Diplomatic duties for Tim Cook after stepping down as Apple CEO John Ternus ascends the throne – but Cook will stay on to manage tech giant’s foreign policy as executive chair

Tim Cook new job is Apple's elder statesman www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

AI companies make powerful tech – but they’re also savvy marketers Anthropic’s Claude Mythos AI is said to be frighteningly capable, but we shouldn’t get carried away by the hype

I find myself awash in hype, adrift www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The US small town coffee shop that created a viral drink: ‘I still don’t understand how it went so far’ The raspberry danish latte is making its way around the world after its inventors decided to share the recipe

Little Joy, a coffee shop in Northfield, MN, created a raspberry danish latte. They made a video about how to make it for a "DIY or buy" series, which went viral. Then they encouraged other coffee shops to copy the recipe - and hundreds worldwide did. www.theguardian.com/food/2026/ap...

US defense official overseeing AI reaped millions selling xAI stock after Pentagon entered agreement with company Expert said federal law bars officials from taking actions in their jobs that benefit their own financial interests

The face of the Pentagon's punishment of Anthropic held xAI stock and sold it for millions www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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An AI company with an arsenal of spacecraft: what exactly is SpaceX? Elon Musk’s company filed confidentially for an IPO last week – but SpaceX itself is a bizarre agglomeration

If you were to describe SpaceX to an alien that crashed into one of its satellites, you could say that SpaceX is an online advertising company that launches rockets and might one day make datacenters in space. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Landmark losses for Meta and YouTube as big tech misses point Zuckerberg company sought to insist social media addiction is not real – jurors found it liable regardless

Social media addiction is a real liability now www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Blast off! Nasa goes back to the moon – podcast Astronaut Tim Peake and Guardian journalist Richard Luscombe talk through Artemis II, the first manned mission to the moon for 50 years

Had a lot of fun talking to the @theguardian.com podcast folks about Wednesday's scheduled launch of Nasa's Artemis II moon rocket, ably assisted by Tim Peake, a promising young British astronaut recruit from the @ukspaceagency.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

A Kalshi ad that says "We don't do death markets"

My "We don't allow bets on assassinations and murder" ad campaign has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the ad campaign

AI is just another technology Americans don’t like but can’t stop using Most Americans have negative views of artificial intelligence, but recent history suggests that won’t prevent it from becoming widely used.

This made me laugh: AI is just another technology Americans don’t like but can’t stop using www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside Trump's daily video montage briefing on the Iran war The montage, which typically runs for about two minutes, has raised concerns among some of the president’s allies that he may not be receiving the complete picture of the war.

I simply must see the president’s daily Iran war TikTok www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

Meta ordered to pay $375m after being found liable in child exploitation case New Mexico hails ‘historic’ win after jury finds firm misled consumers over safety and enabled harm against users

Meta ordered to pay $375m after being found liable in child exploitation case
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Meta on trial over child safety: can it really protect its next generation of users? New Mexico prosecutors allege Meta prioritized profit, even as child abuse surged on Instagram and Facebook

Can Meta protect its next generation of users? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Inside the fiery, deadly crashes involving the Tesla Cybertruck Cybertrucks have locked passengers inside and burned so hot they’ve disintegrated drivers’ bones. Victims’ families blame what they say is the faulty design of a truck Elon Musk calls ‘apocalypse-proo...

I did a deep dive into five Cybertruck fires.

What I learned was the truck's design can hamper rescue efforts and lead to worst-case scenarios where fires rapidly ignite, the vehicle’s electric door handles won’t unlock and passengers are trapped inside

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Inside the fiery, deadly crashes involving the Tesla Cybertruck Cybertrucks have locked passengers inside and burned so hot they’ve disintegrated drivers’ bones. Victims’ families blame what they say is the faulty design of a truck Elon Musk calls ‘apocalypse-proo...

Cybertrucks have locked passengers inside and burned so hot they’ve disintegrated drivers’ bones. Victims’ families blame what they say is the faulty design of a truck Elon Musk calls ‘apocalypse-proof’
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Anthropic-Pentagon battle shows how big tech has reversed course on AI and war

Less than a decade ago, Google employees scuttled any military use of its AI. Now Anthropic is fighting Trump officials not over if, but how

How Amazon pushes employees to integrate AI across their workload despite their concerns that the company's "half-baked" tools are creating more work (Varsha Bansal/The Guardian)

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Amazon is determined to use AI for everything – even when it slows down work Corporate employees said Amazon’s race to roll out AI is leading to surveillance, slop and ‘more work for everyone’.

Amazing. Amazon is forcing employees to use its AI tools to speed up work and it’s slowing them down www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

With $200m to spend on the midterms, crypto hopes to repeat its 2024 success: ‘It’s the most critical time’ Candidates in both parties – but mostly Republicans – are seeing cash infusions after merely indicating support

With the first primaries of the US midterm elections now under way, the cryptocurrency industry is injecting millions of dollars into congressional races across the country, particularly in Illinois www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

‘IG is a drug’: jury to deliberate as US trial over social media addiction wraps up Meta and YouTube accused of creating harmful products in trial seen as a bellwether for attitudes towards social media

As the nation's first jury trial over social media harms concludes and we wait for the verdict, @darakerr.bsky.social takes a look back at the proceedings www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Anthropic-Pentagon battle shows how big tech has reversed course on AI and war Less than a decade ago, Google employees scuttled any military use of its AI. Now Anthropic is fighting Trump officials not over if, but how

Less than a decade ago, Google employees scuttled any military use of its AI. Now Anthropic is fighting Trump officials not over if, but how www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The kill line v Chinamaxxing: a window into how China and the US see each other In China, one social media trend hangs on the idea that a life in the US is always one step from disaster, while another in the US has teenagers revelling in Chinese lifestyle hacks

In China, the "kill line" social media trend hangs on the idea that a life in the US is always one step from disaster, while the "Chinamaxxing" trend in the US has gen Z revelling in Chinese lifestyle hacks www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Campaign filing showing Eric Schmidt donated $1,041,896 to California Business Roundtable

Lots of new campaign filings coming out in California with tech billionaires spending big.

One new filing I hadn't seen reported on yet was Google's Eric Schmidt donating more than $1M to a committee combating the proposed billionaire tax

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Amazon is determined to use AI for everything – even when it slows down work Corporate employees said Amazon’s race to roll out AI is leading to surveillance, slop and ‘more work for everyone’.

Amazon is determined to use AI for everything – even when it slows down work: Corporate employees said Amazon’s race to roll out AI is leading to surveillance, slop and ‘more work for everyone’. www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

2012 called

Current and former Block workers say AI can’t do their jobs after Jack Dorsey’s mass layoffs: ‘You can’t really AI that’ The CEO said he cut the company’s workforce by 4,000 people – almost in half – because of gains in AI productivity

Current and former Block workers say AI can’t do their jobs after Jack Dorsey’s mass layoffs: ‘You can’t really AI that’
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Can AI do 40% of your job? Block’s Jack Dorsey thinks so Jack Dorsey to cut 4,000 workers at Block amid AI advances – but specters such as weak crypto market haunt company

What was really behind the layoffs at Jack Dorsey's Block? An extremely weak crypto market, for one thing. And can AI really do 40% of your job? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Schools are using AI counselors to track students’ mental health. Is it safe? As hundreds of schools implement an automated monitoring tool, educators say that students can find talking to chatbots ‘more natural’ than confiding in a human

Co-publishing an excellent, nuanced story today with @edsurge.com, where I had my first job in journalism! www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

Her husband wanted to use ChatGPT to create sustainable housing. Then it took over his life. Kate Fox says Joe Ceccanti was the ‘most hopeful person’ before he started spending 12 hours a day with a chatbot

“It’s difficult to understand the scale of the problem, but OpenAI itself estimates that more than a million people every week show suicidal intent when chatting with ChatGPT.”

Her husband wanted to use ChatGPT to create sustainable housing. Then it took over his life. Kate Fox says Joe Ceccanti was the ‘most hopeful person’ before he started spending 12 hours a day with a chatbot

holy moly

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