Month: April 2026

As domestic sales slow manufacturers are investing in AI and seeking growth in technology and in overseas markets At the world’s biggest car fair, which opened in Beijing on Friday, there were hundreds of manufacturers, more than 1,000 vehicles, hundreds of thousands of enthusiasts – and hardly anyone behind a wheel. China’s car companies have …

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She’s already taken Paris and Venice – now, with husband Jeff Bezos, she’s stormed New York’s Met Gala. And for a mere $75,000, you can be there with her We live in an age when the most successful revolutionaries are not the peasants but the Silicon Valley billionaires. They are the true disrupters, the victorious …

Behold the riches to riches tale of Lauren Sánchez – the girlboss Cinderella who bought the ball | Marina Hyde Read More »

Genki Kawamura’s eerie new film expands on a haunting video game that leaves players lost in endless subway tunnels. He explains how this makes viewers and players face their worst fears Genki Kawamura is something of a polymath. A bestselling author, film-maker, script writer and producer – he is also a lifelong gamer who grew …

‘Opening the hidden door within us’: how Exit 8 took a simple game to purgatory Read More »

More than 200,000 have signed petitions urging the government to break contracts amid concerns about the company’s ‘supervillain’ manifesto More than 200,000 people have called on ministers to break contracts with Palantir in an apparent groundswell of public concern about the US tech company’s role in the NHS, police, military and councils. Two petitions have …

Thousands call on UK ministers to cut ties with US tech giant Palantir Read More »

Meta said it would cut 10% of it employees while Microsoft will offer voluntary retirement to about 7% of workers Meta and Microsoft are trimming their workforces by thousands as they make heavy investments in AI and executives claim that the technology is meeting their companies’ productivity needs. Meta told staff on Thursday that on …

Microsoft and Meta announce large staff reductions as they spend big on AI Read More »

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot ‘extremely validating’ of delusional inputs and often went further, ‘elaborating new material’, study finds Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok 4.1 told researchers pretending to be delusional that there was indeed a …

Grok tells researchers pretending to be delusional ‘drive an iron nail through the mirror while reciting Psalm 91 backwards’ Read More »

PlayStation 5; Housemarque/SonyAs a fast-firing spaceman, one minute you’re invincible, the next you’re dead – with every battle like watching a firework show through a kaleidoscope On the planet Carcosa, mangled, blackened trees and crimson flowers take root next to the ruins of some ancient alien civilisation, flanked by statues contorted in pain, tearing at …

Saros review – you’ll strafe until your thumbs hurt in this primal alien shooter Read More »

Tech can scale cyber-attacks and defences alike, raising questions about private power, public risk and the future of a shared internet Anthropic announced its latest AI model, Claude Mythos, this month but said it would not be released publicly, because it turns computers into crime scenes. The company claimed that it could find previously unknown …

The Guardian view on Anthropic’s Claude Mythos: when AI finds every flaw, who controls the internet? | Editorial Read More »

Eurail, which sells passes, says data being ‘offered for sale on dark web’ after December breach affecting 300,000 people Holidaymakers across Europe are facing the stress and expense of getting new passports after their personal data was posted on the dark web after a hack of the Interrail company Eurail. Personal data, including passport numbers, …

Some Interrail travellers told to cancel passports as hacked data posted online Read More »

Technology minister tells Commons ‘de-identified’ information from UK Biobank advertised for sale on Alibaba UK politics live – latest updates The confidential health records of half a million British volunteers have been offered for sale on Chinese website Alibaba, the UK government has confirmed. The data, belonging to participants in the UK Biobank project, was …

Private health records of half a million Britons offered for sale on Chinese website Read More »