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Ministers must act more quickly on deepfakes to protect women and girls, Kendall says

Exclusive: Technology secretary urges tech companies to do more to tackle online misogyny

AI chatbots point vulnerable social media users to illegal online casinos, analysis shows

Tech firms condemned for lack of controls with Meta AI and Gemini even offering advice on how to bypass UK gambling and addiction checks

Google Pixel 10a review: cheaper Android is great, but no real advance

Quality camera, good software and long battery life, but you should just buy the Pixel 9a instead

Google faces lawsuit after Gemini chatbot allegedly instructed man to kill himself

Lawsuit is first wrongful death case brought against Google over flagship AI product after death of Jonathan Gavalas

Tech firms and AI farming tools ‘playing with the food system’, warns thinktank

Google, Microsoft and Amazon among companies using algorithms and AI to influence what crops are grown and how, say critics

Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more

A handful of companies monopolise the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical – and often distinctively European – alternatives

BBC apologises to staff over N-word inclusion as Bafta announces comprehensive review

Chief content officer Kate Phillips tells staff she is ‘so sorry’ racial slur by Tourette campaigner was not edited from recorded broadcast

AI hit: India hungry to harness US tech giants’ technology at Delhi summit

Narendra Modi’s thirst to supercharge economic growth is matched by US desire to inject AI into world’s biggest democracy

Mind launches inquiry into AI and mental health after Guardian investigation

Exclusive: England and Wales charity to examine safeguards after Guardian exposed ‘very dangerous’ advice on Google AI Overviews

Tech billionaires fly in for Delhi AI expo as Modi jostles to lead in south

Google, Anthropic and OpenAI bosses to mingle with global south leaders wrestling for control over technology

Europeans are dangerously reliant on US tech. Now is a good time to build our own

By trusting the US, we handed Trump a kill switch. Yet Europe’s digital sovereignty is an achievable goal, says civil liberties campaigner, Johnny Ryan

Claims that AI can help fix climate dismissed as greenwashing

Industry using ‘diversionary’ tactics, says analyst, as energy-hungry complex functions such as video generation and deep research proliferate

Google puts users at risk by downplaying health disclaimers under AI Overviews

Exclusive: Google fails to include safety warnings when users are first presented with AI-generated medical advice

Is it possible to develop AI without the US?

Tech giants Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta to collectively invest $600bn on artificial intelligence this year

Apple and Google pledge not to discriminate against third-party apps in UK deal

Critics brand deal with regulator as ‘lightweight’ with ‘no legal bite’ as tech giants avoid legally binding measures

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  • Can a $159 Bluetooth sleep mask help you snooze better? I tested to find out
  • How Belfast knife attack became the latest far-right ‘trigger event’
  • Crackdown on tech platforms will go ahead despite US intervention, says No 10
  • Peabo Bryson obituary
  • Disclosure Day review – close encounters of a deferred kind in Spielberg’s conspiracy spectacular
  • ‘We got banned from YouTube but they showed Saddam Hussein being hanged’: the wild viral visions of Romain Gavras
  • All signs point to Trump pushing AI growth
  • UK regulator orders social media firms to adopt measures to stop viral illegal content
  • Amazon’s main UK arm handed £7.6m tax credit as profits soar to £355m
  • I watched as Meta’s threats stopped Sarah Wynn-Williams from speaking – we must have stronger rights for whistleblowers
  • Bank of England warns of AI scams as deepfakes of Farage-Bailey fight spread
  • Think Musk the billionaire was bad? Brace yourself for Musk the trillionaire
  • ‘A man of great appetites’: what’s it like to be a dictator’s personal chef?
  • Signal One review – Dennis Quaid and David Thewlis ballast high-concept, low-risk first contact yarn
  • White House urges UK not to ban social media for under-16s
  • Pink Narcissus review – garish colour and dreamlike images in a homoerotic vision of 60s New York
  • Doctors and NHS could be sued for mistakes made by AI tools, report warns
  • Let this be a warning – if Europe worries about Trump, it has even more reason to fear JD Vance
  • Tuesday briefing: Is a social media ban in the UK enough to help protect young people?
  • World’s first wind-powered underwater datacentre starts operating in China
  • French star Patrick Bruel held by police investigating new sexual assault allegations
  • Plan for AI legal assistants in England and Wales ‘cannot replace funding and staff’, lawyers say
  • Child sexual abuse victims in England and Wales to get help to remove online images
  • OpenAI confidentially files for initial public offering on US stock market
  • Apple debuts revamped ‘Siri AI’ and new child safety features for iPhones and iPads
  • The Guardian view on children and the internet: rolling back big tech’s untrammelled power
  • Rushed social media ban for under-16s in UK could ‘unravel’, charity warns
  • Child phone nudity law could largely end online child sexual abuse if widely adopted, Jess Phillips claims – as it happened
  • Revealed: the ‘less lethal’ weapons Australian police don’t want you to know about
  • If Australian datacentres are going to power the AI revolution, we deserve a fair return

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