Artificial intelligence (AI)
Apple reports robust demand for iPhone 16 even as overall sales in China slow
Company reports $94.9bn in revenue, slightly beating Wall Street projections in first look at demand for its new phone
Microsoft sails as AI boom fuels double-digit growth in cloud business
First Dog on the Moon
Artificial intelligence – is it bad? Yes. But on the other hand it is also terrible
Today in Focus
AI images, child sexual abuse and a ‘first prosecution of its kind’ - podcastThe Guardian’s North of England correspondent Hannah Al-Othman recounts the case of Hugh Nelson, sentenced to 18 years in prison this week for creating child abuse images with AI. Prof Clare McGlynn charts the rise of this material on the web and discusses what can be done to stop it
Small step or a giant leap? What AI means for the dance world
As a new show co-created by an AI performer opens in France, industry leaders including Wayne McGregor, Tamara Rojo and Jonzi D contemplate the technology’s possibilities and perils
Robert Downey Jr: ‘I will sue all future executives who make AI replicas of me’
The actor who will be returning to the MCU as Doctor Doom said he believed Marvel would ‘never’ recreate him on screen without his permission
Using avatars in psychosis therapy can help those who hear voices, study finds
Therapy involves patients talking with animated digital representations of voices they hear
Man who used AI to create child abuse images jailed for 18 years
Hugh Nelson, 27, from Bolton, jailed after transforming normal pictures of children into sexual abuse imagery
Keir Starmer says media firms should have control of output used in AI
PM says content creators must be paid and vows to ensure technology ‘does not begin to chip away’ at press freedoms
‘An existential threat’: anger over UK government plans to allow AI firms to scrape content
BBC among those opposing plan that would see AI models trained on content from publishers and artists by default
A predator used her 12-year-old face to make porn. She helped pass a law to make that a crime
Child actor Kaylin Hayman fought back after she learned that a man had used AI to make child sex abuse materials from images on her Instagram page
Michael Parkinson is back, with an AI voice that can fool even his own family
The chatshow star’s son says digital replica will interview a new generation of stars
From Rupert Murdoch to Thom Yorke: the growing backlash to AI
Talk to your plants? Now the first AI-powered garden will allow them to talk back
NHS in England to trial AI tool to predict risk of fatal heart disease
‘Superhuman’ technology known as Aire can detect potential problems doctors cannot see from ECG results
Mother says AI chatbot led her son to kill himself in lawsuit against its maker
Megan Garcia said Sewell, 14, used Character.ai obsessively before his death and alleges negligence and wrongful death
Claude AI tool can now carry out jobs such as filling forms and booking trips, says creator
Anthropic says model is able to carry out computer tasks – as fears mount such technology will replace workers
Thom Yorke and Julianne Moore join thousands of creatives in AI warning
Statement comes as tech firms try to use creative professionals’ work to train AI models
NHS in England given go-ahead for AI scans to help detect bone fractures
Rupert Murdoch’s Dow Jones and New York Post sue AI firm for ‘illegal copying’
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Today in FocusAI images, child sexual abuse and a ‘first prosecution of its kind’ - podcastThe Guardian’s North of England correspondent Hannah Al-Othman recounts the case of Hugh Nelson, sentenced to 18 years in prison this week for creating child abuse images with AI. Prof Clare McGlynn charts the rise of this material on the web and discusses what can be done to stop it
