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Elon Musk says he has ‘cyber psychosis’. Do you too?

Whether using chatbots for childcare or taking up smoking, a new affliction is sweeping through the tech world. Here are the signs, writes Arwa Mahdawi

‘Meaningless as a laptop screensaver’: reviewers slate Musk’s AI-made Odyssey film

Tesla tycoon launched Grok project after criticising Christoper Nolan’s diverse casting for his Homeric blockbuster

Elon Musk’s AI Odyssey review – the dullest, most pointless riposte possible to Christopher Nolan’s brilliant epic

It is hardly a shock that Grok AI’s interpretation of Homer is as meaningless as a laptop screensaver. The only surprise would be if Musk accepted defeat graciously. Which he won’t

CurrentBody Series 3 review: a fully customisable LED mask that helps exactly where you need it

With six light wavelengths and almost endless ways to combine them, CurrentBody’s latest sets a new standard for red light therapy devices

UK government met 137 businesses over AI datacentres – but no environmental groups

Investigation finds dozens of ministers and civil servants moved into AI roles as government developed datacentre expansion plans

‘Digital hostile environment’: AI secretly being embedded across Home Office, report claims

Tasks from determining asylum seekers’ ages to border surveillance now involve AI, says Open Rights Group

Meta plans $95bn stock offering to help cover AI expansion

Tech firm announces two-part fundraising after Elon Musk warns hundreds of AI startups face collapse

‘Autonomy, not flesh’: RAF chief outlines AI drone-powered future

Air Chief Marshal Harv Smyth says technological advances will reduce need for human involvement in warfare

Anthropic files for potentially record-breaking stock market valuation in key test for AI industry

Market debut of firm behind Claude chatbot will be one of largest in US history, a test of AI boom’s financial viability

Anthropic’s Claude AI model accessed Georgia voter data in US

Latest example of unauthorised behaviour shows AI model bypassed paywall to access data as part of statistics project

The datacentre next door: on the frontline of tech’s latest David v Goliath battle

The AI boom is pitting local residents against corporate giants seeking to power their energy-hungry networks – but one Welsh city is fighting back

Elon Musk reportedly invests $1bn in David Ellison’s Skydance

Musk’s investment into the new media empire comes after Paramount’s $111bn merger with Warner Bros Discovery

Websites across world hit by millions of attempts to exploit PHP code flaw

Problem in language that underpins 70% of sites has led governments and companies to pull sites offline to patch fault

‘I’d consider replacing one of my children’: Taika Waititi on robot kids, his cheese-o-meter and Klara and the Sun

The director has turned Kazuo Ishiguro’s acclaimed novel about an ailing adolescent and her glitchy robot friend into a thought-provoking film. What do the pair think this story says about tech, love and grief?

The best Kindles in the UK for every bookworm and budget – tested

Whether you want a colour screen, somewhere to scribble notes or a child-friendly model, here’s what we recommend from Amazon’s e-reader range

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  • Art ‘must not be sacrificed on the altar of corporate profit’, Liberal senator says as AI policy debate rages
  • The 143 best holiday gifts in 2026 – obsessively tested by the Guardian US
  • ‘Don’t lie to me to get free stuff’: how small businesses are fighting back against influencers behaving badly
  • Microsoft says services fully restored after global outage hits governments
  • ‘I relive that mission every single day of my life’: how Black soldiers handled the Vietnam war
  • ‘Still standing’: king jokes as he appears on Elton John’s Rocket Hour
  • From Ukraine to Gaza, this is why we need to tell better stories about war
  • Guilty or redeemed? Our critics’ verdicts on this week’s UK cinema releases
  • SpaceX Starship megarocket blasts off before expected return for reuse
  • Microsoft outage shakes up companies, schools and local governments across US
  • Microsoft ‘deeply sorry’ for disruption affecting millions and says it’s ‘not related to cyber or AI’ – as it happened
  • Nvidia scandal: US treasury chief blames Lutnick’s commerce department over alleged lack of action
  • How Microsoft outage has affected key public services in the UK
  • Trump bought Nvidia stock as he helped chipmaker with change to export rule
  • Microsoft outage hits hospitals, GPs, schools and police across UK
  • Microsoft scrambles to fix global outage affecting Teams and Outlook
  • A global Microsoft 365 outage has hit millions – what happened and when will it be fixed?
  • Marlon Brando cool to Jensen Huang joke: how the black leather jacket became a meme
  • Robert Pattinson reportedly leads James Bond contenders
  • The datacenter industry is using propaganda to fight opposition
  • The dark side of reselling apps: ‘If you include your pants, I’ll pay more’
  • US university students tell surveillance cameras to Flock off
  • What’s behind Australia’s surge in teen extremism?
  • ‘It was a train wreck! I was terrified’: how the new James Bond will be announced – and what can go wrong
  • Farewell, Cybertruck: why the winding down of the ‘Maga hat on wheels’ is a sign of the times
  • Gentle Monster to Conclave: the seven best films to watch on TV this week
  • Tell us: have you been affected by the Microsoft outage?
  • Heartland review – Jessica Chastain’s Netflix country music thriller is more miss than hit
  • A baffling trail from Australia to Singapore: what is Megaspeed, the company implicated in downfall of Nvidia’s Jensen Huang?

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