Patricia Clarke

Why you can now buy shares in Donald Trump’s social media platform - and what it means for the former president as he faces a series of legal and financial challenges ahead of November’s election.

Michael James Pratt, the alleged mastermind of the sex trafficking ring GirlsDoPorn, has been extradited to the US after three years on the run as one of the FBI’s ten most wanted fugitives. Between 2009-2020, GirlsDoPorn recruited young women through fake modelling ads, telling them at the last minute that they were expected to film …

Generative AI has worked out how to spend money, but not how to make it.

Public hearings into the alleged war crimes committed by British special forces during the war in Afghanistan have been delayed by several months after the Ministry of Defence repeatedly failed to meet its deadlines.

The US Marines’ Special Operations Command (MARSOC) is testing a new generation of robot dogs armed with sniper rifles for various applications including surveillance and “tunnel work”. The robots’ features include infrared vision, AI-enhanced cameras that can detect targets, and remote-controlled weapons from Onyx Industries. MARSOC says this test is just that and “should not …

Tech tycoons who like to back winners are lurching to the right.

OpenAI says the latest model of its chatbot is capable of “reasoning” – others say it’s already able to deceive humans.

Waiting times for UK driving tests are creeping back up, and the official booking site has become overrun by bots. What will it take to fix the problem?

Character.AI, an app popular with children, is hosting chatbots that promote disordered eating. The app is free, comes with no parental controls and has roughly 20 million active users. They can access a variety of chatbots modelled on different personas, from celebrities to teachers. Reporters at Futurism found several of those chatbots were dedicated to …

Bryan Johnson, a Caribbean island and a quest to reverse the ageing process