Development of ChatGPT and its ilk will plateau, just like it did for smartphones, and then what are we left with? More ho-hum consumer tech

The search engine’s response to the rise of ChatGPT and its ilk is to take an extremely selective approach to what it considers worthy of attention

Jonathan Haidt’s claims about the effects of devices on children’s wellbeing have been criticised for lacking proof, but they tell us what we need to know

The tech company’s new Windows machines can take constant screenshots of users’ every action – quelle surprise, it’s a privacy minefield

A new essay on the rise of superintelligent machines pivots from being a warning to humanity to a rallying cry for an industrial complex to bolster American military defence

The proliferation of Quick Response codes has created a cybersecurity nightmare, but public vigilance can help

The company that shaped the development of search engines is banking on chatbot-style summaries. But so far, its suggestions are pretty wild

OpenAI’s unsubtle approximation of the actor’s voice for its new GPT-4o software was a stark illustration of the firm’s high-handed attitude

Its latest iPad ad, portraying the destruction of artistic tools, is confirmation that company is just another unfeeling, arrogant tech giant

Far from making programmers an endangered species, AI will release them from the grunt work that stifles innovation

The online world was meant to be an open system but has become dominated by huge corporations. If we are to revive it, that must end

Managing the barrage of upsetting material online is a challenge that service providers are struggling to meet, even if they try

Microsoft, Meta and Google are snapping up small players in the burgeoning industry – but the Competition and Markets Authority is demanding fair play

No one should be surprised that artificial intelligence is following a well-worn and entirely predictable financial arc

In discovering malicious code that endangered global networks in open-source software, Andres Freund exposed our reliance on insecure, volunteer-maintained tech

By turning his computer chip-making company Nvidia into a vital component in the AI arms race, Jensen Huang has placed himself at the forefront of the biggest gold rush in tech history

Tax revenues from Silicon Valley giants have made the republic wealthy on paper, but housing and healthcare crises persist

Despite Congress threatening to ban the Chinese-owned app, the service has unexpectedly been handed a presidential joker

Last week the six biggest operators – Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft and ByteDance – were forced to toe the line on competition, advertising, interoperability and more. It was a gamechanger