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    Artificial intelligence
    ‘AI washing’: firms are scrambling to rebrand themselves as tech-focused

    PR executives say UK companies are forcing them to present ordinary automation as artificial intelligence
  • Darren Aronofsky in a black suit and sunglasses gives a thumbs up on a red carpet with photographers behind him

    Cannes film festival
    ‘We’re expanding the cinematic toolbox’: AI fault lines on show at Cannes

  • two men in suits sit at dining table, facing another man in suit with back to camera

    Analysis
    How big tech got its way on Trump’s AI executive order

  • Isaaq Tomkins holding up a mobile phone showing a radically altered image of his face

    Artificial intelligence
    ‘You can’t control everything’: the rise in plastic surgeons asked to create ‘AI face’

  • Mayor of London Sadiq Khan in a black jacket speaks to someone in a high-visibility vest outdoors

    Palantir
    Palantir hits back at Sadiq Khan after £50m contract with Met police blocked

  • A tall illuminated rocket tower stands beside a launch structure against a cloudy twilight sky

    SpaceX
    Mars colony and Grok warnings: five strange details in SpaceX’s pitch to investors

  • Omar Abdulaziz in a still from the documentary film The Dissident.

    Media
    Meta and Snapchat blocking Saudi dissidents’ accounts

  • Datacentre worker walking between stacks of computer equipment

    Scotland’s ‘green datacentres’ policy ignores emissions impact of AI, analysis shows

  • Man stands at lectern

    Sunrise Movement takes credit for disrupting Trump’s New York state rally – as it happened

  • Bill Winters, the group chief executive of Standard Chartered, speaks at the global financial leaders' investment summit, in Hong Kong

    Standard Chartered boss apologises for ‘lower-value human capital’ comments amid job cuts

  • Sadiq Khan walking outdoors with a historic building and trees behind him

    Sadiq Khan sparks row with Met after blocking £50m AI deal with Palantir

Spotlight

  • Two women sit together at a press conference

    The devil owns Amazon: big tech has infiltrated the fashion world – will we see a revolt?

  • A white rectangular device with scalloped edges floats inside a space station module, surrounded by equipment

    Final frontier for meds? UK startup sends drug-making into space

  • A person using a Ninja Slushi Drink Maker

    The best Memorial Day 2026 sales: 19 deals from brands we know and trust

  • Composite of the best fans including Shark and AirCraft

    The best fans to keep you cool: 14 tried and tested favourites to beat the heat

Opinion & analysis

  • A split image showing Elon Musk against a blue background and Sam Altman speaking into a microphone in formal attire

    How Sam Altman’s victory over Elon Musk clears way for OpenAI’s trillion-dollar ambitions

  • Sam Altman in a suit holds a water bottle while standing in a hallway near a door and stairs sign

    double quotation markThe Elon Musk v Sam Altman battle is a distraction

    Karen Hao
  • Two men shaking hands

    Trump heads to China to spread the gospel of American tech while emulating Xi Jinping on AI

  • A figure being surveilled by eyes in screens

    double quotation markForget the AI job apocalypse. AI’s real threat is worker control and surveillance

    Nazrul Islam
  • Race cars in a rural area driving fast in Forza Horizon 6

    Driving sims were once all the rage – will Forza Horizon 6 get them back on track?

    Driving sims were overtaken by open world fantasy adventures, but new upgrades show how much joy there is in the genre
    Newsletter
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    Online child safety campaigners call for US inquiry into Roblox

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    Forza Horizon 6 review – classic open world racing sim roars beautifully into Japan

  • Forza Horizon 6 screenshot

    How Forza Horizon took on Japan with deep research – and 360-degree cameras

  • A website showing cartoon avatars of politicians above a search bar and grid of top politicians with names and parties.

    Gotta catch an MP! Players ‘debate’ UK politicians in Pokémon-style game

  • Wendy Liu

    double quotation markI avoid AI tools because thinking is supposed to be hard. It’s what makes us human

    Wendy Liu
  • People play with new Google products

    Google announces glasses are back and search is getting an AI makeover

  • Jane Martinson

    double quotation markMatt Brittin has taken the helm of the supertanker BBC, but there are plenty of icebergs in his way

    Jane Martinson
  • Sam Altman in a dark suit and tie walks through a modern building interior, glancing to the side

    High-stakes courtroom drama of Musk v OpenAI hears closing arguments

Reviews

  • Sony WH-1000XX The Collexion headphones rest on a silver metal stand against a neutral background.

    Sony 1000XX the Collexion headphones review: supreme comfort and quiet luxury for your ears

  • A silver Nothing Phone 4a Pro stands upright on a wooden table showing its rear camera module and dot-matrix display.

    Nothing Phone 4a Pro review: premium aluminium meets quirky design

  • John Lennon with long dark hair plays an acoustic guitar while sitting cross-legged on a bed

    John Lennon: The Last Interview review – Soderbergh imagines there’s no people with bland AI clipshow

  • A video call screen split into four squares showing four people in different rooms looking at their cameras from the film LifeHack

    LifeHack review – old-school heist movie updated for the meme age

In depth

  • A man working on a computer in a dark room

    Canvas hack: is it ever a good idea to pay a ransom, and what happens to the data?

  • Pixel-art maze resembling Pac-Man, with a group of people at the center of the screen.

    ‘I didn’t want to be the guinea pig’: inside tech’s AI-fueled manager purge

  • still image showing an AI generated humanoid creature with a mouselike head and hands and glowing technical equipment strapped to its back, holding a block of what may be battery cells or explosives.

    ‘There are no rules’: spotlight on Gossip Goblin as AI film-making enters new era

  • Young woman talking into a headset in an office

    The end of typing? Why workers are suddenly ditching their keyboards

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