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Tesla sales in Europe slump 40% as BYD new car registrations more than triple

Electric car business run by Elon Musk continues to lose ground to Chinese rival despite recent revamp of Model Y

ChatGPT has its uses, but I still hate it – and I’ll tell you why

It’s bad for the planet and could make many jobs – including mine – obsolete. But my loathing runs deeper than that, says writer Imogen West-Knights

Half of UK adults worry that AI will take or alter their job, poll finds

The TUC calls for a new approach to technology and greater input from workers on how it is deployed

Trump threatens tariffs on countries that ‘discriminate’ against US tech

Levies and restrictions could hit UK’s digital services tax and EU states such as France, Italy and Spain

Politicians risk ignoring many voters by not being on TikTok, Tory MP warns

‘You’ve got to be where the electorate are,’ says Luke Evans, the sixth-most followed UK politician on the platform

Composer John Williams says he ‘never liked film music very much’

Exclusive: The creator of some of cinema’s most memorable music says it pales in comparison to the great works

Deal to get ChatGPT Plus for whole of UK discussed by Open AI boss and minister

Exclusive: Deal that could have cost £2bn was floated at meeting between technology secretary Peter Kyle and Sam Altman

Is the AI bubble about to burst – and send the stock market into freefall?

Shares in US tech stocks are falling but it would probably be unwise for fund managers to pull out

‘It’s gruesome’: fears of grave-robbing amid rise in sale of human remains

Social media is helping drive trade in skulls, bones and skin products as UK legal void risks new era of ‘body snatching’

Silicon Valley is full of wealthy men who think they’re victims, says Nick Clegg

Former Lib Dem leader and Meta strategist writes in new book that power in tech capital is interlaced with ‘self pity’

Expert rejects Met police claim that study backs bias-free live facial recognition use

Academic says sample size was too small to claim new sensitivity guidelines have removed racial, gender or age bias

‘New Noel Clarkes will surface’ without change in film and TV, say female witnesses

Women who gave evidence in failed libel trial against Guardian say industries need to safeguard women from sexual predators

‘If the people who ran Facebook were monsters, I wouldn’t have worked there’: Nick Clegg on tech bros, Trump and leaving Silicon Valley

When Britain’s former deputy PM took a job at Meta, nothing could have prepared him for the ‘cloying conformity’ of the tech world. So why does he still think social media is a force for good?

Digested week: new words, extrovert propaganda and a perfect train journey

Cambridge Dictionary’s annual release of its new entrants is a great measure of how functionally old you are

A-levels and GCSEs need overhaul to keep pace with generative AI, experts say

Oral assessments, tightened security and faster marking could result as use of AI itself becomes core digital skill

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  • Met gets extension to Palantir AI project after Sadiq Khan blocked deal
  • Four in five under-16s in Australia using social media despite ban, study shows
  • Jacob Elordi, Jenna Ortega and Stephen Fry among new invited Oscar voters
  • ‘We should be worried’: report sheds light on ICE’s booming arsenal of hi-tech surveillance tools
  • Elon Musk loses trillionaire status as SpaceX and Tesla stock drops
  • Big tech spent millions on a single US congressional race. It won’t be the last time
  • The Guardian view on Islamophobia: political rhetoric is fuelling hate crime
  • Supergirl review – sprightly and sparkling superhero yarn without the usual baffling DC backstory
  • AI helps read papyrus scroll burnt to crisp during Vesuvius eruption
  • Dyson HushJet Mini Cool fan review: I’ve never tested a handheld fan this powerful – or this loud
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  • Apple Watches are cheaper than ever right now. Here are the ones we’d buy
  • I was wary of driverless cars and their tech overlords – but they could give me a different future
  • Warriors come out to Broadway with Lin-Manuel Miranda musical
  • The weirdest things a leak revealed about Peter Thiel’s secret club
  • Meta pauses employee tracker for AI training amid privacy concerns
  • Karl Stefanovic reportedly leaving Nine after podcast with UK far-right activist Tommy Robinson
  • The Last Viking review – Mads Mikkelsen thinks he’s John Lennon in Von Trier-ish prankster comedy
  • If an AI chatbot misleads you, who is to blame?
  • ‘You can’t make billions without hurting people’: Cory Doctorow on Elon Musk, the AI bubble and bosses’ cruel fantasies
  • Dear You review – enjoyable Chinese romdram crosses generations as it tracks down a missing husband
  • Hold the Fort review – gory goings-on at the neighbours association get-together
  • Deja viewing: the return of the cheapo compilation film
  • ‘Who is going to pay us when we’re replaced by robots?’ The Indian factory workers told to film themselves for AI
  • Chinese supercomputer leapfrogs best US machines to be ranked world’s fastest
  • Keir Starmer and Andy Burnham have met away from No 10 to discuss transition – as it happened
  • Quantum of Solace: a heartbroken James Bond is fuelled by rage in Daniel Craig’s most underrated 007 film
  • US AI stock sell-off shakes markets from Wall Street to Asia
  • You’re only supposed to blow the bloody hooves off: AI Michael Caine narrates Odyssey audiobook

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