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The Latest Articles by John Naughton

How did Sam Bankman-Fried attract investors? Well, Fomo probably helped

The cryptocurrency fraudster talked a lot of venture capitalists into pouring millions of dollars into his business. Maybe they should be more careful next time

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AI is not the problem, prime minister – the corporations that control it are

Despite Rishi Sunak’s summit and Joe Biden’s executive order on the safety of AI, it’s the tech giants that really need reining in

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Artists may make AI firms pay a high price for their software’s ‘creativity’

Computer-generated art seemed magical at first, but it works by ‘scraping’ the creations of real people. Now they’re angry, and have the tools to fight back

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The advanced silicon chips on which the future depends are all made in Taiwan – here’s why that matters

With the intentions of Xi Jinping uncertain, there is a rush to build advanced chip-fabrication plants outside Taiwan. But it is proving a bigger challenge than anticipated

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Musk’s plan X: keep users in the dark, feed them dung and watch sales mushroom

The social network owner’s business model appears to include a slurry of unmoderated toxicity, such as footage of a murder

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Encryption services are sending the right message to the quantum codebreakers

Quantum computers may still be years away, but it’s prudent that end-to-end encryption providers are ramping up defences

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Has Google’s monopoly on the search engine market finally timed out?

The US justice department is belatedly addressing the company’s stranglehold on digital advertising technologies in the most significant antitrust case for more than two decades

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When it comes to creative thinking, it’s clear that AI systems mean business

The chatbot GPT-4 has produced more viable commercial ideas more efficiently and more cheaply than US university students

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Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson review – pillock, genius, or both?

The tech mogul is portrayed as a brutal visionary with father issues in this comprehensive biography

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The EU cable guys have tied down Apple, yet big tech is still bossing the Tories

The tech giant has bowed to European legislation with a USB-C connector on its new iPhone but the UK government has failed to make messaging services toe the line on encryption

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A punk, a monkey, a maths genius … our pick of local heroes who deserve a blue plaque

With the London scheme poised to go national, Observer writers make their cases for a few of the many overlooked, snubbed or merely forgotten figures who richly deserve recognition

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From me to your inbox: 33 of the best Substack newsletters

The fast-growing US writing platform has come of age. But how do you find the good stuff? We pick some of the best by theme

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How savvy trillion-dollar chipmaker Nvidia is powering the AI goldrush

The US firm best known for its gaming tech has long been ahead of the curve in supplying the tools needed by tech developers

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When Elon Musk’s ‘flying sofas’ give Ukraine internet access, we can’t sit comfortably

The Starlink system has been vital to Zelenskiy’s forces, but it can’t be good to have a volatile billionaire playing a crucial role in a major European war

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The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman review – AI, synthetic biology and a new dawn for humanity

The DeepMind co-founder calls for the ‘containment’ of new technology in a heartfelt and candid exploration of what the future may hold for us

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Can AI-generated art be copyrighted? A US judge says not, but it’s just a matter of time

American copyright legislation currently invokes a ‘human involvement’ criterion. But judging by the way smartphones have trivialised the ‘craft’ of photography, something has to give

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The world has a big appetite for AI – but we really need to know the ingredients

Much ‘artificial intelligence’ harvests original creative work by humans. Regulators must demand transparency about training data

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A tsunami of AI misinformation will shape next year’s knife-edge elections

If you thought social media had a hand in getting Trump elected, watch what happens when you throw AI into the mix

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What Apple did to Nokia, Tesla is now doing to the motor industry

People scoffed at the idea of electric vehicles for the masses. But now a Tesla hatchback has outsold the Toyota Corolla

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Will rebranding Twitter give Elon Musk the X factor? I wouldn’t bank on it

Twitter’s owner has given his toy a new name, but any ambition he has to turn it into a WeChat-like financial service is fanciful

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Caw-blimey, GPT-4 may be just an AI language parrot, but it’s no birdbrain

The advanced large language model’s ability to reason is a feather in the cap for developers of generative AI technology

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If Threads is the final nail in Twitter’s coffin, where will the journalists and politicos go?

Elon Musk is wrecking his platform, but it has invented a medium for catchy soundbites that is too invaluable to lose

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Chatbots are social media on steroids – trapping us in an even more tangled web

Big tech now has even more to answer for. But salvation could come from an unlikely source

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You think the internet is a clown show now? You ain’t seen nothing yet…

Social media platforms are laying off their ‘trust and safety’ teams. Brace yourself for a new wave of unfettered misinformation and abuse

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There is no moral high ground for Reddit as it seeks to capitalise on user data

CEO Steve Huffman says tech giants should not be able to trawl Reddit’s huge store of data for free. But that information came from users, not the company

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