Articles from www.theguardian.com

Articles from www.theguardian.com

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)
23 hours ago 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)
1 day ago 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)
2 days ago 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)
3 days ago 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)
5 days ago 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)
15 days ago 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)
18 days ago 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)
21 days ago

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)
22 days ago

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)
25 days ago Tax

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

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

Snap blocked 415K+ Australian accounts as of January to comply with the under-16 social media ban and warns of “technical limitations” in the implementation (www.theguardian.com)
2026-2-2 Australia Ban

The UK's Advertising Standards Authority bans some Coinbase ads, finding them “irresponsible” for suggesting crypto as a solution to the cost of living crisis (www.theguardian.com)
2026-1-29 Coinbase

The UK CMA proposes measures to let publishers opt out of content scraping for Google's AI Overviews and AI training without losing visibility in search results (www.theguardian.com)
2026-1-29 Google AI

Tests show GPT-5.2 on ChatGPT citing Grokipedia as a source on a wide range of queries, including on Iranian conglomerates and Holocaust deniers (www.theguardian.com)
2026-1-25 Iran

The UK Treasury committee says the government and Bank of England's “wait-and-see approach” to AI risks in the financial sector poses “serious harm” to the UK (www.theguardian.com)
2026-1-20 AI

The UK launches a consultation on whether to ban under-16s from using social media, alongside restrictions on addictive app features like infinite scrolling (www.theguardian.com)
2026-1-20 Ban

The US EPA rules that xAI acted illegally by using dozens of methane gas turbines to power its Colossus 1 and Colossus 2 data centers in the Memphis area (www.theguardian.com)
2026-1-17

Elon Musk claims he was “not aware of any naked underage images generated by Grok” and that Grok was programmed to comply with the laws of any given country (www.theguardian.com)
2026-1-15 Elon Musk

Investigation: Google removed AI Overviews for two liver health queries after expert inaccuracy warnings, but slight keyword tweaks still trigger AI responses (www.theguardian.com)
2026-1-12 Google AI

The UK government says X restricting Grok's image creation to paid users is insulting as it just makes the ability to generate unlawful images a premium service (www.theguardian.com)
2026-1-10

Filings: X's UK revenue fell 58.3% YoY from £69.1M in 2023 to £28.9M in 2024; pre-tax profits fell from £2.2M in 2023 to £767,000 in 2024 (www.theguardian.com)
2026-1-10 Tax

X limits Grok's image generation and editing to paying subscribers after widespread outcry over its use to create sexually explicit and violent imagery (www.theguardian.com)
2026-1-9

Reddit surpasses TikTok as the fourth most-visited social media service in the UK, likely driven by changes to Google's search algorithms and AI deals (www.theguardian.com)
2026-1-4 Google AI Algorithm Reddit

Uber rewrote its UK driver contracts to act as an agent rather than a supplier of taxi services outside London, to avoid UK's new 20% “taxi tax” on total fares (www.theguardian.com)
2026-1-3 Uber Tax London

A Kapwing study of the 15,000 top YouTube channels finds 278 of them have only posted AI-generated “slop” videos, amassing 63B+ views and 221M+ subscribers (www.theguardian.com)
2025-12-29 AI YouTube

Denmark says Russia was behind “destructive and disruptive” cyberattacks on a water utility in 2024 and DDoS attacks in the lead-up to local November elections (www.theguardian.com)
2025-12-20 Russia

Parents of sextortion victim sue Meta for alleged wrongful death (www.theguardian.com)
2025-12-18

The Marshall Islands unveils a national UBI scheme that offers payments of ~$200 per quarter to every resident citizen via stablecoin or traditional currency (www.theguardian.com)
2025-12-17

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