Tech

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• Sadiq Khan sparks row with Met after blocking £50m AI deal with Palantir
• Standard Chartered boss apologises for ‘lower-value human capital’ comments amid job cuts
• Palantir hits back at Sadiq Khan after £50m contract with Met police blocked
• Tesla Cybertruck pulled from Texas lake after attempting ‘wade mode’
• ChatGPT and other AI bots made huge errors before Scottish election, study finds
• Google DeepMind in talks with UK unions amid staff concern over US and Israel’s AI use
• Spotify and Universal Music agree deal to let subscribers create AI remixes
• Mars colony and Grok warnings: five strange details in SpaceX’s pitch to investors
• Nvidia’s revenue blows past Wall Street expectations as AI boom accelerates
• Who is Louis Mosley, the man tasked with defending Palantir against its critics?
• Molière Ex Machina: AI used to create ‘new work’ by beloved French playwright
• The end of typing? Why workers are suddenly ditching their keyboards
• ‘There are no rules’: spotlight on Gossip Goblin as AI film-making enters new era
• LifeHack review – old-school heist movie updated for the meme age
• John Lennon: The Last Interview review – Soderbergh imagines there’s no people with bland AI clipshow
• Nothing Phone 4a Pro review: premium aluminium meets quirky design
• Sony 1000XX the Collexion headphones review: supreme comfort and quiet luxury for your ears
• Ketamine, TMS, a fecal analysis: my year trying San Francisco’s most experimental depression treatments
• High-stakes courtroom drama of Musk v OpenAI hears closing arguments
• Matt Brittin has taken the helm of the supertanker BBC, but there are plenty of icebergs in his way | Jane Martinson
• Google announces glasses are back and search is getting an AI makeover
• Gotta catch an MP! Players ‘debate’ UK politicians in Pokémon-style game
• How Forza Horizon took on Japan with deep research – and 360-degree cameras
• Forza Horizon 6 review – classic open world racing sim roars beautifully into Japan
• Online child safety campaigners call for US inquiry into Roblox
• Driving sims were once all the rage – will Forza Horizon 6 get them back on track?
• Forget the AI job apocalypse. AI’s real threat is worker control and surveillance
• Trump heads to China to spread the gospel of American tech while emulating Xi Jinping on AI
• The Elon Musk v Sam Altman battle is a distraction | Karen Hao
• How Sam Altman’s victory over Elon Musk clears way for OpenAI’s trillion-dollar ambitions
• ‘Capitalism has to become more humane’: a Stanford economist on big tech, power hoarding and democracy
• The seven best video doorbells in the UK tried and tested – and Ring isn’t top
• The best fans to keep you cool: 14 tried and tested favourites to beat the heat