Big Tech can’t erase politics from social media
To become a permanent alternative to Twitter, Threads will need to embrace politics.
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UK AI ambitions “undermined” by digital inaction on digital exclusion
Lack of access to broadband and a skills gap is costing the economy billions every year, says a House of…
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Whoever wins, we lose
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s cage fight is a neo-feudal nightmare.
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Keir Starmer wants to “speed up” pace of AI regulation
Labour plans to introduce top-down regulation of artificial intelligence backed by legislation.
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Rishi Sunak touts UK AI safety research at London Tech Week
The Prime Minister says Anthropic, Google DeepMind and OpenAI will offer models for safety training.
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Why Big Tech pretends AI is dangerous
Saying you own a doomsday device only proves your power to investors.
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How Big Tech made us screen addicts
Gaia Bernstein’s Unwired argues that smart devices are engineered to keep our children hooked. Can we hold the industry to…
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Rachel de Souza: “Big Tech knows it harms children – it should get serious”
The children’s commissioner on social media, porn and the mental health crisis in schools.
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The government must move more quickly on AI regulation
We wouldn’t design new cars without road safety laws, so should we expect less for artificial intelligence?
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The death of workplace perks
Major companies are cutting back on benefits, from free meals to laundry services – and our understanding of what makes a…
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Inside the Silicon Valley Bank UK crisis
The collapse of SVB UK would have been an “extinction-level event” for his business, one entrepreneur says.
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Silicon Valley Bank unmasks the hypocrisy of libertarian tech bros
They push for small government – until their companies are under threat.
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Who killed Silicon Valley Bank?
A $200bn institution was brought low by a bad bet, social media and central banks.
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Could the UK build a national large language AI model to power tools like ChatGPT?
Countries around the world are developing national AI models. Industry experts say Britain should do the same.
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Big Tech’s race for our data is on
The question is who we want to own the data, and how badly we want the AI that it feeds.
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Carl Benedikt Frey: in an automated future, trade unions will be more important than ever
The economist says Britain is at a crucial turning point: use robots to boost productivity and jobs, or risk unrest.
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Do you want to live forever?
Anti-ageing drugs are bankrolled by some of the wealthiest people on Earth, including Jeff Bezos and Peter Thiel. Are the…
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How 2022 killed the myth of the tech genius
This year saw the great humbling of the Silicon Valley billionaire – from Elon Musk to Mark Zuckerberg.
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Labour: Social media bosses should be held criminally liable for harmful content
The party has called for the scope of the Online Safety Bill to be expanded as it returns to parliament.
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No one will be safe online until we break Big Tech’s toxic algorithms
Targeted advertising and content that feeds twisted worldviews are the greatest dangers we face online today.
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