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The robotics programme that bans adults from touching the robots
Botball gives every student the same box of parts, teaches real coding languages at elementary-school age, and bars adults from the competition floor. Here is how it works and why girl participation is notably higher than the industry norm.
WTWH Media renames itself Arrowfly as it grows beyond trade publishing
The Cleveland company behind The Robot Report and RoboBusiness quietly shed a two-decade-old name to signal its shift from niche trade press to a broader B2B media group.
The Challenges Awaiting Andy Burnham as the New UK Prime Minister
Andy Burnham's upcoming leadership test: tackling UK's pressing challenges from the cost of living to geopolitics.
Bank of England gains power to regulate Amazon and Google cloud services from Monday
New rules mean the UK's central bank can directly oversee the tech companies that keep British banking running, cutting the risk of outages that could freeze millions of accounts.
Meta Pulls Its New AI Image Tool After Users and a Hollywood Union Call It a Privacy Problem
A feature that let anyone generate images using photos from public Instagram accounts lasted just days before Meta quietly shut it down.
Which jobs are hardest for AI to replace, and how do you land one?
From classrooms to courtrooms, some careers look a lot safer than others. Here is what workers and experts told The Guardian about building a future the algorithms cannot easily automate.
Apple Sues OpenAI Over Alleged Hardware Secret Theft
Apple accuses OpenAI's hardware chief of coaching recruits to smuggle out unreleased parts, prototypes and confidential files before jumping ship.
An AI 'actor' is getting her own feature film. Does that make you want to watch it?
Particle6's digital creation Tilly Norwood is headlining a movie called Misaligned. The project raises a question the press releases won't answer: what does human storytelling mean when the lead character has never been human?
Big Tech's AI Data Centres Now Emit as Much Carbon as a Third of France
Microsoft, Amazon and Google collectively pumped out 119 million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide last year. The main culprit: building more data centres to feed AI demand.
Australia's creatives versus AI companies: the copyright fight heading to Canberra
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is set to address artificial intelligence this week as Australian artists demand their work stops being used to train AI without permission or pay.
The Software Engineer Who Codes on His Commute to Stay Sharp in the Age of AI
AI tools are writing more code at more companies. Some engineers are quietly going back to basics to make sure they still can.
A Scottish AI megasite promised green energy. The reality looks very different.
An £8.2 billion AI data centre complex in rural Scotland overstated its plans to run entirely on renewable power. Reporters had to leave their desks to find that out.
Christopher Nolan thinks AI panic is overblown, but he is still watching closely
The director of Oppenheimer and The Dark Knight says big-budget, location-shot filmmaking will outlast the AI wave. Not everyone in Hollywood agrees.
AI doctors, factory robots, and drones on the Great Wall: how China embraced artificial intelligence
While much of the West debates AI cautiously, China has woven it into daily life at speed, from millions of patients chatting with virtual doctors to state surveillance tools that watch city streets.
A critic who hates chatbots tried dating one. Here is what she found.
Writer Lauren Oyler went in sceptical and came out with something stranger than a verdict. Her essay, adapted for audio, is a rare honest look at what it actually feels like to talk to an AI.
An Australian song hit No 1 on radio. Now people are asking if AI made it.
Josh Fawaz's cover of 'Like a Prayer' climbed to the top of Australia's national airplay chart. Music experts say it sounds like generative AI produced it, not a human.
Twelve Bronx Nurses Laid Off After Hospital Replaces Them With AI Software
Montefiore Medical Center cut a dozen nurses whose job was reviewing patient insurance claims, handing that work to an automated system. Their union says the move broke a contract won through a recent strike.
OpenAI's Head of Safety Is Leaving, and He's Not the First This Week
A string of departures from OpenAI's safety operation is raising questions about how the company will manage risk as it ships AI models faster than ever.
Weekend Science: A Quantum Computer Just Helped Invent New Drug Candidates
Researchers at the Technical University of Denmark ran their AI model on a printer-sized quantum computer and produced better results than a standard machine, especially where medical data was thin.
Sunrun wants to turn your living room into a tiny AI data centre
The solar company is paying homeowners to host small computing units that sell AI processing power to big tech firms. Here is what that actually means for you.
Instagram Won't Let You Filter Out AI Posts, and Its Own AI Tool Is Already Raising Alarm Bells
Instagram's boss says you can know when a post is AI-generated, but you can't hide those posts from your feed. Meanwhile, a new Meta image tool lets users drop strangers into AI creations just by tagging them.