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‘Veil of secrecy’: outrage as Google limits public access to antitrust trial

Critics decry media shut-out as judge permits evidence and testimony to be presented behind closed doors

‘Different set of rules’: how FTC head Lina Khan is fighting tech giants such as Amazon

Youngest ever Federal Trade Commission chief and antitrust scholar is suing Amazon in latest effort to take on big tech – not always with success

A threat to Amazon and a test of the FTC: is this big tech’s antitrust reckoning?

At the core of the case is whether the company used its position to disadvantage rivals and the power of the agency to rein in tech firms

Amazon to invest up to $4bn in OpenAI rival Anthropic

Tech company plays catchup after Microsoft’s deal with ChatGPT developer in January

Family sues Google after Maps allegedly directed father off collapsed US bridge

Tech company faces negligence lawsuit after Philip Paxson died from driving off a North Carolina bridge destroyed years ago

AI-focused tech firms locked in ‘race to the bottom’, warns MIT professor

Physicist Max Tegmark says competition too intense for tech executives to pause development to consider AI risks

Revealed: EU plan for ‘schoolyard guardians’ to help tackle illegal online content

Exclusive: EU commissioner Thierry Breton reveals ‘big, big fight’ to get tech giants to better police the content they deliver

Google DeepMind AI tool assesses DNA mutations for harm potential

AlphaMissense’s predictions could help speed up research and diagnosis of rare disorders

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’

Free food and threats to bonuses: UK finance and tech firms fight working from home

Banks and insurers join Google, Amazon and Meta in encouraging staff to spend most of week in office

Social media firms ‘not ready to tackle misinformation’ during global elections

Experts urge big tech companies to ensure their platforms are equipped to protect democracy in 2024 votes

Google accused of spending billions to block rivals as landmark trial continues

Justice department takes on tech giant in court, seeking to prove it illegally used its power to maintain monopoly on internet search

Google monopolized internet search for a decade, landmark antitrust trial hears

US makes case Google leveraged power and wealth to strangle competition, spending billions on deals with Apple and Samsung

Google goes to trial in biggest US challenge to tech power in decades

US justice department accuses Google of locking out rivals and positioning itself as a gatekeeper to the online search space

UK owners of smart home devices being asked for swathes of personal data

Which? said firms are gathering far more data than needed for products to function

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  • 45 Years review – Gabriel Byrne and Geraldine James mark an anniversary for the ages
  • How Refugee Week film festival brings migrants’ experience home
  • The best 4K wireless TV streamers for more choice – with no aerial required
  • The UK’s social media ban for under-16s has just empowered big tech
  • Luca Guadagnino’s Sam Altman movie dropped by Amazon after it announces OpenAI partnership
  • Read a book? Join a club? Stare at a wall? Social media alternatives for under-16s
  • ‘It’s a scam’: Americans express unease over SpaceX’s influence on retirement savings
  • Bologna’s niche festival of forgotten films captures the streaming generation
  • Anya Taylor-Joy will make a brilliant elf assassin in Hunt for Gollum. But it’s a movie we don’t need
  • Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s new film shines a light on the human cost of unregulated social media
  • Avatar: Fire and Ash to Project Hail Mary – the seven best films to watch on TV this week
  • You can handle the truth! Why cinema suddenly loves conspiracy theories
  • On the trail of the dotcom queen: how Julie Meyer left a pattern of unpaid bills, missing funds and broken dreams in her wake
  • Telegram questioned by Ofcom after arsonist who targeted Starmer-linked properties recruited on app
  • In the Hand of Dante review – Gerard Butler is jaw-dropping in bizarre Renaissance mafia reverie
  • The Crunch: Climate refugees, visualising Elon Musk’s wealth, and the many ways to analyse the World Cup
  • California ‘billionaire tax’ makes ballot despite opposition from tech moguls
  • Voicemails for Isabelle review – Netflix romcom picks creepy over cute
  • The Guardian view on OnlyFans: revelations of abusive middlemen merit MPs’ attention
  • Attorney general tells department to stop using X amid UK disinformation concerns
  • ‘Ordinary people are being erased’: one director’s audacious fightback against AI – featuring Frinton
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  • Aardman exhibition marks animation studio’s half a century in Bristol
  • Post your questions for Minions supremo Pierre Coffin
  • We must be alive to the dangers of a UK social media ban – and the way to really help young people
  • Girls Like Girls review – Sapphic teen romance is a precious and predictable yawn-a-thon
  • Farage trying to block ‘Britcoin’ plans that could be costly for billionaire donor
  • The best LED face masks in the UK, tested: 11 light therapy devices that are worth the hype
  • ‘It’s where the poetry is written in cinema language’: the female editors behind cinema’s masterpieces
  • Gig workers are endlessly exploited. AI could make more of us share their fate

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