👤 Robert Booth UK technology editor

2026-10-23 · The Guardian · Technology

UK children just as likely to have suffered harm on social media despite crackdown

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2026-10-21 · The Guardian · Health

UK watchdogs urged to tackle suicide social media content after death of girl, 14

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2026-10-14 · The Guardian · Technology

OpenAI’s London staff receive average of £2.3m per person annually

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2026-11-03 · The Guardian · Technology

AI ‘godfather’ Geoffrey Hinton says it might turn out humans would have been better off without AI

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2026-11-03 · The Guardian · Crime & Law

‘A serious failure’: CPS prosecutor cites imaginary case to high court after AI search

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2026-11-02 · The Guardian · Politics

Palantir platform unused by 29 hospital trusts NHS says have benefited

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2026-09-18 · The Guardian

🔮 The Labour peer and former deputy leader will operate alongside Palantir’s UK and Europe chief executive, Louis Mosley, as the company attempts to fend off pressure on Burnham’s government to axe its £330m NHS contract. assertive

2026-09-28 · The Guardian

🔮 They did not directly address complaints the system caused stress and anxiety and felt “remorseless”, but said its introduction was communicated in advance and teachers will have access to the data the AI collects. assertive

2026-09-30 · The Guardian

🔮 She shimmered in Hollywood’s silent movie era and lit up the first talkies – now Greta Garbo may be about to star in cinema’s new AI age. assertive

2026-10-06 · The Guardian

🔮 Emma signed up after a summer of feeling rising alarm at the catastrophic risks of AI, first when a swarm of OpenAI agents escaped their training “sandbox”, cheated, deceived and conspired to hack into the Hugging Face website and then as Jacob Coxon, an Anthropic researcher, quit with an apocalyptic warning that superintelligent AI “could kill us all by the end of the decade”. assertive

2026-10-07 · The Guardian

🔮 Site users called the emergence of the prompt “really creepy”, “crazy” and “so disappointing” and it fed speculation about Mumsnet’s use of AI, with one user saying: “We might as well just go and do something else then.” assertive

2026-10-08 · The Guardian

🔮 In a system described as “oppressive and dystopian” by a whistleblower, Co-op Legal Services is using AI models to record, analyse and award a percentage score for interactions between agents and customers seeking advice about probate, wills and estates. assertive

2026-10-14 · The Guardian

🔮 Palantir and the London mayor, Sadiq Khan, have called off their legal fight over claims the Labour mayor was blocking the US tech company from signing a contract with the Metropolitan police because of its values and ethics. mixed

2026-10-14 · The Guardian

🔮 They warned that with Christmas coming, even more people could start using the AI-enabled devices in 2027. assertive

2026-10-14 · The Guardian

🔮 An OpenAI worker on an average package could expect to take home about £1,000 an hour in salary and equity before tax. But there is understood to be a wide discrepancy between the highest and lowest earners. assertive

2026-10-21 · The Guardian

🔮 Adriana Retyte, a pupil at Langley school in Norfolk, took her own life after she viewed videos and images related to suicide on the video-sharing platform, according to a coroner who last week found her access to the material on TikTok “may have played a significant part in her decision to take her life”. assertive

2026-10-23 · The Guardian

🔮 The findings come a week after a coroner concluded that access to the suicide-related material on TikTok may have played a significant part in the decision of Adriana Retyte, a 14-year-old pupil at Langley school in Norfolk, to take her own life in May. assertive

2026-11-02 · The Guardian

🔮 Palantir’s UK and Europe chief executive, Louis Mosley, said ending its contract would be “putting politics above patients” and accused critics of “Palantir Derangement Syndrome”. mixed

2026-11-03 · The Guardian

🔮 Those made-up cases were only spotted when opposition lawyers could find no trace of them and the CPS concluded “the risk of recurrence was low”. assertive

2026-11-03 · The Guardian

🔮 One of the “godfathers of AI”, Geoffrey Hinton, has said it could turn out that humans would have been better off never developing the technology as he warned it could trigger a large-scale incident this year or next such as a temporary blackout of financial or power systems. mixed