Articles from www.theguardian.com

Articles from www.theguardian.com

Over 1,000 musicians, including Kate Bush, “co-write” a “silent” album to protest a UK proposal letting AI train on their copyrighted work if they don't opt out (www.theguardian.com)
2025-2-25 AI

All people could do was hope the nerds would fix it (www.theguardian.com)
2025-2-21

An interview with Nadia Odunayo on building Goodreads alternative StoryGraph, remaining bootstrapped, reaching 3.8M active users, not allowing DMs, and more (www.theguardian.com)
2025-2-17 Interview

A US man pleads guilty to a cyberstalking campaign against a professor, including by creating chatbots on Crushon.ai and JanitorAI using her personal info (www.theguardian.com)
2025-2-2 AI chatbot

WhatsApp says it disrupted a campaign in which 90 journalists and other members of civil society were targeted using spyware from Israel-based Paragon (www.theguardian.com)
2025-2-1 Israel WhatsApp

An ex-OpenAI safety researcher says he's “terrified” by AI development's pace and that labs racing to AGI can cut corners on alignment, pushing all to speed up (www.theguardian.com)
2025-1-29 AI

An investigation reveals how the Israeli military's reliance on Microsoft's cloud and AI systems surged during the most intensive phase of the Israel-Hamas war (www.theguardian.com)
2025-1-25 Israel Microsoft AI

UK's tech secretary says its Online Safety Act is “not up for negotiation,” after Zuckerberg vowed to work with Trump to pressure countries “censoring” content (www.theguardian.com)
2025-1-12 Trump Zuckerberg

Emmanuel Macron joins growing European criticism of Musk, says “the owner of one of the world's largest social networks” is “intervening directly in elections” (www.theguardian.com)
2025-1-7 Europe

A look at the rise of Watch Duty, a wildfire alert app that is active in 14 US states and has gained up to 7.2M active users in three years since its launch (www.theguardian.com)
2025-1-6

Internet freedom advocates criticize Vietnam's Decree 147, which goes into effect on Dec. 25 and requires social media users to verify their identities and more (www.theguardian.com)
2024-12-24 Vietnam

The UK ICO criticizes Google's plans to no longer prohibit companies using its ad products from employing fingerprinting techniques from 16 February 2025 (www.theguardian.com)
2024-12-20 Google ICO

A coalition of newspapers, writers, movie producers, and others rejects UK's plans to create a copyright exemption for AI companies to train their models (www.theguardian.com)
2024-12-20 AI

Sports stars promoting crypto coins and exchanges with little knowledge highlight the lack of mechanisms for consumers to distinguish opportunities from scams (www.theguardian.com)
2024-12-15

Similarweb: X's US DAUs dropped by 8.4% from 32.3M to 29.6M between early October 2024 and now, while Bluesky's US DAUs rose 1,064% from 254,500 to ~2.7M (www.theguardian.com)
2024-12-11

An analysis of US FEC data: Trump received $273.2M in donations from tech executives and VCs, including $242.6M from Elon Musk, while Harris received $120.9M (www.theguardian.com)
2024-12-8 Trump Elon Musk

The number of stillbirths and neonatal deaths at a clinic in Malawi has fallen by 82% after starting an AI-supported program for regular fetal observation (www.theguardian.com)
2024-12-7 AI

How Elon Musk could influence UK politics, amid a clash between his ultra-free speech vision of X and Labour's mission to clamp down on online hate speech (www.theguardian.com)
2024-12-7 Elon Musk

Meta will require advertisers to be verified before they can run ads targeting Australian users with financial services, starting in early February 2025 (www.theguardian.com)
2024-12-2 Australia

Writers and publishers criticize Spines, which raised a $16M seed round and charges authors $1,200 to $5,000 to use AI to edit and distribute their books (www.theguardian.com)
2024-11-29 AI

Ofcom: Reddit was visited by 22.9M UK adults in May 2024, up 47% YoY, making it the fifth most popular social media platform in the UK, surpassing X at 22.1M (www.theguardian.com)
2024-11-28 Reddit

Romania's regulator calls for TikTok's suspension after an ultranationalist's shock first-round win fueled by viral TikTok videos, amid vote interference fears (www.theguardian.com)
2024-11-28 Romania

TikTok plans to block users under 18 years of age from using beauty filters and says it is tightening its systems to block users under 13 from the platform (www.theguardian.com)
2024-11-27

FOIA docs show Palantir has been in talks with the UK's Ministry of Justice about using its tech to calculate the “reoffending risks” of prisoners (www.theguardian.com)
2024-11-17

Apple adds an iMessage child safety feature in iOS 18.2 developer beta in Australia that will let children report nudity sent to them to Apple (www.theguardian.com)
2024-10-25 IOS Australia Apple

Penguin Random House, UMG, and SAG-AFTRA join 11.5K+ signatories of an open letter saying the “unlicensed use of creative works” to train AI must not be allowed (www.theguardian.com)
2024-10-23 AI

A profile of Denise Coates, the UK's richest woman, who founded online gambling company Bet365, which had £3B+ in 2023 revenue, as she focuses on a US expansion (www.theguardian.com)
2024-10-2

Google says the UK risks being “left behind” in the AI race without more data centers and should relax laws barring AI models being trained on copyrighted works (www.theguardian.com)
2024-9-22 Google AI

Ofcom: internet replaced TV as UK's most popular news source; 71% of adults get news online, vs. 70% via TV; 52% use social media for news, up from 47% in 2023 (www.theguardian.com)
2024-9-10

A writer on working for a tech company, writing pretend responses to hypothetical chatbot questions, to help train AI models and teach chatbots how to write (www.theguardian.com)
2024-9-9 AI chatbot

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