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  • Anthropic logo is seen on a smartphone with a Claude mythos logo in the background

    AI
    Anthropic says US has lifted export controls on Fable and Mythos AI models after security fears

    AI company was forced last month to suspend access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models for all foreign nationals
  • a sign on a fence with UN logo

    AI
    Rapid spread of AI may worsen global inequality, UN warns

  • Google logo on Apple Macbook

    Smartphones
    UK watchdog plans to break Apple and Google’s ‘effective duopoly’ on mobile app stores

  • a man being vaccinated

    AI
    Frequent AI chatbot users more likely to believe anti-vaccine myths, poll finds

  • Trump in blue suit points his finger on a stage with two US flags and a blue background.

    US news
    Alarm bells over conflict of interest as filing shows Trump raked in $2bn in 2025

  • An oldish man with white beard and wearing black framed glasses in a grey shirt looking at a laptop

    AI
    Return of the ‘greybeards’: AI backfired – so Ford had to rehire humans

  • Colourful illustration of Iason Gregory with half his face transformed into computer circuitry.

    The long read
    ‘There’s this deep mystery of what, actually, is this thing?’: the philosopher inside Google DeepMind AI

  • Beach with palm trees and sunbeds

    AI summaries of Tripadvisor hotel reviews downplay serious complaints, investigation finds

  • a cutout of a man holding up a bitcoin

    Trump accused of ‘disgusting’ greed after being paid over $2bn since return to office

  • Jamir Nazir

    Short story accused of being AI-written wins overall Commonwealth prize

  • Anna Funder gestures while speaking at microphones in Parliament House, with a group of people standing behind her

    Creatives sound alarm on copyright as Pocock calls $50bn datacentre proposal ‘ultimate dirty deal’

Spotlight

  • People rally before participating in a march to protest the opening of AI data centres in Vancouver.

    No console-flation: how the thirst for AI chips is sending games console prices soaring

    Newsletter
  • A six-wheel Starship delivery robot on a suburban street, with a sticker that reads: 'Yup, I deliver groceries!'

    ‘A very good gadget’: taking delivery from the robots of Milton Keynes

  • Erin Brockovich stands in font of some palm trees, with her hair in a top knot, wearing a dark shirt and gold earrings and chain

    ‘We’re up against forces that have all the money in the world’: Erin Brockovich on her battle against AI datacentres

  • A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifts off from Nasa's Kennedy Space Center. A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying the satellite into orbit took off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 5:26 pm (2126 GMT), the US space agency announced. (Photo by Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo / AFP) (Photo by MIGUEL J. RODRIGUEZ CARRILLO/AFP via Getty Images)

    Australian with retirement savings? You probably own SpaceX

Opinion & analysis

  • Arwa Mahdawi

    Doubt that Elon Musk ‘earned’ his trillion? Rightwing media says you’re in an ‘impotent envy cult’

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Hand tools

    I asked AI for help with DIY. It told me to build a subfloor on rotting stumps, but also taught me valuable lessons

    Myke Bartlett
  • two men shaking hands

    Anthropic’s alliance with pope on AI harms: all in good faith or ‘Vatican-washing?’

  • Jess Harwood on AI and art

    AI ‘art’ is boring, soulless theft – and when I see it as an artist I see red

    Jess Harwood
  • PlayStation game cases displayed on white shelves in a store, showing titles for PS4 and PS5

    Sony will kill PlayStation games on discs in 2028 and offer digital downloads only

    With the much-anticipated release of Grand Theft Auto VI only available as download, Sony is following suite
  • A silhouetted figure stands facing a bright tunnel underpass, with brick walls and industrial architecture visible

    Signet City – futuristic parasites feed off 80s social realism in dystopian RPG

  • Amber Gray and Eva Noblezada dance centre stage with arms raised, surrounded by cast members in Hadestown

    ‘I felt like Orpheus’: how the designer of Gears of War bounced back from studio closure by producing Hadestown

  • animated golfer takes a swing in Normal Golf Game.

    Behold, the most realistic golf game ever – it took me 428 strokes to finish a hole

    Dominik Diamond
  • A woman and man in sunglasses pose beside a green sports car with palm trees and city buildings behind in video game Grand Theft Auto VI Ultimate Edition.

    Grand Theft Auto VI pre-orders open, but don’t expect a physical copy

  • A smartphone screen displays AI app icons including DeepSeek, ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, and Perplexity

    A viral doomsday scenario aims to shake Europe out of its AI complacency

  • a banner reads 'billionaire tax now'

    California ‘billionaire tax’ makes ballot despite opposition from tech moguls

  • ‘The CEOs are telling us, “We’re on track to create superhuman intelligence, which has a good chance of causing human extinction.”’

    Will it take a ‘Chornobyl-scale disaster’ for us to regulate AI?

    Stuart Russell
  • Sam Altman in a dark suit and light blue tie speaks in an indoor setting

    Bernie Sanders’ AI sovereign wealth fund plan is good. But we think this is better

    Nathan E Sanders and Bruce Schneier

Reviews

  • Armie Hammer in Citizen Vigilante, 2026.

    Citizen Vigilante review – Armie Hammer returns to obliterate the imaginary woke piñata of Europe-stan

  • A Ring Wired Video Doorbell Pro with a camera and circular button mounted on an orange brick wall next to a door.

    Ring Video Doorbell Pro review: night and day better with new 4K camera

  • Composite of the best fans including Shark and AirCraft

    The best fans to keep you cool in 2026 – tried and tested

  • Writer Alan Martin holds the Dyson HushJet Mini Cool fan while looking up in a room with orange patterned curtains

    Dyson HushJet Mini Cool fan review: I’ve never tested a handheld fan this powerful – or this loud

In depth

  • A man sitting in an office, holding a box of red tools with shelves full of books behind him

    ‘You can’t make billions without hurting people’: Cory Doctorow on Elon Musk, the AI bubble and bosses’ cruel fantasies

  • Red and white vertical pipes run along the dark exterior facade of a data center

    Thirsty and power hungry: Australia is in the middle of a datacentre boom – but are they good for the economy?

  • a graphic of a man standing in a digital city

    Gig workers are endlessly exploited. AI could make more of us share their fate

  • Elon Musk shown in a colourful composite image.

    ‘A neoliberal nightmare’: my ride on the Vegas Loop – Elon Musk’s answer to traffic jams

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