Maria Lewis: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet) The film-maker and author shares what makes her cackle online, including a bad movie poster, Spike Lee and a dancing Voldemort
Viral series about Chinese teapot escaping from British Museum to become film Series with 370m views echoes Chinese state media calls for return of cultural relics
AI having ‘positive impact’ on UK jobs but could increase regional inequalities, says report Study finds new technologies have created and upskilled jobs but disparities in education and investment may affect pace of change
Meta encryption plan will let child abusers ‘hide in the dark’, says UK campaign In in Home Office initiative, survivors urge Mark Zuckerberg to rethink changes to Messenger and Instagram
AI could ‘turbo-charge fraud’ and be monopolised by tech companies, Andrew Leigh warns Assistant competition minister highlights risk of deepfake videos and voice clones in speech
Elon Musk’s Neuralink approved to recruit humans for brain-implant trial Company is seeking people with paralysis to test its experimental device after getting green light from independent review board
Instacart shares jump 43% in grocery delivery business’s Nasdaq debut Shares close at $34.23, the second successful IPO in a week following sale of UK chip designer Arm
City watchdog ex-chair says he faced ‘political pressure’ to let in crypto firms Charles Randell says some of the exchanges the FCA was pressed to allow to trade in the UK are now being investigated in the US
YouTube suspends Russell Brand’s revenues from his channel Google-owned company says move is due to it ‘violating our creator responsibility policy’
Google DeepMind AI tool assesses DNA mutations for harm potential AlphaMissense’s predictions could help speed up research and diagnosis of rare disorders
Elon Musk says Twitter, now X, could charge all users subscription fees Billionaire also says platform has 550 million monthly users generating up to 200m posts a day
From hate speech to AI music: the YouTube chief trying to leap tech’s biggest hurdles Alison Lomax, London chief of the video platform, says it is committed to embracing artificial intelligence – but ‘responsibly’
Anthropology review – clever AI missing-person mystery Lauren Gunderson’s smart play finds a software engineer creating a digital version of a sister who has disappeared
TechScape: The ‘smartphone era’ transformed the world – what will define the next decade? In this week’s newsletter: It’s been ten years since the dawn of the iPhone age – and since I started covering tech at the Guardian. This is how much the world has changed since
X should answer to Queensland authorities over Islamophobic tweets by an American, tribunal hears Lawyer for Australian Muslim Advocacy Network argues white supremacist’s tweets caused harm to local Muslims