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  • Sam Altman posted an example of the model’s output on X, after giving it the prompt: ‘Please write a metafictional literary short story about AI and grief.’

    Artificial intelligence (AI)
    ChatGPT firm reveals AI model that is ‘good at creative writing’

    As tech firms battle creative industries over copyright, OpenAI chief Sam Altman says he was ‘really struck’ by product’s output
  • People standing outside in a crowd take pictures with a Pikachu mascot

    Games
    Pokémon Go maker to sell games to Saudi-owned company for $3.5bn

  • a man in a suit and a man in black clothes sit in a red car

    US
    Trump calls Tesla boycott ‘illegal’ and says he’s buying one to support Musk

  • Apple iPhone 16e in white stood up showing the back glass.

    Review
    iPhone 16e: Apple’s cheapest new phone

  • AI Pac-Man clone Author: Stephane aka Zast

    Games
    ‘A lot worse than expected’: AI Pac-Man clones, reviewed

  • X app logo seen displayed on an iPhone's app store

    Social media
    Elon Musk claims ‘massive cyber-attack’ caused X outages

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News

  • Keir Starmer.

    AI should replace some work of civil servants, Starmer to announce

  • Hand holding a smartphone in the foreground, as men sit on parked motorcycles behind, with some also looking at their phones

    Internet shutdowns at record high in Africa as access ‘weaponised’

  • a composite image showing a bald man with a microphone and a smiling man in a suit outside

    Trump hosts crypto leaders after creating strategic reserve of bitcoin

  • Stills from the Gaza AI video shared by Trump.

    ‘Trump Gaza’ AI video intended as political satire, says creator

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Privacy

  • A price chart on the Bybit website for the cryptocurrency Ethereum is seen on a computer screen in New York on Friday evening, Feb. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison)

    North Korea behind $1.5bn hack of crypto exchange ByBit, says FBI

  • Two gold and gold/black coins

    Hackers steal $1.5bn from crypto exchange in ‘biggest digital heist ever’

    • ‘We’re clearly heading towards collapse’: why the Murdoch empire is about to go bang

    • Truth review – Julian Assange play is hard going, with flashes of brilliance

    • Saying ‘women’ is not allowed, but ‘men’ and ‘white’ are OK? I’m (not) shocked

      Arwa Mahdawi

    • UK-based lawyers for Hong Kong activist Jimmy Lai targeted by Chinese state

    • Campaigner for migrants in Libya targeted in spyware attack

    • Revelations of Israeli spyware abuse raise fears over possible use by Trump

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Spotlight

  • Young black man cleaning apartment floor with steam cleaner

    The best steam cleaners and mops for a sparkling home, tested

  • Josh Berry

    Josh Berry: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

  • land

    Delays and uncertainty dog Intel’s dream of Rust belt manufacturing hub

  • ‘The poet laureate of social media’: Joyce Carol Oates.

    Long live Joyce Carol Oates’ Twitter account: the only pure space left on this hell site

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Opinion & analysis

  • John Naughton

    Skype got shouted down by Teams and Zoom. But it revolutionised human connection

    John Naughton
  • A screenshot of OpenAI's Sora tool

    Sora, OpenAI’s video generator, has hit the UK. It’s obvious why creatives are worried

  • Arwa Mahdawi

    Elon Musk keeps bringing his kids to work – and the reasons aren’t cute at all

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • John Naughton

    If the AI Roundheads go to war with tech royalty, don’t bet against them

    John Naughton
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Games

  • Beat the bastards at their own game … Expelled!

    Expelled! review – turning the tables on the private school class hierarchy

    Inkle’s latest game revels in lying, stealing and blackmail as you resort to any means necessary to avoid expulsion from a posh school
  • AI Pac-Man clone Author: Stephane aka Zast

    ‘A lot worse than expected’: AI Pac-Man clones, reviewed

  • Ninja Theory’s game Bleeding Edge, used to develop Microsoft’s gaming AI tool Muse

    Are AI-generated video games really on the horizon?

  • Atomfall video game - vllage soldier

    Atomfall, the survival game that draws from classic British sci-fi

  • Amelia Tait

    If we’re going to rank the hottest video game characters, let’s not be boring about it

    Amelia Tait
  • Nintendo's Super Mario with his thinking face on

    Maximum points: what is the most influential video game ever?

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Inside Silicon Valley

  • illustration of futuristic scifi future with new gadgets and machines and technologies

    The left needs to abandon its miserable, irrational pessimism

    Aaron Bastani
  • Martha Lane Fox

    ‘Musk? He’s horrendous’: Martha Lane Fox on diversity, tech bros and International Women’s Day

  • An illustration of a young person with disheveled hair, the alleged leader of the Zizians, Ziz.

    They wanted to save us from a dark AI future. Then six people were killed

  • A composite image to illustrate a digital armageddon – mushroom cloud and digital rain

    If the best defence against AI is more AI, this could be tech’s Oppenheimer moment

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Reviews

  • AIR FRYERS The Filter Composite

    The best air fryers, tried and tested for crisp and crunch

  • Wayne McGregor's Deepstaria.

    Deepstaria review – Wayne McGregor’s otherworldly creatures beguile

    • Seeking Satoshi: The Mystery Bitcoin Creator review – a documentary so thin it features the creator’s mum

    • Cold Wallet review – blackly comic revenge fable goes into crypto’s corrupt heart

    • The best vibrators, tested: ‘it could get an orgasm out of a cabbage’

    • Samsung Galaxy S25 review: the smallest top-tier Android left

    • East Is South review – weighty AI drama takes aim at humanity’s biggest questions

    • Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra review: still the superphone to beat

Devices

  • an illustration of a heart beat on a monitor with a runner at the end

    Wearables
    ‘The bot asked me four times a day how I was feeling’: is tracking everything actually good for us?

  • Teenagers holding smartphones

    Smartphones
    Campaign to bar under-14s from having smartphones signed by 100,000 parents

  • Shoppers in an aisle in a Lidl supermarket

    Tablets
    ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners

  • Emma Beddington

    Internet of things
    I am being terrorised by my robot vacuum cleaner

    Emma Beddington

In depth

  • Composite of pictures of Elon Musk as a child and adult.

    The making of Elon Musk: how did his childhood in apartheid South Africa shape him?

    • a person wearing a white VR headset in a prison cell looks ahead

      ‘An ideal tool’: prisons are using virtual reality to help people in solitary confinement

    • Protester with a placard that says 'Hey besties, lose that Tessie' next to Tesla branding

      ‘Major brand worries’: Just how toxic is Elon Musk for Tesla?

    • a man speaks excitedly into a microphone

      Crypto giant Tether CEO on cooperating with Trump administration: ‘We’ve never been shady’

    • a Tesla car in a dumpster covered in anti-nazi graffiti and 'Musk must go'

      ‘I’m selling the Nazi mobile’: Tesla owners offload cars after Musk’s fascist-style salutes

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