Facebook and Instagram to charge UK users £3.99 a month for ad-free version
Subscription service is Meta’s response to regulatory warnings over crunching users’ data to serve targeted ads
Abu Dhabi royal family to take stake in TikTok US under Trump deal
MGX, chaired by Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, will take 15% stake, with social media firm valued at $14bn
Murdoch, Ellison and China: what we know about the US’s TikTok deal
TikTok’s future in the US has been in limbo for over year, but Trump says the US and China finally have a deal
Amazon to pay $2.5bn to settle FTC lawsuit over Prime ‘subscription traps’
US regulator said company enrolled millions of customers into service without consent and made it difficult to cancel
Spotify removes 75m spam tracks in past year as AI increases ability to make fake music
Streamer to crack down on AI-generated spam by introducing filter to identify fraudulent uploads
Co-op says ‘malicious’ cyber-attack has hit profits by £80m
Retailer says it needs to focus on weaknesses in food business that led to gaps on shelves in its stores
Jaguar Land Rover is a rich company – it can pay to support its own supply chain
As the government explores options to support suppliers it should ensure that the carmaker foots the eventual bill
Australia may have to choose between a Chinese TikTok and one owned by Trump’s billionaire backers
Expert raises concerns about what US TikTok deal could mean for News Corp’s ‘worrying dominance’ in Australian media
Optus claimed live updates on triple-zero outages would impose ‘huge burden’ months before outage
Telco had resisted new rules that will require greater sharing of information with authorities during outages
UK startup Wayve begins testing self-driving tech in Nissan cars on Tokyo’s streets
London-based AI pioneer in talks to receive $500m investment from Nvidia as it funds its expansion in the US, Germany and Japan
More Britons view AI as economic risk than opportunity, Tony Blair thinktank finds
TBI says poll data threatens Keir Starmer’s ambition for UK to become artificial intelligence ‘superpower’
Labour cosies up to US tech firms with little thought of downsides
Economic benefits of generative AI, which may take time to show, put ahead of impact of datacentres on energy and water
Inside the Jaguar Land Rover hack: stalled smart factories, outsourced cybersecurity and supply chain woes
Being a carmaker where ‘everything is connected’ has left JLR unable to isolate its plants or functions, forcing a shutdown of most systems
Trump says Xi Jinping has agreed to approve TikTok deal, but details unclear
Trump’s statement suggests preliminary agreement between leaders in the first direct contact between them since June
Gordon Thompson obituary
Other lives: Electrical engineer who worked on the development of printed circuit boards