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As we enter the age of the AI-rranged marriage, here’s why I hate Fate

When the most profound human emotion becomes an automated transaction in an online shop, the techlords have won

Canada seeks answers from OpenAI for failing to alert police after suspending school shooter’s account

Company had suspended account of Tumbler Ridge shooter in June 2025 over ‘furtherance of violent activities’

New datacentres risk doubling Great Britain’s electricity use, regulator says

Ofgem says about 140 proposed projects, driven by AI use, could require more power than current peak demand

Sam Altman defends AI’s energy toll by saying it also takes a lot to ‘train a human’

OpenAI CEO also downplayed concerns about how much water datacenters require at AI summit in India

John Oliver on Elon Musk’s X: ‘Now worse than useless’

Last Week Tonight host delved into the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor in relation to the Epstein files and Musk’s poisonous ownership of X

Are dating apps giving people the ick?

The past year has been turbulent for Tinder and Bumble. Fortunately, it turns out the real world has its charms

If AI makes human labor obsolete, who decides who gets to eat?

Amid talk of artificial intelligence taking our jobs, the big unasked question is: how will we be fed?

Grindr tests AI match-making in Australia amid dating app fatigue and safety concerns

New subscription features on app for gay and bisexual men come with a price tag – from $109.99 a month in Australia to $349 in the US

The best laptop backpacks in the US – tested

Your $1,000 laptop deserves a protective home on the road. A tech journalist and frequent traveler recommends his nine favorites

What would happen to the world if computer said yes?

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions asks whether we could cope with a world where computer gave up saying no …

Met police using AI tools supplied by Palantir to flag officer misconduct

Exclusive: Police Federation condemns deployment of US firm’s tech to analyse behaviour as ‘automated suspicion’

Blackwater founder Erik Prince has joined the drone-warfare fray in Ukraine, SEC filings reveal

Battle-tested Ukrainian startup that advertises a ‘Killbox’ drone recruited Prince as non-executive chair

Dyson Supersonic Nural review: can a hair dryer really save your scalp from heat damage?

With sensors that cool the air as it nears your head, this high-end tool promises gentler styling for sensitive scalps

I’m worried my boyfriend’s use of AI is affecting his ability to think for himself

Overdependence on chatbots is a growing problem, and though your boyfriend’s ADHD may be a factor, he needs to find the root of his anxiety

US farmers are rejecting multimillion-dollar datacenter bids for their land: ‘I’m not for sale’

Families are navigating the tough choice between unimaginable riches and the identity that comes with land

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  • Run the dishwasher, plug in the car: how Great Britain plans to use record wind and solar power
  • Itch! review – skin-crawling body horror meets supermarket standoff in low-budget chiller
  • Mother Mary review – Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel are lost in ludicrous pop star drama
  • ‘Cheers, Timmy!’ Royal Ballet and Opera head thanks Chalamet for ‘fantastic’ boost to sales
  • Miracle Mile: boy meets girl, romcom meets nuclear war
  • Bosses say AI boosts productivity – workers say they’re drowning in ‘workslop’
  • Nissan turnaround plan pins hopes on ‘AI-defined vehicles’
  • AI companies make powerful tech – but they’re also savvy marketers
  • AI learns language from skewed sources. That could change how we humans speak – and think
  • Endless Cookie review – Cheech and Chong meet Tristram Shandy in trippy tales of First Nations life
  • Is the new Super Mario Galaxy movie really that bad?
  • Kinaesthesia review – treasure trove of early cinema visions and the dream life they contain
  • Gary Neville’s media group buys football YouTuber Mark Goldbridge’s channels
  • Searching for Satyrus review – on the hunt for an elusive butterfly and the lepidopterist who named them
  • Footage of Sydney church stabbing may have ‘fortified’ teen Southport attacker, report finds
  • Hacker group threatens to release Grand Theft Auto VI data in Rockstar Games attack
  • Goldman Sachs chief ‘hyper-aware’ of risks from Anthropic’s Mythos AI
  • Mark Ruffalo and Emma Thompson among 1,000+ signatories on open letter opposing Paramount’s Warner buyout
  • Meta creating AI version of Mark Zuckerberg so staff can talk to the boss
  • Luca Guadagnino defends Timothée Chalamet over opera and ballet remarks: ‘How can one comment become a planetary polemic?’
  • Bollywood classics, rave bangers and Michael Stipe duets: 10 of Asha Bhosle’s greatest recordings
  • Parents are helping their children bypass Roblox age checks and play as adults
  • Sunshine Women’s Choir review – weepie prison musical is huge Taiwan hit but drowns in own gloop
  • Elon Musk’s X cuts payments to users who post clickbait
  • Post your questions for Sam Neill
  • Social media was once a great global conversation. Now it’s just individuals locked into their own private worlds
  • Ken Loach revisits I, Daniel Blake: ‘We were asking if food banks are tolerable. Now they’re an institution’
  • Booking.com warns customers of hack that exposed their data
  • Fifteen bucks a signature: the crisis of money in US politics is growing
  • I have just one secret from my husband. If he reads this, even that will be gone

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