MPs to summon Elon Musk to testify about X’s role in UK summer riots
Commons inquiry into rise of harmful content on social media also expected to call Meta and TikTok executives
Donald Trump joins Elon Musk for SpaceX Starship rocket launch
The launch was Starship’s sixth experimental flight following first successful test in June
HarperCollins to allow tech firms to use its books to train AI models
Some nonfiction backlist titles will be used to train artificial intelligence with authors’ permission
Atacms: what are the missiles Ukraine has fired into Russia for first time?
Joe Biden gave the green light for the US-made weapon to be used inside Russia. How will it affect the war?
US justice department plans to push Google to sell off Chrome browser
Authorities seek to dismantle monopoly on search market and also want action related to AI and Android
TechScape: Betting markets come for everything – and the FBI comes for a betting market
This week in tech news, online predictors are riding high after a slew of accurate US election wagers. Plus, Trump and Musk try to weaponize the communications regulator•
‘People don’t get the power of the podcast. But Trump does’: broadcaster-turned-investor Harry Stebbings
The twentysomething podcaster and venture capitalist talks about his $400m investment fund, his mum – and the power of new media to influence politics
Meta pushes AI bid for UK public sector forward with technology aimed at NHS
Tech giant awards funding to project to shorten waits in A&E, after ‘hackathon’ on using Llama system in Britain
AI cloning of celebrity voices outpacing the law, experts warn
David Attenborough among famous people whose voices have been exploited by fraudsters
Bunnings breached privacy of customers by using facial recognition, watchdog finds
Hardware chain breached law by scanning faces of everyone entering the store against a database of banned customers
John Oliver on potential US TikTok ban: ‘May not be necessary, but it isn’t sufficient’
Last Week Tonight host looks into looming US ban over privacy concerns and fear of its Chinese parent company
Don’t scare us and use our language to discuss sextortion, say teenagers
Awareness campaign partly designed by under-18s will launch on social media to educate adults and children
If you can’t trust the voice of David Attenborough, what can you trust?
The world’s best-loved naturalist has had his voice cloned – and misused – by AI. Soon, we won’t believe anything we hear unless we are in the same room as the speaker, writes Zoe Williams
In England and Wales, where you live determines the kind of policing you get. That isn’t right
We want to make once-in-a-generation changes so that every force has access to the best tools – and justice isn’t a postcode lottery, says Gavin Stephens, chair of the National Police Chiefs’ Council
Lend me your ears: great Shakespearean actors given hi-tech talking portraits
A radical new exhibition celebrates stars including Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart by combining subtly moving artworks with their own voices. The results are uncanny