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Tim Ayres says the Albanee government will focus on legislation and regulation but that Australia would benefit from moving quickly

Australia has ‘no alternative’ but to embrace AI and seek to be a world leader in the field, industry and science minister says

An expedition in the Southern Ocean captured video of a rare species of deep-sea cephalopod. Until now, it had been found only in fishing nets and in the bellies of seabirds.

This Elusive Antarctic Squid Was Seen for the First Time

Visuals from the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter reveal chaotic solar magnetism in the solar polar region. Even better images are expected in the years ahead.

First Ever Images of Sun’s South Pole Released by Solar Orbiter

Tesla share price rises as former Doge head seems to retreat from feud and president hints at reconciliation

‘They went too far’: Musk says he regrets some of his posts about Trump

Is working in big tech halal? Muslim workers are reckoning with the possibility that their jobs go against their religious obligations

As big tech grows more involved in Gaza, Muslim workers are wrestling with a spiritual crisis

Mark Zuckerberg expected to announce Meta will buy 49% stake in Scale AI as race to dominate AI market speeds up

Meta to announce $15bn investment in bid to achieve computerised ‘superintelligence’

Studios accuse AI firm of ‘piracy’ and seek injunction over alleged use of copyrighted characters

Disney and Universal sue AI image creator Midjourney, alleging copyright infringement

We would like to hear from university students and teaching staff about the impact of AI on studies

UK students and staff: tell us your experiences with AI at university

Special featherweight, titanium edition of top Android has large screen but sacrifices battery and camera for design

Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge review: super thinness above all else

Partnership with Wayve will use cars without a human safety driver onboard for the first time in Europe

Uber to trial self-driving taxis in London next spring

Peter Kyle, who is dyslexic and uses AI in his work, says government should look at how it ‘can transform education’

AI can ‘level up’ opportunities for dyslexic children, says UK tech secretary

Ofcom looks into whether 4chan and file-sharing services failed to put measures to protect users from illegal content

UK media regulator investigates possible online safety breaches at 4chan

“It’s the smoking gun, or the steaming guts,” said a paleontologist from a team that also found that the sauropods didn’t chew their food.

First Fossil Proof Found That Long-Necked Dinosaurs Were Vegetarians

Influential researcher claims disruption in jobs market from generative AI has already begun and warns of possibility of ‘gradual disempowerment to AI’

US attacks on science and research a ‘great gift’ to China on artificial intelligence, former OpenAI board member says

With number of young girls sharing videos rising, study says following instructions can irritate skin and lead to allergies

Teenage girls’ TikTok skincare regimes offer little to no benefit, research shows

Film institute’s report raises fears AI will eliminate junior roles in film, TV, video game and special effects industries

AI plundering scripts poses ‘direct threat’ to UK screen sector, says BFI

Bruno Pereira has been considered one of the great Indigenous protectors of his generation. And this has made him an enemy of a man called Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira, also known as Pelado. The Guardian’s Latin America correspondent Tom Phillips reports on the story of these two men – Bruno and Pelado – and what happened when their paths collide

Episode three: the protector and the poacher

WPP and others roll out AI-generated campaigns as Facebook owner Meta plans to let firms create their own ads

The ‘death of creativity’? AI job fears stalk advertising industry

Officials are piloting package of AI tools called Humphrey – named after character in TV sitcom Yes, Minister

All civil servants in England and Wales to get AI training

Parents who lost children to online harms helped draft the bill – then watched it collapse under political pressure

They hoped their children’s deaths would bring change. Then a Colorado bill to protect kids online failed

Photography agency alleges Stability AI trained its image generation model on archive of copyrighted pictures

London AI firm says Getty copyright case poses ‘overt threat’ to industry

‘Pretty devastating’ Apple paper raises doubts about race to reach stage of AI at which it matches human intelligence

Advanced AI suffers ‘complete accuracy collapse’ in face of complex problems, study finds

AI announcements at WWDC limited to incremental features and upgrades despite pressure to compete

AI takes backseat as Apple unveils software revamp and new apps

Letter: A Guardian cartoon strikes a chord with a music lecturer worried about the impact of artificial intelligence on academia

Lecturers are struggling with students’ use of AI

Four days into a public feud between the world’s most powerful person and the world’s richest person, I declare Musk the loser

Unstoppable force loses battle with immovable object: Elon bows to Trump

In the world of taxicab geometry, even the Pythagorean theorem takes a back seat.

In Taxicab Geometry, Pi Equals 4 and Circles Aren’t Round

Mayors welcome £500m set aside for regional authorities to target investment locally

Ministers commit to £86bn for ‘breakthrough’ UK science and tech R&D

Musk isn’t the first – or last – billionaire to pour big money into US elections

Trump-Musk feud shows what happens when unregulated money floods politics

Ofcom ‘considering the concerns’ raised after claim that up to 90% of risk assessments will be carried out by AI

UK campaigners raise alarm over report of Meta plan to use AI for risk checks

A billionaire’s vendetta has threatened to cut off the US from the ISS and complicate national defense

The Trump-Musk feud shows danger of handing the keys of power to one person

Law expected to include safety and copyright issues but delay likely to raise concerns about ongoing lack of regulation

UK ministers delay AI regulation amid plans for more ‘comprehensive’ bill

About 90% of UK shoppers rely on reviews and CMA says people can now have greater confidence in what they buy

Amazon promises fake reviews crackdown after investigation by UK watchdog

Tech company warns government not to follow EU in forcing platform to allow third-party payments and app downloads

Australians may soon be able to download iPhone apps from outside Apple App Store under federal proposal

Trump says he’s ‘not particularly’ interested in reconciling with Elon Musk, who reportedly wanted to speak to president

Trump says Musk has ‘lost his mind’ and dismisses peace offering

Exclusive: London woman who only found out she was on list after trying to return to store launches ICO complaint

Shopper put on facial ID watchlist after dispute over 39p of paracetamol​ at Home Bargains

Ruling follows two cases blighted by actual or suspected use of artificial intelligence in legal work

High court tells UK lawyers to stop misuse of AI after fake case-law citations

Exclusive: Excitement is higher elsewhere, in global split that seems to mirror level of trust in government regulation

English-speaking countries more nervous about rise of AI, polls suggest

Three years ago British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian indigenous defender Bruno Pereira vanished while on a reporting trip near Brazil’s remote Javari valley. The Guardian’s Latin America correspondent Tom Phillips investigates what happened in the first episode of a new six-part investigative podcast series

Episode one: the disappearance

Tech firm is building ‘humanoid park’ in US to try out robots, which could ‘spring out’ of its vans

Amazon ‘testing humanoid robots to deliver packages’

Electric carmaker sold 36% fewer cars year on year in May as it loses ground to China’s BYD and other rivals

UK sales of new Tesla cars slump by more than a third amid Musk backlash

Anne Wojcicki, ex-CEO of the DNA testing firm, put in a $305m bid, upending Regeneron’s $256m agreement

23andMe back on the auction block after former CEO makes 11th-hour bid

Car company’s shares dropped by 14.2% and its billionaire CEO’s net worth reduced by $8.73bn

Tesla share plunge amid Trump feud wipes $152bn off Elon Musk’s company

What took British journalist Dom Phillips from the club nights of the UK dance scene as editor of MixMag to one of the most remote, and dangerous, corners of the Amazon rainforest? In 2022, Dom set off on a reporting trip with Bruno Pereira, a Brazilian expert on uncontacted tribes, into the Javari valley, to investigate the criminal gangs threatening this region. And then they vanished

Episode two: the journalist and the president

Older series from Vampire Diaries to Skins are among the most popular on the platform as decade enjoys a revival

Noughties nostalgia trends on TikTok as fans revisit music and TV favourites

Cut-down version of top Windows 11 AI notebook offers premium experience in smaller and less expensive package

Surface Laptop 13in review: Microsoft’s cheaper, more compact Windows 11 machine

Exclusive: Data bill faces being shelved amid standoff over plans to allow AI firms to use copyrighted content

Ministers offer concessions on AI and copyright to avoid fifth Lords defeat

Media corporations call for opt-in rule and say companies must set up licensing deals before accessing creative works

BBC and Sky bosses criticise plans to let AI firms use copyrighted material

Latest spat appears to stem from fight between president’s sons and Bill Zanker, longtime Trump business partner

Trump’s crypto firms spar with each other over rogue wallet announcement

Social media platform claims firm used bots to access content, without requesting consent, to train Claude

Reddit sues AI company Anthropic for allegedly ‘scraping’ user comments to train chatbot

Yoshua Bengio’s organisation plans to create system to act as guardrail against AI agents trying to deceive humans

AI pioneer announces non-profit to develop ‘honest’ artificial intelligence

Is artificial intelligence coming for everyone’s jobs? Not if this lot have anything to do with it

‘Nobody wants a robot to read them a story!’ The creatives and academics rejecting AI – at work and at home

Demis Hassabis, head of Google DeepMind, says he wants AI to clear inboxes by making ‘some of the easier decisions’

Google working on AI email tool that can ‘answer in your style’

Facebook and Instagram parent’s deal follows other big tech companies signing agreements with power companies

Meta signs deal with nuclear plant to power AI and datacenters for 20 years

Sir Jony Ive indicates unease over impact of modern technology amid tie-up with ChatGPT developer

‘Humanity deserves better’: iPhone designer on new partnership with OpenAI

It’s a year since teachers in St Albans asked parents not to give younger children smartphones. How successful have they been? What do the kids think about it? And has it made the adults think about their own ‘addiction’?

‘The crux of all evil’: what happened to the first city that tried to ban smartphones for under-14s?

Eric Horvitz’s comments come despite reports that Microsoft is lobbying with Google, Meta and Amazon to support ban

Trump’s plan to ban US states from AI regulation will ‘hold us back’, says Microsoft science chief

Elon Musk’s autonomous robotaxis slated to hit the streets of the Texas capital on Sunday after delayed launch

Tesla set to unveil self-driving car service in Austin

Exclusive: ‘Systemic risk’ to cybersecurity after devices worth more than £1m a year are taken or lost

Thousands of UK government laptops, phones and tablets have been lost or stolen

Fraudsters are manipulating content of older adults as ‘sadness bait’ to push sales. The videos are going viral

‘It’s thieving’: impersonators steal elderly people’s TikToks to hawk mass-produced goods

Hacked credentials could give cybercriminals access to Facebook, Meta and Google accounts among others

Internet users advised to change passwords after 16bn logins exposed

An increasing number of people are experiencing motion sickness in EV and there is a scientific explanation as to why

Do electric vehicles make people more carsick?

People locators, 3D weapon blueprints, tactical planning – all accessible on the web for potential attackers or terrorists

Recent US political violence aided by DIY murder tradecraft available on internet

Regulator says it has ‘reasonable grounds’ to suspect company breached groceries supply code of practice

Amazon under UK investigation over alleged failure to pay suppliers on time

Premium sports tracker adds built-in torch, smartwatch and accuracy upgrades, plus useful new training tools, but costs far more than rivals

Garmin Forerunner 970 review: the new benchmark for running watches

Introduction of ‘dynamic pricing’ also coincided with company raising trip prices, researchers finds

UK Uber drivers’ earnings cut after secretive algorithm changes

Ride-hailing app’s ‘take rate’ – or cut – sometimes reaches more than 50% since introduction of dynamic pricing

Rough ride: how Uber quietly took more of your fare with its algorithm change

Order gives the Chinese-owned social media app, which has 170 million users in the US, until September to find a buyer

Trump signs order granting TikTok a third reprieve from US ban

Chatbot tries to change subject after serving up unrelated user’s mobile to man asking for rail firm helpline

‘It’s terrifying’: WhatsApp AI helper mistakenly shares user’s number

Sam Altman describes offer from Mark Zuckerberg’s company as ‘crazy’, as scramble for talent intensifies

OpenAI boss accuses Meta of trying to poach staff with $100m sign-on bonuses

Andrew Jassy tells white collar workers that such technology means fewer people will be needed for some jobs

Amazon boss tells staff AI means their jobs are at risk in coming years

Hackers known as Predatory Sparrow claim responsibility for rendering Nobitex exchange funds inaccessible

Israel-linked group hacks Iranian cryptocurrency exchange in $90m heist

According to the French streaming platform’s analysis, fraudsters use bots to listen to AI-generated music and take the royalties

Up to 70% of streams of AI-generated music on Deezer are fraudulent, says report

Scientists discovered that octopuses use their limbs to sample the microbiomes on the surfaces they touch.

Octopuses’ 8 Arms Snoop on Microbiomes

A new book shows that the Northern Dene people of Alaska and Canada have known far more about the stars than an earlier generation of scientists were willing to acknowledge.

A Traveler Waits in the Stars for Those Willing to Learn How to Look

Information stolen from US company included details of 150,000 British residents including family trees

DNA testing firm 23andMe fined £2.3m by UK regulator for 2023 data hack

Program with the defense department is first under the startup’s initiative to put AI to work in governments

OpenAI wins $200m contract with US military for ‘warfighting’

Letters: Sheila Hayman says artificial intelligence can’t match the qualities that we have just by the virtue of being alive, and Graham Taylor shows how AI can summarise but not reason

How AI pales in the face of human intelligence and ingenuity

Letter: Dr Craig Reeves says some institutions don’t seem interested in dealing with the problem of AI use by students and are resisting in-person assessments

Universities face a reckoning on ChatGPT cheats

Watch out, hallucinating Humphrey’s about in Whitehall

Letter: Responding to an article on fake case-law citations in court, Lawrence Akka KC writes that the public is entitled to the highest standards of integrity

Bar Council is wise to the risk of AI misuse

Suit alleges Stop Hiding Hate Act, which compels social media firms to disclose actions against hate speech, violates free speech

Elon Musk’s X sues New York over hate speech and disinformation law

Letters: The rapid expansion of biometric surveillance raises serious concerns about accuracy and ethics, but oversight is patchy and voluntary, says Michael Birtwistle

Facial recognition technology needs stricter regulation

As Reddit celebrates its 20th birthday at the end of the month, we’d like to hear about your favourite moments on the online community forum

Tell us about your best Reddit moment

Video from a national park in Uganda depicted a parade of predatory species feeding on and dispersing fruit bats that are known natural reservoirs of infectious diseases.

Bat Cave Footage Offers Clues to How Viruses Leap Between Species

Hundreds of graduate students are writing to their hometown newspapers to defend their research, as the Trump administration drastically reduces science funding.

Graduate Students Push Back Against Science Funding Cuts

The 150-million-year-old specimen is valued at up to $6 million by Sotheby’s. Some paleontologists worry this auction and earlier ones are driving fossil market speculators.

Sotheby’s to Auction a Ceratosaurus, With Millions and More on the Line

Research reveals 13% of residents regularly invest in cryptocurrency and check stocks, more than all other cities

Liverpool is crypto capital of UK, survey finds

The Guardian’s Latin America correspondent, Tom Phillips, recalls the moment that he and others on the search team found Dom and Bruno’s belongings in a hidden area of flooded forest. The team finally discover what has happened to the men

Episode four: the ambush

Information Commissioner’s Office takes action as people report feeling powerless over data gathering at home

Makers of air fryers and smart speakers told to respect users’ right to privacy

Anne Wojcicki made $305m bid for firm, which has lost customers since declaring bankruptcy, with backing of Fortune 500 company

23andMe’s founder wins bid to regain control of bankrupt DNA testing firm

The magnitude of Meta’s investment in Scale may seem like command of the AI race, but the company’s playing catchup

Meta sacrifices a heap of money at the altar of AI

Critics question speed and scale of embedding AI into public sector when debate rages about use of copyrighted material

UK government rollout of Humphrey AI tool raises fears about reliance on big tech

We asked a chatbot some common finance questions – and then ran its responses past human experts

Hey AI! Can ChatGPT help you to manage your money?

Peter Kyle calls on employees and businesses to act now to get to grips with technology amid forecasts of job losses

Workers in UK need to embrace AI or risk being left behind, minister says

A new study suggests that bedbugs were the first urban pest, and their population thrived in that environment. For the bloodsucking insects, it’s been the perfect 13,000-year-long marriage.

Early Humans Settled in Cities. Bedbugs Followed Them.

For nearly three decades he has created mesmerizing planetarium shows at the American Museum of Natural History. But other galaxies await.

Traveling the Cosmos With Carter Emmart, One Last Time

From viruses to humans, life makes microproteins that have evaded discovery until now.

Shining a Light on the World of Microproteins

Every breath you take, they really may be watching you.

Each Person Has a Unique ‘Breath Print,’ Scientists Find

The National Hurricane Center will experiment with the company’s DeepMind program to enhance the work of its expert meteorologists.