Starmer gives tech firms ultimatum to block explicit images on children’s phones

Companies such as Apple and Google have until September to install software or face legislation, says PM

Tech companies invoke possibility of Trump’s wrath in fight against Labor’s media laws

Tech giants claim Australia’s free trade agreement with US will be violated as they try to kill a proposal to force them to pay news companies

Giving publishers power to block their content from being used in AI summaries will have global ramifications

Watchdog makes ruling on search summaries after publishers complain about drop in click-through traffic and revenue

Markets take note as world’s biggest equity fundraiser bids to garner more money than the three biggest-ever IPOs combined

Company asks US government to release army of sterile male mosquitoes to lower number of illness-spreading bugs

US DoJ alleges software engineer Michele Spagnuolo, 36, earned $1.2m betting on Google’s most-searched list

Jack Clark describes ‘vertiginous sense of progress’ and ‘profound changes’ to society alongside risks of technology

Exclusive: Electoral Commission calls for new controls as Demos finds tools made up fake scandals, invented candidates or gave wrong date

Exclusive: Google DeepMind agrees to Acas talks after workers sign petitions about governments’ use of AI for defence and intelligence

Exclusive: Employment tribunal claim says worker lost his job after distributing leaflets throughout London office

At annual I/O conference, company debuts a product for everyday consumers to create autonomous AI agents

US-based site, whose operators were fined £950,000 by Ofcom, appears in Google’s search results and can be accessed in UK

Tech firm to expand AI capabilities of high-end devices with Gemini Intelligence and says new range of laptops on the way

Delivering much information about the scale of what’s coming, documentary also follows Gawdat’s campaign to get the programs with empathy