Ivor Manley

6 days ago | theguardian.com | Michael Safi |Hattie Moir |Ivor Manley |Sami Kent

In 2019, before most of the world had heard of the company, the technology journalist Karen Hao spent three days embedded in the offices of OpenAI. What she saw, she tells Michael Safi, was a company vastly at odds with its public image: that of a transparent non-profit developing artificial intelligence technology purely for the benefit of humanity. ‘They said that they were transparent. They said that they were collaborative. They were actually very secretive,’ she says.

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Helen Pidd |Jenny Stevens |Kate McCusker |Ivor Manley |Elizabeth Cassin

“There’s lots of chat at the moment about #SkinnyTok,” Jenny Stevens, the Guardian’s deputy features editor, tells Helen Pidd. “The TikTok influencers, TikTok users, who are documenting their extreme weight-loss journeys. “I’ve looked through that hashtag and I think, wow, some of these people are really, really unwell.

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Michael Safi |Hattie Moir |Ivor Manley |Sami Kent

In 2019, before most of the world had heard of the company, the technology journalist Karen Hao spent three days embedded in the offices of OpenAI. What she saw, she tells Michael Safi, was a company vastly at odds with its public image: that of a transparent non-profit developing artificial intelligence technology purely for the benefit of humanity. “They said that they were transparent. They said that they were collaborative.

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Helen Pidd |Hannah Al-Othman |Hattie Moir |Ivor Manley |Sami Kent

In November 2020, in the middle of a national lockdown, Nicola Packer found out she was pregnant. It was a shock, she tells the Guardian’s north of England correspondent, Hannah Al-Othman. Nicola hadn’t really thought she was pregnant, didn’t even believe she could conceive and had never wanted children anyway. After a call to the UK’s largest abortion provider, she was sent pills to terminate her pregnancy. They believed, she was told, she was about six weeks pregnant.

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Lucy Hough |Eleanor Biggs |Kate McCusker |Ivor Manley |Homa Khaleeli |Elizabeth Cassin

“I worry a lot about a kind of world war one-type scenario,” former White House Russia adviser Fiona Hill tells Lucy Hough, “in which the prevailing system is broken down, and you get a whole outbreak of conflicts that meld together.”“People are always asking: ‘What should we be worried about in the future?’ We should be worried about the here and now.”Fiona reflects on what another term of Trump and Putin in power means for Europe and the rest of the world.