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AI deepfakes of real doctors spreading health misinformation on social media

Hundreds of videos on TikTok and elsewhere impersonate experts to sell supplements with unproven effects

Musicians must embrace ‘unstoppable force’ of AI, Eurythmics’ Dave Stewart urges

Producer says creatives need to own their intellectual property so they can license it to generative AI platforms

New York Times sues AI startup for ‘illegal’ copying of millions of articles

Perplexity AI also faces lawsuit from Murdoch-owned Dow Jones and New York Post for its use of copyrighted content

The Guardian view on reboots of A Christmas Carol and Paddington: refugee tales for today

Editorial: An Asian Scrooge, a break-dancing Bob Cratchit and a musical bear – new versions of classics keep stories alive

Scarlett Johansson joining the Batverse is good news for the franchise – but who will she play?

The actor who marries box office ratings with Wes Anderson cool should revive the Batman series, but trying to guess who she might play is a thankless task

The end of big-screen cinema? What Netflix hopes to achieve by buying Warner Bros

IP success stories such as Barbie and the DC Universe? That elusive best picture Oscar? Or perhaps the main goal is a good old-fashioned blockbuster

Trump administration moves to deny visas to factcheckers and content moderators

Action detailed in a state department memo directs officials to deny visas to any applicant engaging in ‘censorship’

Netflix agrees to buy Warner Bros Discovery studio and streaming business in $83bn deal

Streaming service to gain control of studio behind Harry Potter and Batman, as well as HBO, home to The White Lotus and Game of Thrones

I spent hours listening to Sabrina Carpenter this year. So why do I have a Spotify ‘listening age’ of 86?

Many users of the app were shocked, this week, by this addition to the Spotify Wrapped roundup – especially twentysomethings who were judged to be 100

Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair – what does the new Tarantino cut offer?

The director’s two-part revenge saga has now been released as one mammoth movie with several tweaks and additions

‘He’s the new Daniel Day-Lewis’: Margot Robbie defends Jacob Elordi’s Heathcliff in Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights

Robbie addresses backlash to casting Elordi as a character described by Brontë as ‘dark-skinned’, while Fennell praises her female star’s ‘big dick energy’

‘Not approved for human use’: the online frenzy for injectable peptides sweeping Australia

Social media is driving a boom in the use of peptides to improve appearance and physical performance. Many are experimental and come with risk of serious side effects

Russell Crowe’s 20 best roles – sorted!

With Nuremberg out in Australian cinemas, we cast an eye over Rusty’s eclectic, varied and downright impressive oeuvre. Are you not entertained?

‘I’ve had all the luck you can get’: Michael Caine retires for the fourth time

The 92-year-old actor made the announcement again as he received an award at the Red Sea international film festival in Saudi Arabia

Belle Gibson drama Apple Cider Vinegar leads 2026 Aacta award nominations

Netflix miniseries about wellness scammer lands 20 nominations, while Adelaide-made horror hit Bring Her Back dominates film categories

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  • AI deepfakes of real doctors spreading health misinformation on social media
  • Musicians must embrace ‘unstoppable force’ of AI, Eurythmics’ Dave Stewart urges
  • New York Times sues AI startup for ‘illegal’ copying of millions of articles
  • The Guardian view on reboots of A Christmas Carol and Paddington: refugee tales for today
  • Scarlett Johansson joining the Batverse is good news for the franchise – but who will she play?
  • The end of big-screen cinema? What Netflix hopes to achieve by buying Warner Bros
  • Trump administration moves to deny visas to factcheckers and content moderators
  • Netflix agrees to buy Warner Bros Discovery studio and streaming business in $83bn deal
  • I spent hours listening to Sabrina Carpenter this year. So why do I have a Spotify ‘listening age’ of 86?
  • Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair – what does the new Tarantino cut offer?
  • ‘He’s the new Daniel Day-Lewis’: Margot Robbie defends Jacob Elordi’s Heathcliff in Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights
  • ‘Not approved for human use’: the online frenzy for injectable peptides sweeping Australia
  • Russell Crowe’s 20 best roles – sorted!
  • ‘I’ve had all the luck you can get’: Michael Caine retires for the fourth time
  • Belle Gibson drama Apple Cider Vinegar leads 2026 Aacta award nominations
  • ‘My God, what a story it would make’: film-maker Kevin Brownlow on It Happened Here and Winstanley
  • Elon Musk’s X fined €120m by EU in first clash under new digital laws
  • Home Office admits facial recognition tech issue with black and Asian subjects
  • Flights resume at Edinburgh airport after air traffic control issue – as it happened
  • Another Cloudflare outage takes down websites including LinkedIn and Zoom
  • Tesla launches cheaper version of Model 3 in Europe amid Musk sales backlash
  • Labour wants to ramp up facial recognition. What if our data ends up in the wrong hands?
  • The Alto Knights to Under the Stars: the seven best films to watch on TV this week
  • ‘The goal was to scare a kid’: the wild world of films-within-films
  • Explaining UK debt with biscuits: Labour MPs get the hang of viral content
  • ‘It was about degrading someone completely’: the story of Mr DeepFakes – the world’s most notorious AI porn site
  • Australia social media ban: when does it start, how will it work and what apps are being banned for under-16s?
  • Teens hoping to get around Australia’s social media ban are rushing to smaller apps. Where are they going?
  • Russia blocks Snapchat and restricts Apple’s FaceTime, state officials say
  • Google’s AI Nano Banana Pro accused of generating racialised ‘white saviour’ visuals

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