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The Latest Articles by John Naughton

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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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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China and physics may soon shatter our dreams of endless computing power

Silicon chip transistors are so small they are approaching their physical limits. And the firm that makes many of them may be somewhat hampered if Xi Jinping decides to invade Taiwan

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A lawyer got ChatGPT to do his research, but he isn’t AI’s biggest fool

The emerging technology is causing pratfalls all over – not least tech bosses begging for someone to regulate them

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AI will be everywhere, but its rise will be mundane not apocalyptic

To understand how ChatGPT will infiltrate the world, cast your mind back to Google’s decision to map the entire planet

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Fancy Bear Goes Phishing by Scott Shapiro review – a gripping study of five extraordinary hacks

A professor of law who’s a computer geek carves an undaunted path through the conceptual and technical undergrowth in this illuminating tour of cyberspace’s dark side

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When the tech boys start asking for new regulations, you know something’s up

The OpenAI CEO says his industry needs government intervention. Whether it’s a ploy or a plea for help, we should be concerned

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A moment’s silence, please, for the death of Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse

Meta sank tens of billions into its CEO’s virtual reality dream, but what will he do next?

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Power and Progress review – why the tech-equals-progress narrative must be challenged

In an important new book, US economists Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson propose ways in which digital technology can be repurposed for human flourishing as well as private profit

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‘A race it might be impossible to stop’: how worried should we be about AI?

Scientists are warning machine learning will soon outsmart humans – maybe it’s time for us to take note

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