Technology

Elon Musk has said he will give a SpaceX share to every child in America, a stark pledge that now sits beside other technology world gifts aimed at the young.

A man has been jailed for 18 months for a royalty scheme that used artificial intelligence and bots to collect as much as $8 million from music streaming platforms.

Fear of digital intrusion is prompting a quiet turn towards older, often analogue tools — not from nostalgia, but because much of that kit sits outside the reach of contemporary hacking.

Humanoid robots have become the public face of Chinese automation, but a far larger industrial fleet — more than two million machines already at work in factories — is scaling up with less fanfare.