers say AI-driven restructurings are eroding mentorship, support and paths to promotion across Silicon Valley

As tech companies pour billions into artificial intelligence bets and slash their workforces, middle managers are squarely in t

The open world driving sim has roared through locations from Colorado to Australia, its authentic feel resting on exhaustive research. But, as the team explain, this was the toughest challenge yet

Since the arrival of the original Forza Horizon i

Three-storey GreenSquare datacentre in Hazelmere was to power cloud computing and the acceleration of AI

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Nine-person jury to consider whether AI firm bilked world’s richest person and unjustly enriched themselves

Closing arguments began on Thursday in Elon Musk’s lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI, bringing the weeks-long courtroom battle between

Emergence AI’s experiment with AI agents shows extent to which programming shapes their behaviour is still unclear

AI agents started behaving more like Bonnie and Clyde than lines of code when they fell in “love”, became disillusioned with the wo

US-based site, whose operators were fined £950,000 by Ofcom, appears in Google’s search results and can be accessed in UK

Google has denied breaching the Online Safety Act by promoting a “nihilistic” suicide forum associated with 164 deaths in th

West Bank home described as ‘ideal for outdoor gatherings’ is among 41 listed rentals in illegal Israeli settlements

Some of Mohammad al-Sbeih’s fondest childhood memories are of his small farm in the hills south of Bethlehem, where three genera

Fixating on questions of whether Altman is untrustworthy, or whether Musk is even less so distracts from a far deeper problem with AI

If it wasn’t already clear, Elon Musk and Sam Altman hate each other.

While the two men were once co-found

Creator of Politidex hopes free online app will help humanise politics and act as a way of ‘flipping the narrative’

The year is 2016 and Pokémon Go has taken over the world. People are wandering for miles on end, disrupting concerts, and even sla

Defying criticisms of ‘slop’ and ‘theft’, the growing culture of AI-powered creativity is attracting interest from Hollywood

In a former hemstitching workshop where artisans sewed pleats for Stockholm’s 19th-century bourgeoisie, a distinctly 21st

Ronan Corrigan levels up a thoroughly beta-tested narrative in this efficiently executed hacker-turned-thief split-screen thriller

This debut feature from Irish web-and-zeitgeist-surfer Ronan Corrigan continues its producer Timur Bekmambetov’s in

Exclusive: Doctors say ‘highly concerning’ poll highlights risk to patients of turning to AI for medical advice

One in seven people are using AI chatbots for health advice instead of seeing their GP, a UK study has found.

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Case attracts widespread attention as example of China balancing enthusiastic adoption of AI with job security

A court in China has ruled in favour of a worker whose company replaced him with artificial intelligence (AI), awarding him more than £

Why are Nintendo releasing a straight-up remake of the space-flight shooter – with many of its original limitations – rather than a fresh new take?

The Nintendo 64 was not my first video game console, but it was my formative one. Getting to grips

Santa Clara county claims Meta Platforms violated the state’s false advertising and unfair business practices laws

California’s Santa Clara county has sued Meta Platforms, alleging it has profited from Facebook and Instagram ads promoting scams i

Ofcom attempts to block UK access to site cited in multiple coroners’ reports as it levies fine under Online Safety Act

A nihilistic internet suicide forum implicated in over 160 UK deaths has been fined £950,000 by the online regulator in its la

Facility would require more power than entire state uses and suck up vast amount of water in drought-stricken area

A plan to create one of the world’s largest datacenters, a gargantuan project spanning an area more than twice the size of Manhatta

Industry body says energy consumption driven by AI up 15% globally in two years as it warns of societal backlash

Datacentres are consuming 6% of electricity in the UK and US, with the growing strain of AI on energy supplies prompting community re

In a case of ‘oh dear diary’, the OpenAI president Greg Brockman is having to read extracts from his musings about Elon Musk in court. It’s a terrifying reminder that what’s divulged to AI really isn’t private

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Invitation to be part of group including Elon Musk and Tim Cook highlights American AI and tech ambitions

The billionaire chief executive of the chipmaker Nvidia, Jensen Huang, has joined Donald Trump’s China delegation after a reported last-minu

Horticulturalists express alarm after award-winning Matt Keightley launches app that can automate designs

With glasses of champagne sipped among the peonies, Chelsea flower show is generally a friendly and genteel occasion. But this year, the sec

From supermarkets to corner shops, live facial recognition could be coming to retailers near you. Jessica Murray on the AI systems increasingly used by the police and stores

Live facial recognition is being hailed as a powerful n

The OpenAI chief rejects claims he deceived Elon Musk as high-stakes AI trial nears its end

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The OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman, took the stand on Tuesday to defend himself and his

Real estate executive got an unexpected earful when she spoke of ‘living in a time of profound change’

Though college graduations usually consist of a speaker giving advice to students, one recent ceremony featured students giving the speaker the

Ken Paxton accuses streamer of designing addictive platform and falsely representing data collection practices

Texas sued Netflix on Monday, accusing the streaming company of spying on children and designing its platform to be addictive.

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The inquiry came after the Guardian revealed Israel used company technology to support mass surveillance of Palestinian phone calls

The head of Microsoft’s Israeli subsidiary will step down in the wake of an inquiry that has scrutinised its busin

Employees are now whispering to AI voice dictation tools rather than clacking the keys. Will ‘voicepilling’ make everyone more productive – or just more annoying?

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Online marketplace takes into account uncertainty around US video game retailer’s financing proposal

The board of eBay has rejected the US video games retailer GameStop’s surprise $55.5bn bid (£41bn) for the online marketplace, describing the pro

Delivering much information about the scale of what’s coming, documentary also follows Gawdat’s campaign to get the programs with empathy

Another day, another warning about AI; vis-a-vis the reality we all know, this has roughly the same reassuri

Tim Cook and Elon Musk, among other tech CEOS, will accompany the US president on a trip to China

Donald Trump is heading to China this week. If his guest list is any clue, he wants to discuss technology with Xi Jinping, though perhaps after the

Criminal groups and state-linked actors appear to be using commercial models to refine and scale up attacks

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In just three months, AI-powered hacking has gone from a nascent problem to an indu

Carly Schwartz wanted a solution for her mental health struggles. She found one, but not where she expected

On a threadbare carpet in the living room of a Bernal Heights bungalow, I lay blindfolded on my back. Two middle-aged rescue terriers, one

Comedy debuts at Versailles featuring dialogue, music, costumes and scenery created with help of AI tool Le Chat

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Molière is to the French what Shakespeare is to the English: the last wor

Health service has given US tech firm ‘unlimited access’ to certain data to build integrated platform, according to reports

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MPs have warned that an NHS decision to grant Palantir access to

A new divide is emerging: between workers who use AI at work and those who are managed by it

The real danger that artificial intelligence poses to work is not just job loss – it is the growing divide between people who use AI to extend their skil

FoI responses collected by insurer show brigades tackled 1,760 battery-linked fires in 2025, up 147% in three years

Fire brigades across the UK are tackling lithium-ion battery fires at a rate of one every five hours, figures show, as fire chiefs

The problem wasn’t just the perfectly polished, yet mediocre prose. It’s what’s lost when we surrender the struggle to translate thought into words

I have been teaching fiction writing at MIT since 2017. Many of my students last wrote fiction in

Previously prohibited use of websites such as Omoggle that connect a streamer to a stranger’s video feed now allowed

Last week, at 4am, 19-year-old Sammy Amz was scrolling through X when something caught his eye: a popular Twitch streamer was co

African archipelago hopes startups, digital infrastructure and diaspora investment can transform its economy

For much of its history since its discovery by the Portuguese in the mid-15th century, the Cape Verde archipelago off the coast of west A

With Trump wavering on Nato and war in Ukraine, Europe is scrambling to spend billions on weapons such as drones

In a small workshop in England’s East Midlands, engineers at the British startup Skycutter are designing weapons for Ukraine. A row o

Showdown between Musk and Altman has rendered the world’s most wealthy comical under egalitarian eye of court

For the past couple of weeks, on the fourth floor of a courthouse on a quiet street in downtown Oakland, the world’s richest man and one

The company’s UK and Europe boss has become a lightning rod for the British public’s fear of a US tech takeover

The hall was packed with rightwing radicals when Louis Mosley heralded a coming revolution. Just as Oliver Cromwell – that “crusader f

Machines may soon translate every conversation flawlessly. But language is more than information – it is curiosity, intimacy and cultural discovery

One of my earliest assignments as a young interpreter was to provide simultaneous interpretation f

In the game by Melbourne-based Beethoven and Dinosaur, you play as a teenage girl the night before moving to New York – drinking, skateboarding and getting into trouble, all soundtracked by 80s and 90s classics

When Johnny Galvatron was 14, his c

The gentle French garment is now as cursed as the infamous megacorp, which has accumulated $80m in government contracts in Australia alone

It’s taken me years to find a chore coat with a cut that flatters my big tits but, now that I finally own

For anyone needing a break from binging The Pitt, you can always put in your own shifts as a hospital manager, surgeon, paramedic and of course as a demonic morgue assistant

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Whether it’s Palantir selling a $239 chore coat, Anthropic taking over a coffee shop or executives walking the red carpet at the Met Gala, tech’s biggest players are pivoting to fashion to sell their brands – and attempt to appear cooler in the process