For being America’s most populous city, New York City’s cell service is terrible

Elon Musk Will Earn a Company Bonus if He Drops a Million Colonists on Mars https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-will-earn-a-company-bonus-if-he-drops-a-million-colonists-on-mars-2000752661

This week, @alixdunn.com spoke to @theguardian.com U.S. Tech Editor @montgomery.bsky.social about the bizarre stack of companies that constitute SpaceX, and how Musk wants to IPO to become a trillionaire. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMK_...

Talking Tim Cook's legacy and Apple's new direction open.spotify.com/episode/6fmv...

Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s court fight could have been a major moment for AI safety. Instead, it’s a fight dominated by personal pettiness and specific bitterness, motivated by money and personal grievance. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Privacy. That’s iPhone? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Tim Cook new job is Apple's elder statesman www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I find myself awash in hype, adrift www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Little Joy, a coffee shop in Northfield, MN, created a raspberry danish latte. They made a video about how to make it for a "DIY or buy" series, which went viral. Then they encouraged other coffee shops to copy the recipe - and hundreds worldwide did. www.theguardian.com/food/2026/ap...

The face of the Pentagon's punishment of Anthropic held xAI stock and sold it for millions www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Nobody: The ads on the Drudge Report:

If you were to describe SpaceX to an alien that crashed into one of its satellites, you could say that SpaceX is an online advertising company that launches rockets and might one day make datacenters in space. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Social media addiction is a real liability now www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Had a lot of fun talking to the @theguardian.com podcast folks about Wednesday's scheduled launch of Nasa's Artemis II moon rocket, ably assisted by Tim Peake, a promising young British astronaut recruit from the @ukspaceagency.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

My "We don't allow bets on assassinations and murder" ad campaign has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the ad campaign

This made me laugh: AI is just another technology Americans don’t like but can’t stop using www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

I simply must see the president’s daily Iran war TikTok www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

Meta ordered to pay $375m after being found liable in child exploitation case www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Can Meta protect its next generation of users? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I did a deep dive into five Cybertruck fires. What I learned was the truck's design can hamper rescue efforts and lead to worst-case scenarios where fires rapidly ignite, the vehicle’s electric door handles won’t unlock and passengers are trapped inside www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Cybertrucks have locked passengers inside and burned so hot they’ve disintegrated drivers’ bones. Victims’ families blame what they say is the faulty design of a truck Elon Musk calls ‘apocalypse-proof’ www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Less than a decade ago, Google employees scuttled any military use of its AI. Now Anthropic is fighting Trump officials not over if, but how

How Amazon pushes employees to integrate AI across their workload despite their concerns that the company's "half-baked" tools are creating more work (Varsha Bansal/The Guardian) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Amazing. Amazon is forcing employees to use its AI tools to speed up work and it’s slowing them down www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

With the first primaries of the US midterm elections now under way, the cryptocurrency industry is injecting millions of dollars into congressional races across the country, particularly in Illinois www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

As the nation's first jury trial over social media harms concludes and we wait for the verdict, @darakerr.bsky.social takes a look back at the proceedings www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Less than a decade ago, Google employees scuttled any military use of its AI. Now Anthropic is fighting Trump officials not over if, but how www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

In China, the "kill line" social media trend hangs on the idea that a life in the US is always one step from disaster, while the "Chinamaxxing" trend in the US has gen Z revelling in Chinese lifestyle hacks www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Lots of new campaign filings coming out in California with tech billionaires spending big. One new filing I hadn't seen reported on yet was Google's Eric Schmidt donating more than $1M to a committee combating the proposed billionaire tax www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Amazon is determined to use AI for everything – even when it slows down work: Corporate employees said Amazon’s race to roll out AI is leading to surveillance, slop and ‘more work for everyone’. www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

Current and former Block workers say AI can’t do their jobs after Jack Dorsey’s mass layoffs: ‘You can’t really AI that’ www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

What was really behind the layoffs at Jack Dorsey's Block? An extremely weak crypto market, for one thing. And can AI really do 40% of your job? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Co-publishing an excellent, nuanced story today with @edsurge.com, where I had my first job in journalism! www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

“It’s difficult to understand the scale of the problem, but OpenAI itself estimates that more than a million people every week show suicidal intent when chatting with ChatGPT.”

holy moly www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

Her husband wanted to use ChatGPT to create sustainable housing. Then it took over his life. www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

My newsletter this week: Silicon Valley campaigns simultaneously in India and at home www.theguardian.com/global/2026/...

An excellent essay by @samoltman.bsky.social introduced Reworked, The Guardian's new series on AI and the future of work: "New technology has workers spooked, but experts say it’s creating an opening for a resurgence in worker power" www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

The very first story in our new series on AI and the future of work is one of The Guardian's most viewed www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

The Guardian's new yearlong series on AI and the future of the job is here! It's called Reworked, it's edited by the brilliant @samoltman.bsky.social, and our first story published today www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Thermal drone footage shows Elon Musk's xAI flouting clean air regulations www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Why is Palantir's stock down 20% this year? On the right, it's the Maga Data Eagle. On the left, it's the Surveillance Death Star. On Wall Street, however...

Elon Musk’s longtime fixation on a white racial majority is intensifying. The richest man in the world posted about how the white race was under threat, made allusions to race science or promoted anti-immigrant conspiracy content on 26 out of 31 days in January. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Is it possible to develop AI without the US? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Jeffrey Epstein engineered an intimate relationship between a woman in his network and Kimbal Musk, the brother of Elon Musk and a director on Tesla's board, according to the Epstein files. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Why TikTok’s first week of American ownership was a disaster

In its first week of American ownership, Tiktok endured a major outage caused by a freak winter storm that fueled users’ accusations censorship. Now it’s facing an inquiry by the California governor and an ascendant competitor. Oof. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Just drama and dreams: AI companies without products are still scoring billions www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

On the plans for AI’s world domination at Davos: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Did you know that self-driving cars in Texas "do not yet require specific authorization to operate," according to the DMV? You can just throw one on the road and let it rip www.theguardian.com/technology/2...