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Staff fear UK’s Turing AI Institute at risk of collapse

A complaint raises concerns about the funding risks and a “toxic” culture at the Alan Turing Institute.

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AOL ends dial-up service after more than 30 years

The internet service which soared in popularity in the 1990s will come to an end from 30 September

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Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act verification rules

The Wikimedia Foundation says the new rules could threaten user privacy and safety.

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Dame Stephanie ‘Steve’ Shirley, technology pioneer, dies aged 91

She founded the software company Freelance Programmers in 1962, which almost exclusively hired women, and in later life donated almost £70m of her fortune.

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M&S click and collect returns 15 weeks after cyber attack

The retailer stopped taking orders on its website and app for clothing on 25 April.

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Musk’s Tesla applies to supply power to British homes

If approved by the energy watchdog Ofgem, it would allow the US firm to take on the UK’s dominant suppliers.

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Chip giants Nvidia and AMD to pay 15% of China revenue to US

The agreement is part of a deal to secure export licences to the world’s second biggest economy.

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Elon Musk’s AI accused of making explicit AI Taylor Swift videos

Grok Imagine’s “spicy” mode made explicit videos of Taylor Swift, according to The Verge and Gizmodo.

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OpenAI beats Elon Musk’s Grok in AI chess tournament

The tournament saw models from Anthropic, Google, xAI and DeepSeek compete against each other to be crowned the top AI chess player.

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OpenAI claims GPT-5 model boosts ChatGPT to ‘PhD level’

GPT-5’s release comes as tech firms continue to compete in an effort to claim the world’s most advanced AI.

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