Workers’ collectives are the bee’s knees | Brief letters
Hive mentality | AI fantasies | Foreign trains | Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor Chris Payne’s description of the working of a beehive:…
‘We’re being turned into an energy colony’: Argentina’s nuclear plan faces backlash over US interests | Mining
On an outcrop above the Chubut River, one of the few to cut across the arid Patagonian steppe of southern…
EU threatens to act over Meta blocking rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp | AI (artificial intelligence)
The EU has threatened to take action against the social media company Meta, arguing it has blocked rival chatbots from…
I asked AI to name my wife. To the hopelessly incorrect people it cited, my deepest apologies | Martin Rowson
Recently, the Rowsons accidentally invented a new game that anyone can play at home. I have yet to come up…
‘Was I scared going back to China? No’: Ai Weiwei on AI, western censorship and returning home | Ai Weiwei
Ai Weiwei is talking me through the decision-making process before his first visit to China in over a decade. The…
US companies accused of ‘AI washing’ in citing artificial intelligence for job losses | US news
Over the last year, US corporate leaders have often explained layoffs by saying the positions were no longer needed because…
Battle of the chatbots: Anthropic and OpenAI go head-to-head over ads in their AI products | AI (artificial intelligence)
The Seahawks and the Patriots aren’t the only ones gearing up for a fight. AI rivals Anthropic and OpenAI have…
Rage against the machine: a California community rallied against a datacenter – and won | Technology
When a southern California city council proposed building a giant datacenter the size of four football fields last December, five…
Why has Elon Musk merged his rocket company with his AI startup? | Elon Musk
As well as extending “the light of consciousness to the stars”, as Musk described it, the transaction creates a business…
AI analysis casts doubt on Van Eyck paintings in Italian and US museums | Art
An analysis of two paintings in museums in the US and Italy by the 15th-century Flemish artist Jan van Eyck…