Month: September 2026

Australia claims it is a global pioneer in preventing online harm – should other countries follow suit?

As Anthony Albanese heads to the US to discuss social media reform, he has shown a level of leadership not always expected from a smaller country Get our new political email, free app or daily news podcast Statesmen, shysters, dictators. Over the years, the United Nations has seen all kinds of world leaders. But when …

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Is Trump’s AI obsession walking the world into disaster? | Politics Weekly America

Tech bosses have called for a slowdown in artificial intelligence and formal guardrails to be introduced by the US government. But President Trump is not moved by the doomsday predictions, calling them a ‘hoax’. What is behind his affection for the AI industry? Jonathan Freedland and Guardian US tech editor Blake Montgomery discuss Continue reading… Tech …

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OpenAI ‘ethically hacked’ with help of Anthropic’s Claude chatbot

US cybersecurity researchers who conducted hack say ‘scope of what we could theoretically access was huge’ Cybersecurity researchers have hacked into OpenAI with the help of Anthropic’s Claude chatbot, in the latest example of security issues at the company. A team at a US-based startup compromised multiple OpenAI employees’ ChatGPT accounts, starting a process that …

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Andrew Hastie says AI advised him to reply ‘congratulations!’ to man who planned to end life with assisted dying

Liberal MP speaks of AI’s shortcomings as cyber chief tells inquiry the tech is needed to fend off ‘highly capable malicious cyber actors’ Get our new political email, free app or daily news podcast When a man with a terminal illness wrote to his local MP Andrew Hastie, telling him he planned on ending his …

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Former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson joins Palantir

Peer takes full-time position at the controversial company as it fends off pressure from both Andy Burnham’s government and Sadiq Khan Another former government minister has been hired by a controversial US AI company, this time Palantir, which has appointed Andy Burnham’s former ministerial colleague Tom Watson. The Labour peer and former deputy leader will …

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‘Brutal’: thousands of T-shirt designs stolen and listed on Temu, Sydney label claims

Warwick Levy, who runs Lonely Kids Club, says AI may have been used to scrape his entire website and replicate designs Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast After 15 years running a small business making T-shirts, Warwick Levy says it was “brutal” when he first discovered an identical design for …

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Is Trump’s AI obsession walking the world into disaster? – podcast

Tech bosses have called for a slowdown in artificial intelligence and the creation of formal guardrails from the US government. But why is President Trump unmoved by the doomsday predictions, dismissing them as a ‘hoax’? What lies behind his embrace of the AI industry? Jonathan Freedland speaks to the Guardian US tech editor, Blake Montgomery …

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Feeling overwhelmed by the AI doom loop? Here’s the essential reading list to make sense of it all

It’s a chaotic time in an industry that’s reshaping our lives – Guardian reporters and experts recommend the books that help explain how we got here, and where we’re heading Have you been feeling trapped in an endless cycle of artificial intelligence hype and panic? You’re not alone. It’s a chaotic time to make sense …

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Meta ordered to remove UK deepfakes as oversight board criticises ‘inadequate’ safeguards

Facebook told it was wrong in leaving up AI-generated videos of a Labour councillor and Muslim campaigner, amid calls to curb fakes Meta’s “supreme court” has ordered the tech company to take down deepfake videos of a UK politician and a young Muslim woman from Facebook and do more to tackle AI-generated fake imagery. A …

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