9+ hour, 1+ min ago  (968+ words) We asked people in the US about their customer service battles and hundreds responded on the financial and emotional costs Guardian readers from across the US wrote in to tell us about their battles with big companies, and the time,…...

9+ hour, 17+ min ago  (505+ words) Exclusive: While recruits will increase headcount for now, broader adoption of AI could lead to jobs cuts in future Lloyds Banking Group has launched an AI recruitment drive for 300 tech experts, weeks before its chief executive, Charlie Nunn, unveils a…...

10+ hour, 21+ min ago  (966+ words) A burgeoning genre of fictional AI doomsday scenarios says lagging behind on the technology could threaten the continent's sovereignty It's 2031 and the US and China are about to tear Europe into pieces. Now the chickens are coming home to roost....

14+ hour, 47+ min ago  (344+ words) Need something brilliant to read this weekend? Here are six of our favourite pieces from the last seven days double quotation mark If you try to leave them they threaten to sue you, or they do sue you, or they…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (1839+ words) Want to prolong the life of your TV? A wireless TV box could be the answer. Our expert put top devices " from Freely streamers to Sky and Amazon Fire " through their paces Do you really need a new TV? Simple…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago  (845+ words) As datacenters" connections to electric grids are held up, big tech is forced to throw money at producing its own power Datacenters are driving unprecedented growth in the US clean energy industry, paradoxically boosting a sector that was sputtering before…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago  (364+ words) Depending on AI can also potentially decrease the ability to discern misinformation, research says A new study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is the latest research to find that relying too much on chatbots can diminish critical-thinking skills, and…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1823+ words) The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on "an evil king or tyrant " who appears in the end times" Peter Thiel"s off-the-record antichrist lectures reveal more about him than Armageddon Peter Thiel, the billionaire political svengali and…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago  (226+ words) It never occurred to me that I could opt out of checking my reflection, but a conversation I heard this week was a total revelation Rats in labs eventually work out which behaviour stops the electric shocks, but I had…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago  (688+ words) The three-martini lunch allowed us to mix business and pleasure, a phenomenon that is missing during the AI boom As a 46-year-old executive who now has both people and AI agents reporting to me on the org chart, I think…...