New Frontiers

The Wellcome Sanger – half academic research institute, half industrial laboratory – is perfectly positioned to produce socially useful applications for discoveries

For a while it looked as if Elon Musk would dominate the world of electric cars – but then he turned out to be a basket-case. Now there’s a new global leader in town

The former president made some comments about extraterrestrial life on a podcast and a lot of people got very excited for all the wrong reasons

An extraordinary tech surge is underway. At its core are female founders solving the untouchable problems

The dissident artist has been targeted by China – but On Censorship reveals a wider world of control

Elon Musk is getting excited about a new social media platform for AI systems. For once – unusually – he might not be completely in the wrong

If you’re looking for the age-group that’s become dangerously radicalised, and has spread disinformation and populist hate online, the culprit is not the under-16s. It’s their grandparents

Artificial Intelligence already lies, manipulates and threatens. And we’re still feeding it, without setting any guidelines

First Musk embraced the global hard right and now, by failing to limit images of child sexual abuse on X, he has added child abusers to his list of fellow travellers

X has been terminally polluted by Elon Musk to the point of making us nauseous

Legislation or an unexpected saviour could help – but the tech giants will try to crush them

A whole load of people fell for AI-based scams over the Xmas and New Year period. I really thought the future was meant to be better than this

It predicts the universe with eerie precision, yet not even Nobel laureates can agree on how to interpret it

Grok is churning out sexual images on an industrial scale – some of teenage girls – and pleading free speech. If the UK and Europe don’t act now, they never will

If we reach the point where real friends seem retro, life will have lost all its meaning