Portable AI-powered devices that connect directly to a chatbot without the need for apps or a touchscreen are set to hit the market. Are they the emperor’s new clothes or a gamechanger? Imagi...
My husband, Derek Shaw, who has died aged 83, worked throughout his professional life in the field of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, a technology which has since become central to...
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/mar/27/derek-shaw-obituary
The journalist and podcaster has been scrutinising Silicon Valley for decades, knows all the big players – and once believed that tech could save the world. But that was before greed and ego go...
Fairshake Pac spends millions opposing progressive Senate candidate known for tough stance on crypto industry A Super Pac backed by the crypto industry has spent $10m on ads opposing Katie Port...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/01/crypto-super-pac-katie-porter-attack-ads
Reports say tech giant made announcement during meeting and forecast layoffs, ending secretive and resource-heavy project Apple is canceling its plans to build an electric car, according to mul...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/feb/27/apple-cancels-electric-car-layoffs
Is all this bunker-building a sign the 1% know something we don’t and are preparing for end times? What’s your plan for the apocalypse? I’ll tell you what mine is: death. I am not really ...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/25/billionaire-doomsday-bunkers-end-times
The Facebook boss faced the parents of victims in Senate hearings, but until legislators finally stand up to social media giants, nothing will change I don’t generally approve of blood sports...
Gabriel Metcalf was hired to design a new California city backed by Silicon Valley money. He says bold action is needed to fight the housing crisis I met Gabriel Metcalf, the urban planner hire...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/22/california-forever-new-city-urban-planning
California Forever, which bought 60,000 acres, has received fierce opposition from local officials and environmental groups The controversial plan backed by Silicon Valley billionaires to build...
Just below billionaires’ charity is an endless well of self-preservation. Their desperate planning for the end betrays everything they spout about equality and progress The rich can’t buy t...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/21/mark-zuckerberg-apocalypse-bunker-hawaii
The latest episode should jolt us out of our complacency and force us to confront the dangers of monopoly capitalism The theatrics of OpenAI’s seeming implosion amid the firing of its CEO and...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/27/openai-microsoft-big-tech-monopoly
The chaos at OpenAI reveals contradictions in the way we think about the technology At times it felt less like Succession than Fawlty Towers, not so much Shakespearean tragedy as Laurel and Hard...
The surprise sacking of the AI venture’s CEO was followed by a near mutiny at the company and his reinstatement OpenAI’s messy firing and rehiring of its powerful chief executive this wee...
The 73-year-old had been slated to speak at a business conference when he suffered a ‘minor but real stroke’ Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak was hospitalized for a “minor but real stroke�...
Ilya Sutskever, one of the leading AI scientists behind ChatGPT, reflects on his founding vision and values. In conversations with the film-maker Tonje Hessen Schei as he was developing the chat ...
Ilya Sutskever, one of the leading AI scientists behind ChatGPT, reflects on his founding vision and values. In conversations with the film-maker Tonje Hessen Schei as he was developing the chat ...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/video/2023/nov/02/ilya-the-ai-scientist-shaping-the-world
The future that technology elites like to imagine looks remarkably similar to the one we’re in Do you support sustainability, social responsibility, tech ethics, or trust and safety? Congratu...
Firms known for funding biased AI products would need to submit demographic information on founders California would become the first state to require venture capital firms to disclose the rac...
When rich people convince themselves that they’re rich because they’re smart – instead of lucky and ruthless – they misapply their talents to areas beyond their expertise Elon Musk is n...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/12/elon-musk-spacex-twitter-x-russia-ukraine
Surveying everything from hunter gatherers to Elon Musk, the Cambridge politics professor debates whether our fate is sealed by the machines we’ve created Back in 2016, a month before the EU ...