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    AI
    I wore Meta’s smartglasses for a month – and it left me feeling like a creep

    Content creators love the built-in camera; sceptics call them ‘pervert glasses’. Do we really need any more hi-tech wearables, even with a voice assistant that sounds like Judi Dench?
  • The Oracle field office in Arlington, Virginia, US, behind road signs and traffic lights

    AI
    US tech firm Oracle cuts thousands of jobs as it steps up AI spending

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    US
    Silicon Valley city to give residents doorbells equipped with cameras

  • Original Kokosnuss book cover next to allegedly AI-generated version by ChatGPT

    ChatGPT
    Penguin to sue OpenAI over ChatGPT version of German children’s book

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    Reworked
    The jobs AI can’t do – and the young adults doing them

  • A man in a suit, with bright lights overhead.

    AI
    OpenAI, parent firm of ChatGPT, closes $122bn funding round amid AI boom

  • Man outside court

    TechScape
    Landmark losses for Meta and YouTube as big tech misses the point

    Newsletter

Spotlight

  • Ella Hopkins by some trees, holding her headphones

    I took off my headphones – and noticed a stranger in peril

  • John and Ubokobong Amanam display their flesh-like bionic arm at their laboratory in Nigeria

    ‘Prosthetics aren’t made for people like us’: the brothers creating innovative artificial limbs for Africans

  • Composite image showing a man looking at a laptop sitting on the bonnet of a car. For the Kindness of strangers series, a man tells the story of how Redditors saved his car

    The kindness of strangers: An online forum user shipped me a car radiator, saving me from financial ruin

  • Illustration of humanoid robot hand typing on laptop computer

    ‘Soon publishers won’t stand a chance’: literary world in struggle to detect AI-written books

Opinion & analysis

  • Sam Altman against a red background.

    If OpenAI is to float on the stock market this year, it needs to start turning a profit

  • Social Media TrialsWorkers walk past a display at Meta headquarters on Thursday, March 26, 2026, in Menlo Park, Calif. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

    How Meta’s victim-blaming failed to sway jurors in landmark social media addiction trial

  • Man departs Capitol room

    ‘Accountability has arrived’: dual US court losses show shifting tide against Meta and co

  • London cityscape

    Campaign groups rail against Palantir, but the UK contracts keep coming

  • A big screen featuring a video game, with statues from the V&A museum in the background.

    Pixels and paintings: video games return to the V&A

    From an interactive session of Sex With Friends to improvised Robot Karaoke, the Friday Live celebration of play and performance amid the museum’s venerable halls was a reminder of gaming’s cultural clout
  • Keza MacDonald

    Including online games in social media bans is unworkable, unnecessary and would harm young people

    Keza MacDonald
  • A man in a suit holds out his hands while speaking.

    CEO of Epic Games apologizes after laying off employee with terminal brain cancer

  • Retro Rewind - Video Store Simulator game, screenshot

    Stop the world, I want to get off and run a video rental store in the 1990s

    Dominik Diamond
  • Hand holding phone displaying Wordle game with colored letter tiles.

    Wordle inventor gets ahead of the game

  • Larry Ryan

    These CEOs want a starring role in our lives – and there’s not much we can do about it

    Larry Ryan
  • A man in a suit gestures with his hands

    OpenAI shutters AI video generator Sora in abrupt announcement

  • The Claude welcome screen on a cellphone

    Anthropic and Pentagon face off in court over ban on company’s AI model

  • NVIDIA GTC global AI conference in San Jose, California,Guests tour the NVIDIA booth during the NVIDIA GTC global AI conference in San Jose, California, U.S. March 17, 2026. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

    Divide between Silicon Valley and ordinary people grows ever larger

    Newsletter

Reviews

  • Apple MacBook Neo A18 Pro displaying The Guardian website on wooden desk.

    MacBook Neo review: the budget Apple laptop powered by an iPhone chip

  • Elon Musk speaking in front of a huge American flag

    Muskism by Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff review – how Elon Musk is reshaping the world

  • Silhouette of man holding computer with light coming out from screen

    We Know You Can Pay a Million by Anja Shortland review – the terrifying new world of ransomware

  • Apple iPhone 17e home screen displaying apps and London weather widget.

    iPhone 17e review: Apple upgrades its cheapest new smartphone

In depth

  • Cropped shot of a soldier wearing camouflage fatigues with an american flag for a patch

    ‘They feel true’: political deepfakes are growing in influence – even if people know they aren’t real

  • A person holds their phone up while driving

    ‘Kids say they take a quick look at TikTok’: a new kind of distracted driving is on the rise

  • UFCW members striking outside Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center over labor practices

    ‘Thank God they’re still alive’: Kaiser therapists claim its new screening system puts patients at higher risk by delaying their care

  • People moving into a pixelated area while gold coins fall around them.

    Thousands of people are selling their identities to train AI – but at what cost?

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