Gen Z is living in an intimacy economy, where connection is commodified | Alice Lassman
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Could AI be conscious?
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Andy Burnham’s plan to scrap technology department triggers backlash
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I investigated Palantir’s foothold in the British state – and what I found should worry us all | Peter Geoghegan
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UK parents warned over posting images of children amid AI sexual abuse fears
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Trump accused of ‘disgusting’ crypto greed after earning over $1bn since return to office
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‘There’s this deep mystery of what, actually, is this thing?’: the philosopher inside Google DeepMind
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‘We’re up against forces that have all the money in the world’: Erin Brockovich on her battle against AI datacentres
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Datacentres facing increase in global climate-related legal cases, report finds
A Google datacentre in Santiago, Chile, where a project was successfully halted in 2020 on climate grounds. Photograph: Luis Bustamante/The…