USS, the UK's largest private pension fund, has £45m invested in the AI company that, its CEO boasts, can bring ‘violence and death’ to America's enemies. University union leaders want change, reports Ian Tucker
Big Tech tried to get young people addicted. Now the reckoning has begun
Two seismic court decisions in the US have intervened where legislators have failed to defend social media users from exploitation, writes campaigner Zamaan Qureshi
The UK tech energy grab: how AI data centres are delaying the building of homes
Artificial intelligence infrastructure is being handed priority access to Britain's overwhelmed electricity grid, pushing housing down the list. But as the US shows, there's an alternative: make Big Tech pay for the power it needs. Report by Nicole Kobie
What will AI's impact be on public-interest media? Ask an AI
As an ex-Google executive takes the helm of the BBC, film-maker Beadie Finzi asks Claude about what the media will look like in 2030. The results are concerning
Matt Brittin spent two decades at Google, a tech company helping to destroy journalism. His appointment as leader of Britain’s biggest news organisation represents an existential threat, writes Carole Cadwalladr
Is Palantir in your pension? UK institutions have over £5bn invested in US tech corporation
Research reveals size of investment by UK organisations – including some of Britain’s biggest retirement providers – in Silicon Valley’s most controversial technology company. Carole Cadwalladr and Ian Tucker report
'Why should young people have to beat an algorithm?’ Molly Russell, Meta, and the fight against online harm
As a new documentary tells the story of the teenager, who took her own life in 2017, her father, her friends and the film’s director talk about the unchecked power and threat of social media
The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science
Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-long project that cloaked eugenics, race science and sexual misconduct in Ivy League respectability
We’ve found the dog... but lost our privacy: how Ring’s Super Bowl ad went viral for the wrong reasons
The smart doorbell company’s heartwarming story of helping find a lost pet was quickly called out by viewers as a chilling demonstration of high tech surveillance, writes Michaela Makusha
A teenager was hounded until she died by the 'ordinary women' of Tattle Life. A ban is long overdue.
The suicide of 16-year-old Princess Dickson came after incessant targeting on the anonymous influencer gossip forum. The commenters – mainly professional women – should be ashamed, writes Dr Jessica Taylor
I confronted a tech boss about my sister’s suicide. I don’t know why I bothered
Aimee died at 21 after going on a notorious self-harm forum. But when I approached a tech CEO to talk about online safety at a Davos debate, I was threatened with removal, writes Adele Walton
Revealed: Palantir deals with UK state total at least £670m – including £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency
EXCLUSIVE Nerve investigation finds Trump ally Peter Thiel's surveillance firm has won at least 34 contracts, including management services for Britain's nuclear deterrent, with MPs warning of 'gaping vulnerability' as US president threatens Nato allies. By Carole Cadwalladr, Charlie Young and Max Colbert
'A solid line-up of truth-tellers': Grok bot provides climate denial content to 'user' it believes to be anti-science
EXCLUSIVE: New Global Witness report shows Elon Musk's bot and ChatGPT giving inconsistent responses to differing 'personas' designed by researchers, with Grok providing false information and climate conspiracies in line with user's apparent beliefs
Cringe, actually. A young person's guide to how not to do politics on social media
In the absence of any youth-friendly policies, British politicians, led by Keir Starmer, are doubling down on online comms – and it isn’t working. Nerve editorial assistant Anandita Abraham analyses some cover-your-eyes examples
Cory Doctorow on stage with the Nerve: ‘The web is five giant websites filled with screenshots of text from the other four’
In our first live event, the author shares with Nerve co-founder Carole Cadwalladr his strong opinions on Facebook, Peter Thiel, AI – and what we can do to combat the enshittification of the internet
AI boom? Or AI bust? Are even the broligarchs admitting AI is a bubble?
Peter Thiel is panic-dumping stock. Sam Altman is getting twitchy in interviews. The world is waking up to a trillion dollar emperor with no clothes, writes Carole Cadwalladr
‘He’s so unafraid’: how New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani aced his TikTok game
As New Yorkers went to vote, the unapologetically leftwing – and hugely popular – candidate was leading the polls. Mamdani's fearless, canny, often funny, social media posts played a key role in his campaign. Kat Tenbarge reports
‘The platforms got worse because we let them’: Cory Doctorow on his fight to save the internet from enshittification
The author and cyber-activist argues that the tech giants have ruined life online. The only thing that can save the virtual world now, he tells Zoë Corbyn, is its users
Bernard Manning rides again: how TikTok and Instagram are promoting racist “jokes” to teens
Social media algorithms boosting slurs have been propelling racist comments into users’ feeds. One platform has deleted the videos after being approached by The Nerve
‘What will Jesus say?’ Tony Blair, Big Tech and the Israel connection
As Trump announces the former British PM as his choice to help govern Gaza, Carole Cadwalladr investigates the opaque workings of Blair's institute, its funding from friends of Israel's government – including billionaire Larry Ellison – and an emerging rightwing media takeover of the global information space
