Chip, chip … boom? South Korea tech makers join the trillion-dollar club but some fear a short-circuit looms

South Korea’s Kospi stock market has hit record highs thanks to AI, but experts urge caution over boom-bust cycles and a heavy reliance on two chipmakers

Anthropic surges as OpenAI struggles to keep up

Stock market filing illustrates AI company’s meteoric rise, while California’s tech billionaires pour cash into elections

How will AI sycophancy change us? Early signs are not encouraging

Constant validation and flattery from AI chatbots poses a serious risk to society and our shared grasp of reality, writes Arwa Mahdawi

Tuesday briefing: Palantir’s rise – and why so many oppose its role in the British state

In today’s newsletter: Its software is used from health services to militaries. But controversies and criticism of the $375bn company are leading some to ask if Palantir is too powerful

Hackers trick Meta AI support bot to infiltrate Obama White House Instagram account

Breach of high-profile accounts raises concerns about reliance on AI for security measures such as passwords

Ghost in the Machine review – entertaining AI polemic dives into its dark history in race politics and eugenics

The roots of AI in rightwing ideology is examined in Valerie Veatch’s enjoyable doc, including an array of colourful, often crazed, figures

Nvidia launches ‘superchip’ putting AI power into laptops and PCs

Firm says its RTX Spark PC chip for Microsoft Windows will let AI agents replace the mouse and keyboard

AI is devoid of meaning and humanity. That’s why its vapid voice suits this political moment

For ease and speed, we are degrading our ability to connect and to organise our societies. We must assert our trust in humans over machines, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

‘Like a billionaire on acid’: Star Wars director Gareth Edwards comes out in favour of AI

Speaking at Amazon’s AI on the Lot event, the Rogue One film-maker Gareth Edwards said ‘it’ll do anything you ask’ and ‘it’s going to be better than CGI’

Frank Land obituary

Business computer pioneer and the UK’s first professor of information systems

‘Hidden datacentre tax’ costing Irish households millions, report says

Datacentres used 22% of country’s electricity last year, pushing up household bills, study suggests

Studio Display XDR review: Apple’s pro display shines very brightly

Crisp 27in 5K Mac monitor is packed with features and some of the best HDR performance you can get for work or play

AI ‘art’ is boring, soulless theft – and when I see it as an artist I see red

I draw the old way – with my hand. Doing it with AI would not make me more creative, it would drain the colour out of my existence

Samsung memory chip staff in line for £310,000 bonuses after AI profit-sharing deal

Agreement averts strike and shows latest impact of AI boom as two more chipmakers join $1tn club

People in the US: what are your views on Pope Leo’s comments about AI?

We’d like to hear what Americans think about the pope’s latest remarks criticizing the rapid development of AI