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‘Make Amazon Pay’ Black Friday strikes planned in 30 countries including UK

Global day of action on 24 November unveiled at summit of trade unionists and political leaders

No 10 plays down worries about Sunak’s AI safety summit having few top leaders

Questions remain about gathering unlikely to help PM fulfil aspiration of UK shaping global approach

‘If Gemma Collins is a diva she gets blocked’: the secrets of TV stars’ WhatsApp groups

Who’s never off The Crown group chat? Who sings whole songs in the Game of Thrones one? And who dropped a bombshell on the Bridgerton bunch? TV stars tell all about their WhatsApp groups

‘Musk destroyed all that’: Twitter’s business is flailing after a year of Elon

Advertisers are spending less, regulators are circling, staff is at less than 50% of what it used to be and user numbers are down

Hey tech billionaires, if you want to talk about radical change, let’s abolish venture capitalism

The future that technology elites like to imagine looks remarkably similar to the one we’re in

Amazon profits nearly triple as company reports $143.1bn in revenue

Retailer predicts robust margins for rest of year despite rise in interest rates and people returning to bricks-and-mortar stores

Sam Bankman-Fried testifies in his crypto fraud trial without jury present

The CEO of the failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX is charged with seven counts of wire fraud and conspiracy to launder money

Inviting China to UK AI summit a mistake, Truss tells Sunak – as it happened

The PM announced an AI safety institute during a speech in London but said the UK would not be heavy-handed with regulation

Pro-Palestinian Instagram account locked by Meta for ‘security reasons’

The @eye.on.palestine account unavailable to view after ‘signs of compromise’ were detected

Sunak announces UK AI safety institute but declines to support moratorium

PM says institute will test new types of AI for range of risks but says pause in developing powerful models is not feasible

Best podcasts of the week: Jason Derulo and Alexandra Shipp’s sexy underwater thriller

In this week’s newsletter: The singer and actress star in a show set on an island resort … until things go wrong. Plus: five of the best nostalgic podcasts

Humanity at risk from AI ‘race to the bottom’, says tech expert

MIT professor behind influential letter says unchecked development is allowing a few AI firms to jeopardise society’s future

Pixel Watch 2 review: Google smartwatch gets speed and battery boost

It has Wear OS 4, new chip and better apps – but still lags behind rivals on workouts and can’t be repaired

‘It splintered our sense of reality’: how JFK’s assassination spawned 60 years of conspiracy theories

The murder of the US president left millions convinced their government lied and covered up. Decades on, it continues to twist the truth about everything from Covid to G5 to Trump’s defeat at the polls

AI dangers must be faced ‘head on’, Rishi Sunak to warn ahead of tech summit

Government document says impossible to rule out technology poses existential threat

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  • SpaceX Starship megarocket blasts off before expected return for reuse
  • Microsoft outage shakes up companies, schools and local governments across US
  • Microsoft ‘deeply sorry’ for disruption affecting millions and says it’s ‘not related to cyber or AI’ – as it happened
  • Nvidia scandal: US treasury chief blames Lutnick’s commerce department over alleged lack of action
  • How Microsoft outage has affected key public services in the UK
  • Trump bought Nvidia stock as he helped chipmaker with change to export rule
  • Microsoft outage hits hospitals, GPs, schools and police across UK
  • Microsoft scrambles to fix global outage affecting Teams and Outlook
  • A global Microsoft 365 outage has hit millions – what happened and when will it be fixed?
  • Marlon Brando cool to Jensen Huang joke: how the black leather jacket became a meme
  • Robert Pattinson reportedly leads James Bond contenders
  • The datacenter industry is using propaganda to fight opposition
  • US university students tell surveillance cameras to Flock off
  • What’s behind Australia’s surge in teen extremism?
  • ‘It was a train wreck! I was terrified’: how the new James Bond will be announced – and what can go wrong
  • Farewell, Cybertruck: why the winding down of the ‘Maga hat on wheels’ is a sign of the times
  • Gentle Monster to Conclave: the seven best films to watch on TV this week
  • Tell us: have you been affected by the Microsoft outage?
  • Heartland review – Jessica Chastain’s Netflix country music thriller is more miss than hit
  • A baffling trail from Australia to Singapore: what is Megaspeed, the company implicated in downfall of Nvidia’s Jensen Huang?
  • Calls for crackdown on China chip exports – as it happened
  • ‘Women are pitted against each other. It’s a bloodsport’: Billie Piper on industry infighting, Elsinore’s Oscar buzz and thriving on personal crisis
  • Darth Vader’s lightsaber, used in Star Wars movies The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, sells for nearly $5m
  • ‘Looks like we’ll have to talk to people’: Australia sent back to time before email with major Microsoft outage
  • A timeline of the affair scandal that sank Nvidia’s Jensen Huang
  • Who is Colette Kress, interim Nvidia CEO after Jensen Huang exit?
  • Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia CEO after alleged affairs
  • Nvidia turmoil continues as Jensen Huang resigns over affairs scandal and company appoints interim CEO – as it happened
  • The Guardian view on venture capitalism: investor profits are no industrial strategy
  • Jensen Huang was a busted flush at Nvidia – he had to go

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