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Exclusive: Scientists at MIT hope talking to 60-year-old self will shift thinking on health, money and work

‘Unpredictable’ privacy regulations prompt Facebook owner to scrap regional plans for multimodal Llama

Forget Hollywood depictions of gun-toting robots running wild in the streets – the reality of artificial intelligence is far more dangerous, warns the historian and author in an exclusive extract from his new book

The cuddly chatbot Grem is designed to ‘learn’ your child’s personality, while every conversation they have is recorded, then transcribed by a third party. It wasn’t long before I wanted this experiment to be over ...

Behind every meme and message is creaking, decades-old infrastructure. Internet experts can think of scenarios that could bring it all crashing down …

The private Alpha School says its students can learn faster and better – but experts warn not all may benefit from an AI boom in schools

Half of 16- to 21-year-olds support ‘digital curfew’ and nearly 70% feel worse after using social media

Groups of large language model artificial intelligence agents can adopt social norms as humans do, report says

As AI grows increasingly prevalent, some are showing their children tools from ChatGPT to Dall-E to learn and bond

Ride-hailing app’s ‘take rate’ – or cut – sometimes reaches more than 50% since introduction of dynamic pricing

Experts warn of dangers as England and Wales study shows 13- to 17-year-olds consulting AI amid long waiting lists for services

Upgraded medical tool can diagnose heart failure, heart valve disease and abnormal heart rhythms

As first AI-led rights advocacy group is founded, industry is divided on whether models are, or can be, sentient

Some California police departments are already using AI tools to help draft reports – and experts are concerned

San Jose invited tech companies to mount cameras on a vehicle in what appears to be first-of-its-kind experiment

From the academic who warns of a robot uprising to the workers worried for their future – is it time we started paying attention to the tech sceptics?

Bizarre videos promoted the alleged Ponzi scheme and senior promoters lived the high life, but for thousands around the world the reality was a huge financial loss

Metal replica conker found in pocket of David Jakins AKA King Conker, first-time winner after competing since 1977

‘C the Signs’ artificial intelligence program scans medical records to increase likelihood of spotting cancers

Health service is at tipping point, say experts, and ‘novel solutions’ have been wrongly hyped

First real-world test finds approach has higher detection rate without having a higher rate of false positives

Fascination of investors such as Elon Musk with uploading their brains to computers is hindering progress in curing disease, say scientists

Positive thinkers are ‘literally on the same wavelength’, say Japanese researchers

AI-trained robot carries out procedures on dead pig organs to remove gall bladders without any human help

Some specialists suspect that constantly filtering out background noise may have unintended consequences

Australian mathematicians call into question the ‘infinite monkey theorem’ in new research on old adage

The long read: As GenAI becomes the primary way to find information, local and traditional wisdom is being lost. And we are only beginning to realise what we’re missing

The long read: From the generic hipster cafe to the ‘Instagram wall’, the internet has pushed us towards a kind of global ubiquity – and this phenomenon is only going to intensify

Using a diamond needle, lathe-cutters can turn blank vinyl discs into your very own record – with a pressing run of however many or few you fancy. We report on a booming business

Few of us have the money to take a long pause from work or caring responsibilities. But, as I found, even a day can make a difference