Following the catastrophic flooding in Nepal and Tibet, the effects of climate change in the mountains are becoming ever more obvious. The warming of the Alps is having a huge impact on mountain...

Big Tech’s giant data centres swallow as much power as millions of homes, guzzle our water, and risk driving up our energy bills - all with zero limits. We need basic rules: ⚡ 100% clean power 💧 Ze...

Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website

Small businesses are using the tech to create inexpensive wall art, flyers and social media posts, but there’s a growing public backlash over ‘values’

Order on two construction sites comes after Google failed to carry out environmental impact assessments

Letter: Martyn Thomas wonders how any rational person can argue that independent oversight and regulation will be sufficient

Exclusive: Campaign group’s analysis of North Yorkshire plans finds datacentre would have to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood a year

Whether AI assistance builds or erodes professional expertise is unsettled. In a pre-registered three-month randomized controlled trial, we gave 133 practicing

AI is junk food for the mind: easy, tempting and ultimately very bad for you.

Campaign groups report surge in membership after a spate of AI safety alerts and apocalyptic warnings

“Indiscriminate mass surveillance," a Meta Muse scoop, and more in today's daily newsletter.

Trump reportedly consulted with Grok for hours on his next course of action in Venezuela before launching a military invasion.

All the worry about artificial intelligence should not obscure this key point: If we don’t develop it, we’ll be a lot worse off.

Synthetic surveys using digital twins do a poor job estimating the public mood and are especially error-prone for some subgroups, including Republicans and Black adults.

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

In Guilty Pleasure, Patricia Nilsson reveals how the adult industry commodified intimacy and emotion – and shaped the internet in its image

"Do you watch the news? Do you listen to the radio? Do you read anything about what's going on in the world?” one of the judges asked the lawyer, who submitted false testimony and witnesses after using...

Class action will target “Real-Time Bidding” (RTB) data breach in Microsoft’s advertising system, and is anticipated to affect Microsoft’s operations across the EU

This lesson explores philosopher Harry Frankfurt's notion of bullshit, and explains why LLMs are, by his definition, bullshit machines.

The more we learn about how AI does business, the more unfair it looks

Letter: Bev Littlewood reminds us that mathematics has been the prime driver of the rise in AI, in response to an editorial

It’s giving Thanos energy.

The AI boom has driven US chipmaker Nvidia’s supply chain emissions up by 725% since 2020, according to a new report by environmental and civil society groups.

Scepticism over artificial intelligence in taxpayer-funded research “demonstrates fragility” of support within UK

In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of AI companies to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental rights of Europeans.