Dario Amodei, Anthropic's CEO, and Marc Benioff, Salesforce's CEO, attend the Dreamforce 2026 summit in San Francisco, California,on 15 September 2026. Dario Amodei, Anthropic's CEO, and Marc Benioff, Salesforce's CEO, attend the Dreamforce 2026 summit in San Francisco, California,on 15 September 2026. L ast year, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned that artificial intelligence could eliminate half of entry-level white-collar jobs and that in six months it would be writing 90% of code . Neither of those predictions came to pass. Now, in a report Anthropic published on Thursday, the company said it was hiring fewer junior technical workers and that human attention has become the new "bottleneck" as it increasingly relies on its Claude AI agents.

Tesla CEO and X owner Elon Musk attends the VivaTech conference in Paris on 16 June 2023. Tesla CEO and X owner Elon Musk attends the VivaTech conference in Paris on 16 June 2023. This was originally published in TechScape, a newsletter about how technology shapes our lives. Elon Musk's SpaceX is the single largest satellite operator in the world, larger than any government space bureau. The life-threatening consequences of that dominance and centralization of power are on full display.

'These risks are real': the threat of AI bioweapons - podcast In his annual speech on threats to the nation, Sir Ken McCallum, the head of the UK's intelligence service, MI5, warned that AI had the potential to'change the stakes' on existing and even new bioweapons. To find out why, and how, Ian Sample speaks to Dr Tom Inglesby, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and the Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Governments around the world have moved to ban these AI platforms from app stores. Governments around the world have moved to ban these AI platforms from app stores. US teens can access'nudify' apps despite Apple and Google's parental controls, report finds In December 2025, Morgan Dorfman received distressing news: a student at her daughter's Pennsylvania high school was making AI-generated pornographic material using the daughter's image. He was using an artificial intelligence image-editing app called Movely to create sexual videos from pictures of her daughter and five other girls. What Dorfman's daughter experienced is not an anomaly: students in high schools across the US are reporting similar cases.

The development of a huge AI datacentre hailed by the UK government has received a fresh setback after Microsoft pulled out of the project over concerns about power supplies. The development by the British company Nscale, heralded by ministers as the country's largest AI datacentre when it was announced in 2025, was planned to open at Loughton in Essex next year. Revealed: UK's multibillion AI drive is built on'phantom investments' Doubts had already emerged about the scheme after the Guardian revealed in March that the location was still an operational scaffolding yard . Now there are further concerns after Microsoft, one of its largest planned customers and expected to have been the anchor tenant, informed the company that it was pulling the plug on its agreement. It comes a month after it emerged that power supply problems meant the project would face a lengthy wait before coming online.

It is not so much'killer robots' keeping one cabinet minister awake as the idea of concentrated, super-intelligent power ending up in the hands of bad actors. It is not so much'killer robots' keeping one cabinet minister awake as the idea of concentrated, super-intelligent power ending up in the hands of bad actors. The power of AI is worrying senior Labour figures - as is the fear of'falling behind the public' "I have this sense that, within a few months, AI is going to be all anyone is talking about," said one cabinet minister, with an ominous stare. It was Labour conference, with everyone from ministers to activists jubilant at Andy Burnham's takeover and a bounce in the polls after the change of leader. But a number of senior Labour figures were privately starting to name the power of AI as the thing worrying them most, alongside the immediate pressures on the cost of living and fragile economy.

If you've used AI to assist you with online dating please tell us all about it here Please include as much detail as possible. What worked and what didn't?

Is your boss watching you? Workers have always been monitored by their bosses, first through output targets, and then via computer software labelled'bossware'. But AI is transforming the capabilities of these systems, processing huge volumes of data to provide minute-by-minute accounts of activity, and productivity. To find out more, Ian Sample hears from UK technology editor Robert Booth. He explains which sectors are adopting this approach, why they are doing it, and how it could end up being counterproductive.

Hassan said there was'still more that Match needs to do'. Hassan said there was'still more that Match needs to do'. Mary met a man on the dating app Plenty of Fish in 2024. She told the Guardian she had been looking for a connection, but instead became the victim of a romance scam that cost her almost $100,000. "There was a lot of conversation, and then it started with the constant contact, pressure and repeated asks for money," Mary, who asked that her last name be withheld, said in an interview on Tuesday.

'They are the most precious thing in my life. So why would I turn them over to tech companies whose sole motivation is to profit from their time and harvest their data?' 'They are the most precious thing in my life. So why would I turn them over to tech companies whose sole motivation is to profit from their time and harvest their data?' 'I've become significantly more cautious': six parents on limiting their kids' social media and AI use Quite a few parents aren't convinced social media and AI are safe, and have been adapting accordingly When it comes to their kids, many parents don't trust tech companies any more. Social media companies have spent the better part of the last decade arguing that their platforms are safe for teens, but quite a few parents aren't convinced. They, along with a growing number of regulators, have increasingly accused companies like Meta of designing products that are addictive to younger users.