Microsoft has ‘ripped off the NHS’, says MP amid call for contracts with British firms
Samantha Niblett highlighted government’s multi-billion-pound deals with Microsoft and ‘getting locked in’
UK holds talks with LinkedIn on clamping down on Chinese espionage
Government wants social media platforms to be less attractive for foreign agents after recent intelligence warnings
UK consumers warned over AI chatbots giving inaccurate financial advice
Which? study of ChatGPT, Copilot and others uncovers incorrect and misleading tips on investments, tax and insurance
No 10 turns to influencers to reach audiences beyond mainstream media
Critics view increasing use of digital content creators to push policy as way to avoid serious scrutiny of decisions
Scrapping green subsidies is short-termist sabotage – and as usual the consumer will pay
Weaning ourselves off gas is the only way to reduce energy bills long term. Cutting support for this is exactly the ‘sticking-plaster politics’ Labour promised to end, says CEO of Electrify Britain Camilla Born
Keir Starmer may be too busy to master the latest dance craze – but he needs to be on TikTok
Yes, there’s a country to run, but the social media platform has 30 million users in the UK. Can the PM afford to abandon them all to Nigel Farage, asks Carys Afoko
AI chatbots could help stop prisoner release errors, says justice minister
HMP Wandsworth gets ‘green light’ to use AI after team sent in to find ‘quick fixes’ after spate of mistakes
UK transport and cyber-security chiefs investigate Chinese-made buses
Move to assess potential risk of remote meddling by Beijing with Yutong buses follows investigations in Norway and Denmark
Girl, 17, joins lawsuit against UK government after seeing horrific phone videos at school
Flossie McShea from Devon says she saw a shooting, a beheading and porn and that other students ‘show you their screen without invitation’
A note to politicians hoping to emulate Mamdani’s social media strategy: without the right policies, it’s pointless
Forget the medium and focus on the New York City mayor-elect’s message – centrists can’t compete with rent freezes, free buses and support for Palestine, says writer Rohan Sathyamoorthy
The Guardian view on Britain’s new class divide: the professional middle is being hollowed out
Editorial: A micro-elite in finance and tech hoovers up talent while-white collar jobs lose their lustre. A society that rewards proximity to capital over contribution risks rupture
Director of public prosecutions rejects claim Labour manifesto quote killed off successful China spy case prosecution – as it happened
Stephen Parkinson tells committee a judge would have thrown out China spy case before it even went to jury
Blue Has No Borders review – hunt for British identity in British seaside town maps the national psyche
Director Jessi Gutch shadows seven Folkestonians from a Syrian refugee, to a drag artist and a Brexiter
‘He’s one of the few politicians who likes crypto’: my day with the UK tech bros hosting Nigel Farage
The Reform UK leader is courting the crypto community in the hope it could become a campaign funding base
The Guardian view on a bumper crop of horror: scary times call for even scarier films
Editorial: A new wave of socially engaged movies is storming the box office and changing how we think about the genre