Sunak to hold AI summit at Bletchley Park, home of Enigma codebreakers
Global summit on AI safety planned for autumn, as UK tries to cement image as being home of ‘transformative technologies’
Why did chip-maker Nvidia’s profits soar and is it living in a tech bubble?
Firm’s relentless focus on AI paid off in spades, with analysts optimistic of further success
‘Oddly satisfying’: what’s behind our drive to collect useless items?
Fans say their collections of mugs, Crocs and plush toys ‘scratch an itch’. You might call it one-in-every-colour capitalism
Gifs aren’t cool any more – and now I feel very, very old
I shrugged off my dodgy knee and the grey in my beard. But if my beloved animated graphics are no longer fashionable, does this make me obsolete too?
Best podcasts of the week: Alan Partridge solves the culture wars, grandparenting and more
In this week’s newsletter: Steve Coogan’s presenter turned podcaster re-enters the studio for a third season of From the Oasthouse. Plus: five of the best cross-generational podcasts
Facebook groups exposed to hundreds of hoax posts, study shows
Charity Full Fact finds more than 1,200 false posts on topics from deadly snakes to serial killers at large
Chipmaker Nvidia crushes quarterly expectations with $13.5bn in revenue
The company’s specialized AI chips are in great demand, boosting its value to over $1tn, a first for a chipmaker
Paralysed woman able to ‘speak’ through digital avatar in world first
Latest technology uses tiny electrodes on brain surface and is faster than synthesisers which rely on eye tracking
Hate sharing a plane? You’ll love the flying scooter
If inventor Franky Zapata can make it work, the Airscooter will be the ‘personal flying machine’ every misanthrope dreams of
Sam Bankman-Fried living off ‘bread and water’ in prison, lawyer says
Founder of FTX not being provided with a vegan diet and not being given Adderall needed to manage his ADHD attorney tells judge
Elon Musk to strip headlines off news links on Twitter in latest overhaul
Move by the billionaire owner of the social media site may be an attempt to drive up subscription of the app’s premium service
Bacteria that ‘eat’ methane could slow global heating, study finds
Technology has the potential to make deep cuts to emissions of the potent greenhouse gas but requires major investment
Meta launches web version of flagging Threads app
‘Twitter killer’ social media platform experienced initial boom in sign-ups when it launched in July
Looking for a new job? Have you tried Tinder?
Remember when dating apps were just for love and sex? Now they’re all about networking
Can’t decide which books to ban? Leave it to ChatGPT!
Ordered to remove unsuitable books from their libraries, school administrators in Iowa outsourced the job to AI. So long, The Color Purple, Beloved, The Handmaid’s Tale, writes Arwa Mahdawi