Psychologists explain how your brain can lie. Fruit of the Loom's logo never had a cornucopia and you didn't have pizza for dinner last Friday. False memories are more than just misremembering someone's name. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. T-shirt tycoons Fruit of the Loom are both makers of functional, printable T-shirts and unintentional originators of a long-standing piece of memory misinformation.

A border patrol agent scans the face of a driver in Minneapolis on 13 January 2026. A border patrol agent scans the face of a driver in Minneapolis on 13 January 2026. Immigration enforcement agents across the US are increasingly relying on a new smartphone app with facial recognition technology. The app is named Mobile Fortify. Simply pointing a phone's camera at their intended target and scanning the person's face allows Mobile Fortify to pull data on an individual from multiple federal and state databases, some of which federal courts have deemed too inaccurate for arrest warrants.

The government is consulting on a social media ban for under-16s, which would have a big impact on Meta's Instagram platform. The government is consulting on a social media ban for under-16s, which would have a big impact on Meta's Instagram platform. Campaigners decry ties with'Trump-supporting' tech firms after funding is accepted to develop state AI systems Ministers have accepted $1m (£728,000) from Meta, the US tech and social media company, to build AI systems for defence, national security and transport, sparking warnings about the UK government's "alarmingly close relationship with Trump-supporting US tech giants". The money from Mark Zuckerberg's company will be used to pay experts to "develop cutting-edge AI solutions to support national security and defence teams", the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) announced on Tuesday. The money will pay for four British AI experts, coordinated by the government-funded Alan Turing Institute, to "play a pivotal role in rewiring our healthcare, police, transport systems and more", said Ian Murray, the minister for data and digital government.

In the three years since ChatGPT's explosive debut, OpenAI's technology has upended a remarkable range of everyday activities at home, at work, and in schools. Now OpenAI is making an explicit play for scientists. In October, the firm announced that it had launched a whole new team, called OpenAI for Science, dedicated to exploring how its large language models could help scientists and tweaking its tools to support them. How does a push into science fit with OpenAI's wider mission? And what exactly is the firm hoping to achieve? I put these questions to Kevin Weil, a vice president at OpenAI who leads the new OpenAI for Science team, in an exclusive interview.

Apple could unveil Gemini-powered Siri in Feb. California will investigate TikTok's alleged censorship of anti-Trump posts Users also complained about being unable to upload ICE-related videos, but TikTok is blaming issues on a power outage. California Governor Gavin Newsom has announced that his office is investigating whether TikTok is truly censoring content critical of Trump, days after ByteDance finalized a deal to spin off its business in the US. Newsom made the announcement in response to a post on X, claiming that you can no longer send messages in the app with the word "Epstein" in it. Newsom's office, in a separate post, said it was able to independently confirm instances wherein TikTok suppressed content critical of President Donald Trump.

A technician works at an Amazon Web Services AI datacenter in New Carlisle, Indiana, on 2 October 2025. A technician works at an Amazon Web Services AI datacenter in New Carlisle, Indiana, on 2 October 2025. At Davos, tech CEOs laid out their vision for AI's world domination Tech chiefs waxed poetic about AI to delegates at Davos. Plus, the'human' drama of AI startups and why Tesla is thriving in Texas This week's edition is a team effort: my colleague Heather Stewart reports on the plans for AI's world domination at Davos; I examine how huge investments have followed AI companies with little to their names but drama and dreams; and Nick Robins-Early spotlights how lax regulation of autonomous driving in Texas allowed Tesla to thrive. When they weren't discussing Donald Trump, delegates at the World Economic Forum last week were being dazzled by the prospects for artificial intelligence.

'Wake up to the risks of AI, they are almost here,' Anthropic boss warns Dario Amodei questions if human systems are ready to handle the'almost unimaginable power' that is'potentially imminent' Humanity is entering a phase of artificial intelligence development that will "test who we are as a species", the boss of the AI startup Anthropic has said, arguing that the world needs to "wake up" to the risks. Dario Amodei, a co-founder and the chief executive of the company behind the hit chatbot Claude, voiced his fears in a 19,000-word essay titled "The adolescence of technology". Describing the arrival of highly powerful AI systems as potentially imminent, he wrote: "I believe we are entering a rite of passage, both turbulent and inevitable, which will test who we are as a species." Amodei added: "Humanity is about to be handed almost unimaginable power, and it is deeply unclear whether our social, political, and technological systems possess the maturity to wield it." The tech entrepreneur, whose company is reportedly worth $350bn (£255bn), said his essay was an attempt to "jolt people awake" because the world needed to "wake up" to the need for action on AI safety.

Russia has been exploiting Ukraine's harshest winter in years to pummel energy infrastructure across the country. Repeated strikes have crippled the power supply to major Ukrainian cities, leaving millions without heating or light as temperatures hover around -15C (5F) for the third week in a row. Electrical companies carry out round-the-clock repairs - only for their work to be undone at night, when Russian drone and missiles again damage power stations. In Kyiv, people were initially able to keep the cold at bay by using electric heaters or wrapping up warm. But the freezing temperatures have lasted weeks now, with no end in sight.

Uber plans to deploy 20,000 robotaxis across U.S. and international markets over six years, with rides available exclusively through the Uber app.

Apple could unveil Gemini-powered Siri in Feb. Still needs a holster, though. Between the new Macs, iPhones and rumored AI gadgets, Apple surprised us with an upgraded, second-generation AirTag. It has Apple's latest Ultra Wideband chip -- the same one used in the iPhone 17 lineup and the Apple Watch Ultra 3. It also uses Precision Finding to reach items up to 50 percent further away than the previous AirTag model. This feature will now work with any Apple Watch Series 9, Ultra 2 or newer.