From ‘nerdy’ Gemini to ‘edgy’ Grok: how developers are shaping AI behaviours
AIs are not sentient – but tweaks to their ethical codes can have far-reaching consequences for users
The dump dinner: spaghetti is now being served straight on to the table – but why?
A raft of online videos show parents serving up dinner without a single plate in sight, to the amazement of their families
UK privacy watchdog opens inquiry into X over Grok AI sexual deepfakes
Information Commissioner’s Office to investigate whether Elon Musk’s firms have complied with data protection law
Elon Musk merges SpaceX with xAI at $1.25tn valuation
Aerospace business and artificial intelligence firm to unite for IPO as world’s most valuable private company
‘Deepfakes spreading and more AI companions’: seven takeaways from the latest artificial intelligence safety report
Annual review highlights growing capabilities of AI models, while examining issues from cyber-attacks to job disruption
‘It’s really sad’: US TikTok users rethink app over concerns about privacy and censorship
Some users are stepping away from the app after it made a deal to create a US entity and updated terms and conditions
How the left can win back the internet – and rise again
In the final part of this series, we look at how infighting has ripped the left apart online while the right has flourished – and how some progressives are turning the tide, says digital media academic Robert Topinka
The AI bubble will pop. It’s up to us to replace it responsibly
When bubbles burst, what comes next can be better, if we build it differently
How liberals lost the internet
In the first part of our series on digital politics, we look at how centrists have lost ground fighting disinformation – when the real battle is over emotion and attention, says digital media academic Robert Topinka
‘Chilling’ hacking network is targeting vulnerable children, charity warns
Ecosystem known as the Com is carrying out extreme exploitation, violence and sexual abuse, says report
UK-based pair behind messaging app accused of giving data to Iranian regime
Exclusive: Branch of Iranian software company TSIT, which makes Gap Messenger, is registered in Sussex
Millions created deepfake nudes on Telegram as AI tools drive global wave of digital abuse
Analysis finds at least 150 channels on messaging app that have distributed AI-generated images and video
Iran appears to ease internet blackout as cost of shutdown mounts
Experts say uneven connectivity suggests regime is throttling and filtering data as losses said to hit $36m a day
‘It’s not too late to fix it’: web inventor Tim Berners-Lee says he is in a ‘battle for the soul’ of the internet
Founder of the world wide web says commercialisation means the net has been ‘optimised for nastiness’, but collaboration and compassion can prevail
Copyrighted art, mobile phones, Greenland: welcome to our age of shameless theft
The human impulse to steal has been accelerated by AI, inequality and our political leaders – with profound consequences, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew