Exceptionally rare ‘fee’ to be paid by investors who took control of US operations from Chinese parent companyDonald <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/trump-administration">Trump’s administration</a> is reportedly poised to be paid $10bn by investors as part of a deal to create a US-controlled version of TikTok.The $10bn, considered by the US government as a sort of transaction fee, will be paid by the administration-friendly investors who took control of TikTok’s US operations from its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, according to reporting that first <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.wsj.com/tech/tiktok-deal-fee-trump-administration-5aa31c9f?st=m5R14t&amp;reflink=article_copyURL_share">appeared in the Wall Street Journal</a>. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/14/tiktok-trump-administration-10bn">Continue reading...</a>

Exceptionally rare ‘fee’ to be paid by investors who took control of US operations from Chinese parent company

Trump administration to be paid $10bn for brokering TikTok deal

Network has faced Trump’s ire and Pleitgen has faced criticism, but it is ‘better to be on the ground’ he saysFrederik Pleitgen, CNN’s senior international correspondent, had a pretty normal Thursday evening – at home in Berlin with his family, he walked his two Rhodesian Ridgeback dogs and spent some time with his two teenagers.That return to normalcy came after spending a week in war-torn Iran as the only western television correspondent given a visa to report from the country. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/14/cnn-frederik-pleitgen-journalist-iran">Continue reading...</a>

Network has faced Trump’s ire and Pleitgen has faced criticism, but it is ‘better to be on the ground’ he says

CNN’s Frederik Pleitgen on being the only western journalist in Iran: ‘It’s obviously a big responsibility’

Sources tell Reuters layoffs could affect 20% or more of company as plans reflect broader tensions within big techMeta is planning sweeping layoffs that could affect 20% or more of the company, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, as Meta seeks to offset costly artificial intelligence infrastructure bets and prepare for greater efficiency brought about by AI-assisted workers.No date has been set for the cuts and the magnitude has not been finalized, the people said. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/13/meta-layoffs-ai">Continue reading...</a>

Sources tell Reuters layoffs could affect 20% or more of company as plans reflect broader tensions within big tech

Meta reportedly plans sweeping layoffs as AI costs increase

Motaz Malhees is an actor in The Voice of Hind Rajab, a film about a Palestinian girl killed by the IDF in Gaza in 2024Palestinian actor Motaz Malhees said a travel ban imposed by <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump">Donald Trump</a> is preventing him from attending Sunday’s <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/oscars">Academy Awards</a>, whose nominees include a movie in which he has a starring role.<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/sep/04/the-voice-of-hind-rajab-review-provocative-docufiction-is-fierce-urgent-and-heart-shattering">The Voice of Hind Rajab</a>, a film about a five-year-old Palestinian girl killed by Israeli forces in Gaza in 2024, has been nominated for best international feature film. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/mar/14/palestinian-actor-oscars-travel-ban">Continue reading...</a>

Motaz Malhees is an actor in The Voice of Hind Rajab, a film about a Palestinian girl killed by the IDF in Gaza in 2024

Palestinian actor says he can’t attend Oscars because of US travel ban

The black-and-white shows were first broadcast in 1965, and will be available to watch next month on BBC iPlayerTwo lost episodes of Doctor Who unseen since airing in the 1960s have been discovered in a cardboard box belonging to a deceased film aficionado.The film cans, which were wrapped in plastic bags, have now been regenerated by BBC archivists and will be available next month on iPlayer. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/mar/13/two-lost-doctor-who-episodes-from-the-1960s-found-and-regenerated">Continue reading...</a>

The black-and-white shows were first broadcast in 1965, and will be available to watch next month on BBC iPlayer

Two lost Doctor Who episodes from the 1960s found … and regenerated

Ukrainian photographer Arthur Bondar has amassed a huge collection of pictures from often unknown photographersAfter pulling on white cotton gloves, Arthur Bondar carefully takes a handful of 4cm by 9cm negatives from an old cigarette box and holds them up to the light of his study window. Inverted images of a woman on a horse, a group of women tending cabbages in a field, laughing figures at the seaside, a woman posing as a military ship sails by, hover in front of him, almost ghostlike. Although they are tiny, he is able to make out key details such as the insignia on a uniform, or the name of a ship, that trigger his curiosity and give him a starting point for his research.Arthur Bondar examines some of his negatives. Photograph: Oksana Yushko/The Guardian <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/14/negatives-are-photographic-truths-the-collector-who-fled-russia-with-a-haul-of-second-world-war-images">Continue reading...</a>

Ukrainian photographer Arthur Bondar has amassed a huge collection of pictures from often unknown photographers

‘Negatives are photographic truths’: the collector who fled Russia with a haul of second world war images

As it searches for a new editor and presenter, programme is facing questions over its direction and status With well over 5 million listeners a week tuning in to hear whether another tongue-tied minister will fall foul of its legendary 8.10am interview slot, Radio 4’s Today programme continues to be one of the BBC’s flagship news shows.It has also traditionally been the pinnacle for broadcasters, producers and editors alike, keen to be associated with a show that has strived to set the daily news agenda since the 1950s. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/mar/13/today-programme-bbc-radio-4-new-editor-presenter-search">Continue reading...</a>

As it searches for a new editor and presenter, programme is facing questions over its direction and status

Has Today had its day? BBC’s flagship Radio 4 show grapples with podcast age

Films about prison abuse, ovarian cancer, women’s rights in Iran and more have impressed the Academy, but what real-world impact have they had?<ul><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/mar/13/oscars-2026-how-to-watch-nominations-predictions-what-to-read">Oscars 2026: how to watch, nominations, what to read and predictions</a></li></ul>The year 2025 was a banner one for nonfiction film, with several extraordinary documentaries that provided windows to unfathomable acts of courage, heart and vulnerability. Less so, unfortunately, for nonfiction cinema, it’s a <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/mar/01/documentaries-oscars">difficult time</a> for the production of politically challenging documentaries, whether in and about the US or abroad, and many projects struggled to find distribution after torturous paths to completion. (Cutting Through Rocks, the first Iranian documentary ever nominated for an Oscar, still has no streaming distribution and is only available in select theaters.)Nevertheless, five incredible films make up the Oscars documentary slate this year – films that demonstrate how individual actions can challenge immense systems of oppression; how national agendas trickle into the idiosyncratic, marginal every day; and how one can find transcendence in the smallest of daily miracles. The very existence of these films feels improbable: one is composed almost entirely of police footage acquired through legal action. Another was filmed on contraband cell phones within Alabama state prisons. There’s a remarkably candid approach to processing terminal illness; an unprecedented record of Vladimir Putin’s propaganda efforts, filmed by a schoolteacher in rural Russia and smuggled out of the country; and an extremely rare glimpse into small-scale women’s rights efforts in north-west Iran. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/mar/14/oscar-documentary-nominees-what-happened-next">Continue reading...</a>

Films about prison abuse, ovarian cancer, women’s rights in Iran and more have impressed the Academy, but what real-world impact have they had?

‘You cannot unsee it’: what happened next for this year’s Oscar documentary nominees?

ACM tells staff its chair and co-owner placed on leave of absence after arrest at apartment buildingRegional media boss Antony Catalano has been placed on leave after being charged in relation to “an alleged incident relating to a woman at an apartment”, his company has said in an email to staff.The co-owner and chair of the Australian Community Media newspaper chain faced a Melbourne court over the charges on Friday, the ABC first revealed. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/mar/14/newspaper-boss-antony-catalano-on-leave-after-being-charged-australian-community-media-says-ntwnfb">Continue reading...</a>

ACM tells staff its chair and co-owner placed on leave of absence after arrest at apartment building

Newspaper boss Antony Catalano on leave after being charged, Australian Community Media says

Features woven into the fabric of platforms have been central to landmark social media harm case in US. How do they work?It was as “easy as ABC”, claimed the lawyer prosecuting a landmark social media harm case against Meta and Google which heard closing arguments this week. The defendants were guilty, said Mark Lanier, of “addicting the brains of children”. Not true, replied the tech companies. Meta insisted providing young people with a “safer, healthier experience has always been core to our work”.Features such as autoplay videos, infinite scrolling and constantly chirruping alerts woven into the fabric of online platforms were central to the six-week trial in Los Angeles, which has been compared to the cases against tobacco companies in the 1990s. But how do these features work and what are their consequences? Are they creating addicts rather than users or are they just giving consumers more of what they want? <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/14/meta-and-google-trial-are-infinite-scroll-and-autoplay-creating-addicts">Continue reading...</a>

Features woven into the fabric of platforms have been central to landmark social media harm case in US. How do they work?

Meta and Google trial: are infinite scroll and autoplay creating addicts?

Fake pictures look authentic – and authentic ones get mistaken for fake. Here are three rules for navigating the war coverageThe videos look authentic – and they are spreading like wildfire on social media. One, for example, shows Iranian missiles exploding upon the airport in Tel Aviv, Israel. Another shows US soldiers being held at gunpoint by Iranian military.They aren’t real but – often made with the help of cutting-edge AI – they are wildly misleading. They may get debunked, but somehow that doesn’t make a dent. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/13/ai-generated-fake-iran-images">Continue reading...</a>

Fake pictures look authentic – and authentic ones get mistaken for fake. Here are three rules for navigating the war coverage

AI-generated Iran images are widespread. How do we know what to believe? | Margaret Sullivan

It’s only the first episode, but alongside Jeff Goldblum’s non-anecdotes about pencils the guests are reduced to discussing the colour of the sofaNow look. Let’s make a few things clear before we begin.We love Claudia Winkleman, absolutely, yes. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/mar/13/the-claudia-winkleman-show-review-bbc">Continue reading...</a>

It’s only the first episode, but alongside Jeff Goldblum’s non-anecdotes about pencils the guests are reduced to discussing the colour of the sofa

The Claudia Winkleman Show review – yes we love her, but this chatshow is a mess

Writers are voicing their anger at AI theft of their work with ‘Human Authored’ logos and an empty book. The government must listenIn a scene that might have come from a dystopian novel, books were being stamped with <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://societyofauthors.org/2026/03/11/human-authored-scheme-launched-as-generative-ai-threatens-authors-livelihoods/#:~:text=News-,Human%20Authored%20scheme%20launched%20as%20generative%20AI%20threatens%20authors%E2%80%99%20livelihoods,supporting%20the%20Human%20Authored%20scheme">“Human Authored” logos</a> at this week’s London Book Fair. The&nbsp;Society of Authors <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/10/uk-society-authors-logo-identify-books-written-by-humans-not-ai">described</a> its labelling scheme as “an important sticking plaster to protect and promote human creativity in lieu of AI labelled content&nbsp;in the marketplace”.Visitors to the fair were also being given copies of <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.dontstealthisbook.com/">Don’t Steal This Book</a>, an anthology of about 10,000 writers including Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro, Malorie Blackman, Jeanette Winterson and Richard Osman, in which the pages are completely blank. The back cover states: “The UK government must not legalise book theft to benefit AI companies.” The message is clear: writers have had enough.Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/tone/letters"> letters</a> section, please <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="mailto:guardian.letters@theguardian.com?body=Please%20include%20your%20name,%20full%20postal%20address%20and%20phone%20number%20with%20your%20letter%20below.%20Letters%20are%20usually%20published%20with%20the%20author%27s%20name%20and%20city/town/village.%20The%20rest%20of%20the%20information%20is%20for%20verification%20only%20and%20to%20contact%20you%20where%20necessary.">click here</a>. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/13/the-guardian-view-on-changes-to-copyright-laws-authors-should-be-protected-over-big-tech">Continue reading...</a>

Writers are voicing their anger at AI theft of their work with ‘Human Authored’ logos and an empty book. The government must listen

The Guardian view on changes to copyright laws: authors should be protected over big tech | Editorial

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Honda's decision to kill its three EVs for the U.S. market will reverberate far beyond North America.

Honda is killing its EVs — and any chance of competing in the future

These layoffs could help Facebook's parent company offset its aggressive spending on AI infrastructure, as well as AI-related acquisitions and hiring.

Meta reportedly considering layoffs that could affect 20% of the company

We've compiled a list of friendship apps, from friend discovery platforms like BFF to event-focused ones like Timeleft.

As people look for ways to make new friends, here are the apps promising to help

Learn how to use Spotify, Canva, Figma, Expedia, and other apps directly in ChatGPT. 

How to use the new ChatGPT app integrations, including DoorDash, Spotify, Uber, and others

The AI lab is revamping its effort to build an AI coding tool, with two new executives joining from Cursor. 

‘Not built right the first time’ — Musk’s xAI is starting over again, again

AI chatbots have been linked to suicides for years. Now one lawyer says they are showing up in mass casualty cases too, and the technology is moving faster than the safeguards.

AI chatbots have been linked to suicides for years. Now one lawyer says they are showing up in mass casualty cases too, and the technology is moving fast...

Lawyer behind AI psychosis cases warns of mass casualty risks

Digg laid off a significant number of staff and shut down its app, but says it's not giving up on the startup. 

Digg lays off staff and shuts down app as company retools

The data infrastructure startup raised $5.3 million in seed funding led by Wischoff Ventures and South Park Commons.

Nyne, founded by a father-son duo, gives AI agents the human context they’re missing

Facebook is making it easier for creators to report impersonators while tightening rules around reposts and other unoriginal content.


Facebook makes it easier for creators to report impersonators

At SXSW, Steven Spielberg said AI has uses in many fields, but not when it comes to replacing creative people in film and TV writing.

Steven Spielberg says he’s ‘never used AI’ in any of his films

The AI industry is constantly churning out news, like major acquisitions, indie developer successes, public outcry, and existentially dangerous contract negotiations.

The AI industry is constantly churning out news, like major acquisitions, indie developer successes, public outcry, and existentially dangerous contract ...

The biggest AI stories of the year (so far)

Kalanick's existing ghost kitchen company CloudKitchens will be rolled into Atoms, which also wants to get into mining and transport. 

Travis Kalanick launches a new company called Atoms focused on robotics

Gavriel Cohen is living an open source developer's dream as his project has achieved acclaim and a partnership with Docker in a matter of weeks.

The wild six weeks for NanoClaw’s creator that led to a deal with Docker

When you edit your Taste Profile, you'll impact your personalized playlists like Discover Weekly, recommendations, and Wrapped.

Spotify will let you edit your Taste Profile to control your recommendations

According to Index Ventures Partner Shardul Shah, cybersecurity startup Wiz sits “at the center of three tailwinds: AI, cloud, and security spend.” Those tailwinds powered what just became the largest venture-backed acquisition in history — Google&#8217;s $32 billion deal, finalized after a declined 2024 offer, antitrust review on both sides of the Atlantic, and an [&#8230;]

According to Index Ventures Partner Shardul Shah, cybersecurity startup Wiz sits “at the center of three tailwinds: AI, cloud, and security spend.” Those...

The $32B acquisition that one VC is calling the ‘Deal of the Decade’

Apple dropped its App Store commission rates to 25% in China, and commissions on auto-renewed subscriptions down to 12%. 

Apple drops commission rates in China without a fuss

The FBI believes a series of video games published on Steam in the last two years were embedded with malware by the same hacker.

The FBI is investigating malware hidden inside games hosted on Steam

Peacock is betting on new AI-powered video experiences, vertical clips, and mobile games to help its growth. 

Peacock expands into AI-driven video, mobile-first live sports, and gaming

The launch comes just two years after a major reboot at Hyundai-owned Motional. The service will start with a safety monitor, which Motional hopes to remove by year's end.

The launch comes just two years after a major reboot at Hyundai-owned Motional. The service will start with a safety monitor, which Motional hopes to rem...

Motional robotaxis join the Uber app in Vegas two years after major reset

After selling his AI startup to AMD for $665 million, Peter Sarlin is back with Qutwo, a new venture building the infrastructure it believes enterprises will need when quantum computing finally arrives.


After selling his AI startup to AMD for $665 million, Peter Sarlin is back with Qutwo, a new venture building the infrastructure it believes enterprises ...

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