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The global corporate tax deal doesn’t add up – we’re about to be ripped off again

The G7 package isn’t a ‘huge prize for UK taxpayers’, and Rishi Sunak should admit it, says TaxWatch director George Turner

The truth about artificial intelligence? It isn’t that honest

Tests of natural language processing models show that the bigger they are, the bigger liars they are. Should we be worried?

Do I need a brolly? Google uses AI to try to improve two-hour rain forecasts

‘Precipitation nowcasting’ is attempt to predict weather more accurately in short term

From Babylon to Google: a history of weather forecasting

AI has taken the place of astrology as humans have worked through the millennia for knowledge of when it will rain

Social media firms serve as gateway for scammers, says finance watchdog

FCA threatens action unless platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram do not toughen up against fraudsters

‘A race to the bottom’: Google temps are fighting a two-tier labor system

Contracted workers doing the same jobs for less pay and no job security are exposing the tech company’s workplace inequalities

Big tech’s pro-climate rhetoric is not matched by policy action, report finds

Tech companies poured $65m into lobbying in 2020 – but only 6% of their lobbying activity is targeted at climate policy

Nike and Amazon among brands advertising on Covid conspiracy sites

Household names may have unwittingly helped spread fake news, investigation reveals

Apple and Google accused of ‘political censorship’ over Alexei Navalny app

Navalny’s supporters say companies deleted tactical voting app from stores after pressure from Kremlin

Labor appeals to Google over misinformation fears before Australian election

Google queried over its strategy to prevent being ‘exploited’ by political figures such as Clive Palmer and Craig Kelly, who have been accused of undermining Australia’s response to Covid

Google workers demand back pay for temps company underpaid for years

More than 100 workers sign petition decrying ‘massive moral failing’ following Guardian revelations

Facebook and Google condemned over ads for ‘abortion pill reversal’

Adverts promoting ‘dangerous, unproven and unethical’ procedure shown millions of times, study finds

Russian minister complains to US about role of ‘digital giants’ in election

Sergei Ryabkov’s claim of interference in Duma vote believed to be reference to anti-Putin apps on Apple and Google

Revealed: Google illegally underpaid thousands of workers across dozens of countries

Documents show company dragged feet to correct disparity after learning it was failing to comply with local laws in UK, Europe and Asia

Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 review: Google smartwatch raises bar

Wear OS 3 watch ups ante for Android wearables, now faster and feature-packed with body-fat scanner

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  • A viral doomsday scenario aims to shake Europe out of its AI complacency
  • Granta stops publishing short story award winners over AI controversy
  • From Toy Story 5 to The Bear: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
  • I dived into my digital past to revisit my most cringe teenage moments – and realised how lucky I am to not be young and online today
  • Can we electrify the world? Ambition moves from nerdish backwater to centre stage
  • The Guardian view on John Williams and Steven Spielberg: a partnership that changed cinema
  • The Rev Michael Humphreys obituary
  • 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

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