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  • The Grok artificial intelligence (AI) tool displayed on a mobile phone and laptop

    Grok AI
    UK privacy watchdog opens inquiry into X over Grok AI sexual deepfakes

    Information Commissioner’s Office to investigate whether Elon Musk’s firms have complied with data protection law
  • A person holding a mobile phone displaying the 'X' logo in front of Elon Musk's page on X

    X
    French headquarters of Elon Musk’s X raided by Paris cybercrime unit

  • App and phone behind

    TechScape
    Disastrous start for US TikTok as users cry censorship

    Newsletter
  • The Anthropic AI logo on a mobile phone

    AI
    Anthropic’s launch of AI legal tool hits shares in European data companies

  • Barnsley town centre

    Technology sector
    Barnsley rebranded UK’s first ‘tech town’ as US giants join AI push

  • A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying a Noaa weather satellite lifts off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida in June 2024.

    SpaceX
    Elon Musk merges SpaceX with xAI at $1.25tn valuation

  • Program code with an eye and abstract technology background.

    Explainer
    ‘Deepfakes spreading and more AI companions’: seven takeaways from the latest artificial intelligence safety report

Spotlight

  • A blond-haired toddler sitting at a table covered in food which is all over the table in front of him

    The dump dinner: spaghetti is now being served straight on to the table – but why?

  • Jeremy Wrathall, founder and chief executive of Cornish Lithium at the site of a former china clay mine near St Dennis.

    The lithium boom: could a disused quarry bring riches to Cornwall?

  • A still from Darren Aronofsky's On This Day... 1776

    Requiem for a film-maker: Darren Aronofsky’s AI revolutionary war series is a horror

  • Thee TikTok app on a phone.

    ‘It’s really sad’: US TikTok users rethink app over concerns about privacy and censorship

Opinion & analysis

  • The newly Americanized TikTok faced a rocky first week.

    Why TikTok’s first week of American ownership was a disaster

  • a logo on a building

    Big tech results show investor demand for payoffs from heavy AI spending

  • Heather Stewart

    AI must augment rather than replace us or human workers are doomed

    Heather Stewart
  • close-up of person wearing suit and tie

    Why Trump is worried datacenters might cost his party an election

Games

  • Nintendo Switch Sports.

    There’s a reason that Wii Bowling remains my mum’s favourite game of all time

    Dominik Diamond
    At a family gathering over Christmas, I took on my 76-year-old mother once again at virtual bowling. Could I finally best her?
  • Aava scales Mount Kami in Cairn.

    Cairn review – obsession, suffering and awe in a climbing game that hits exhausting new heights

  • Highguard game

    A poor surprise reveal for Highguard leaves it fighting an uphill battle for good reviews

    Newsletter
  • International appeal …PokéPark Kanto, which opens in Tokyo on 5 February.

    Pikachu and pals go wild: Pokémon theme park opens in Tokyo

  • The Traitors 2026 finalist Jade.

    ‘I didn’t have anything to prove’: what Traitors finalist Jade Scott learned about survival from video games

Inside Silicon Valley

  • Jeffrey Epstein at a dinner table.

    ‘The smart, the rich, the powerful’: Epstein associated with Silicon Valley elite years after his release from prison

  • AI-5x4

    What technology takes from us – and how to take it back

  • Armida van Rij

    Europe faces a pincer attack from White House ideologues backed by Silicon Valley and its far-right proxies

    Armida van Rij
  • Rafael Behr

    When the AI bubble bursts, humans will finally have their chance to take back control

    Rafael Behr

Reviews

  • Mark Fischbach AKA Markiplier in Iron Lung.

    Iron Lung review – YouTuber Markiplier crash lands with big-screen sci-fi horror

  • Chris Pratt in Mercy.

    Mercy review – Chris Pratt takes on AI judge Rebecca Ferguson in ingenious sci-fi thriller

  • Cosmic Princess Kaguya!

    Cosmic Princess Kaguya! review – trippy anime adapted from Japanese folk dives into virtual reality popworld

  • A Lumie Bodyclock Glow 150 on a nightstand next to a bed

    The best wake-up under the sun: Lumie Bodyclock Glow 150 sunrise alarm clock review

In depth

  • Hands putting coins into a piggy bank

    ‘A mixed blessing’: crowdfunding has changed the way we give, but is it fair and effective?

  • a masked man in tactical gear scans the face of a driver with a phone

    How ICE is using facial recognition in Minnesota

  • a person works at a datacenter

    At Davos, tech CEOs laid out their vision for AI’s world domination

    Newsletter
  • an aerial view of a building

    Georgia leads push to ban datacenters used to power America’s AI boom

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