AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li: ‘I’m more concerned about the risks that are here and now’

The Stanford professor and ‘godmother’ of artificial intelligence on why existential worries are not her priority, and her work to ensure the technology improves the human condition

Cloud service firms lock customers in while nickel-and-diming them

It’s a company’s dream business model – the services are too difficult to switch, and small price increases are often overlooked

British biotech races US’s ‘buff billionaires’ for secret of eternal youth

The UK excels at ‘longevity research’. Could it become part of an industry that fascinates the wealthiest people in the world?

Elon Musk unveils Grok, an AI chatbot with a ‘rebellious streak’

Boss of X said tech being tested is inspired by Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

It’s easy to be dazzled by the super-rich, but don’t believe that they’ll do the right thing

Silicon Valley tech showmen like Elon Musk and Sam Bankman-Fried can blind us with science. A little more scepticism would not go amiss

‘We need more women,’ says only female winner of Millennium Technology prize

Women form just 16% of the nominees for next year’s award, but Nobel laureate Prof Frances Arnold says gender balance will come through girls working in science from a young age

Tory MPs blast ‘out of touch’ Sunak as he woos homeowners in king’s speech

Conservatives furious at PM’s ‘naive’ meeting with Musk ahead of last Westminster session before election

‘It’s scarily good’: vintage clothing market is flooded with fakes

Counterfeit clothes have become a profitable industry – and it’s much more difficult for bona fide retailers to stem the tide

AI is not the problem, prime minister – the corporations that control it are

Despite Rishi Sunak’s summit and Joe Biden’s executive order on the safety of AI, it’s the tech giants that really need reining in

‘Not cool’: UK gyms ban camera kit in crackdown on selfies and videos

Privacy complaints, tripods in the way and hogged equipment have led chains to introduce rules for filming and photographs

‘AI can teach us a lot’: scientists say cats’ expressions richer than imagined and aim to translate them

Artificial intelligence being used to unpick meanings behind vocal and physical cues of host of creatures

Model says her face was edited with AI to look white: ‘It’s very dehumanizing’

Shereen Wu says leading designer uploaded altered picture, amid fears AI could ‘turn back the clock’ on progress in the industry

Dramatic fall for Sam Bankman-Fried and ‘unkempt visionary’ persona

Jury did not believe T-shirt, cargo shorts and messy hair could prevent someone defrauding people out of billions of dollars

I resist sharenting on social media. Does that mean my son and I are missing out, or is it just safer?

Posting can turn into a privacy risk – and in a changing online landscape, it’s become another parental identity marker, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

WhatsApp’s AI shows gun-wielding children when prompted with ‘Palestine’

By contrast, prompts for ‘Israeli’ do not generate images of people wielding guns, even in response to a prompt for ‘Israel army’