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Blake Montgomery
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Tech editor at the Guardian US, science fiction writer, and a tale told by an idiot. Email me: blake.montgomery@theguardian.com
Apple has already taken action in response to this reporting, changing the App Store's rules on Friday after we went to them for comment
Blake Montgomery@montgomery.bsky.social · 2w agoExclusive: Teens have easy access to ‘nudify’ apps despite Apple and Google’s parental controls, report finds www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
As SpaceX impacts Ukraine and AI-generated music divides artists and fans, critics are asking what happens when technology has too much control over our lives www.theguardian.com/global/2026/...
The dangers of letting tech billionaires shape our world
As SpaceX impacts Ukraine and AI-generated music divides artists and fans, critics are asking what happens when technology has too much control over our lives
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Exclusive: Teens have easy access to ‘nudify’ apps despite Apple and Google’s parental controls, report finds www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
US teens can access ‘nudify’ apps despite Apple and Google’s parental controls, report finds
Exclusive: Using test accounts, Tech Transparency Project downloaded 135 apps with features to generate nonconsensual nude imagery
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The ultra-rich are spending one million dollars a day fighting California’s proposed billionaire tax. Tech billionaires have raised more than $340m to defeat Prop 40. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
The ultra-rich are spending one million dollars a day fighting California’s proposed billionaire tax
Tech billionaires have raised more than $340m to defeat Prop 40, a one-time 5% wealth tax that will fund healthcare and education
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Rapid AI adoption left workers cleaning up a flood of errors and low-quality work. Now companies are pulling back. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Companies rushed in on AI. Now some are pulling back
Rapid AI adoption left workers cleaning up a flood of errors and low-quality work
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Scoop: The 25-year-old who bombed a Palm Springs abortion clinic in May 2025 planned the attack with an unnamed generative AI tool that failed to detect his request for bomb-making instructions, per the FBI www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
Tool and target: US law enforcement grapple with AI-enabled terrorism and anti-tech extremism
From the FBI to local police departments, US authorities are increasingly warning of would-be terrorists using AI to plan attacks and anti-datacenter extremism
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In a sign the US' datacenter backlash might be overheating, a town where zoning prohibited datacenters banned them anyway, all before receiving a single permit application www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
‘This is not an anti-tech town’: backlash to datacenter in city once home to IBM
Fight in East Fishkill, New York, part of a growing divide over whether AI benefits outweigh enormous downsides
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Refugee gig workers for tech companies don’t know how much they’ll be paid – if AI hasn’t already taken their jobs www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
‘Someone else will do it for less’: refugees in Kenya are powering tech for dwindling pay
Refugee gig workers for tech companies don’t know how much they’ll be paid – if AI hasn’t already taken their jobs
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Who owns ‘brain rot’?: inside the international legal drama over a beloved AI-generated dancing drum named Tung Tung Tung Sahur, aka Triple T www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Who owns ‘brain rot’?: inside the international legal drama over a beloved meme
Copyright law in the US only applies to human-made creations, but AI characters like Tung Tung Tung Sahur are challenging that
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Found a chart that goes through 2025. This problem has plateaued and isn't returning to pre-pandemic levels.
Meta’s AI agent Muse gives out user’s home address without permission, sending buyer to his house www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘What does money from a Super PAC actually buy?’: our reporters are answering your election questions now www.theguardian.com/community/li...
‘What does money from a Super PAC actually buy?’: our reporters are answering your election questions now
Who are the groups backing candidates in the midterms – and why? In our second live discussion ahead of the elections, Joseph Gedeon, Dara Kerr and Chris Stein are live now
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The world freaked out about AI doomsday. Now what? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Why this AI doomsday warning from former Anthropic researcher broke through www.theguardian.com/global/2026/...
Why this AI doomsday warning from former Anthropic researcher broke through
Last week, researcher Jacob Coxon announced his resignation from Anthropic, stating that AI ‘could kill us all by the end of the decade’
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What bad economy? Not for Mr Bloomberg and Mr Murdoch
AI researchers predict human extinction; look, a new phone!
Exclusive: Documents show officers from Maine to California worry Meta’s camera-equipped glasses will be used either to secretly record them or aid acts of terrorism www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
US police fear Meta smart glasses could be used to secretly record them
Exclusive: Documents show officers from Maine to California worry Meta’s camera-equipped glasses will be used either to secretly record them or aid acts of terrorism
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My first piece for The Guardian is up! This one's about the backlash against Flock cameras
Cut the cameras: Flock surveillance cameras spur rare bipartisan backlash
Politicians on the right and left are pushing back against Flock as more Americans voice opposition to the tech
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I do think a big part of the AI fights on this site is that they largely are between folks who are using it and folks who tried it once in the past, it sucked, they abandoned it, and so it just reads as a lot of people talking past each other.
hailey@hailey.at · 2mo agogenuinely, if you're not re-evaluating your position on AI at least once every 1-2 months and re-evaluating how it performs for the types of tasks important to you, then you are not actually challenging your priors. i know this is crazy! but thats how fast things are moving right now.
Freelancers are making more money fixing AI slop than creating original work www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Freelancers are getting buried with ‘soulless’ AI slop cleanup: ‘It’s a shame we need to do it’
As more companies turn to AI, they’re hiring freelancers to cleanup its mistakes rather than create original work
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The Guardian's tech team is starting a regular advice column as part of our yearlong series on AI and work. What do you want to know about AI and your job? Ask us! Email techscape.us@theguardian.com with your questions, and we’ll answer them in future editions of the newsletter
Conservatives split from Silicon Valley allies as datacenter backlash grows
Tech companies have underestimated the opposition to energy-hungry datacenters – and experts predict the pushback will intensify
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The datacenter backlash is bringing the entire political spectrum together – against big tech billionaires www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The datacenter backlash is bringing the entire political spectrum together – against big tech billionaires
The movement against datacenters is uniting Americans because they perfectly illustrate how a few individuals hold all the power to control decisions that affect our lives
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Changes Meta agreed to today may be powerful enough to alter teens’ behavior and curb social media’s worst ills, they may not, but attorney generals did what Congress never has: compel a social media company to change its operations to protect children. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
How the Meta settlement may change social media forever
Instagram and Facebook’s parent company agreed to sweeping alterations and a payment of upto $18bn to settle a landmark trial
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Why did Meta's big American accountability moment happen in court? www.theguardian.com/global/2026/...
Meta goes on trial as Silicon Valley faces a growing backlash
Also: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman expressed his surprising sympathy over the construction of datacenters across the country
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Tell us: do you think AI has made Google search better or worse? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Tell us: do you think AI has made Google search better or worse?
As people grow used to AI chatbots, we’d like to hear your views about Google’s search engine
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