The Latest Breaking News from Karl Marx

As OpenAI marks its tenth birthday in December 2025, it can celebrate becoming one of the world’s leading companies, worth perhaps as much as US$1 trillion (£750 billion). But it started as a non-profit with a serious moral mission – and its story demonstrates the difficulty of combining morality with…

Letter: Benjamin Selwyn argues that the company’s power lies not in escaping capitalist logic, but in intensifying it

Letters: Dr Jan Udris says the Reform leader represents the antithesis of fairness, harmony and emancipation, while Terry Ward thinks he is confusing Karl Marx with Groucho Marx. Plus a letter from Huw Bradbury

The ‘knowledge economy’ promised cultural and social growth. Instead, we got worsening inequality and division. Artificial intelligence will supercharge it

Letters: Readers respond to an article on restaurants that offer customers different kinds of water from a dedicated menu

In the recently released game Tiny Bookshop you are invited to “leave everything behind and open a tiny bookshop by the sea”. Tiny Bookshop has been described as an ambient narrative management game, which has a cosy and calming feel.

Censorship tends to blow up in the faces of the censors.

The corporations would asset-strip our brains, but we can take back control, says economist and former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis

They had different views on asylum seekers and income tax, but could they agree about what makes a bad landlord?