How to disable UK emergency alerts on your phone Adjust these settings to stop your 4G or 5G phone making a noise during test at 3pm on 23 April
Fresh concerns raised over sources of training material for AI systems Investigations reveal limited efforts to ‘clean’ datasets of fascist, pirated and malicious material
Google allows app developers to break away from Play billing system UK regulator asks for views on how move will work in practice, amid concern over tech firm’s cut of in-app purchases
Google calls for relaxing of Australia’s copyright laws so AI can mine websites for information Tech company argues government should support artificial intelligence development while artists seek protections
Google chief warns AI could be harmful if deployed wrongly Sundar Pichai calls for global regulatory framework similar to nuclear treaty amid safety concerns
Silicon valediction? Our road trip to tech industry hotspots as the sector cools Tables may have freed up at Silicon Valley’s Coupa Cafe, but ‘scalability’ is still on the menu as tech workers look forward
‘I didn’t give permission’: Do AI’s backers care about data law breaches? Regulators around world are cracking down on content being hoovered up by ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion and others
As AI weaponry enters the arms race, America is feeling very, very afraid Will technological advantages be enough for China to replace the US as the world’s AI superpower?
From Google Maps to Pokémon Go, John Hanke is programming the future The CEO of Niantic has helped create technologies that have changed the way we live. How does he see the future of play?
Bard: how Google’s chatbot gave me a comedy of errors It is connected to the live internet, but this AI tool seems trained to give the least insightful answers
Google’s Bard chatbot launches in US and UK From Tuesday users can join waiting list for access to technology that firm hopes will rival Bing Chat and ChatGPT
Will Google’s rush to join chatbot party with launch of Bard backfire? Success of AI-powered rivals ChatGPT and Bing Chat has forced its hand, but release brings risks for tech giant
TechScape: The AI tools that will write our emails, attend our meetings – and change our lives From Gmail to Office 365, AI is about to become deeply integrated into the apps we use every day. Here’s how
Software engineer David Auerbach: ‘Big tech is in denial about not being in control’ The writer says that meganets – the huge tech networks already part of daily life – have led to groupthink and the breakdown of public discourse and that we must exert more influence on them
Users, advertisers – we are all trapped in the ‘enshittification’ of the internet There is a new word for the degradation of the internet, but it’s been happening for years. Why do we tolerate it?