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Anthropic reveals rapid revenue gains and larger losses in stock market filing

Market debut of AI company behind Claude chatbot will be one of largest in US history, a test of the AI boom’s financial viability

Trump calls Bill Maher a ‘total loser’ in 1,300-word Truth Social rant

Trump lashes out on Maher after the host interviewed former White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt

‘A cultural moment’: smash hit doc You Can See Everything continues to dazzle America

Nathan Fielder’s three-hour Elizabeth Holmes film has become a pop culture phenomenon but at a sold-out Times Square screening, no one was quite sure what to think

‘Cocaine is the Gollum of drugs’ – and other things we learned from Anthony LaPaglia’s surprisingly juicy memoir

The actor opens up about almost playing Tony Soprano, why Quentin Tarantino ‘flipped out’ at him and how he’s ‘pretty much broke’ now

Meta plans $95bn stock offering to help cover AI expansion

Tech firm announces two-part fundraising after Elon Musk warns hundreds of AI startups face collapse

Never After Dark review – ghostbuster-for-hire meets her match in Japanese exorcism horror

Shogun’s Moeka Hoshi stars as a travelling caster-out of ghosts who confronts a wounded and recalcitrant spirit in this inventive chiller

‘I laughed so hard my Tampax fell out’: Michael Gambon’s pranks revealed by the stars he cracked up

He made Daniel Radcliffe’s Harry Potter fart, left Judi Dench unable to control herself and told a fry-up fantasy about Helen Mirren. A new biography details the star’s mischief

Sunlight at night: US startup’s demonstration of lighting Earth from space draws critcism

Company imitates reflection of sun from mirrors, prompting pushback from some scientists, environmentalists and California locals

Anthropic’s Claude AI model accessed Georgia voter data in US

Latest example of unauthorised behaviour shows AI model bypassed paywall to access data as part of statistics project

Bad Day at the Office review – gratuitously entertaining Go-Pro thriller is like Crank meets The Hangover

John Hannah parkours through gangland London in a hyperactive first-person action film that has to keep the heartrate down

Harry Styles says his laptop has been dead for six years. Is he just showing off?

He is either being insincere – knowing he could buy an entire Apple store if he wanted – or he is genuinely overwhelmed by tech. If it’s the latter, he has my sympathy, writes Emma Beddington

All About the Money review – confusion and compelling weirdness of wealthy leftwing heir

This profile of James ‘Fergie’ Chambers, who set up a commune in rural Massachusetts and is fighting extradition from Spain, is a brave attempt to package a complex character and story

‘Vicarious wish-fulfillment’: why That Thing You Do! is my feelgood movie

The latest in our ongoing series of writers explaining their most rewatched comfort films is a journey back to the 90s for Tom Hanks’ heartfelt 60s-set music comedy

Ever Since I Knew Myself review – confronting the scars of childhood

Maka Gogaladze’s debut feature looks at generational differences in the context of Georgia’s education system and emphasis on collectivism

‘Nothing worked for me until I was clean and sober’: Ashley Walters on acting, directing – and turning his life around

In Adolescence he proved himself one of the UK’s best actors. Now he has directed his first film, Animol. He reflects on the road from prison and addiction to soaring success

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  • Anthropic reveals rapid revenue gains and larger losses in stock market filing
  • Trump calls Bill Maher a ‘total loser’ in 1,300-word Truth Social rant
  • ‘A cultural moment’: smash hit doc You Can See Everything continues to dazzle America
  • ‘Cocaine is the Gollum of drugs’ – and other things we learned from Anthony LaPaglia’s surprisingly juicy memoir
  • Meta plans $95bn stock offering to help cover AI expansion
  • Never After Dark review – ghostbuster-for-hire meets her match in Japanese exorcism horror
  • ‘I laughed so hard my Tampax fell out’: Michael Gambon’s pranks revealed by the stars he cracked up
  • Sunlight at night: US startup’s demonstration of lighting Earth from space draws critcism
  • Anthropic’s Claude AI model accessed Georgia voter data in US
  • Bad Day at the Office review – gratuitously entertaining Go-Pro thriller is like Crank meets The Hangover
  • Harry Styles says his laptop has been dead for six years. Is he just showing off?
  • All About the Money review – confusion and compelling weirdness of wealthy leftwing heir
  • ‘Vicarious wish-fulfillment’: why That Thing You Do! is my feelgood movie
  • Ever Since I Knew Myself review – confronting the scars of childhood
  • ‘Nothing worked for me until I was clean and sober’: Ashley Walters on acting, directing – and turning his life around
  • Bayeux tapestry becomes pop culture hit as young people more keen to see exhibition than top films
  • Anthropic sued for allegedly using 274 Elvis Presley songs to train AI models
  • ‘He’s not going to punk me. I’ll trick him’: Ali G: Who Iz I? stooge says he was in on joke but didn’t tell Sacha Baron Cohen
  • Matthew McConaughey has read all his bad reviews – and I applaud him
  • Haines tribute speeches to open parliament, but Labor mustn’t overlook broader causes of boiling anger
  • All aboard the TrainTok trend: spotters and staff boost rail content online
  • They wallow in Trump gunk 24/7. They say it’s necessary
  • Influencers have taken over my city. If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em
  • The hill I will die on: The email sign-off is archaic – it needs to go. No regards, Tom
  • Cookie theft: how fraudsters get the digital key to your accounts
  • Ukraine’s military says Starlink satellite connection stable after recent restrictions
  • Anthony LaPaglia: ‘There is not a role I didn’t get that I ever gave more than four hours of grievance to – even Tony Soprano’
  • When Aboriginal people appeared in a 1950 film they were asked to invent dialogue. Now a spotlight is shining on the tale they told
  • ‘Synthetic twin’: Why Socceroo Cristian Volpato is the latest footballer to license his AI clone
  • ‘Cuts mean jobs’: Skydance staff brace for shake-up after $110bn megamerger

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