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‘Digging the grave of my profession’: the Hollywood creatives training AI to do their jobs

Amid a jobs slump, award-winning writers, directors and producers taking on sometimes lucrative temp work teaching AI skills such as screenwriting and production

Robert Booth UK technology editor22 Aug

Ralph Land obituary

Other lives: Part of the team that built the Leo business computer in the 1950s

Bryan Land21 Aug

UK cinemas look at banning Meta smart glasses over piracy fears

Trade body says local chains would have to balance concerns with potential benefits of AI-enabled technology

Kalyeena Makortoff20 Aug

Tell us: have you slowed down your smart TV or bought an older model?

We’d like to hear from people who are disabling smart TV features, disconnecting from the internet or choosing older, simpler televisions

Guardian community team20 Aug

Zuckerberg lied about concern for child safety, Meta whistleblower testifies at landmark trial

Arturo Béjar, former Meta safety engineer, tells jury tech company was aware of products’ potential harm to children

Dara Kerr19 Aug

Zero stars for this endless rating game

Brief letters: Online ratings | School holiday scam | Back-row kisses | Barking | Champagne populism

19 Aug

Will AI give you the job? Automated hiring tools spark discrimination and secrecy lawsuits

A rise in lawsuits over AI use in employment decisions is raising questions about how companies hire and fire

Arielle Pardes19 Aug

Shares in humanoid robot firm Unitree surge 600% on Chinese stock market debut

Company’s robots have gained global fame via videos of them performing martial arts and as dancers for pop stars

Lauren Almeida19 Aug

OpenAI announces slowing pace of development after hack by rogue agent

Amid race with Anthropic, firm plans to overhaul research and training and require more safety parameters after hack

Johana Bhuiyan and agency18 Aug

US states accuse Meta of covering up research on teen social media addiction in pivotal trial

State attorneys general claim tech company intentionally designed addictive products that harm young people

Dara Kerr18 Aug

Social media on trial as $200bn case against Facebook and Instagram begins

Twenty-nine US states are seeking huge damages, claiming Meta’s platforms were addictive by design

Aisha Down18 Aug

Charity campaigner who died after microlight crash was filming Apple TV series, inquest hears

Claire Lomas was filming content for project promoting tech company’s Vision Pro headset in Jordan, hearing told

Raphael Boyd18 Aug

Autonomous drones and the future of war in an AI-driven world

Letter: Machines that kill without distinction, answerable to no one, leave no one safe, writes military surgeon Dr Darren Mann

18 Aug

Meta’s legal jeopardy is growing by the day

Also: AI’s implications on cybersecurity in an era of private attacks

Blake Montgomery18 Aug

Reel-ing it in: Meta is paying influencers to promote teen accounts

Report by Tech Transparency Project shows whenever governments mull platform regulations, company recruits influencers to promote its safety features

Johana Bhuiyan18 Aug

Dickovers, baggravation and botiquette: 18 new words to describe our tech hellscape

There are many tech irritants that are a scourge of modern life, yet we have lacked the vocabulary to describe them ... until now

Stuart Heritage18 Aug

Claude to start watermarking AI-generated text – but will it make quality worse?

Anthropic says it will change way chatbot makes small, random choices, to comply with EU regulation

Aisha Down17 Aug

New Mexico’s attorney general pushes new social media safety laws after $900m court victory over Meta

Exclusive: Raúl Torrez is drafting two bills with state lawmakers to bolster consumer protections and child safety online, building on state’s landmark case against Meta

Katie McQue17 Aug

Are Microsoft’s AI plans being held back by a shortage of chips?

Guardian investigation finds apparent discrepancy between what tech company has said about its AI capacity – and the number of advanced chips it has in operation

Aisha Down and Ed Zitron17 Aug

Secondhand booksellers in UK and Ireland suspect AI firms behind ‘strange’ bulk orders

Development comes after Anthropic was found to have spent millions on books to scan for ‘data acquisition’

Dan Milmo Global technology editor15 Aug

Smart glasses controversy sidelines the benefits for disabled people

Letters: Guardian readers reflect on the ableism rife in the debate about Ray-Ban Meta eyewear, despite the life-changing difference they can make

14 Aug