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  • Explainer
    I read Anthropic's 92-page risk factor document, so you don't have to

    Anthropic, the creator of Claude, filed to go public on the US stock market on 26 October. The company's filing statement contains a 92-page risk factor document in which it acknowledges the dangers that AI poses to society and human beings, and factors that could negatively affect Anthropic's business. Johana Bhuiyan, senior tech reporter for the Guardian, breaks down the document and explains why Anthropic's IPO could be a real test to the AI boom
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    AI
    Ghost in the machine: how AI is haunting the search for the supernatural

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    Rights and freedom
    Electrocutions, disease and no pay: how workers risk exploitation in Europe’s datacentres

  • Jonathan Haidt makes a pointing gesture with both hands as he speaks on stage, with a Project Health Minds banner behind him

    Meta
    Meta discussed ‘whisper strategy’ against social media critic Jonathan Haidt, files show

  • A brown paper Amazon mailer bag rests atop a rounded bin lid

    Amazon
    Amazon gives Wall Street mixed financial picture in earnings report

  • Google logo is displayed at its headquarters in New York City.

    Alphabet
    Google owner Alphabet loses $500bn in market value after profit disappoints Wall Street

  • Ran Stanton and H Morgan-Harris stand with a dog at a cluttered studio garage entrance

    Disquiet grows in Albanese’s back yard as Grayndler artists unite against ‘insane’ AI proposal

  • traders work on the floor at computer terminals

    Tech sell-off drives US markets down by nearly $1tn after subpar earnings reports

  • The attorney general, Michelle Rowland

    Experts warn AI copyright changes could breach Australian constitution and spark huge compensation rights case

  • Two women sit at a desk in an office and have a discussion

    More than half of Victorian lawyers use AI – but only a quarter have cut client fees as a result

Features

  • An illustration of people on a date with a robot on all fours being used as a table for a meal

    Is AI your new wingman? How chatbots are transforming dating

  • Collage of Elon Musk wearing a red MAGA hat, surrounded by dollar bills and a descending red chart line

    The staggering $446m Elon Musk has spent on the US midterms – visualized

  • A hammer with a California-shaped head poised above a piggy bank wearing a top hat

    Billionaire tax: how a union leader’s ‘crazy’ idea became the defining issue of California’s midterms

  • A person packs bread into a bag beside water bottles, tinned food, torch and medicine on a table

    Buy a wind-up radio – and don’t forget the chocolate: survival experts on how to prepare for an emergency

Opinion & analysis

  • Cropped shot of business people standing in a modern office shaking hands.

    Is a job guarantee the solution to mass AI unemployment?

  • Anti-datacente protesters

    Labor and the Coalition are poised to take a reckless gamble on AI. Haven’t they realised community support has collapsed?

    Edward Santow and Sarah Sacher

  • I’m a chief technology officer. AI still needs your human expertise

    Madhu Shashanka
  • The picture shows the name and logo of the internet encyclopaedia Wikipedia in several languages at the First International Wikimedia Conference in Frankfurt, Germany, 5 August 2005

    Wikipedia often gets taken for granted – but its history is fascinating, and its future is fragile

    Richard Cooke
  • Draga, protagonist of Black Tides Draga's Wake, played by Dominik Diamond

    After 50 years of playing video games, I’m finally starring in one

    Dominik Diamond
    Voicing the main character in Black Tides Draga’s Wake led to me making the kinds of noises I haven’t made since my honeymoon but also one of my favourite moments as a father
  • Night Plane game screen shows a figure in the aisle of a plane with text onscreen reading 'Hey Bestie You Gotta Run! Ruuun!

    Night Plane review – join the jumbo jet to hell in this indie horror head trip

  • A blocky Minecraft character glides with a large orange and white Fortnite-style glider over terrain

    Social media is full of weird video game mashups. Where are they all coming from?

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  • In The Killing Stone game, a horned demon looms over small figurines on a glowing ritual mat

    Eight great new indie horror games for Halloween

  • Lara Croft does a flying kick while holding two handguns in Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered

    Lara Croft is 30! We look at the video game icon’s biggest blunders

  • A woman with a curly hair wearing a blue shirt with a mirror behind her

    ‘There is no inevitable dystopia’: Jeanette Winterson on AI and the future of humanity

  • Illustration of a parent carrying a child away from a tablet while other children sit looking down at screens.

    Silicon Valley parents want the tech they help build out of their children’s schools

  • Billy Magnussen as Duncan Park in a fight scene in The Audacity

    ‘The tech bro fight club is real!’ The titans of AI get the Succession treatment in a wild new TV show

  • You Can See Everything, a documentary about the disgraced biotech company founder Elizabeth Holmes, has enjoyed a record-breaking opening in the US. It is a testament to how fascinated we remain by the convicted fraudster, but what is behind the enduring appeal? US technology editor Blake Montgomery tells Madeleine Finlay why Holmes continues to fascinate us, and reflects on whether the Theranos scandal has had a permanent impact on Silicon Valley

    Why we’re still so obsessed with Elizabeth Holmes - video

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Reviews

  • Writer Alan Martin using the Dyson CameraJet toothbrush in a bathroom.

    Despite the teething issues, Dyson’s Camerajet toothbrush packs in a lot of clever tech – but is it worth £420?

  • A woman wears a white LED face mask, alongside two other LED skincare devices

    The best LED face masks in the UK, tested: 12 light therapy devices that are worth the hype

  • A close-up of a man's face, generated by AI. He is wearing armour and has a serious expression. This is a screenshot from the trailer for Castle Walls, the first AI-generated series to premiere worldwide via Amazon Prime Video

    Castle Walls review – Prime’s first fully AI-generated show is here, and it’s a Vaseline-smeared mess

  • In the AI-generated Odyssey series, two bearded men in cloaks and armour stand at a boat's bow

    Elon Musk’s AI Odyssey review – the dullest, most pointless riposte possible to Christopher Nolan’s brilliant epic

In depth

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    ‘Apologies for any confusion!’: how to write the perfect passive-aggressive email

  • A teenage girl with curly red hair lies on a sofa, gazing sadly at her phone

    ‘My social life completely plummeted’: gen Z is fighting back against big tech

  • Three authorised AI-generated images of Socceroos player Cristian Volpato

    ‘Synthetic twin’: Why Socceroo Cristian Volpato is the latest footballer to license his AI clone

  • For Tom Wall feature on Data Centres. Vantage Data Centre Newport backs onto the resdidential area at Pencarn Ave, Duffryn, Newport

    The datacentre next door: on the frontline of tech’s latest David v Goliath battle

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