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China’s tech advances are causing chaos from Silicon Valley to the White House

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New AI models, advanced robots and specialty computer chips are unsettling markets and the US tech industryOver the past month, a series of advancements in China’s artificial intelligence, chip manufacturing and robotics technologies have rattled financial markets, caused divisions among US tech moguls and left the Trump administration scrambling to respond.Silicon Valley has long pointed […]

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How AI may drive union-resistant tech workers to the bargaining table

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Tech workers are increasingly unionizing, trading Silicon Valley’s myth of exceptionalism for collective bargaining to contest the corporate deployment of artificial intelligenceFor decades, the technology industry was a fortress that labor unions couldn’t breach. Tech workers already had cushy compensation packages, dream benefits like unlimited vacation and free lunch, and a flat corporate hierarchy that

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‘Absolutely bananas’: San Francisco homes sell for $1m above asking price amid AI boom

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Report finds widespread overbidding as rapid AI growth generates increased wealth in city where housing is scarceSan Francisco’s AI boom has buyers spending unprecedented amounts of money on homes – much more than sellers are asking for.A new analysis from real-estate brokerage Compass, found that in the first half of 2026, more than 140 homes

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Silicon Valley donations make Colorado Democratic primary one of state’s most expensive

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Manny Rutinel’s House campaign draws millions from big tech as pro- and anti-AI factions spar over regulationPolitical groups funded by top tech executives have been homing in on one local race in Colorado, as the state’s Democratic primary vote gets under way on Tuesday. Democrat Manny Rutinel, who’s running in the competitive eighth congressional district

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As the US and China surge ahead, is Europe sleepwalking into AI disaster?

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A burgeoning genre of fictional AI doomsday scenarios says lagging behind on the technology could threaten the continent’s sovereigntyIt’s 2031 and the US and China are about to tear Europe into pieces.The US ploughed vast sums into datacentres and the EU did not. China built robots and Europe did not. American companies “restructured” their workflows

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Will it take a ‘Chernobyl-scale disaster’ for us to regulate cyber weapons of mass destruction? | Stuart Russell

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Unrestrained development of unsafe AI systems is leading to intolerable risksStuart Russell is a computer scientist known for his contributions to AI and a new Guardian US columnistThe AI company Anthropic has been making major headlines recently. Its trillion-dollar IPO plan and its blood feud with secretary of defense Pete Hegseth have attracted much attention,

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Bernie Sanders’ AI sovereign wealth fund plan is good. But we think this is better | Nathan E Sanders and Bruce Schneier

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While we do not outright oppose the taking of AI company stock, or of a US a sovereign wealth fund, there are better ways to achieve the senator’s goalsLet no one accuse Bernie Sanders of ducking the big questions. Writing in the New York Times last week, the senator asked: “Will the future of humanity

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Why I’m grateful to the Pope for his encyclical on AI | Francine Prose

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The intelligent and thoughtful encyclical is an important warning of the uses and misuses of a rapidly developing technology. Silicon Valley is wrong to dismiss itOften I’m asked if I think that the novels of the future will all be written by AI. It’s not so much a question as a provocation. Do I worry

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I avoid AI tools because thinking is supposed to be hard. It’s what makes us human | Wendy Liu

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As intelligence itself becomes privatised by big tech, allowing your intellectual faculties to wither in service of inane bots seems a dangerous moveLong before the age of multi-billion-dollar AI companies promising to disrupt the field of software development, I was learning to code the hard way.It was the mid-2000s, and I was a child with

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High-stakes courtroom drama of Musk v OpenAI hears closing arguments

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Nine-person jury to consider whether AI firm bilked world’s richest person and unjustly enriched themselvesClosing arguments began on Thursday in Elon Musk’s lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI, bringing the weeks-long courtroom battle between the two tech moguls nearer to a decision. A nine-person jury is set to deliberate and return a verdict on whether

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