Number of air conditioned UK homes doubles to more than 4m in three years

Greater working from home and hot summer temperatures believed to be driving increase in ownership

Meta settles major social media addiction lawsuit with school district

Kentucky is one of about 1,200 school districts across the US that have each sued Meta, TikTok, Snap and YouTube

Licensing agreement will allow listeners to use AI to create content on streaming platform for first time

Policy adviser Jen Reed says tech-facilitated abuse has become ‘increasingly prevalent’ and calls for its inclusion in Domestic Abuse Act

Exclusive: Scotland Yard criticises London mayor’s decision as disappointing and warns it could hit policing

UK’s largest police force says Palantir is only company that can supply what it needs. But is it worth the controversy that comes with it?

Other lives: IT specialist in the oil industry who started out working as a geophysicist

Company says work on Paul Erdős planar unit distance problem shows advance in AI reasoning

ASX-listed company announced in February it would lay off almost 30% of its 7,000-strong workforce across 40 countries

Telecoms company CEO says tech firms are buying up memory chips to power datacentres relied on by AI

Prospectus for tycoon’s sprawling empire reveals his plan to keep control – and ambition to colonise Mars

Jack Clark describes ‘vertiginous sense of progress’ and ‘profound changes’ to society alongside risks of technology

Ian Cheshire says media regulator must address perception it has been complacent and slow on online safety

Elon Musk’s rocket and satellite operations company, with extensive contracts with US, to go public next month

Many analysts view company’s financial performance as a broader referendum on AI buildout