‘Peak TV is behind us’: UK developers pivot from building studios to datacentres amid AI boom
Ambitious plans are being scaled back – but film and TV industry point to big existing investments in British production
Joseph Fiennes on parenting, politics and banning children from social media: ‘Stand up, Keir, this is your kids’ generation’
He’s played English titans from William Shakespeare to Gareth Southgate, but what does the actor really think about the country today?
Who is Louis Mosley, the man tasked with defending Palantir against its critics?
The company’s UK and Europe boss has become a lightning rod for the British public’s fear of a US tech takeover
Into the Ronaldo-verse: sludge of content is eating up sport and the adults are to blame
Cristiano Ronaldo has 664 million Instagram followers but his boring presence highlights how reel-life destroys what it touches
The hill I will die on: Voice notes have made my generation a bunch of self-absorbed bores
We used to have the back and forth of actual conversation. Now we have phones filled with our friends’ rambling soliloquies, says lifestyle and culture writer Annabel Martin
The Guide #242: Everyday Hollywood film comedies have faded but can they make a comeback?
As studios chase safer bets and streamers fail to deliver, the humble standalone comedy has been replaced by blockbusters that sprinkle jokes instead of delivering belly laughs
From The Sheep Detectives to Rivals: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
Hugh Jackman and Emma Thompson star in a farmyard mystery, while the spirited bonkbuster returns for a smutty second outing
Worried Britons ‘prepping’ for major disruption with stash of tins and cash, survey shows
Fears over a natural disaster or cyber-attack are pushing households into contingency planning, Link survey shows
Amandaland to Olof Dreijer: the week in rave reviews
Lucy Punch’s middle-class antihero is back, and one half of the Knife presents an album of dazzlingly inventive psychedelia. Here’s the pick of the week’s culture, taken from the Guardian’s best-rated reviews
AI will make language barriers disappear – and diminish our understanding of other cultures
Machines may soon translate every conversation flawlessly. But language is more than information – it is curiosity, intimacy and cultural discovery
King Charles features in surprise birthday tribute to David Attenborough
Whimsical film shows relay of animals carrying centennial card from Balmoral Castle to naturalist in London
‘I should have kicked him even harder. He deserved it’: Eric Cantona comes out fighting
A new documentary at Cannes film festival looks at the French footballer’s five turbulent and triumphant seasons in Manchester – and the love story between him and manager Alex Ferguson
AI-powered surveillance company Palantir created a chore coat. Great, now I have no choice but to burn mine
The gentle French garment is now as cursed as the infamous megacorp, which has accumulated $80m in government contracts in Australia alone
White House calls Mark Hamill ‘sick’ for posting AI image of Trump in a grave
Star Wars actor later deleted post and apologized, saying president should live ‘long enough to be held accountable’
The fight against AI datacenters isn’t just about tech – it’s about democracy
Claims of nimbyism are a misunderstanding: the movement is about whether regular people have a say in fundamental decisions