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    AI
    Finance leaders warn over Mythos as UK banks prepare to use powerful Anthropic AI tool

    Release of new Claude model, so far limited to US firms, will expand to British institutions in coming days
  • Sovereign AI Unit## PA2026EMBARGOED TO 0001 THURSDAY APRIL 16 File photo dated 06/01/26 of Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology Liz Kendall arrives for a Cabinet meeting in Downing Street, London. Ms Kendall will formally launch a £500 million fund aimed at backing British AI firms in the race to benefit from the new systems. The announcement of the first beneficiaries of the Sovereign AI Unit will take place on Thursday at an event hosted by UK-based AI car firm Wayve. Issue date: Thursday April 16, 2026. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Ben Whitley/PA Wire

    AI
    UK technology secretary urges public to embrace AI as government makes first £500m fund investment

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    OnlyFans
    UK’s OnlyFans tops $3bn valuation amid talks to sell stake to US investor

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    Exclusive
    Newly unsealed records reveal Amazon’s price-fixing tactics, California attorney general claims

  • Workers in dirty hi-vis jackets in a data centre

    US tech firms successfully lobbied EU to keep datacentre emissions secret

  • A Japanese woman uses her smartphone

    Smartphones
    ‘How do I end a call?’: the elderly Japanese people determined to master smartphones

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    Media
    Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings to leave streaming service

Spotlight

  • Film Review - Lee Cronin's The MummyThis image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Shylo Molina, left, and Billie Roy in a scene from "Lee Cronin's The Mummy." (Warner Bros. Pictures via AP)

    Screenmaxxing: why Hollywood is supersizing the big screen experience

  • A woman leans toward a man to help him on his computer

    Now you can break up with big tech at a bar: ‘cybersecurity disguised as a party’

  • A Buddhist monk in red robes stands on a street with other Burmese people outside a shop marked Telenor

    Norway’s state telecoms firm accused of helping Myanmar regime seize activists

  • A businesswoman searching documents in messy stack.

    Bosses say AI boosts productivity – workers say they’re drowning in ‘workslop’

Opinion & analysis

  • Mystic picture of hacker with computer at dark room seen through a broken mirror

    double quotation markAnthropic’s new AI tool has implications for us all – whether we can use it or not

    Shakeel Hashim
  • Sam Altman against a red background.

    If OpenAI is to float on the stock market this year, it needs to start turning a profit

  • Social Media TrialsWorkers walk past a display at Meta headquarters on Thursday, March 26, 2026, in Menlo Park, Calif. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

    How Meta’s victim-blaming failed to sway jurors in landmark social media addiction trial

  • Man departs Capitol room

    ‘Accountability has arrived’: dual US court losses show shifting tide against Meta and co

  • A still from the Super Mario Galaxy movie.

    Father of man who inspired Super Mario was also named Luigi, researcher finds

    Elisabeth Zetland, a senior researcher at MyHeritage, found that the actual Luigi had immigrated to US from Italy
  • The team behind Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 pose with awards.

    Clair Obscur and Dispatch share top honours at Bafta games awards

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    Replaced review – nostalgic cyberpunk tribute has few ideas of its own

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    Pragmata review – soulful sad dad saga in stunning outer space

  • Man in suit at lectern flanked by row of people, in front of state seal on wall and American flag.

    Roblox to implement youth protections and pay $12m in Nevada settlement

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    Silicon Valley city to give residents doorbells equipped with cameras

  • Larry Ryan

    double quotation markThese CEOs want a starring role in our lives – and there’s not much we can do about it

    Larry Ryan
  • A man in a suit gestures with his hands

    OpenAI shutters AI video generator Sora in abrupt announcement

  • The Claude welcome screen on a cellphone

    Anthropic and Pentagon face off in court over ban on company’s AI model

Reviews

  • Grayson Perry standing near the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco

    Grayson Perry Has Seen the Future review – some of these insights into AI are just mindblowing

  • Apple 13in MacBook Air M5 displaying the Guardian website homepage.

    MacBook Air M5 review: Apple’s best consumer laptop speeds up

  • Three water flosser models shown side by side

    The best water flossers in the UK, tested for that dentist-clean feeling

  • Person testing cabin bag durability by climbing playground obstacle course with luggage

    The best carry-on luggage in the UK, tested on an assault course

In depth

  • A composite image of a young woman with a social media text superimposed saying 'Off subject, have you had your thyroid checked?' and a hand holding a phone with the TikTok logo.

    Dr TikTok: patients diagnose chronic illnesses with anonymous commenters’ help

  • a smartphone, displaying the openAI logo, sits on top of keyboard

    AI companies know they have an image problem. Will funding policy papers and thinktanks dig them out?

  • A smartphone displays the Anthropic logo

    ‘Too powerful for the public’: inside Anthropic’s bid to win the AI publicity war

  • a man playing the piano

    ‘It has your name on it, but I don’t think it’s you’: how AI is impersonating musicians on Spotify

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