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Nascent tech, real fear: how AI anxiety is upending career ambitions

AI has convinced computer science students to shift majors and white-collar workers to change careers, while some are embracing it

Nvidia reportedly plans to invest $30bn in OpenAI’s next funding round

Chip manufacturer to invest in return for stock after previous ‘circular’ $100bn deal dissolved earlier this month

How to win friends and influencers: Labour’s new social media strategy is a step into the future

There was a backlash when No 10 invited online content creators inside its doors. But in a fast-changing media landscape, this solves two problems at once, says deputy Opinion editor Kirsty Major

Injecting particulates into the atmosphere isn’t a magical fix for the climate crisis

Geoengineering does little to defuse most of the risks that really matter for people – and it runs the risk of making some harms worse

Mind launches inquiry into AI and mental health after Guardian investigation

Exclusive: England and Wales charity to examine safeguards after Guardian exposed ‘very dangerous’ advice on Google AI Overviews

West Virginia sues Apple over child sex abuse material stored and shared on iCloud

Attorney general JB McCuskey, a Republican, calls case the first of its kind by a government agency against company

Skiers stranded by California avalanche used iPhone SOS feature to seek help

Apple’s feature, which connects phone to satellite, helped first responders find survivors as they waited under tarp

US builds website that will allow Europeans to view blocked content

Freedom.gov appears to be administered by a branch of the Department of Homeland Security

Accenture ‘links staff promotions to use of AI tools’

Consulting firm keen to increase uptake of technology and is reportedly monitoring adoption by workforce

Tell us: have you ever used AI to navigate everyday life and social relationships?

We’d like to hear your stories about the ways you’re using chatbots to assist with your social life or important life decisions

Digital blackface flourishes under Trump and AI: ‘The state is bending reality’

From TikTok deepfakes to smears put out by the White House, fake videos modeled on Black archetypes are running rampant - putting Black users at risk

How the anxiety over AI could fuel a new workers’ movement

New technology has workers spooked, but experts say it’s creating an opening for a resurgence in worker power

Ebay buys Depop for $1.2bn in effort to lure younger shoppers

Deal agreed to acquire British secondhand fashion resale app from Etsy as eBay attempts to fend off Amazon

Macron defends EU AI rules and vows crackdown on child ‘digital abuse’

French president rejects US criticism as António Guterres and Narendra Modi warn on child safety and AI monopolies

TV set is most popular way to watch YouTube in UK, study finds

Television outranks laptops, tablets and smartphones across all age groups, according to audience review

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  • The best theatre to stream this month: all rise for Rosamund Pike’s Inter Alia
  • ‘Get away from there – run!’ The stunning film about love blossoming amid the carnage of Aleppo
  • Trump raked in more than $1bn from crypto businesses in 2025, filing shows
  • Enola Holmes 3 review – Netflix mystery franchise is starting to lose steam
  • 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

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