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    Pope Leo XIV
    Pope Leo warns of AI threat to humanity at start of three-day France visit

  • A defibrillator mounted in a telephone booth in London.

    Society
    Drones could speed up getting defibrillators to people having cardiac arrests, study suggests

  • Artist's impression of datacentre in Essex.

    UK
    Launch of UK’s ‘largest AI supercomputer’ delayed by power supply problems

  • A collage of screenshots of comedic content about AI

    Comedy
    The comedians turning AI anxiety into punchlines: ‘It’s so good, it’ll completely alter our grasp on reality’

  • A young boy looking at social media apps on his smartphone

    Social media
    TikTok drops appeal against £12.7m fine for not keeping under-13s off platform

  • Clegg gesturing while speaking in 2022 with Meta logo behind

    AI (artificial intelligence)
    Nick Clegg plays down fears ‘godlike’ AI could exterminate humanity

  • Anthropic co-founder and CEO, Dario Amodei, will not appear at the Greens-led Senate inquiry into AI and datacentres, but representatives are expected at a joint standing committee hearing.

    Anthropic will not appear at Senate inquiry into AI and datacentres amid fallout from OpenAI hack

  • One Nation senator for Western Australia, Tyron Whitten

    One Nation senator pays back more than $3,300 in taxi expenses; Cleary tells fans ‘I’ll be back’ – as it happened

  • OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

    OpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogue

  • Protesters hold signs reading "No AI Data Centres" and "Honk To Stop Data Centres" in Melbourne

    Australian backlash to datacentres is faux import from US, officials say: ‘We are not the United States’

Features

  • A boy's silhouette holds up a smartphone before a screen showing Roblox game characters

    ‘Mum, where did my Robux go?’ The Roblox scam targeting children

  • Mark Zuckerberg smiles holding a small black device, the Muse ‘charm’, a cartoon mascot displayed behind him.

    ‘Charming and disarming’ … how Meta’s technology-packed Muse harnesses the power of cuteness

  • A group of men sit on a bench underneath a tree.

    Broken promises, confiscated land: the hyperscale AI datacentre being built in a tiny Indian village

  • Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, listens during a Security Council meeting on artificial intelligence at the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly at United Nations headquarters, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

    OpenAI hack on Australian government reveals anxiety at heart of global artificial intelligence dilemma

Opinion & analysis

  • A glitchy eye surrounded by columns

    Democracy blindsides Silicon Valley’s power players looking to transform the world with AI

  • Tom McIlroy

    double quotation markIt’s going to take more than an email to a public inbox to protect Australians from potential AI doom

    Tom McIlroy
  • a woman speaks

    Why Europe has been absent from the great AI safety debate

  • ‘OpenAI could soon be selling young people a one-stop-shop for learning, credentials and a job, all heavily dependent on its tools.’

    double quotation markBig AI is trying to own the pathway to work. Universities shouldn’t play along

    Ella Hafermalz
  • A video game fighter jet pilot in helmet and oxygen mask sits in the cockpit, clouds outside, from Ace Combat 8

    Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve review – brilliant aerial combat game fulfils the Top Gun fantasy

    The game generates blood-pumping moments as you twist, turn and weave through the skies, while your locked-on missiles speed away to obliterate an enemy plane
  • A scene from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 showing a soldier aiming a rifle as a helicopter flies overhead near mountains

    double quotation markPlaying video games with my 22-year-old son has brought me to tears

    Dominik Diamond
  • US-GAMING-VIDEO GAMES-POKEMONPeople attend the 2026 Pokemon World Championships and Pokemon XP at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California on August 29, 2026. More than 50,000 fans are expected to be in attendance for the 3-day event from August 28-30 as the Pokemon World Championships return to San Francisco for the first time in a decade and for Pokemon XP, the first fan convention of its kind. The Pokemon franchise has an estimated global revenue of over $147 billion since launching in 1996, making it the world's most valuable media franchise.

    Meet the real-life Pokémon professors, the unsung heroes of competitive monster-battling

  • A game still of Wolverine with claws extended attacks an armed soldier amid flying sparks in an industrial setting

    Why fans are digging their claws into Wolverine over its patronising gameplay

    Newsletter
  • Six-year-old Lian Yunzhi broke the women’s 3x3 average world record twice at two World Cube Association-certified competitions in Wuhan and Guangzhou, according to state broadcaster CCTV on Monday. She posted averages of 4.52 and 4.27 seconds, after solving the Rubik’s Cube five times. She is the first female speedcuber to average less than 4.5 seconds.

    Six-year-old breaks women's world Rubik's Cube record – video

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  • JD Vance speaks during an event at Webco Manufacturing in Olathe, Kansas last week

    ‘If you’re building Frankenstein, stop’: JD Vance dismisses calls for AI regulation

  • Aa sparse crowd in front of an art structure in the desert with a mountain backdrop

    Burning Man at 40: the once anarchic desert festival faces a midlife crisis

  • Festival director on left in a light blue T-shirt and guesthouse manager on right in an orange T-shirt, both seated at table

    ‘We’re not going to back down’: tiny Dorset B&B stands up to Airbnb’s legal bid to ‘monopolise’ letters ‘bnb’

  • Democracy v the machine: the birth of the digital age and the warnings that were ignored – podcast

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Reviews

  • A hand holds a Google Pixel 11 Pro XL smartphone showing a home screen with many app icons over a beach wallpaper.

    Pixel 11 Pro XL: Google’s big-screen superphone with top-class camera

  • A composite of several different coloured iPhones on a green background

    The best iPhones: which Apple smartphone is right for you, according to our expert

  • A close-up of a capybara sitting on a wooden deck in Florida, looking to the side

    The Route to Cappyness review – capybara boosterism is an ode to the internet’s favourite rodent

  • Max Wren sits using a laptop, surrounded by dark, unsettling drawings and photos pinned to the wall

    Lenore review – incel’s obsession with online influencer turns into anatomy of dislocated digital-age mindset

In depth

  • Robots representing the USA and China face off in a retro fighting video game

    China bogeyman looms large over American firms’ AI doomsday scenario

  • Placards reading 'pause AI, the risk is too high', 'pause frontier AI' and 'if you can't steer, don't race' are held against the railings on Whitehall

    ‘A critical moment’: concern UK is not up to speed in acting on AI risks

  • Smart car with sensors illustration

    ‘In this new car, I feel patronised’: which driver assistance systems actually improve safety?

  • shots of a daughter and mother overlaid over a pixelated human figure

    ‘I created my mom and talk to her’: AI ghosts and deathslop are changing the way we mourn

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