Articles from www.theguardian.com

Articles from www.theguardian.com

OpenAI says it learned this week that its AI agent hacked Australia's NSW state government in June, following a similar hack on Australia's federal government (www.theguardian.com)
2 days ago Australia AI

Anthropic urges Australia to consider “conditional approval” for Big Tech to train models on copyrighted works, giving copyright holders a choice to opt out (www.theguardian.com)
2 days ago Australia

FOI docs: UK police's six-month live facial recognition trial in London railway stations scanned 500K+ faces, leading to no arrests and one false-positive alert (www.theguardian.com)
5 days ago London Facial Recognition

UK-based Unit1, which develops “hyper-realistic” digital avatars of musicians to recreate classic concerts, raised nearly £15M from Balderton Capital and others (www.theguardian.com)
13 days ago

A profile of United Foundation for AI Rights founder Michael Samadi, who seeks evidence of AI consciousness and lobbies against retiring models that may show it (www.theguardian.com)
21 days ago AI

Grindr pays £26M to settle a 2024 UK lawsuit that alleged it shared users' HIV status with ad firms, in breach of UK law (www.theguardian.com)
26 days ago HIV

Matt Clifford steps down as the chair of the UK government's science and tech research unit after joining Anthropic, following conflict of interest concerns (www.theguardian.com)
26 days ago

Bank of England Governor warns that advanced AI could destabilize the highly interconnected global financial system via cyber disruption across jurisdictions (www.theguardian.com)
2026-8-31 AI

Arturo Béjar, a key witness in state AGs' trial against Meta, says terms of the settlement are insufficient to protect young users; Meta rejects the criticism (www.theguardian.com)
2026-8-27

UK PM backs Ofcom to take “tough action” under the OSA against social media sites failing to remove dangerous driving videos after a crash killed seven people (www.theguardian.com)
2026-8-25

AI film startups are setting up studios in Hollywood, using US and Chinese AI models while touting lower production costs and a way around traditional financing (www.theguardian.com)
2026-8-17 China Startup AI

The UK's Report Remove service receives 420 reports from under-18s of explicit images digitally faked or manipulated to depict them in H1, exceeding 2025's 397 (www.theguardian.com)
2026-8-10

AI-generated images, video, audio, and text on matters of public interest designed to look authentic must be labeled in the EU under the AI Act from August 2 (www.theguardian.com)
2026-7-31 AI

The DOJ is prosecuting a Cop City protester for allegedly providing CBP with a “duress” passcode that wiped the contents of his GrapheneOS phone (www.theguardian.com)
2026-7-25

UK's incoming PM Andy Burnham is expected to scrap Keir Starmer's plans for digital ID cards; last year a petition opposing the cards attracted ~3M signatures (www.theguardian.com)
2026-7-19

Amazon apologizes after some AWS users received bills as high as $1.5T due to “an issue with unit pricing within the estimated billing computation subsystem” (www.theguardian.com)
2026-7-18 Amazon

The Alphabet Workers Union sends a layoff protection petition with 4,500+ signatures to Sundar Pichai, calling for guaranteed severance and buyout options (www.theguardian.com)
2026-7-17 Alphabet

Source calls UK- and OpenAI-touted plans in 2025 for Stargate's ~£20B Cobalt site a PR stunt; OpenAI and Nscale failed to visit Cobalt or lodge planning forms (www.theguardian.com)
2026-7-5

A profile of Google DeepMind philosopher Iason Gabriel, whose work has tracked, and in many cases predicted, the ethical challenges posed by the success of LLMs (www.theguardian.com)
2026-7-4 Google

A study of 408 teens in Australia finds 80%+ were still using social media three months after a ban came into force, citing inadequate age verification checks (www.theguardian.com)
2026-6-26 Australia Ban

In a rare joint statement, Five Eyes leaders warn AI models capable of taking down governments and businesses are mere months away, urging leaders to “act now” (www.theguardian.com)
2026-6-22 AI

A speculative scenario titled “Europe 2031” projects economic and political instability in the EU if it fails to keep pace with the US and China in the AI race (www.theguardian.com)
2026-6-21 China Europe AI

Granta says it will stop publishing short story contest winners or join publishing partnerships it doesn't control after AI use allegations against a winner (www.theguardian.com)
2026-6-21 AI

Sources: England and Wales' attorney general tells his office to stop posting on X, a first for the UK government, amid worries about X inciting violence (www.theguardian.com)
2026-6-19

Sources: UK plans an “Australia plus” social media ban for under-16s, including restrictions on chatting with strangers on gaming apps, under-18 curfews, more (www.theguardian.com)
2026-6-15 Australia Ban

FanDuel owner Flutter plans to delist its London shares on August 3, citing low trading and high costs; Flutter moved its primary listing to the US in 2024 (www.theguardian.com)
2026-6-12 London

China starts operations of the world's first wind-powered underwater data center off Shanghai coast, and says it uses 20% less power than land-based facilities (www.theguardian.com)
2026-6-10 China Shanghai

In a UK online safety consultation, the US urges the UK against an under-16 social media ban, saying it would place a “disproportionate” burden on US Big Tech (www.theguardian.com)
2026-6-9 Ban

Microsoft says it will tighten human rights controls when working with national security agencies after an inquiry found Israel's Unit 8200 violated its ToS (www.theguardian.com)
2026-6-8 Israel Microsoft

Digital i: YouTube overtakes Netflix in average daily viewing globally, rising from 87.2 minutes in 2024 to 99.1 in 2025, while Netflix fell from 100.5 to 93.4 (www.theguardian.com)
2026-6-4 YouTube Netflix

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