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The Latest Articles by John Naughton

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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For all the hype in 2023, we still don’t know what AI’s long-term impact will be

As with the printing press and the dotcom boom, initial frenzy and speculation obscures the lasting legacy of new technologies

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Why AI is a disaster for the climate

Amid all the hysteria about ChatGPT and co, one thing is being missed: how energy-intensive the technology is

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Let’s hope Epic’s antitrust win over Google is the first of many tech giant losses

The jury in the video game developer’s antitrust case over Google’s app store monopoly were under no illusions

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ChatGPT exploded into public life a year ago. Now we know what went on behind the scenes

The fallout from AI’s ‘Pearl Harbor moment’ has been dramatic. In tech, 12 months can seem like an eternity

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Europe’s AI crackdown looks doomed to be felled by Silicon Valley lobbying power

The EU’s artificial intelligence safety bill enters its final stages this week, but seems already to have been nobbled by the big names in the US

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Preserving our digital content is vital. But paying $38,000 for the privilege is not

Storing online is not just about photos and texts but thoughts and ideas. Platforms such as WordPress are starting to act, but it must be at a realistic price

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Sam Altman was the trusted face of AI. His firm, though, is much more complex

The conflicts of interest built into OpenAI’s corporate structure may be a bigger story than the loss of its leader

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If you think ‘bossware’ surveillance culture in the workplace is new, think again

The rise of intrusive software that lets employers monitor workers’ every move is part of ruthless corporate mindset, but its origins go back to 1900s scientific management theories

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How did Sam Bankman-Fried attract investors? Well, Fomo probably helped

The cryptocurrency fraudster talked a lot of venture capitalists into pouring millions of dollars into his business. Maybe they should be more careful next time

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AI is not the problem, prime minister – the corporations that control it are

Despite Rishi Sunak’s summit and Joe Biden’s executive order on the safety of AI, it’s the tech giants that really need reining in

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Artists may make AI firms pay a high price for their software’s ‘creativity’

Computer-generated art seemed magical at first, but it works by ‘scraping’ the creations of real people. Now they’re angry, and have the tools to fight back

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The advanced silicon chips on which the future depends are all made in Taiwan – here’s why that matters

With the intentions of Xi Jinping uncertain, there is a rush to build advanced chip-fabrication plants outside Taiwan. But it is proving a bigger challenge than anticipated

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Musk’s plan X: keep users in the dark, feed them dung and watch sales mushroom

The social network owner’s business model appears to include a slurry of unmoderated toxicity, such as footage of a murder

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Encryption services are sending the right message to the quantum codebreakers

Quantum computers may still be years away, but it’s prudent that end-to-end encryption providers are ramping up defences

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Has Google’s monopoly on the search engine market finally timed out?

The US justice department is belatedly addressing the company’s stranglehold on digital advertising technologies in the most significant antitrust case for more than two decades

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When it comes to creative thinking, it’s clear that AI systems mean business

The chatbot GPT-4 has produced more viable commercial ideas more efficiently and more cheaply than US university students

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Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson review – pillock, genius, or both?

The tech mogul is portrayed as a brutal visionary with father issues in this comprehensive biography

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The EU cable guys have tied down Apple, yet big tech is still bossing the Tories

The tech giant has bowed to European legislation with a USB-C connector on its new iPhone but the UK government has failed to make messaging services toe the line on encryption

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A punk, a monkey, a maths genius … our pick of local heroes who deserve a blue plaque

With the London scheme poised to go national, Observer writers make their cases for a few of the many overlooked, snubbed or merely forgotten figures who richly deserve recognition

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From me to your inbox: 33 of the best Substack newsletters

The fast-growing US writing platform has come of age. But how do you find the good stuff? We pick some of the best by theme

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