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Key Trump allies and Musk on leaked list for secretive Peter Thiel retreat

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Figures including Jared Kushner and Scott Bessent named in directory of Dialog participants that was exposed onlineA website leak has exposed participants in the secretive, Peter Thiel-founded Dialog retreats which includes top politicians from across the American divide, officials from foreign countries, other titans of the tech industry world and prominent media figures.The annual Dialog […]

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How do people in the US describe customer service in 2026? ‘Debilitating, depressing, enraging. Ugh’

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We asked people in the US about their customer service battles and hundreds responded on the financial and emotional costsGuardian readers from across the US wrote in to tell us about their battles with big companies, and the time, expense and emotional toll exacted by businesses they say are prioritizing the bottom line over all

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Over-reliance on chatbots can diminish critical-thinking skills, study finds

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Depending on AI can also potentially decrease the ability to discern misinformation, research saysA new study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is the latest research to find that relying too much on chatbots can diminish critical-thinking skills, and potentially decrease our ability to discern misinformation for ourselves.As AI tools are becoming more sophisticated and

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Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s new film shines a light on the human cost of unregulated social media

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California first lady’s Miss Representation: Rise Up studies the backlash against women in the era of algorithms and deepfakesLife moves pretty fast. It is Monday lunchtime when Jennifer Siebel Newsom drops into the Guardian’s office in Washington, just a couple of blocks from the White House, for an interview to promote her new film. Less

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‘A neoliberal nightmare’: my ride on the Vegas Loop – Elon Musk’s answer to traffic jams

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Ten years ago, after complaining that traffic was ‘driving him nuts’, Musk’s Boring Company began building underground tunnels to ease congestion on the roads. Did he overpromise and underdeliver?It’s another blindingly bright day in Las Vegas but I’m 30ft underground and strapped in for a rocket ride to the future. Actually, it’s a Tesla ride

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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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Trump’s DoJ intervenes to back Elon Musk in datacenter pollution lawsuit

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Justice department urges judge to throw out suit brought by NAACP over xAI’s methane-gas turbines in MississippiThe Trump administration is coming to the defense of Elon Musk in a lawsuit over claims that his artificial intelligence company, xAI, is polluting residential neighborhoods in north Mississippi. The justice department told a federal court late on Monday

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SpaceX to buy AI coding firm Anysphere for $60bn and passes Amazon valuation

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Elon Musk firm adds startup behind Cursor app to its portfolio with xAI and reaches $2.8tn market capitalisationElon Musk’s SpaceX is buying the startup behind the AI-powered coding app Cursor for $60bn and has moved ahead of Amazon in valuation days after its stock market debut.The company has agreed to buy Anysphere, which has capitalised

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How the fight over US datacenters is scrambling this state’s politics: ‘We don’t want it’

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Josh Shapiro, Pennsylvania’s governor, squares off with state lawmakers over the facilities powering an AI boomA controversial haunted house near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, taps into its dark history every fall to scare tens of thousands of visitors. In 1968, a local news station documented appalling conditions for disabled people in the red brick buildings on the

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Elon Musk’s unprecendented accumulation of wealth

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IPO mints Musk as world’s first trillionaire – now SpaceX is public, it will be harder than ever not to have a stake in its future Hi and welcome to TechScape. Nick Robins-Early here, US tech and power reporter at the Guardian. I’m filling in for your usual host Blake Montgomery, who is out this

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