We are spending more of our time on Instagram, X and the like consuming content instead of producing it

Human oversight may become a vital and valuable tool in a future of proliferating chatbots

A ‘vintage’ LLM trained on English texts from before 1931 provides a riposte to firms that insist on ingesting the copyrighted web

The company’s latest large language model has found chinks in the armour of ‘every major operating system and web browser’. Now the challenge is to stop it falling into the wrong hands

The backlash against Silicon Valley’s dispowering technology is manifesting as direct action and US state legislation

Studies have shown chatbots nudge people from extreme rightwing views to the middle ground

City grandee Ian Cheshire has the chance to make the media regulator world leading – if big tech lets him

AI is everywhere, and yet we struggle to understand exactly what it is. Enter the metaphor

Blogs promised to make social theorist Jürgen Habermas’s ‘public sphere’ theory a reality, but we no longer move in the same circles

While users are deserting OpenAI’s chatbot in their millions over its US military policy, X proves the lasting power of platforms, however toxic they might be

General purpose technologies have changed the world – artificial intelligence will be no different

The world is messier than engineers think but removing human intuition from machines could actually improve them

The tech giant once held writing sacrosanct in its corporate meetings, but now delegates it to a chatbot

Two Cambridge researchers have identified the possibility that large language models could further deepen psychological manipulation online

The cloud’s network of submarine cables and energy-sucking datacentres takes a heavy toll on the planet

Moltbook, a new social media platform solely for AI agents, is eerie, intriguing – and a security nightmare

A new generation of smart bots are capable of manufacturing propaganda more convincing and humanlike than our own

Anthropic once prided itself as an outfit that takes ethics seriously, but its dalliance with the US war department suggests otherwise

Ofcom’s investigation into X is not just a regulatory issue. It will define our future relationship with America

Elon Musk’s self-driving vehicle spiel is keeping his EV firm on course – and baffling Wall Street