AI firms ‘should include members of public on boards to protect society’
Expert Yoshua Bengio says independent oversight needed as advances in technology accelerate
Elon Musk’s AI startup seeks to raise $1bn in equity
Billionaire wants xAI to keep pace with rivals including OpenAI, Microsoft and Google
The zero-waste wardrobe: five writers try sustainable fashion fixes
How can you lessen the climate impact of your clothes? Our writers spend a month selling, tailoring and mending to find out
YouTuber gets six months in prison for staging plane crash to make video
Trevor Daniel Jacob, 30, sentenced for obstructing investigation after deliberately crashing his plane in California
‘There’s no winning strategy’: the pacy, visually stunning film about the dangers of AI – made by AI
Is artificial intelligence going to put artists out of a job? Alan Warburton decided to make a film posing that very question – using AI. The result was disturbingly watchable
Genetic testing firm 23andMe admits hackers accessed DNA data of 7m users
US company says ‘threat actor’ responsible for security breach that affected nearly half of its 14m reported users
Danish union joins strike action against Tesla by Swedish workers
Pressure grows on US electric car company to grant collective bargaining rights to employees
Is Meta’s ad-free service just another way to make people pay for privacy?
The owner of Instagram and Facebook thought an ad-free subscription service would satisfy European data cops – some advocacy groups aren’t so sure
‘There’s nothing more critical’: California makes schools teach kids to spot fake news
Experts say skills can teach critical thinking and even combat the youth mental health crisis
Greens accuse Labor and Coalition of ‘race to the bottom’ over migration bill – as it happened
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Ministers pressed by Labour over cyber-attack at Sellafield by foreign groups
Ed Miliband asks for urgent assurances about government and regulators’ actions after vulnerabilities at nuclear site are revealed
Pornography websites will have to check users’ ages, under draft guidelines
Ofcom proposals will require online providers to seek proof of being over 18 to stop children accessing content
George Santos’s post-Congress life: selling videos on Cameo and ‘having fun’
Since being expelled from Congress, Santos has joined website that offers access to celebrities available to give a personalized message
IBM unveils new quantum computing chip to ‘explore new frontiers of science’
Computer and AI giant rolls out machine using ‘Heron’ chips using subatomic particles instead of ones and zeros
Misinformation expert says she was fired by Harvard under Meta pressure
Joan Donovan says funding was cut off for criticizing Meta when university was receiving $500m from Mark Zuckerberg’s charity