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Meta and Google trial: are infinite scroll and autoplay creating addicts?

Features woven into the fabric of platforms have been central to landmark social media harm case in US. How do they work?

New study raises concerns about AI chatbots fueling delusional thinking

First major study on ‘AI psychosis’ suggests chatbots can encourage delusions among vulnerable people

Invisible datacentres and capricious chips: is UK’s AI bubble about to burst?

Datacentre investment boom is one of the biggest infrastructure gambles of this era, and Britain may be uniquely exposed

Apple cuts China App Store commission fees after government pressure

The move, which lowers fees to 25%, is a breakthrough for Chinese developers Tencent and ByteDance

With $200m to spend on the midterms, crypto hopes to repeat its 2024 success: ‘It’s the most critical time’

Candidates in both parties – but mostly Republicans – are seeing cash infusions after merely indicating support

Will AI take Australian jobs, or is it just an excuse for corporate restructure?

More than 1,000 Australian tech jobs have recently been cut, with companies citing AI productivity gains. But that’s not the full story, experts say

ICE agents reveal daily arrest quotas and surveillance app in rare court testimony

Under oath, officers said they were told to make eight arrests a day and given special tech to help choose ‘targets’

AI-generated Iran images are widespread. How do we know what to believe?

Fake pictures look authentic – and authentic ones get mistaken for fake. Here are three rules for navigating the war coverage

Anthropic-Pentagon battle shows how big tech has reversed course on AI and war

Less than a decade ago, Google employees scuttled any military use of its AI. Now Anthropic is fighting Trump officials not over if, but how

AI toys for young children must be more tightly regulated, say researchers

University of Cambridge study finds AI-powered toys can misread emotions and respond inappropriately to children

‘IG is a drug’: jury to deliberate as US trial over social media addiction wraps up

Meta and YouTube accused of creating harmful products in trial seen as a bellwether for attitudes towards social media

Official BookTok chart set to launch in the UK

Offering a monthly Top 20 rundown, the ranking will combine retail sales data with social media engagement on TikTok

UK regulator examines IT glitch that enabled bank customers to see others’ accounts on app

Information Commissioner’s Office made aware of incident affecting Lloyd’s, Halifax and Bank of Scotland

Microsoft backs AI firm Anthropic in legal battle against Pentagon

Tech company files amicus brief in support of Anthropic’s effort to overturn an aggressive Pentagon designation

AI scams drove UK reports of fraud to record 444,000 last year

Criminals using artificial intelligence tools to take over mobile, bank and online shopping accounts, says Cifas

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  • Jamie Lee Curtis to lead Murder, She Wrote reboot movie
  • Jamie Lee Curtis to lead Murder, She Wrote reboot movie
  • Pretty Lethal review – Amazon’s ballerina action thriller puts on a decent enough show
  • Pretty Lethal review – Amazon’s ballerina action thriller puts on a decent enough show
  • Meta and YouTube designed addictive products that harmed young people, jury finds
  • Valerie Perrine obituary
  • UK iPhone users face over-18 age check to use services after update
  • Hundreds of UK teenagers to trial six-week social media curbs for major study
  • What are the rules on cryptocurrency donations to UK political parties?
  • Former Google executive Matt Brittin selected to be next BBC director general
  • Matt Brittin: why the BBC’s new Doctor Who-loving boss may not have much time for sleep
  • Backlash mounts over twist in Robert Pattinson Zendaya romcom The Drama
  • Billy Idol Should Be Dead review – nostalgic docu-tribute to British postpunk’s rebel
  • Underland review – poetic exploration of life deep beneath the Earth’s surface
  • Bernie Sanders and AOC introduce bill to pause building of new datacenters
  • Redoubt review – Denis Lavant is unforgettable as an oddball building a public shelter for obscure disaster
  • Stephen Colbert to write new Lord of the Rings film after end of the Late Show
  • ‘Denial machine’: climate misinformation is fuelling conflict in Australian communities, inquiry finds
  • Influencers are promoting these three health tests – but they risk doing more harm than good
  • Meta ordered to pay $375m after being found liable in child exploitation case
  • OpenAI shutters AI video generator Sora in abrupt announcement
  • Anthropic and Pentagon face off in court over ban on company’s AI model
  • Tom Georgeson obituary
  • Baltimore sues Elon Musk’s AI company over Grok’s fake nude images
  • Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice review – double the Vince Vaughn in middling time travel comedy
  • Live-action movie version of children’s TV series Mr Benn in the works
  • Protect men and boys from manosphere influencers, Labour MPs tell Ofcom
  • ‘Was that an earthquake?’ Italy’s great psychogeographer tackles the Vesuvius-haunted Naples tourists seldom see
  • MPs accuse social media firms of spreading Iran misinformation
  • Why is the US so expensive? Everything comes in a ‘premium’ version, from doctors’ appointments to movies

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