Rollout of AI may need to be slowed to ‘save society’, says JP Morgan boss | Davos 2026
Jamie Dimon, the boss of JP Morgan, has said artificial intelligence “may go too fast for society” and cause “civil…
Mercy review – Chris Pratt takes on AI judge Rebecca Ferguson in ingenious sci-fi thriller | Film
Irish writer Marco van Belle delivers an entertaining script for this real time futurist thriller-satire set in LA in 2029,…
The IMF’s banal language is sane-washing an economic crisis created by the egomaniacal Donald Trump | Greg Jericho
This week the IMF released an update to its World Economic Outlook, titled “Global Economy: Steady amid Divergent Forces” and,…
My friends in Italy are using AI therapists. But is that so bad, when a stigma surrounds mental health? | Viola Di Grado
It’s a sunny afternoon in a Roman park and a peculiar, new-to-this-era kind of coming out is happening between me…
Superstates and spheres of influence | George Orwell
Interesting article by Brendan Simms of Cambridge University on spheres of influence in the world (Has a Nazi theorist’s vision…
Big tech continues to bend the knee to Trump a year after his inauguration | Technology
Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, the Guardian’s US tech editor. One year ago today, Donald…
Tell us: has a chatbot helped you out of a difficult time in your life? | AI (artificial intelligence)
AI Chatbots are now a part of everyday life. ChatGPT surpassed 800 million weekly active users in late 2025. Some…
Donald Trump trashed global economic orthodoxy. A year on, did he leave Australia a winner or loser? | Australian economy
One year into Donald Trump’s presidency and experts in Australia and around the world can hear the grinding of history’s…
Cosmic Princess Kaguya! review – trippy anime adapted from Japanese folk dives into virtual reality popworld | Film
Never has a film been more deserving of an exclamation mark at the end of the title than this animation…
UK exposed to ‘serious harm’ by failure to tackle AI risks, MPs warn | Business
Consumers and the UK financial system are being exposed to “serious harm” by the failure of government and the Bank…