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Short films made from brain activity of mice aim to show how they see world

Scientists hope results analysed after the mice watched video footage will help them understand their perceptions

Ministers must act more quickly on deepfakes to protect women and girls, Kendall says

Exclusive: Technology secretary urges tech companies to do more to tackle online misogyny

‘Revolutionary’: Ukrainian para-biathlete wins silver using ChatGPT as his coach

Maksym Murashkovskyi won silver at the Winter Paralympics in the visually impaired biathlon and revealed his secret weapon was using ChatGPT as a coach

X suspends 800m accounts in one year amid ‘massive’ scale of manipulation attempts

Social media company tells MPs of continual fight against state-backed efforts, with Russia being most prolific

Missing money, shipped chips and a 350,000% profit: key takeaways on AI ‘phantom investments’

A Guardian investigation has put the UK government’s AI plans under the microscope. Here are the key details

AI firm Anthropic sues US defense department over blacklisting

Lawsuits come after Pentagon labeled Anthropic a ‘supply chain risk’, a decision the company says is unlawful

British AI datacentre firm Nscale raises $2bn as Sheryl Sandberg and Nick Clegg join board

London-based startup, which is vital to the government’s AI ambitions, is now valued at $14.6bn

OpenAI delays ‘adult mode’ for ChatGPT to focus on work of higher priority

Startup still believes in ‘principle of treating adults like adults, but getting experience right will take more time’

Nigel Farage invests £215,000 in Kwasi Kwarteng’s bitcoin firm

Reform UK leader strengthens ties with crypto sector with stake in former Tory chancellor’s company Stack BTC

Liverpool and Manchester United complain to X over ‘sickening’ Grok AI posts

AI feature generated offensive posts about Diogo Jota and the Hillsborough and Munich disasters

How AI firm Anthropic wound up in the Pentagon’s crosshairs

Standoff with DoD over Claude chatbot reignites debate over how AI will be used in war – and who will be held accountable

Congress must prevent AI surveillance. The Anthropic feud proves it

The company’s clash with the Pentagon is a fight over the future of American privacy

VPN apps rocket up download charts in Australia as porn websites begin blocking users

Proton VPN moves from 174th to 19th place as NordVPN goes from 189th to 13th, as porn websites in Australia start requiring age verification for users

AI allows hackers to identify anonymous social media accounts, study finds

New research suggests tech behind AI platforms such as ChatGPT makes it easier to perform sophisticated privacy attacks

Readers reply: What if Shakespeare was dropped in modern-day London?

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions ponders the hypothetical reactions of eminent historical personages to today’s Trafalgar Square

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  • Frequent AI chatbot users more likely to believe anti-vaccine myths, poll finds
  • Citizen Vigilante review – Armie Hammer returns to obliterate the imaginary woke piñata of Europe-stan
  • Blake Lively files to receive $8m in legal fees from Justin Baldoni and his studio
  • Silicon Valley donations make Colorado Democratic primary one of state’s most expensive
  • The Three Musketeers: D’Artagnan brings genuine thrills – and a massive budget – to a well-trodden tale
  • UK watchdog plans to break Apple and Google’s ‘effective duopoly’ on mobile app stores
  • Spider-Man’s web of lies: what would actually happen if you were bitten by a radioactive spider?
  • Why is Elon Musk boosting an anti-immigrant film loved by the far right?
  • Number of billionaires globally soars by 13% amid AI shares boom
  • Rocky week for AI as shares slump but no sign of crash – yet
  • Supergirl: doggy distress, frontier justice and a new direction for superhero movies – discuss with spoilers
  • UK ‘minded’ to intervene in Paramount’s $110bn takeover of Warner Bros Discovery
  • Michael Byrne obituary
  • Elon Musk promotes ‘anti-migrant’ Armie Hammer film with free download on X
  • Doubt that Elon Musk ‘earned’ his trillion? Rightwing media says you’re in an ‘impotent envy cult’
  • The original Moana: did a 1926 documentary give birth to a 21st century Disney blockbuster?
  • The Invite review – Seth Rogen adds zest and bite to fruity dinner party comedy
  • Not a Pretty Picture review – Martha Coolidge’s recreation of her rape remains shockingly powerful
  • Oura Ring 5 review: a stunning generational leap for smart rings
  • Executioner review – sleazy MP hams it up with sex worker in darkly comic blackmail thriller
  • Ireland is big tech’s lapdog – and that compromises its EU presidency
  • ‘There’s this deep mystery of what, actually, is this thing?’: the philosopher inside Google DeepMind AI
  • Crypto firms operating in UK to be subject to sweeping new rules
  • US supreme court rules geofence warrants require constitutional privacy protections
  • Shares in chipmakers underpinning AI boom rocket in first half of 2026
  • Comcast to spin off NBCUniversal and Sky into separate media business
  • Ministers likely to support law change to allow delivery robots on England’s paths
  • ‘His ability is hard to deny’: is Tom Hardy a secretly good rapper?
  • ‘A very good gadget’: taking delivery from the robots of Milton Keynes
  • Once, cyber-attacks required great skill. AI is changing that

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