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Google announces glasses are back and search is getting an AI makeover

At annual I/O conference, company debuts a product for everyday consumers to create autonomous AI agents

Bitter Christmas review – grief, loss and artistic betrayal in Almodóvar’s film within a film

Cannes film festival: Spaniard’s latest life-v-art auto-metafiction feels slightly muddled as he directs a director directing a director

Nicolas Winding Refn breaks down at Cannes recalling near-death due to ‘leaking heart’

The director of Drive, unveiling new thriller My Private Hell, told journalists he ‘died for 25 minutes’ in 2023

Meta is rapidly reorganizing its workers’ jobs around AI: ‘Transfers aren’t optional’

Some employees will be moved to new teams focused on AI agents and cloud infrastructure

Influencer fees: why the National Trust is making TikTokers cough up

The charity is in the headlines yet again, this time for asking people filming paid-for content on its sites to pay a fee. Is it all just a storm in a tea room?

What are Samsung union workers demanding and how might a strike play out?

Nearly 48,000 workers are threatening an 18-day walkout amid fears of global memory chip shortages

Minotaur review – Andrei Zvyagintsev’s scorching noir intrigue amid the Ukraine war

Cannes film festival: The great Russian director’s first film for almost a decade is tremendous drama following the ill-deeds of a mini-oligarch who comes up with a toxic new way to feed Russia’s war machine

Her Private Hell review – Nicolas Winding Refn’s shapeshifting fantasia is a dreamy swirl of strangeness

Cannes film festival: Refn’s film eludes definition as it moves through time and space, from doomy reality to strange dream worlds populated by quasi-Lynchian characters

Reality Bites is a gen X classic where the only real enemies are capitalism and inauthenticity

Ben Stiller’s 90s romcom starring a smouldering Ethan Hawke and a magnetic Winona Ryder is replete with quotable one-liners and a killer soundtrack

Clint Eastwood cannon from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly traced to Spanish museum

Enthusiasts track down weapon used to fell fleeing Eli Wallach amid preparations for 60th anniversary of film’s release

Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu review – helmeted hero tangles with hateful Hutts in decent feature outing

The badass bounty hunter and his little green friend take on the Empire and Jabba the Hutt’s family in this solid enough addition to the ever-expanding universe

Matt Brittin has taken the helm of the supertanker BBC, but there are plenty of icebergs in his way

First, the new DG will have to navigate staff cuts, culture wars and a sea of fake news, says Guardian columnist Jane Martinson

Billionaires are trying to lull us into AI complacency. Don’t let them

As resistance to datacenters grows, Musk and others are painting a rosy picture. But the US must institute protections

What did we learn from Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s courtroom drama?

Whoever the victor, the OpenAI trial demonstrated that a small cabal, mostly men, rules the AI industry

Who’s behind the Facebook page posting hateful AI slop about the UK? The answer might lie in south Asia

Our research has uncovered young entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka and Pakistan using AI tools to make deeply objectionable content – and money, says Niamh McIntyre of the Bureau for Investigative Journalism

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  • Power Ballad review – Nick Jonas and Paul Rudd star in terrific comedy of bromance and betrayal
  • Samsung memory chip staff in line for £310,000 bonuses after AI profit-sharing deal
  • People in the US: what are your views on Pope Leo’s comments about AI?
  • Backrooms review – Kane Parsons’ icily disturbing horror rewrites the genre rulebook
  • What We Ask Google by Simon Rogers review – the secrets of our search history
  • ‘Argentina needs to end its fantasy of being a European country’: Lucrecia Martel on the story of a killing
  • Bullet in the Head review – John Woo’s Vietnam war fever dream is an explosive masterpiece
  • Nearly in one in five UK girls receive unwanted images online, poll finds
  • Kiln-free recycled tile startup agrees pilot deal with major UK supplier
  • Spider-Noir review – Nicolas Cage’s stylish take on the superhero as a 1940s detective is huge fun
  • Pressure review – Andrew Scott and Brendan Fraser can’t save lower-tier D-day drama
  • Paddington 4: Armando Iannucci to write bear’s next movie with Thick of It and Veep cowriter
  • Nasa selects Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin for first of three uncrewed lunar missions
  • Labour set to announce crackdown on social media for children within weeks
  • Labour says Reform UK ‘in chaos’ as Zia Yusuf publicly tells Jenrick he’s got party’s deportation policy wrong – as it happened
  • ‘The avalanche of slime has been unbelievable’: E Jean Carroll shares life post-Trump in new film
  • Hammer to rerelease 1958 Dracula in UK with long-lost footage added
  • Funny, absurd and sentimental, Mr Deeds is one of Adam Sandler’s most underrated films
  • Iran’s access to global internet starts to resume after 88-day blackout
  • ‘What you see here is a wetland without water’: how the datacentre boom is exacerbating Chile’s mega-drought
  • Musk and Altman’s AI rivalry reaches boiling point as IPO race heats up
  • No Place for Football review – battling ice and snow to play the beautiful game in Greenland
  • Ferrari shares fall after launch of first EV as Jony Ive design proves divisive
  • ‘Hello ladies and sons of ladies’: women are using ‘microfeminisms’ to flip the gender script
  • ‘We can stitch together our past’: the AI-generated time-travellers vlogging from history
  • Leonora in the Morning Light review – pioneering British artist who fled convention for the surrealists
  • Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu: streaming, strikes and Baby Yoda – discuss with spoilers
  • Scientists create wearable ultrasound to continuously monitor babies in womb
  • Mother of boy who may have died in TikTok challenge urges No 10 to ban social media
  • Fairyland review – moving memoir of queer parenting and new kinds of family in 70s San Francisco

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