‘Disgustingly educated’: will this trend make you cleverer?
Social media is filling up with influencers telling us how to become much more intellectual. A great, enriching idea – or just another cue to show off?
Ed Zitron on big tech, backlash, boom and bust: ‘AI has taught us that people are excited to replace human beings’
His blunt, brash scepticism has made the podcaster and writer something of a cult figure. But as concern over large language models builds, he’s no longer the outsider he once was
UK politics ‘constantly suffering’ from online disinformation, says Labour MP
Emily Thornberry says risk posed to British democracy by bot farms and biased algorithms requires action
More than 60 Labour MPs urge Starmer to back under-16s social media ban
Exclusive: Letter signed by figures on right and left of party says UK should follow Australia’s example by enacting ban
AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage
AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots
‘Still here!’: X’s Grok AI tool accessible in Malaysia and Indonesia despite ban
Experts warn use of VPNs makes it hard to limit access to technology that can create nonconsensual explicit images
The best wake-up under the sun: Lumie Bodyclock Glow 150 sunrise alarm clock review
Our reviewer loved this wake-up light more than any other he’s tested – it’s even knocked his previous best sunrise alarm off the top spot
Inventor says robo-vaccination machine could be used to combat bovine TB
Tony Cholerton created Robovacc to inoculate a timid tiger at London zoo – but says it could administer jabs to badgers
Tech companies’ access to UK ministers dwarfs that of child safety groups
Exclusive: Amazon, Meta and X among firms holding hundreds of meetings with people at heart of government, data shows
‘We could hit a wall’: why trillions of dollars of risk is no guarantee of AI reward
Progress of artificial general intelligence could stall, which may lead to a financial crash, says Yoshua Bengio, one of the ‘godfathers’ of modern AI
My picture was used in child abuse images. AI is putting others through my nightmare
I was a child actor, exploited by strangers on the internet. Now millions of children face the same danger
He called himself an ‘untouchable hacker god’. But who was behind the biggest crime Finland has ever known?
How would you feel if your therapist’s notes – your darkest thoughts and deepest feelings – were exposed to the world? For 33,000 Finnish people, that became a terrifying reality, with deadly consequences
China blocks Nvidia H200 AI chips that US government cleared for export – report
Parts suppliers ‘put production on hold’ amid mounting confusion as China restricts purchase of the chips and US puts 25% roundabout tariff on their sale
Iran plans permanent break from global internet, say activists
Report claims unrestricted online access will be a ‘government privilege’, limited to individuals vetted by regime
ChatGPT to start showing ads in the US
Ads to be placed alongside answers as OpenAI looks to beef up revenue for flagship AI product