Amazon asks corporate workers to ‘volunteer’ help with grocery deliveries theguardian.com/technology/202…

Per a note to staff today shared with me, the Washington Post is restructuring some of its newsroom, creating a new "Futures" team "focused on the forces shaping life in the 21st century." A pretty notable and smart way of rethinking some beats/topics imo...

Elon Musk's empire is in turmoil theguardian.com/technology/202…

New investigation by Dara Kerr: How SpaceX won approval to litter the Pacific with blown up Starships theguardian.com/technology/202…

Wait a minute I called this

flattered to have started a trend!!! 😍😍😘😘

The New York Post is heading to the West Coast to launch The California Post, a new daily newspaper headquartered in Los Angeles. The publication will hit newsstands in 2026.

Gazans use social media, especially Bluesky, to crowdfund for milk and diapers. Their desperation leads them to behave like bots. Social networks repeatedly delete their profiles. A guerrilla verification squad has formed to help. Johana Bhuiyan reports theguardian.com/technology/202…

Tangentially related is this very classic Steve Jobs story

Given recent reports that ChatGPT handles 2.5bn requests a day, the total consumption of GPT-5 could reach the daily electricity demand of 1.5m US homes. theguardian.com/technology/202…

Predicting a sitcom plot where an AI remembers her birthday but her boyfriend doesn't theverge.com/news/758624/go…

Come work with me! I'm hiring an editor on a one-year contract for series of stories about how artificial intelligence is transforming work. More info in the posting: workforus.theguardian.com/jobs/819/

Newsletter on "skibidi" and simulacra: “Skibidi”, with its use as an emphatic, humorous filler word with “no real meaning”, per Cambridge, refers to nothing so much as the hurtling, hyperreal feeling of scrolling through too many videos in one sitting. theguardian.com/technology/202…

A fascinating interview about using AI to write and the politics of linguistic connotations theguardian.com/books/2025/aug…

Microsoft employees, outraged by a Guardian story on Azure being used by Israel to store surveillance data collected on Palestinians, occupied HQ in protest in Redmond today theguardian.com/technology/202…

Blake Montgomery, in his TechScape newsletter for Guardian US, highlights the booming surveillance industry. Palantir, Geo Group, and CoreCivic profit from Trump’s immigration crackdown; Microsoft’s cloud enables mass monitoring of Palestinians. Read here: shorturl.at/YwpWt

I agree with Taylor Lorenz that the phones/teens debate is far more nuanced and complicated than just "phones: bad." There's a full-on moral panic, proposed legislation that compromises everyone's privacy, and many different actors with their own agendas (if social media

Him being locked out of the paywall…

The most delightful—and surprisingly informative—story you'll read today: Jveuxdusoleil (I want sun) taps into a key part of Parisian culture: drinks on the terrasse, as many fear the extinction of the bistrot theguardian.com/technology/202…

‘Like saying goodbye to someone I know’: Users say OpenAI’s updated GPT-5 version is less chatty and fun, changing a unique connection they had come to rely on theguardian.com/technology/202…