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Google parent Alphabet hits $2tn valuation as it announces first dividend

Tech company’s shares rise as it plans to reward investors after strong quarterly results

Cybersecurity firm Darktrace agrees $5.3bn sale to US private equity business

Offer for ‘cutting edge’ UK firm from Thoma Bravo signals another blow for the London Stock Exchange

GMB launches legal action against ‘out of control’ Amazon at Coventry warehouse

Employment tribunal sought over claims firm tried to induce workers to leave union in long-running row

Why is US threatening to ban TikTok and will other countries follow suit?

Joe Biden signs into law bill requiring Chinese owner to sell app’s US operations

EU threatens TikTok Lite with ban over reward-to-watch feature

App feature could be suspended unless child safety concerns addressed, in first use of sweeping new digital powers

Thousands of flights to and from Europe affected by suspected Russian jamming

About 46,000 aircraft have logged GPS problems over Baltic Sea since August, says report

TikTok says it will fight US ban or forced sale after bill passes

Platform’s future in US in doubt after House approves bill ordering Bytedance to sell stake

What is bitcoin halving – and will it affect the price?

Process has coincided with a rise in price in the past and is due to take place again on Saturday

TikTok questioned by EU over Lite app that ‘pays’ users for watching videos

European Commission has concerns about app’s impact on children, as well as addiction

Leisure centres scrap biometric systems to keep tabs on staff amid UK data watchdog clampdown

Firms such as Serco and Virgin Active pull facial recognition and fingerprint scan systems used to monitor staff attendance

Wafer-thin, stretchy and strong as steel: could ‘miracle’ material graphene finally transform our world?

The material, discovered in 2004, was meant to be revolutionary. But only now is the technology coming of age

AI race heats up as OpenAI, Google and Mistral release new models

Launches within 12 hours of one another, and more activity expected in industry over summer

Elon Musk predicts superhuman AI will be smarter than people next year

His claims come with a caveat that shortages of training chips and growing demand for power could limit plans in the near term

TSMC to make state-of-the-art chips in US after multibillion subsidy pledge

World’s most valuable chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor to set up third facility in Arizona using funding from Biden policy

Elon Musk faces Brazil inquiry after defying X court order

Multibillionaire called for resignation of judge who ordered platform to block far-right users

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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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