Rejection spreadsheets: would 1,000 knockbacks make you a better person?
Online, people are documenting their attempts to clock up as many ‘nos’ as they can this year. Is this actually the best possible route to more ‘yeses’ than you’re used to?
‘Wake up to the risks of AI, they are almost here,’ Anthropic boss warns
Dario Amodei questions if human systems are ready to handle the ‘almost unimaginable power’ that is ‘potentially imminent’
Anti-pop and an alien sigil: how Aphex Twin overtook Taylor Swift to become the soundtrack to gen Z life online
The mysterious Cornish electronic music pioneer has gained an extraordinary second life in the TikTok era. Writers and musicians explain why his glitchy slipperiness is so in tune with life today
EU launches inquiry into X over sexually explicit images made by Grok AI
Investigation comes after Elon Musk’s firm sparked outrage by allowing users to ‘strip’ photos of women and children
Life after Molly: Ian Russell on big tech, his daughter’s death – and why a social media ban won’t work
Molly Russell was just 14 when she took her own life in 2017, and an inquest later found negative online content was a significant factor. With many people now pushing for teenagers to be kept off tech platforms, her father explains why he backs a different approach
Iran president’s son urges authorities to restore internet after protests blackout
Yousef Pezeshkian says nothing will be solved by trying to postpone moment images of violent crackdown circulate
Blurry rats and coyotes with mange: the oddly thrilling subreddit dedicated to identifying wildlife
The most popular posts on r/animalid are exotic lizards and rare birds – but it’s the haziest trail cam screenshots that feel the most dangerous, the most spectacular
Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queries, study suggests
Exclusive: German research into responses to health queries raises fresh questions about summaries seen by 2bn people a month
‘Cornwall isn’t resilient enough’: towns struggle with broadband outage after Storm Goretti
Politicians call for more infrastructure funding amid anger that county is seen as ‘holiday playground’
Grok AI generated about 3m sexualised images in 11 days, study finds
Estimate made by Center for Countering Digital Hate after Elon Musk’s AI image generation tool sparked outrage
Britain facing ‘catastrophe’ because of children being addicted to social media, peers told – as it happened
House of Lords debate amendments to bill that could ban children under the age of 16 from having social media
‘Still here!’: X’s Grok AI tool accessible in Malaysia and Indonesia despite ban
Experts warn use of VPNs makes it hard to limit access to technology that can create nonconsensual explicit images
Tech companies’ access to UK ministers dwarfs that of child safety groups
Exclusive: Amazon, Meta and X among firms holding hundreds of meetings with people at heart of government, data shows
‘We could hit a wall’: why trillions of dollars of risk is no guarantee of AI reward
Progress of artificial general intelligence could stall, which may lead to a financial crash, says Yoshua Bengio, one of the ‘godfathers’ of modern AI
My picture was used in child abuse images. AI is putting others through my nightmare
I was a child actor, exploited by strangers on the internet. Now millions of children face the same danger