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    Artificial intelligence (AI)
    Big tech has spent $155bn on AI this year. It’s about to spend hundreds of billions more

    Tech giants have spent more on AI than the US government has on education, jobs and social services in 2025 so far

  • US
    Musk’s X must face claim of negligence over child abuse images, judge rules

  • Internet safety
    UK Online Safety Act risks ‘seriously infringing’ free speech, says X

  • Apple
    Apple quietens Wall Street’s fears of China struggles and slow AI progress

  • UK
    Far-right extremists using games platforms to radicalise teenagers, report warns

  • Explainer
    How will Australia’s under-16s social media ban be enforced, and which platforms will be exempt?

  • Meta
    Zuckerberg claims ‘superintelligence is now in sight’ as Meta lavishes billions on AI

Spotlight

  • Jim Ashworth-Beaumont photographed in March 2025 with his new prosthetic arm

    He worked with artificial limbs for decades. Then a lorry ripped off his right arm. What happened when the expert became the patient?

  • A still from 2025 documentary Spreadsheet Champions, which follows six young competitors from around the world as they head to Florida for the 2023 Microsoft Office Specialist World Championship.

    Excelling in … Excel? Inside the high-stakes, secretive world of competitive spreadsheeting

  • Aamir Khan

    Aamir Khan: India’s movie legend on a cut-price mission to save Bollywood

  • A composite of five rice cookers on a red, orange and pink background with a white grid detail

    The best rice cookers in the UK for gloriously fluffy grains at home: nine tried and tested favourites

Opinion & analysis

  • Man holds up executive order

    The real winners from Trump’s ‘AI action plan’? Tech companies

  • Employees sitting at computers.

    Whitehall’s ambition to cut costs using AI is fraught with risk

  • He sits at the wheel of his car

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

  • Two men shake hands

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

Games

  • Do not disturb sign on door<br>B4E76H Do not disturb sign on door

    Go-to entertainment: why gaming was made for the toilet

    Dominik Diamond
    There’s no shame any more, and no better place to lose yourself and the world with a few quiet rounds of Pocket Card Jockey or Marvel Snap than in the quiet of the privy
  • Seafront amusements on the golden mile at Great Yarmouth Norfolk UK<br>AKNNM8 Seafront amusements on the golden mile at Great Yarmouth Norfolk UK

    Punch bags, penny pushers and Hillbilly shootouts: the 10 best classic seaside arcade machines

  • Mario Kart World game screen

    Don’t feel guilty about letting your kids game during the summer break – celebrate it

    Newsletter
  • Militsioner

    Militsioner – finally a game that asks, is it illegal to use an apple to bribe a giant policeman?

  • Tales of the Shire

    Tales of the Shire: A Lord of the Rings Game review – too cosy for comfort

Inside Silicon Valley

  • The OpenAI logo appears on a smartphone screen, and the flag of the UK is displayed as the background on a laptop screen

    UK government urged to offer more transparency over OpenAI deal

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    Nine households control 15% of wealth in Silicon Valley as inequality widens

  • person wearing periwinkle holds up yellow protest sign while standing next to two other people

    Silicon Valley-backed California city project pitches plan for manufacturing hub

  • Mike Pepi

    Doge wants to replace our institutions with a tech utopia. It won’t work

    Mike Pepi

Reviews

  • The cover display of the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7 showing the time and date.

    Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7 review: great-looking and fun, but iterative Android

  • Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 review half open showing the home screen on a table.

    Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 review: the thinner, lighter and better folding Android

  • A composite of five kettles on a red, orange and pink background with a white grid detail

    The best kettles to save energy and speed up your cuppa, tested

  • A close up of a person with red nailed holding a iPhone Sage, with the home screen showing very few apps

    Sage iPhone for children review: ‘Would it make me want to divorce my parents?’

In depth

  • A kitten in a rubble-strewn city at night reaching for food from an outstretched hand.

    ‘You can make really good stuff – fast’: new AI tools a gamechanger for film-makers

  • Finger of woman pushing heart icon on screen in mobile smartphone application

    Face age and ID checks? Using the internet in Australia is about to fundamentally change

  • a fireball after a rocket explodes

    Inside Elon Musk’s plan to rain SpaceX’s rocket debris over Hawaii’s pristine waters

  • Demonstrators opposing the removal of a permanent protest camp outside the Tesla factory on 12 November.

    Musk’s giant Tesla factory casts shadow on lives in a quiet corner of Germany

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