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Flock Safety tries to curb police abuse of its surveillance cameras after scandals

CEO announces steps after reports that system is used to target immigrants or people seeking out-of-state abortions

Johana Bhuiyan13 Aug

A timely warning on the rise of the ‘tech bros’ from the author of The Nerd Reich

Letter: Gil Durán is right, writes Catherine Austin Fitts – we must reject the limited vision of Silicon Valley with a revolution in consciousness

13 Aug

An AI agent for all? Try using your brain, Mark Zuckerberg

Brief letters: Meta AI | Future Guardian writers and Neets | Food for thought | Plants surviving the heat | Living and dying well

13 Aug

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra review: the top dog of folding Androids

With great software and battery for two days, the pricey svelte folder strikes best balance between phone and tablet

Samuel Gibbs Consumer technology editor13 Aug

Taiwan says it was hit by ‘abnormal’ AI-assisted cyber-attack

Taiwan’s statement comes a day after reports that suspected China-linked hackers had carried out a first-of-a-kind breach

Guardian staff with agencies13 Aug

AI agents aren’t legally responsible for any harm that they cause, experts say. So who is?

After Australia’s first reported automated hacking accident, experts warn deployers – and possibly developers – of AI agents could be held liable for the actions of their bots

Tory Shepherd12 Aug

AI was supposed to destroy jobs. Where’s the carnage?

The AI jobs apocalypse never showed up. Still, jobs are changing and economists expect more to come

Varsha Bansal12 Aug

Spotify to distinguish AI artists from real people – and stop recommending them

Music streaming platform creates ‘AI persona’ label that will appear on profiles and track listings in crackdown on fake performers

Dan Milmo Global technology editor 11 Aug

Meta faces expensive child safety reckoning

Also: Google executives jump ship in race for AI dominance

Danielle Abril11 Aug

Meta glasses banned from courts in England and Wales

Exclusive: Court service says anyone trying to enter buildings with glasses will have them confiscated and returned when they leave

Matthew Weaver11 Aug

AI’s potential climate benefits outweighed by role in boosting fossil fuels, study finds

Modelling finds AI-driven productivity gains in coal, oil and gas enable more emissions than applications in renewables avoid

Ajit Niranjan11 Aug

Nvidia links with Wall Street firms for $500bn AI financing deal

Apollo, BlackRock, Goldman Sachs and KKR among those working with chipmaker to fund infrastructure

Kalyeena Makortoff and agency11 Aug

Gangs using Airbnb-type rentals as drug stash houses, top Belgian official says

Flexible short-term bookings used to store and pack drugs and stash weapons and cash, says Ine Van Wymersch

Jennifer Rankin in Brussels 11 Aug

Zuckerberg pushes ‘superintelligent’ AI for all as Meta releases open-weight model

Meta CEO presents utopian vision of AI in 6,000-word essay amid Silicon Valley debate over government regulation

Nick Robins-Early10 Aug

Bernie Sanders calls on Silicon Valley to ‘pause AI development’ in interest of humanity

Progressive US senator urges Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic to ‘stop building machines that humans cannot control’

Johana Bhuiyan10 Aug

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 review: your passport to a folding phone future

Novel squat Android opens to an iPad-like screen for video or multitasking, with plenty of power and battery life

Samuel Gibbs Consumer technology editor10 Aug

UK manufacturers face rising hacking risk as survey shows 30% were hit last year

Big companies describe being under constant threat but only half have a plan in place to respond to an attack

Jasper Jolly10 Aug

‘I’ve definitely lost followers’: influencers face backlash over Meta ‘pervert glasses’ content

Using ‘spy glasses’ made by Facebook owner leads to floods of negative comments, say content creators

Sammy Gecsoyler9 Aug

OpenAI to pause some work on AI model Astra due to security concerns

Agent found to be able to find and exploit vulnerabilities without human intervention, and to carry out cyber-attacks

Eric Berger8 Aug

Google DeepMind enters a new era as co-founder Demis Hassabis shifts AI role

Observers express concern that the division has lost its independence and commercial reality has taken over

Dan Milmo and Aisha Down8 Aug

Rising number of UK children report seeing explicit deepfakes of themselves

Exclusive: anonymous flagging service says cases have surged, as watchdog says AI is making sexualised or ‘nudified’ content easier to produce

Dan Milmo Global technology editor8 Aug