Articles from www.theguardian.com

Articles from www.theguardian.com

China starts operations of the world's first wind-powered underwater data center off Shanghai coast, and says it uses 20% less power than land-based facilities (www.theguardian.com)
2 days ago China Shanghai

In a UK online safety consultation, the US urges the UK against an under-16 social media ban, saying it would place a “disproportionate” burden on US Big Tech (www.theguardian.com)
2 days ago Ban

Microsoft says it will tighten human rights controls when working with national security agencies after an inquiry found Israel's Unit 8200 violated its ToS (www.theguardian.com)
3 days ago Israel Microsoft

Digital i: YouTube overtakes Netflix in average daily viewing globally, rising from 87.2 minutes in 2024 to 99.1 in 2025, while Netflix fell from 100.5 to 93.4 (www.theguardian.com)
8 days ago YouTube Netflix

London Mayor Sadiq Khan blocks the Met police's £50M Palantir deal to automate intelligence analysis, citing a “clear and serious breach” of procurement rules (www.theguardian.com)
21 days ago London Intelligence

Granta and the Commonwealth Foundation say they can't determine yet if AI was used to write a prize-winning short story after critics pointed to signs of AI use (www.theguardian.com)
21 days ago AI

Letter: UK-based Google DeepMind workers voted to unionize with the Communication Workers Union and Unite in April, representing 1K+ staff, amid the US DOD deal (www.theguardian.com)
2026-5-5 Google

Maryland becomes the first US state to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores, as other states including CO, CA, MA, IL, and NJ consider similar bills (www.theguardian.com)
2026-5-3 Ban

Study: OpenAI's o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of emergency room patients using electronic records and a few sentences from nurses, vs. to 50-55% for triage doctors (www.theguardian.com)
2026-5-3

Australia unveils a draft News Bargaining Incentive scheme that imposes a 2.25% levy on local revenues for platforms; Meta says the government is “simply wrong” (www.theguardian.com)
2026-4-28 Australia

The UK proposes an amendment to the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill to ban smartphones in all schools in England; a ban was previously just advisory (www.theguardian.com)
2026-4-21 Ban

Docs: US tech companies successfully lobbied the EU to hide data centers' environmental toll; one of their demands was written almost verbatim into EU rules (www.theguardian.com)
2026-4-17

UK National Education Union poll: 66% of secondary school teachers in England say pupils using AI are losing their capacity for core skills like writing (www.theguardian.com)
2026-4-2 AI Education

Ofcom: the share of adult UK social media users actively posting, sharing, or commenting falls to 49%, down from 61% in 2024, as users become more selective (www.theguardian.com)
2026-4-2

Palantir won a three-month, £30K+/week trial to access the UK FCA's intelligence data to tackle financial crime, a source says raising concerns inside the FCA (www.theguardian.com)
2026-3-23 Intelligence

How gig apps like Kled AI, Silencio, Neon Mobile, and Luel AI pay users for data that AI companies can use to train models, from phone calls to videos of places (www.theguardian.com)
2026-3-22 Mobile AI

A look at China's rapidly expanding robotics sector, which now has roughly 140 companies hoping to build humanoids, fueled by massive state-backed investments (www.theguardian.com)
2026-3-21 China Robot

Google co-founder Sergey Brin increases his total contribution to $45M for the Building a Better California Super PAC that opposes a proposed 5% billionaire tax (www.theguardian.com)
2026-3-20 Google Tax California

IDS and ADRN study: 11 African governments spent $2B+ on Chinese-built surveillance tech that recognizes faces and monitors movements; Nigeria spent $470M (www.theguardian.com)
2026-3-12 China Africa Nigeria

How Amazon pushes employees to integrate AI across their workload despite their concerns that the company's “half-baked” tools are creating more work (www.theguardian.com)
2026-3-12 Amazon AI

Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory, Richard Osman, and ~10,000 writers publish Don't Steal This Book, an “empty” book to protest AI companies using their work (www.theguardian.com)
2026-3-10 AI

UK's AI drive, touted since 2024 and featuring splashy NScale and CoreWeave deals, to build datacenters is riddled with phantom investments and shaky accounting (www.theguardian.com)
2026-3-10 AI

Iran targeting commercial datacenters in the UAE and Bahrain signals a new frontier in asymmetric warfare and raises doubts over the Gulf as a global AI hub (www.theguardian.com)
2026-3-8 AI Iran

New Mexico's Meta lawsuit: some police officers testify that Meta's AI is sending a flood of “junk” CSAM reports that are draining resources and slowing cases (www.theguardian.com)
2026-2-26 Mexico AI

US farmers are increasingly rejecting multimillion-dollar offers from data center developers; some estimate ~40K acres are needed globally for new AI projects (www.theguardian.com)
2026-2-23 AI

Sources and docs: the US “effectively gutted” the Internet Freedom program that dispensed $500M+ since 2016 to help build tech to evade state internet controls (www.theguardian.com)
2026-2-19

The UK proposes new rules requiring tech firms to remove nonconsensual abusive content within 48 hours or risk blocking and fines of up to 10% of global revenue (www.theguardian.com)
2026-2-19

A look at the US tech industry's effort to influence Californian politics: fighting the 5% billionaire tax, super PACs, and seeking a new tech-friendly governor (www.theguardian.com)
2026-2-16 Tax

As OpenAI retires GPT-4o, some users say they are angry and grieving to lose the flirty, quirky companion (www.theguardian.com)
2026-2-14

Women in rural India report experiencing trauma from data annotation work, which requires them to review violent content and porn for global tech companies (www.theguardian.com)
2026-2-6 India

Previous Page Next Page