Meta wows Wall Street despite spending billions on AI and facing social media addiction trial
Firm’s fourth-quarter 2025 beat expectations as it lavishes investment on AI infrastructure and CEO faces questioning
Tesla discontinues Model X and S vehicles as Elon Musk pivots to robotics
High hopes for Optimus robot help company beat forecasts despite yearly revenue decline and flailing car business
Microsoft shrugs off AI bubble fears again with strong financial results
Company reports second-quarter revenues of $81.27bn but posts slowing growth in key cloud computing business
Burner phones and lead-lined bags: a history of UK security tactics in China
Starmer’s team is wary of spies but such fears are not new – with Theresa May once warned to get dressed under a duvet
Artificial intelligence will cost jobs, admits Liz Kendall
UK technology secretary also announced plans to train up to 10 million Britons in AI skills to help workforce adapt
US TikTok users: tell us how you feel about the app after the new US deal
Reports suggest more US users are deleting TikTok after a new agreement secured the app’s future in the US. We’d like to hear why – or why not
Google DeepMind launches AI tool to help identify genetic drivers of disease
AlphaGenome can analyse up to 1m letters of DNA code at once and could pave way for new treatments
SpaceX mulls $1.5tn IPO timed to ‘align with Musk’s birthday and the planets’
World’s richest person targeting symbolic date in June for flotation of rocket company
China lags behind US at AI frontier but could quickly catch up, say experts
Beijing’s AI policy is focused on real-life applications but Chinese companies are beginning to articulate their own grand visions
‘It’s not too late to fix it’: web inventor Tim Berners-Lee says he is in a ‘battle for the soul’ of the internet
Founder of the world wide web says commercialisation means the net has been ‘optimised for nastiness’, but collaboration and compassion can prevail
Amazon tells workers it will cut 16,000 jobs worldwide in second big wave of layoffs
Workers informed after message erroneously said affected employees in US, Canada and Costa Rica had already been told
Copyrighted art, mobile phones, Greenland: welcome to our age of shameless theft
The human impulse to steal has been accelerated by AI, inequality and our political leaders – with profound consequences, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
‘This train isn’t going to stop’: shocking Sundance film shows promises and perils of AI
The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist, co-directed by Daniel Roher, delves into the world of AI through the lens of personal anxiety
Pornhub to stop new UK users accessing site from next week
Company cites impact of mandatory age checks introduced in summer 2025 under the Online Safety Act
US tech workers call on CEOs to demand Trump remove ICE from cities
More than 800 employees sign petition calling for withdrawal of ICE agents and cancellation of contracts