The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals

Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

GB news has provided relentless positive PR for Nigel Farage while racking up tens of millions in financial losses. And now there is a new channel in the offing

An OpenAI model solved the 80-year-old unit distance problem, disproving a major conjecture in discrete geometry and marking a milestone in AI-driven mathematics.

Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.

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This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know th...

James Orr is an Associate Professor at Cambridge's Faculty of Divinity and, since February 2026, Head of Policy at Reform UK. He has described Nigel Farage's party as an "insurgent right-wing force" a...

Campaigners receive longest ever sentences for non-violent protest after being convicted of conspiracy to cause public nuisance

A yearlong investigation into Nigel Farage’s fundraising operation reveals a plot to break the law by bringing foreign money into British politics

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Speech to conversion therapy lobby conference in Lisbon laid out plans to use puberty blockers as stepping stone to attack rights of trans adults

The Nerd Reich plays out as a grotesque pantomime in which we are forced to watch some of the most powerful people alive rediscover, at colossal, lethal expense and with a straight face, problems that...