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Figma’s AI app creator accused of ripping off Apple weather app

Company pulls Make Designs after requests to design weather app result in program ‘almost identical’ to iOS app

TechScape: Here’s four ways a new Labour government could use tech to boost Britain

If Keir Starmer wins on Thursday, he will have the power to free our data, jump-start the NHS and strip friction from our daily lives. Here’s how

Australia ‘monitoring’ US ban on Russian antivirus software but no plans yet to follow suit

Kaspersky, Moscow-based company deemed security risk in US, has been dropped from Australian consumer watchdog website partner list

AI drive brings Microsoft’s ‘green moonshot’ down to earth in west London

Tech firm’s bid to remove more CO2 than it produces is being tested as AI spawns new energy-hungry datacentres

Keywords Studios says it is willing to accept £100m less from suitor

Video game services company ‘minded to recommend’ EQT’s revised £2.1bn takeover offer amid sector slowdown

Crisis-hit firm behind vital NHS services faces uncertain future

Auditors say financial woes at tech firm Atos could hinder ability of its UK arm to continue as a going concern

Microsoft faces huge antitrust fine over Teams app

European Commission accuses tech company of illegally linking chat and video app with Office 365 products

Apple found in breach of EU competition rules

European Commission finds iPhone maker broke new laws designed to protect smaller competitors against big tech platforms

Should Tesla pay Elon Musk $45bn? The shareholders will decide

CEO claims he is winning investor votes by ‘wide margins’ but it is unclear if court will allow restoration of payout

Genetic testing company 23andMe investigated over hack that hit 7m users

Data watchdogs in UK and Canada to look at whether there were enough safeguards on personal information

Microsoft, OpenAI and Nvidia investigated over monopoly laws

US regulators open inquiry into AI firms over antitrust laws that oversee fair competition

The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates

Big tech is playing its part in reaching net zero targets, but its vast new datacentres are run at huge cost to the environment, says economics professor Mariana Mazzucato

Elon Musk’s xAI raises $6bn in bid to take on OpenAI

Funding round values artificial intelligence startup at $18bn before investment, says multibillionaire

Scarlett Johansson’s OpenAI clash is just the start of legal wrangles over artificial intelligence

Hollywood star’s claim ChatGPT update used an imitation of her voice highlights tensions over rapidly accelerating technology

Big tech has distracted world from existential risk of AI, says top scientist

Max Tegmark argues that the downplaying is not accidental and threatens to delay, until it’s too late, the strict regulations needed

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  • Canadian mother sues OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT led her daughter to kill herself
  • The Guardian view on the analogue resurgence: the shock of the old
  • Helen Mirren speaks out about being called ‘evil Zionist’ on the street in London
  • Musk’s xAI fired engineer for raising concerns about Grok chatbot, lawsuit claims
  • SpaceX heads for record $1.78tn float amid fears it is overvalued
  • Playing with payphones: how the ubiquitous orange booths have been gamified by fans
  • Cassette tapes were the voice notes of my youth, bringing tales from the diaspora to our living room
  • ‘I’m not bad, I’m just drawn that way’: Kathleen Turner’s best films – ranked!
  • AI wealth boom sending San Francisco home prices surging: ‘It’s ridiculous’
  • ‘This is honest art. Like Dostoevsky’: Tim Allen and Tom Hanks on Toy Story 5, tech peril and the joy of rusty nails
  • AI absolutism is breaking our brains. The apocalyptic future we’re being sold isn’t inevitable
  • ‘Now they can’t afford me’: Steven Spielberg was turned down to direct Bond – twice
  • Who you gonna maul? Why Paul Feig’s derided all-female Ghostbusters dazzles a decade later
  • Stop! That! Train! review – RuPaul-led zany drag comedy is a riot
  • The best robot vacuums in the UK to keep your home clean and dust free, tested
  • Strictly Ballroom review – Baz Luhrmann’s dizzying, dance-tastic swirl of fun is a classic ugly-duckling tale
  • Met police chief calls for law to make stolen phones ‘unusable bricks’
  • ‘They kissed, and the audience roared’: the new musical about gay activists and striking miners
  • French star Patrick Bruel charged with rape and sexual assault
  • Labor to set terms for datacentre and AI growth as it vows not to repeat mistakes of resources boom
  • Dead Poets Society director Peter Weir receives lifetime achievement award at Sydney film festival
  • Stephen Ogilvie’s family appeal for calm on second night of disorder – as it happened
  • Elon Musk’s X not facing action from UK government over posts inciting violence in Belfast
  • Glenn Close and Ridley Scott among names set to receive honorary Oscars
  • The Guardian view on far-right violence: digital radicalisation is threatening democracy
  • Sales of Meta whistleblower’s memoir soar after Hay festival ‘silencing’
  • How to Talk Australians: The Movie review – viral web series lampooning Aussie culture gets big-screen adaptation
  • First trailer for Aaron Sorkin’s Facebook sequel The Social Reckoning
  • Actor Tyler Mane reveals he is having treatment for rare male breast cancer
  • Under the Shadow review – Leila Farzad is fantastic in this nerve-shredding tale of 80s Tehran

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