The tech bros have front-row seats at Trump’s inauguration, but what they want goes way beyond that

The convergence of money and politics isn’t new. What’s different is the Silicon Valley right’s hostility to the nation state, says author Quinn Slobodian

Apple suspends AI-generated news alert service after BBC complaint

Inaccurate notices branded with broadcaster’s logo sent to iPhone users but tech firm works on improvements

Donald Trump reportedly weighing up TikTok ban delay

President-elect ‘has warm spot’ for platform and wants political solution to ‘preserve app but protect data’

UK Meta staff ‘concerned’ over scrapping of factcheckers and DEI programmes

Union says Facebook-owner’s policy changes will affect ‘ability to retain talent and thrive as an inclusive business’

BT axes EV charger scheme after installing just one out of 60,000

Telecoms company hoped to convert roadside cabinets into charge points but will now shut down its sole installation

Ministers pledge record £410m to support UK nuclear fusion energy

Ed Miliband says funding pledge means Britain within ‘grasping distance’ of ‘secure, clean, unlimited energy’

Meta to fire thousands of staff as Zuckerberg warns of ‘intense year’

Company reveals plans to cut about 5% of its global workforce days after saying it would get rid of factcheckers

Keir Starmer is right to gamble on an AI revolution, but it might not pay out in time

The cash to match the prime minister’s ambition will have to come from other budgets long before any benefits are seen, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

US sues Elon Musk for allegedly failing to disclose early Twitter stock purchase

Financial regulator alleges Musk later acquired shares of company at ‘artificially low prices’, stiffing shareholders

Could Keir Starmer’s AI dream derail his own green energy promise?

As PM pins hopes on AI, what effect will building energy-hungry datacentres have on Labour’s clean power pledge?

‘Don’t allow you to go to the bathroom’: big tech’s call center workers in Greece on strike

Workers at Teleperformance, customer support company for Apple, Google and Netflix, accuse it of union busting and surveillance

Google investigated by UK watchdog over search dominance

CMA to look at impact on consumers, businesses, advertisers and publishers, as well as collection of data

Amazon makes ‘largest ever’ UK order of electric trucks to cut carbon emissions

Online retailer will also begin its first large-scale deliveries by train and trial heavy post-style carts

No 10 says Starmer does expect Reeves to stay as chancellor until general election – UK politics live

Downing Street says prime minster has ‘full confidence’ in chancellor and will be working with her ‘in role of chancellor’ for the whole of this parliament

Water shortage fears as Labour’s first AI growth zone sited close to new reservoir

First datacentre site proposed seven miles from Abingdon reservoir planned for water-stressed south-east England