Apple and the UK play a round of security tennis

The tech giant bets Starmer will fold, Musk faces GOP pushback and tech sees returns on Trump investment

Apple announces $500bn in US investments over next four years

Spending ranges from new AI server factory in Texas to film and TV content and may add 20,000 jobs

iPhone designer still asks: ‘I wonder what Steve Jobs would do?’ – despite being told not to

Jony Ive, the man behind the look of Apple’s iconic brands says the firm’s co-founder specifically asked him not to consider ‘what Steve would do’

‘The bot asked me four times a day how I was feeling’: is tracking everything actually good for us?

Gathering data used to be a fringe pursuit of Silicon Valley nerds. Now we’re all at it, recording everything from menstrual cycles and mobility to toothbrushing and time spent in daylight. Is this just narcissism redesigned for the big tech age?

Apple removes advanced data protection tool in face of UK government request

Apple says removal of tool after government asked for right to see data will make iCloud users more vulnerable

My dad died a year ago – and a photo of him on Google Street View brought me up short

A friend sent me the image by surprise and I felt a lot of things very strongly: love, upset, amusement, pleasure and anger, writes Adrian Chiles

Apple launches iPhone 16e and ditches home button

Revamped entry-level iPhone is last to exchange touch ID home button for face ID, modern design – and a price hike

US and UK out of step with rest of the world on AI

Why the Paris summit on artificial intelligence failed and how Silicon Valley is toeing the Trump administration’s line

Beats Powerbeats Pro 2 review: Apple’s best workout buds are back with a bang

Better fit, great sound, noise cancelling, longer battery life and heart rate sensors upgrade just about everything

UK demands ability to access Apple users’ encrypted data

Expert says government has ‘lit the blue touch paper on a truly enormous fight’ as it challenges firm’s privacy stance

Your phone buzzes with a news alert. But what if AI wrote it – and it’s not true?

The BBC said Apple Intelligence’s weirdly wrong output sullied its reputation. Apple eventually paused the tool – but its reaction was deeply worrying, says Archie Bland, editor of the Guardian’s First Edition newsletter

Apple reports sagging iPhone sales in China as first-quarter earnings barely beat Wall Street’s expectations

Investors pay close attention to tech company’s foray into AI after Apple Intelligence glitches and inaccuracies

DeepSeek blocked from some app stores in Italy amid questions on data use

Italian and Irish regulators want answers on how data harvested by chatbot could be used by Chinese government

Tech billionaires lost almost $100bn in stock market selloff sparked by DeepSeek

Nvidia saw $600bn of its market value disappear, while its CEO, Jensen Huang, saw his net worth drop by nearly $21bn

‘TikTok could malfunction’: app’s future in limbo as it remains off US app stores

Apple and Google cautious about Trump order amid rumours Oracle founder Larry Ellison could buy site