AI will make the rich unfathomably richer. Is this really what we want? | Dustin Guastella
Recently, Palantir – a tech corporation that boasts no fewer than five billionaire executives – announced its Q2 earnings: over…
‘I love you too!’ My family’s creepy, unsettling week with an AI toy | Artificial intelligence (AI)
‘I’m going to throw that thing into a river!” my wife says as she comes down the stairs looking frazzled…
‘I have to do it’: Why one of the world’s most brilliant AI scientists left the US for China | China
Song-chun Zhu at Peking University, July 2025. Photograph: Sean Gallagher/The Guardian By the time Song-Chun Zhu was six years old,…
To understand how AI will reconfigure humanity, try this German fairytale | Fairytales
In the German fairytale The Fisherman and His Wife, an old man one day catches a strange fish: a talking…
Google announces £5bn AI investment in UK before Trump visit | Google
Google has said it will invest £5bn in the UK in the next two years to help meet growing demand…
Top UK artists urge Starmer to protect their work on eve of Trump visit | Artificial intelligence (AI)
Leading British artists including Mick Jagger, Kate Bush and Paul McCartney have urged Keir Starmer to stand up for creators’…
Australian culture, resources and democracy for $4,300 a year? Thanks for the offer, tech bros, but no thanks | Peter Lewis
Australians owe Scott Farquhar a vote of thanks. When the Atlassian co-founder and freshly minted chair of the local tech…
Google’s huge new Essex datacentre to emit 570,000 tonnes of CO2 a year | Google
A new Google datacentre in Essex is expected to emit more than half a million tonnes of carbon dioxide a…
UK and US line up string of deals to build modular nuclear reactors in Britain | Centrica
Labour’s plans for a massive expansion of nuclear power have been given a boost with a string of transatlantic deals…
Politicians hoping AI can fix Australia’s housing crisis are risking another Robodebt | Ehsan Nabavi
“This is a gamechanger”. That’s how Paul Scully, New South Wales minister for planning and public spaces, described the state…