AI: Counting the Cost

We have become too accustomed to figures like Donald Trump, who see misinformation as a weapon rather than a issue

The philosopher’s occult vision of artificial intelligence seemed like fringe raving – until it was taken up by tech billionaires and far right thinkers

The latest models are incredibly powerful, but flawed and inconsistent. Here’s what they’re useful for – and what you really shouldn’t trust them with

For decades, the reporting of race and ethnicity has been banned unless strictly relevant to the story. All of a sudden that’s changed. Why?

Cameras and digital tracking make our lives more convenient – but at what cost?

We have become too accustomed to figures like Donald Trump, who see misinformation as a weapon rather than a issue

A city of tech parks and start-ups, Bidadi is the very image of India's digital rise

It may be Thanksgiving, but as the country emerges from the longest government shutdown in history, life is about to get harder for many Americans

Everyone wants to visit the historic city. But without intervention, Dubrovnik could soon face collapse

Right wing challengers are capitalising on disillusionment with leftist governments and Chile is just the latest to test that sentiment

What does the ousted prime minster’s death sentence mean for Bangladesh’s political future?

Gill’s isn’t an isolated case, but a symptom of Europe-wide corruption and demagoguery

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If machines do all the work, there are no jobs left and no one earns any money, Marx might be proved right after all

The philosopher’s occult vision of artificial intelligence seemed like fringe raving – until it was taken up by tech billionaires and far right thinkers

The latest models are incredibly powerful, but flawed and inconsistent. Here’s what they’re useful for – and what you really shouldn’t trust them with

The writer coined the word ‘enshittification’ to describe how useful tech inevitably gets worse. Now he’s turning his sights on AI

Fake praise, fake therapy and fake boyfriends are warping a generation’s mental health

After years of scary AI movies, the tech is now portrayed as heroic – just as the industry’s humans come into its sights

Digging into the detail and data to separate the noise from the news

For decades, the reporting of race and ethnicity has been banned unless strictly relevant to the story. All of a sudden that’s changed. Why?

The Daily Mail group backs authoritarian views. The idea that they’re better buyers than an overseas investor is nonsensical

They cause groans and snobbishness – but in Paris, the impulse to photograph oneself by Monet’s Water Lilies becomes a gesture of devotion

Being right or wrong is not as important as what you do in the service of those opinions and how far you are willing to go

The German artist’s epic Paris retrospective reveals an artist who can’t be pigeonholed

The White Lotus actress is a registered Republican, but that isn’t a reason to troll her – our idea of liberal Hollywood is a myth

I love the band. But this incessant anthologising, dismantling and rebuilding is straining things

The shocking Danish show that revealed a criminal network’s white collar connections was watched by half a nation and brought change

Leonard Woolf’s The Barbarians At The Gate warns that tyranny begins not with tanks in the streets, but with compassion being turned off in the public mind

The restless historian was a victim of his own work ethic – and saw his dreams for British society smashed by Thatcher

There is no reason to suppose that we learn anything significant from the genetic data about what made the dictator the man he was

Not all cinema has to be art. But this exhibition at the Design Museum proves Wes Anderson's most certainly is

The Irishman had a rare ability to write about mood and place, to capture the rawness of what it is to be alive

Nigel Farage’s former man in Wales was given 10-and-a-half years for accepting Russian cash, but the British media were more interested in Strictly Come Dancing

The right wing paper, set to be bought by the Mail, was forced to correct an article in which it managed to get pretty much everything wrong

The peer behind the conservative ‘Blue Labour’ movement has been keeping some decidedly awkward company

The Green Party leader is accused of playing dirty amid rumours he wants to unseat Labour MP Stella Creasy in East London

The X owner's Grokipedia cites the Stormfront website 42 times, along with numerous other unreliable or hate-filled sites

The Reform leader has this week declared a whopping £207,000 in pay for October from his varied network of commercial interests

An examination of other languages from around the world shows us that ownership can be signalled in rather more complicated ways

I look at the way millions and millions of people use generative AI and it makes my brain want to shrivel and hide