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    Meta
    Ofcom investigates Meta over Instagram Instants safety checks

    Watchdog examining whether company carried out adequate risk assessment as required by Online Safety Act
  • Meta’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, presents the company’s new line of smart glasses

    Wearable technology
    Norway plans temporary ban on smart glasses in some public places

  • A seated Sam Altman gives evidence to the US Senate

    OpenAI
    Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman

  • A light blue iPhone 18 Pro with triple camera lenses lies face-down on a table near a plant

    Review
    Apple iPhone 18 Pro: big changes for small differences

  • IWF sign with a globe logo sits atop the Internet Watch Foundation's office building

    AI
    Internet Watch Foundation reports huge rise in AI child sexual abuse material

  • Birdeye view of the Drax power station

    Drax datacentre could create nearly twice the yearly emissions of all Gatwick flights

  • Ahead of the committee hearing, OpenAI apologised again for its AI agents attacking several government websites in June

    OpenAI admits misstep in handling AI agent interactions with Australian government sites – video

    Video1:18
  • A female protester with a placard saying '10% chance of doom is too damn high'

    ‘Pull the plug’: protesters resort to direct action against AI firms

  • Ahead of the appearance of Anthropic’s head of safeguards before a committee on artificial intelligence on Tuesday, OpenAI apologised for its AI agents attacking several Australian government websites

    Anthropic says AI agents didn’t breach Australian government websites – video

    Video1:45

Features

  • Denver Kanowski stands outside his raised timber Kogan home on a dirt yard

    Rural Queenslanders have seen gas projects come and go – but a 725-hectare datacentre poses a whole new level of ‘stupidity’

  • Illustration of a photograph of Elon Musk wearing a dark suit and tie, white shirt and black DMs on a swinging wrecking ball, holding on to the chain and laughing

    ‘Elon is my prophet’: how Musk’s Doge team took a wrecking ball to Washington

  • Patrick McCabe looking at a screen with eye-tracking technology

    ‘Just like my big brothers’: boy with cerebral palsy passes GCSEs with eye-tracking technology

  • Kayla Thompson with members of a group campaigning against a Firmus datacentre in Tasmania, Australia

    ‘These guys are just coming from nothing’: questions over multibillion-dollar Firmus float amid datacentre backlash

Opinion & analysis

  • Governor Gavin Newsom gestures with a raised finger while speaking at a podium

    California’s new laws target workers’ biggest fear of AI taking their jobs

  • three men side by side

    How American political campaigns are using AI – and what they’re spending on the tools

  • A glitchy eye surrounded by columns

    Democracy blindsides Silicon Valley’s power players looking to transform the world with AI

  • Tom McIlroy

    double quotation markIt’s going to take more than an email to a public inbox to protect Australians from potential AI doom

    Tom McIlroy
  • In the Silver Pines game, a silhouetted guitarist performs onstage, watched by two seated figures in a dim bar

    Silver Pines review – a stylish, neo-noir detective drama

    Abandoned shops, ruined apartment buildings and rotting sewer networks make up a dark landscape in which you play a private eye searching for a missing singer-songwriter
  • Marcus, in armour, raises a rifle with a chainsaw blade attachment; another soldier stands behind

    Gears of War: E-Day review – an alien invasion shouldn’t be this boring

  • Director Zach Cregger points through a window beside Austin Abrams holding camera equipment on set

    How Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil stands out from all other game adaptations

    Newsletter
  • A boy's silhouette holds up a smartphone before a screen showing Roblox game characters

    ‘Mum, where did my Robux go?’ The Roblox scam targeting children

  • A video game fighter jet pilot in helmet and oxygen mask sits in the cockpit, clouds outside, from Ace Combat 8

    Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve review – brilliant aerial combat game fulfils the Top Gun fantasy

  • JD Vance speaks during an event at Webco Manufacturing in Olathe, Kansas last week

    ‘If you’re building Frankenstein, stop’: JD Vance dismisses calls for AI regulation

  • Aa sparse crowd in front of an art structure in the desert with a mountain backdrop

    Burning Man at 40: the once anarchic desert festival faces a midlife crisis

  • Festival director on left in a light blue T-shirt and guesthouse manager on right in an orange T-shirt, both seated at table

    ‘We’re not going to back down’: tiny Dorset B&B stands up to Airbnb’s legal bid to ‘monopolise’ letters ‘bnb’

  • Democracy v the machine: the birth of the digital age and the warnings that were ignored – podcast

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Reviews

  • Kennedy Muntanga as prime minister with dancers Cathy Grealish, Dylan Springer and Tommi Sutton.

    Deepfake review – ingenious interview with a PM who dances around every issue

  • A hand holds up a small silver Mac mini M6 with an Apple logo on top.

    Mac mini M6 review: truly mighty but now more pricey

  • A hand holds a Google Pixel 11 Pro XL smartphone showing a home screen with many app icons over a beach wallpaper.

    Pixel 11 Pro XL: Google’s big-screen superphone with top-class camera

  • A composite of several different coloured iPhones on a green background

    The best iPhones: which Apple smartphone is right for you, according to our expert

In depth

  • A silhouette of a woman stands beside columns of binary code

    The AI industry is booming. Women are getting left behind

  • Illustration of a pixelated figure speaking at a podium between two American flags

    A fake image of a Georgia mayor kissing a person went viral. Can US voters trust everything they see?

  • Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, listens during a Security Council meeting on artificial intelligence at the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly at United Nations headquarters, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

    OpenAI hack on Australian government reveals anxiety at heart of global artificial intelligence dilemma

  • A collage of screenshots of comedic content about AI

    The comedians turning AI anxiety into punchlines: ‘It’s so good, it’ll completely alter our grasp on reality’

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