Rage against the machine: a California community rallied against a datacenter – and won
Organizers in Monterey Park took inspiration from other US cities to fight against the construction of a giant datacenter
Battle of the chatbots: Anthropic and OpenAI go head-to-head over ads in their AI products
New Anthropic campaign suggests other AI platforms will incorporate targeted ads in their chatbot conversations
Why has Elon Musk merged his rocket company with his AI startup?
SpaceX’s acquisition of xAI creates business worth $1.25tn but whether premise behind deal will work is questioned
Waymo is trying to seduce me. But another option is staring us in the face
I understand the appeal of avoiding all human contact. Still, good old-fashioned taxis have so much to offer
Victims urge tougher action on deepfake abuse as new law comes into force
Campaigners welcome criminalisation of non-consensual AI-generated explicit images but say law does not go far enough
Trump’s family is embroiled in a $500m UAE scandal. We’ve hardly noticed
A crypto startup founded by Trump’s family signed a huge deal with the UAE president’s brother. Where’s the political fallout?
In an era of frictionless digital experiences, there’s something magical about obsolete technology
DVDs and CDs signalled the beginning of the end for physical media but now have pride of place among technologies that are forgotten but not quite gone
Hail our new robot overlords! Amazon warehouse tour offers glimpse of future
At its new Stone Mountain, Georgia, facility, Roomba-like robots shuffle between stacks, another adds shipping labels while another arranges packages in pallets
TikTok could be forced to change app’s ‘addictive design’ by European Commission
Preliminary EU ruling says app shifts brains of users into ‘autopilot mode’, with concerns for children and vulnerable adults
Deepfake fraud taking place on an industrial scale, study finds
AI content for scams can be targeted at individuals and ‘produced by pretty much anybody’, researchers say
Amazon reveals plans to spend $200bn in one year the day after Bezos guts Washington Post
Tech giant reports $213bn in revenue after its founder, who owns the Post, lays off a third of newspaper’s employees
Bitcoin loses half its value in three months amid crypto crunch
World’s most prominent cryptocurrency peaked at $126,000 in October 2025, only to see its value slump steeply
Calls to halt UK Palantir contracts grow amid ‘lack of transparency’ over deals
Opposition MPs urge Labour to pause public contracts with the US tech firm after attempts to examine deals blocked
How cryptocurrency’s second largest coin missed out on the industry’s boom
A leaked pitch to reshape Ethereum’s leadership exposed deep divisions over politics, power and Ether’s static price
Spain hits back at Pavel Durov over mass Telegram post on social media ban plan
Founder’s extraordinary intervention has laid bare rising tensions between European governments and tech firms