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  • Observer Design

    Motoring
    Monsters of the road: what should the UK do about SUVs?

    They have higher emissions, hog roadspace and are more dangerous for other road users. Yet SUVs are selling better than ever. As calls for curbs increase, some people are taking matters into their own hands
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    Is AI regulation really possible?

    Fiona Katauskas
  • An AI generated sticker in WhatsApp shows an image of a boy with a gun when asked for pictures of "Muslim boy Palestinian".

    Meta
    WhatsApp’s AI shows gun-wielding children when prompted with ‘Palestine’

  • Studio portrait of a persian cat with suspicious expression.

    Miaows, purrs, whisker twitches
    AI could finally help us understand cat ‘language’

  • Kamala Harris standing at a podium in front of a blue screen with the words 'Artificial intelligence: in the service of public interest' in white writing.

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

    John Naughton
  • Oscar Wilde

    No utopia
    Experts question Elon Musk’s vision of world without work

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News

  • Bald middle-aged white man smiling

    So long, Seattle: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says he is moving to Miami

  • Customers shop in an Apple store in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on 30 January 2023.

    Apple’s overall earnings slump despite record iPhone and services revenue

  • English dictionaries stacked on a desk.

    ‘AI’ named most notable word of 2023 by Collins dictionary

  • A close-up of the red and chrome front bumper of a car, with the Tesla T logo.

    Tesla wins first major US autopilot lawsuit over 2019 fatal crash

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  • Single solitary computer hacker works in the dark committing crime

    Some people whose personal data stolen in HWL Ebsworth hack not told for six months

  • Close-up of adult hand typing on laptop

    Pizza Hut Australia hack: data breach exposes customer information and order details

    • HWL Ebsworth hack: 65 Australian government agencies affected by cyber-attack

    • Australian federal police officers’ details leaked on dark web after law firm hack

    • Who is behind the latest wave of UK ransomware attacks?

    • Exiled Russian journalist hacked using NSO Group spyware

    • TissuPath hack: patient data possibly exposed in cyber-attack on Melbourne pathology clinic

    • UK cybersecurity agency warns of chatbot ‘prompt injection’ attacks

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Spotlight

  • Sam Bankman-Fried is led away in handcuffs by police in the Bahamas in December last year. Bankman-Fried’s answers did not inspire confidence – let alone likeability.

    Dramatic fall for Sam Bankman-Fried and ‘unkempt visionary’ persona

  • Elon Musk (right) told the British prime minister, Rishi Sunak, that AI would usher in an ‘age of abundance’.

    ‘Bletchley made me more optimistic’: how experts reacted to AI summit

  • Rishi Sunak and Elon Musk meeting to discuss AI on Thursday.

    Sunak plays eager chatshow host as Musk discusses AI and politics

  • Ursula von der Leyen, Kamala Harris and Rishi Sunak attend the AI safety summit at Bletchley Park in Milton Keynes, England.

    Five takeaways from UK’s AI safety summit at Bletchley Park

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Opinion & analysis

  • A man in a suit standing at a podium labelled 'AI Safety Summit' speaks while two women in business dress listen alongside him onstage

    The great powers signed up to Sunak’s AI summit – while jostling for position

  • X now resembles a creature from The Walking Dead – rotting, dangerous and a shadow of its former self.

    Twitter takeover: how a year of Elon Musk rendered the platform useless

    Pranav Dixit
  • An AI hand reaches out to touch the earth transforming it into pixelated data.

    Hope or horror? The great AI debate dividing its pioneers

  • Jobcentre graphic AI

    UK risks scandal over ‘bias’ in AI tools in use across public sector

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  • Frog Detective standing in an office while on the phone to the supervisor.

    Frog Detective: The Entire Mystery review – whimsical whodunnits

    All three cases of the indie sleeper hit are collated in one wry, enjoyable package that’s perfect for a lazy afternoon’s detecting
  • A wistful, wordless story … Jusant.

    Jusant review – a skyscraping climbing game with the gift of perspective

  • Thirsty Suitors  screenshot

    Thirsty Suitors review – emotional combat that’s equal parts funny, horny and heartfelt

  • Super Mario Bros Wonder

    Pushing Buttons: Finally, I’ve found a game I can actually enjoy playing with my child

  • Children swap Pokémon cards. The trading card game has been running since 1996

    The secrets behind how Pokémon cards are made – from clay carvings to gruelling playtests

  • Five Nights At Freddy's

    Little monsters: why indie developers make the best horror games

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    Ilya: The AI scientist shaping the world

  • Ilya Sutskever, one of the leading AI scientists behind ChatGPT, reflects on his founding vision and values. In conversations with the film-maker Tonje Hessen Schei as he was developing the chat language model between 2016 and 2019, he describes his personal philosophy and makes startling predictions for a technology already shaping our world.

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    Ilya: the AI scientist shaping the world

  • Robot and human hands reach out to touch one another

    Hey tech billionaires, if you want to talk about radical change, let’s abolish venture capitalism

    Samantha Floreani
  • A stock image of a white woman and a Black man, who appear from the necks down, standing by a blue transparent water cooler.

    ‘We have a bias problem’: California bill addresses race and gender in venture capital funding

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Reviews

  • Major malfunction … Heida Reed as Rita in Blank

    Blank review – author held hostage by AI as near-future thriller enters Misery territory

  • Google Pixel 8 pictured in a hand.

    Pixel 8 review: Google’s smaller, longer-lasting Android

    • Pixel Watch 2 review: Google smartwatch gets speed and battery boost

    • Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 review: faster chips and brighter screens

    • 8 Found Dead review – corpse-strewn property horror finds the hell in holiday rental

    • Pixel 8 Pro: Google’s longer-lasting, AI-packed camera phone

    • iPhone 15 Pro review: the best smaller phone gets better

    • iPhone 15 Pro Max review: Apple’s superphone weighs less and zooms further

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Devices

  • Google Pixel Watch 2 pictured next to a Pixel 8 Pro smartphone.

    Wearables
    Pixel Watch 2 review: Google smartwatch gets speed and battery boost

  • Emma Beddington

    Internet of things
    I am being terrorised by my robot vacuum cleaner

    Emma Beddington
  • A window cleaner standing on the outside of a window ledge with a cherrypicker behind him

    Smartphones
    ‘It was odd to see someone standing in a 30ft-high window’: Anthony Edralin’s best phone picture

  • Customers shop in an Apple store in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on 30 January 2023.

    Tablets
    Apple’s overall earnings slump despite record iPhone and services revenue

In depth

  • BetterBlends promised better smoothies powered by AI and received positive press upon opening.

    An AI smoothie shop opened in San Francisco with much hype. Why is it closed already?

    • Tech Musk Wordle

      TechScape: Crypto in the dock, Musk in the frame and fiendish puzzles – three chilling tales for Halloween

    • A teacher writes equations on a board as it transforms into pixelated data.

      ‘Is this an appropriate use of AI or not?’: teachers say classrooms are now AI testing labs

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