HMRC has confirmed it uses artificial intelligence (AI) to monitor social media posts as part of criminal investigations into suspected tax cheats. It said the tech would not replace "human…
US President Donald Trump had been in office scarcely a week when a new Chinese artificial intelligence app called DeepSeek jolted Silicon Valley. Overnight, DeepSeek-R1 shot to the top of…
Elon Musk's electric car and energy company Tesla has applied for a licence to supply electricity to British homes. If approved by the energy watchdog Ofgem, it would allow Tesla…
To many women in tech, myself included, Dame Stephanie Shirley, who has died aged 91, was inspirational. Her pioneering and controversial decision to hire exclusively women coders and data inputters,…
Wikipedia has lost a legal challenge to new Online Safety Act rules which it says could threaten the human rights and safety of its volunteer editors. The Wikimedia Foundation -…
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has beaten Elon Musk's Grok in the final of a tournament to crown the best artificial intelligence (AI) chess player. Historically, tech companies have often used chess to…
A new robot shop has opened in Beijing selling everything from mechanical butlers to human-like replicas of Albert Einstein. More than 100 types of products will be on sale at…
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has unveiled the long-awaited latest version of its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, GPT-5, saying it can provide PhD-level expertise. Billed as "smarter, faster, and more useful," OpenAI co-founder…
US President Donald Trump has said he plans to introduce 100% tariffs on semiconductor imports. The tiny chips power a range of different devices and are integral to modern technology…
A woman has successfully sued former phone manufacturer LG for nearly £150,000 after one of its devices sparked a fire in her home in North Lanarkshire. Denise Parks and her…
