Articles from www.theguardian.com

Articles from www.theguardian.com

Sources and docs: the US “effectively gutted” the Internet Freedom program that dispensed $500M+ since 2016 to help build tech to evade state internet controls (www.theguardian.com)
6 hours ago

The UK proposes new rules requiring tech firms to remove nonconsensual abusive content within 48 hours or risk blocking and fines of up to 10% of global revenue (www.theguardian.com)
18 hours ago

A look at the US tech industry's effort to influence Californian politics: fighting the 5% billionaire tax, super PACs, and seeking a new tech-friendly governor (www.theguardian.com)
3 days ago Tax

As OpenAI retires GPT-4o, some users say they are angry and grieving to lose the flirty, quirky companion (www.theguardian.com)
6 days ago

Women in rural India report experiencing trauma from data annotation work, which requires them to review violent content and porn for global tech companies (www.theguardian.com)
13 days ago India

Snap blocked 415K+ Australian accounts as of January to comply with the under-16 social media ban and warns of “technical limitations” in the implementation (www.theguardian.com)
17 days ago Australia Ban

The UK's Advertising Standards Authority bans some Coinbase ads, finding them “irresponsible” for suggesting crypto as a solution to the cost of living crisis (www.theguardian.com)
21 days ago Coinbase

The UK CMA proposes measures to let publishers opt out of content scraping for Google's AI Overviews and AI training without losing visibility in search results (www.theguardian.com)
22 days ago Google AI

Tests show GPT-5.2 on ChatGPT citing Grokipedia as a source on a wide range of queries, including on Iranian conglomerates and Holocaust deniers (www.theguardian.com)
25 days ago Iran

The UK Treasury committee says the government and Bank of England's “wait-and-see approach” to AI risks in the financial sector poses “serious harm” to the UK (www.theguardian.com)
30 days ago AI

The UK launches a consultation on whether to ban under-16s from using social media, alongside restrictions on addictive app features like infinite scrolling (www.theguardian.com)
30 days ago Ban

The US EPA rules that xAI acted illegally by using dozens of methane gas turbines to power its Colossus 1 and Colossus 2 data centers in the Memphis area (www.theguardian.com)
2026-1-17

Elon Musk claims he was “not aware of any naked underage images generated by Grok” and that Grok was programmed to comply with the laws of any given country (www.theguardian.com)
2026-1-15 Elon Musk

Investigation: Google removed AI Overviews for two liver health queries after expert inaccuracy warnings, but slight keyword tweaks still trigger AI responses (www.theguardian.com)
2026-1-12 Google AI

The UK government says X restricting Grok's image creation to paid users is insulting as it just makes the ability to generate unlawful images a premium service (www.theguardian.com)
2026-1-10

Filings: X's UK revenue fell 58.3% YoY from £69.1M in 2023 to £28.9M in 2024; pre-tax profits fell from £2.2M in 2023 to £767,000 in 2024 (www.theguardian.com)
2026-1-10 Tax

X limits Grok's image generation and editing to paying subscribers after widespread outcry over its use to create sexually explicit and violent imagery (www.theguardian.com)
2026-1-9

Reddit surpasses TikTok as the fourth most-visited social media service in the UK, likely driven by changes to Google's search algorithms and AI deals (www.theguardian.com)
2026-1-4 Google AI Algorithm Reddit

Uber rewrote its UK driver contracts to act as an agent rather than a supplier of taxi services outside London, to avoid UK's new 20% “taxi tax” on total fares (www.theguardian.com)
2026-1-3 Uber Tax London

A Kapwing study of the 15,000 top YouTube channels finds 278 of them have only posted AI-generated “slop” videos, amassing 63B+ views and 221M+ subscribers (www.theguardian.com)
2025-12-29 AI YouTube

Denmark says Russia was behind “destructive and disruptive” cyberattacks on a water utility in 2024 and DDoS attacks in the lead-up to local November elections (www.theguardian.com)
2025-12-20 Russia

Parents of sextortion victim sue Meta for alleged wrongful death (www.theguardian.com)
2025-12-18

The Marshall Islands unveils a national UBI scheme that offers payments of ~$200 per quarter to every resident citizen via stablecoin or traditional currency (www.theguardian.com)
2025-12-17

How Skövde, a small Swedish city of 58,000, built a local video game ecosystem via a degree for game developers at University of Skövde and a startup incubator (www.theguardian.com)
2025-12-15 Startup Sweden

xAI partners with El Salvador to deploy Grok across 5,000+ public schools, reaching 1M+ students in an “AI-powered education program” over the next two years (www.theguardian.com)
2025-12-12 AI Education

Australia's eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant says under-16s slipping through the cracks of the social media ban will be “booted off” the platforms in time (www.theguardian.com)
2025-12-10 Australia Ban

Ofcom: UK porn traffic has now settled at a “lower level” since the start of age checks; VPN users rose to a peak of 1.4M in mid-August and now stand at 900K (www.theguardian.com)
2025-12-10 VPN

Australia's ban on social media for users aged under 16 comes into effect; platforms that do not comply risk fines of up to AU$49.5M (www.theguardian.com)
2025-12-10 Australia Ban

AI Forensics: 354 AI-focused TikTok accounts pushed 43K posts made with GenAI tools that hit 4.5B views, including posts with anti-immigrant and sexual material (www.theguardian.com)
2025-12-3 AI Immigration

Airbus issues an order to revert 6,000 A320-series planes to old software, after an incident revealed that intense solar radiation corrupted flight control data (www.theguardian.com)
2025-11-30 Airbus Solar

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