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Momfluencers are co-parenting with AI. Is it better than a man? | Arwa Mahdawi

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Women in heterosexual marriages continue to do most of the caregiving. Now some are offering guides to AI-fying parentingIn honour of Pride I’d like to share some important news: Being Straight is Great, Actually! This public service announcement is brought to you by the New York Times which, in an offering to the Ragebait Gods, […]

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AI engineer says Google unfairly sacked him after he protested against work for Israel

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Exclusive: Employment tribunal claim says worker lost his job after distributing leaflets throughout London officeGoogle is facing a legal challenge from an AI engineer who claims he was unfairly dismissed after he protested against its work for the Israeli government, in the latest sign of growing concern about the social and ethical impacts of AI.The

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‘It’s like stealing’: Palestinian family’s seized property listed on Booking.com

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West Bank home described as ‘ideal for outdoor gatherings’ is among 41 listed rentals in illegal Israeli settlements Some of Mohammad al-Sbeih’s fondest childhood memories are of his small farm in the hills south of Bethlehem, where three generations of his family grew wheat and barley.“It was a hard plot to farm as it was

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Head of Microsoft’s Israel branch to step down after inquiry into dealings with Israeli military

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The inquiry came after the Guardian revealed Israel used company technology to support mass surveillance of Palestinian phone callsThe head of Microsoft’s Israeli subsidiary will step down in the wake of an inquiry that has scrutinised its business dealings with the Israeli military.Microsoft ordered the inquiry last year in response to a Guardian investigation revealing

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Book Review: ‘Project Maven,’ by Katrina Manson

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In “Project Maven,” Katrina Manson shows us how close we are to artificial intelligence picking targets and dropping bombs without human input.

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Iran’s Meme War Against Trump Ushers In a Future of ‘Slopaganda’

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The country’s propaganda apparatus has harnessed artificial intelligence tools to reach a global online audience primed for irony, irreverence and trolling.

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In an Asymmetrical War, Iran Seeks an Edge With Its Information War

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Propaganda and disinformation have flooded the internet in a sophisticated effort to undermine support for U.S. and Israeli attacks.

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These aren’t AI firms, they’re defense contractors. We can’t let them hide behind their models

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From Gaza to Iran, the pattern is the same: precision weapons, chosen blindness, and dead children. The cost of failing to regulate AI warfare is already too highThere is an Israeli military strategy called the “fog procedure”. First used during the second intifada, it’s an unofficial rule that requires soldiers guarding military posts in conditions

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Big Tech’s Uncertain Future in the Persian Gulf

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The expanding war in the Middle East has added new risks to the trillions of dollars in investments that tech companies have planned in the region.

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Iran war heralds era of AI-powered bombing quicker than ‘speed of thought’

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Speed and scale of US military’s AI war planning raises fears human decision-making may be sidelinedThe use of AI tools to enable attacks on Iran heralds a new era of bombing quicker than “the speed of thought”, experts have said, amid fears human ­decision-makers could be sidelined.Anthropic’s AI model, Claude, was reportedly used by the

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