‘Not up for grabs’: Albanese establishes AI office and vows to protect Australian creatives from copyright ‘theft’
PM lays out plan for datacentre development and rejects prospect tech companies will be given free use of Australian data
Once again we are told AI may be conscious – I study consciousness, and I have my doubts
Despite Anthropic’s claims, Claude is no more likely to achieve sentience than a simulation of a weather system is likely to generate a real hurricane, says Anil Seth, professor of cognitive and computational neuroscience at the University of Sussex
The Day She Returns review – another Hong Sang-soo round of slow, reflective boozing really hits the spot
No film-maker shows more day-drinking than Hong, and this study of an actor returning from a career break is the same again – as mysteriously addictive as ever
Gillian Armstrong remembers Sam Neill: ‘I can’t believe that the very next day he was gone’
The Australian director who gave the actor his big break in My Brilliant Career remembers ‘a smart, gentle, decent, passionate, loyal, surprisingly funny man’
I investigated Palantir’s foothold in the British state – and what I found should worry us all
Paid-for political access and threadbare regulations have helped to embed the US tech firm in the NHS – and beyond. But there is a way to free ourselves, says Peter Geoghegan of Democracy for Sale
Meta used AI to tag workers who took leave to be laid off, lawsuit claims
Lawsuit filed by dozens of employees says people who took maternity or disability leave were disproportionately selected for layoffs
UK 16- and 17-year-olds to be encouraged to follow midnight social media curfew
Midnight to 6am block on some apps is latest stage of Labour’s bid to protect young people from online harms
Global cooperation needed to tackle AI threats, says Bank of England governor
Andrew Bailey warns that US will not be able to achieve its ambitions alone
Book publishers sue Google for copyright infringement over Gemini AI training
Group of major publishers accuses the tech giant of ‘one of the most prolific infringements of copyrighted materials in history’
Britons urged to take ‘small steps’ to prepare for potential national crises
Government to launch campaign to help people cope with events such as weather emergencies or cyber-attacks
New York becomes first state to impose one-year pause on new AI datacenters
Governor Kathy Hochul issues executive order enacting a moratorium on the large, resource-intensive AI facilities
IBM loses quarter of its value as tech giant’s shares plunge and profits falter
IBM issued profit warning after weak second quarter, triggering selloff in software sector including Microsoft
In a world where superyachts are cringe and firing a rocket ship turns you into a dick joke, what’s a poor billionaire to do?
Spruiking your billionaire-coded masculinity is now an invitation to feminine mockery. Real social power doesn’t come from trinkets or trophies
Confessions of a Shopaholic: a charming Isla Fisher romcom worth taking to the checkout
The PJ Hogan-directed film may not have the polish of The Devil Wears Prada but it has new relevance in the buy now, pay later era
‘It wasn’t a dream, it was a threat’: the film festival celebrating pan-Africanism’s rich and complex history
Project a Black Planet: Film, a new season of screenings at the Barbican in London exemplifies how the movement was an act of solidarity, resistance and fierce creativity