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Sure, Google’s AI overviews could be useful – if you like eating rocks

The company that shaped the development of search engines is banking on chatbot-style summaries. But so far, its suggestions are pretty wild

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If Scarlett Johansson can’t bring the AI firms to heel, what hope for the rest of us?

OpenAI’s unsubtle approximation of the actor’s voice for its new GPT-4o software was a stark illustration of the firm’s high-handed attitude

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What would Steve Jobs think of Apple’s culture-crushing advert?

Its latest iPad ad, portraying the destruction of artistic tools, is confirmation that company is just another unfeeling, arrogant tech giant

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ChatGPT and the like could free up coders to new heights of creativity

Far from making programmers an endangered species, AI will release them from the grunt work that stifles innovation

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The internet is in decline – it needs rewilding

The online world was meant to be an open system but has become dominated by huge corporations. If we are to revive it, that must end

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Silicon Valley’s business model is incompatible with the moderation of online horror and hatred

Managing the barrage of upsetting material online is a challenge that service providers are struggling to meet, even if they try

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The big tech firms want an AI monopoly – but the UK watchdog can bring them to heel

Microsoft, Meta and Google are snapping up small players in the burgeoning industry – but the Competition and Markets Authority is demanding fair play

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From boom to burst, the AI bubble is only heading in one direction

No one should be surprised that artificial intelligence is following a well-worn and entirely predictable financial arc

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One engineer’s curiosity may have saved us from a devastating cyber-attack

In discovering malicious code that endangered global networks in open-source software, Andres Freund exposed our reliance on insecure, volunteer-maintained tech

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How did a small developer of graphics cards for gamers suddenly become the third most valuable firm on the planet?

By turning his computer chip-making company Nvidia into a vital component in the AI arms race, Jensen Huang has placed himself at the forefront of the biggest gold rush in tech history

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Ireland opens its arms to tech titans, yet shuts its eyes to failing public services

Tax revenues from Silicon Valley giants have made the republic wealthy on paper, but housing and healthcare crises persist

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TikTok may be on borrowed time in the US, but it still holds a Trump card

Despite Congress threatening to ban the Chinese-owned app, the service has unexpectedly been handed a presidential joker

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Painful day for tech titans as EU finally sinks its regulatory teeth into them

Last week the six biggest operators – Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft and ByteDance – were forced to toe the line on competition, advertising, interoperability and more. It was a gamechanger

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Among the Trolls by Marianna Spring review – into the cesspit of online hatred

An unflinching exploration of conspiracy theories and their knock-on effects also makes heroic attempts to understand the people behind them

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AI’s craving for data is matched only by a runaway thirst for water and energy

The computing power for AI models requires immense – and increasing – amounts of natural resources. Legislation is required to prevent environmental crisis

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OpenAI’s new video generation tool could learn a lot from babies

The footage put together by Sora looks swish, but closer examination reveals its doesn’t understand physical reality

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OpenAI boss Sam Altman wants $7tn. For all our sakes, pray he doesn’t get it

The man behind ChatGPT is wooing the UAE to invest in energy-hungry AI. But if it turns out his tech can’t fix the world, he’s got his escape plan

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Forget range anxiety: we should really worry about China’s global dominance in the electric car market

EVs heavily subsidised by Beijing are flooding Europe and the globe. If we don’t watch out, it could start a major trade war

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Farewell FaceTime? That’s in store if the UK’s new snooper’s charter becomes law

The improved surveillance bill would force tech firms to tell the government about any new security measures – before they are introduced. Strangely, Apple won’t stomach it

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It was expensive and underpowered, but the Apple Macintosh still changed the world

After its hyperbolic, Ridley Scott-directed launch 40 years ago, Apple’s all-in-one computer was a commercial flop. And yet its impact is still being felt

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If the Horizon Post Office story is treated as a scandal, nothing will change

Fujitsu, the IT giant behind the flawed Horizon software, remains one of the UK government’s key suppliers, and only a national crisis will shake things up

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Horrified by Horizon? Then get ready to be totally appalled by AI

As the Post Office debacle has amply demonstrated, putting blind faith into a new form of technology can be perilous

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The hard truth about AI? It might produce some better software

If there’s one area in which artificial intelligence might be useful, it’s in the writing of computer code

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Publish Nazi newsletters on your platform, Substack, and you will rightly be damned

The online publishing service has been criticised for the way it has allowed extremist propaganda to flourish on the site

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What’s in store for 2024? Read our experts’ predictions, from Trump 2.0 to a super el Niño

Will KJ-T strike Olympic gold? Will Sunak go for an early election? How much will Taylor Swift fans bring to the UK economy? From tech to fashion, food to politics, the Observer’s top writers predict who and what will make the headlines

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