Readers reply: Should we be polite to voice assistants and AIs?
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts
Dr TikTok: patients diagnose chronic illnesses with anonymous commenters’ help
TikTok users increasingly say the app has steered them toward diagnosing medical problems not yet identified
Is AI the greatest art heist in history?
New technologies of reproduction are plundering the art world – and getting away with it
AI companies know they have an image problem. Will funding policy papers and thinktanks dig them out?
The aggressive effort by major players aims to reshape the narrative as polls show increasing public disapproval of AI
‘Too powerful for the public’: inside Anthropic’s bid to win the AI publicity war
The firm says it withheld an AI model on cybersecurity grounds but sceptics say this was hype to lure investment
‘Your photos will be deleted’: Apple users warned over ‘nasty’ iCloud storage scam
Fraudsters send emails claiming storage is full or nearly full, then trick people into clicking on links that can expose bank and personal details
Brian Cox: ‘We don’t know how powerful AI is going to become – it’s both exciting and potentially a problem’
The physicist, BBC presenter and author on snowflakes, art v science and the time Paul McCartney quizzed him about one of Saturn’s moons
‘It has your name on it, but I don’t think it’s you’: how AI is impersonating musicians on Spotify
Fraudulent music streams have long been a scourge for the industry, but experts say generative AI has supercharged it
‘Abhorrent’: the inside story of the Polymarket gamblers betting millions on war
A Guardian investigation reveals how the prediction market can shape news – and how it rules on ‘the truth’
Congratulations to the Artemis II crew – but the case for sending astronauts into space is rapidly shrinking
Soon, thanks to the advance of robots, the only reason left to send humans to the moon will be as an ultra-expensive sport, say astronomer royal Martin Rees and astrophysicist Donald Goldsmith
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s home targeted with molotov cocktail
Suspect arrested but not identified and has allegedly made similar threats to OpenAI’s San Francisco headquarters
Anthropic’s new AI tool has implications for us all – whether we can use it or not
Claude Mythos’s apparent superhuman hacking abilities are alarming experts as the Trump administration remains blinded by hostility
Fifteen-year-old Noah hasn’t been kicked off any social media platforms – he’s still fighting Australia’s under-16 ban in court
Millions of accounts have been deactivated since the ban came into effect in December, but Noah Jones found it was easily circumvented
Amazon to finally launch Leo satellite internet in ‘mid-2026’, says CEO
Andy Jassy tells shareholders that long-awaited rival to Elon Musk’s Starlink is ‘on the verge’ of going live
US summons bank bosses over cyber risks from Anthropic’s latest AI model
Reports say Fed chair Jerome Powell among attenders at meeting in Washington