UK politics: Starmer warns Trump’s US tariffs not just ‘short-term tactical exercise’ – as it happened PM says measures mark ‘the beginning of a new era’ for trade and the global economy
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Doge gained access to sensitive data of migrant children, including reports of abuse Former officials question the reason for a Doge engineer’s access to the Unaccompanied Alien Children portal
Revealed: Trump’s fossil-fuel donors to profit from data-center boom and green rollbacks Energy Transfer, a top backer of US president, has received requests to power even more energy-guzzling data centers
Floppy disks and vaccine cards: exhibition tells tale of privacy rights in UK Forty items on display in Manchester, collated by information commissioner, chart evolution of personal data usage over 40 years
‘Meta has stolen books’: authors to protest in London against AI trained using ‘shadow library’ Writers will gather at the Facebook owner’s King’s Cross office in opposition to its use of the LibGen database to train its AI models
National security adviser Michael Waltz reportedly conducted business via Gmail Latest security flap again focuses scrutiny on Waltz after he earlier added journalist to Yemen war-planning chat
Ed Atkins review – a harrowing medley of spiders, sinkholes and death Using CGI-avatars, racks of opera costumes and a film starring Toby Jones, the artist explores the proximity of his own mortality – and ours
What Australians flying to the US need to know about phone and device searches at the border Can immigration deny you entry if you refuse to hand over your phone? What can officials look at or download, and how can you protect your devices?
Tesla quarterly sales slump 13% amid backlash against Elon Musk Drop is likely combination of ageing lineup, increased competition and backlash to Musk’s politics
Roblox gives parents more power over children’s activity on gaming platform Parents can block children from talking to certain people and get detailed screen-time insights on site popular with under-13s
Trump to consider final proposal on TikTok as US ban deadline looms Owner ByteDance required to find non-Chinese buyer for video app’s American operations by Saturday
Starmer offers big US tech firms tax cuts in return for lower Trump tariffs Exclusive: UK willing to placate Trump with lower digital services tax rate also encompassing non-US companies
UK needs to relax AI laws or risk transatlantic ties, thinktank warns Tony Blair Institute says enforcing stricter licensing rules for copyright-protected material will threaten national security interests
OpenAI raises $40bn in deal with SoftBank that values it at $300bn Japanese investor to put $10bn at first into OpenAI and $30bn more by end of 2025 if certain conditions are met