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UK datacentres will create just 25% of jobs predicted by tech sector, analysis finds

Facilities likely to employ 10,400 workers, compared with 40,000 in industry estimates, thinktank says

‘Would they fight or hug?’ The Oasis comeback film’s makers on shooting fans, vicars, police – and the Gallaghers

The crowds wept and prayed, police used their song lyrics for briefings and a vicar gave a sermon about brotherly forgiveness. The directors of Don’t Look Back in Anger relive their wildest ride ever

NDIS data may have ended up in Palantir’s analytics platform as part of efforts to curb fraud

Exclusive: The Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission, which has access to NDIA data, used Palantir as part of a multi-agency fraud taskforce

The Orwellian machinery critics are desperate to protect is the algorithms, not laws that seek to reduce harm

Critics of Australia’s digital duty of care bill stand in defence of the right of platforms to promote harm over health, rage over reason, and fake over fact

Labor wants Australians to be able to opt out of online algorithms. How will it change your feed?

The prime minister has predicted blowback to the scheme, which will affect social media, search engines and AI chatbots

OpenAI claims to have solved maths problem that stumped humans for decades

Company behind ChatGPT says 10,000 of its AI systems cracked the Navier-Stokes problem in 88 hours

Company review – Casey Affleck entertains us with creepy campfire tales

Affleck’s third film as a director is a diverting gothic anthology about mysterious strangers, murder and – pointedly – wronged men

UK to force Apple and Google to block explicit images on children’s smartphones

Lisa Nandy says government will introduce legislation after talks end without breakthrough

Bunker review – Cruz and Bardem just can’t dig Florian Zeller’s shallow thriller out of a hole

An architect (Javier Bardem) alienates his book editor wife (Penélope Cruz) when he agrees to build a luxurious bunker for a tech billionaire

Andrew Garfield takes on Sam Altman in creepy first teaser for Artificial

Luca Guadagnino-directed film will be released by Neon after being dropped by Amazon amid OpenAI partnership

Practical Magic 2 review – Bullock and Kidman return for odd sequel that still casts a spell

A nostalgia-bait return to the witchy 90s comedy is as strange and messy as the first but there are warm seasonal pleasures to be had

Elon Musk told ex-girlfriend he needed ‘a legion of children before the civil war’

Ashley St Clair was speaking at the Venice film premiere of Alex Gibney’s documentary Musk, where she warned of his dangerous influence

State handouts, 10,000 lasers – and Trump’s election: six things we learned from the Elon Musk film

Alex Gibney’s marathon documentary delivers numerous eye-raising insights into the broligarch’s business deals, early idealism and apocalyptic appetite for fathering children

OpenAI releases new AI agent – after admitting one went rogue

Plus: Americans think they have it bad with unwanted surveillance. They should visit London

Musk review – epic study of the world’s richest and most banal man

Alex Gibney interviews former colleagues, wives, the trillionaire’s father and a CG avatar in this absorbing documentary

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  • Netanyahu seeks to strip citizenship from Israelis as threats to NAZA film directors intensify
  • English far-right extremist who discussed killing Jews, Muslims and migrants is jailed
  • Planning permission for new Scottish AI datacentres suspended for up to a year
  • The Liberation review – Carrie Coon joins all-female cult in unsettling drama
  • Amazon raises starting pay to $20 an hour and adds Whole Foods discount
  • UK politics: Burnham says budget will be ‘challenging’ and denies he is just ‘tax and spend socialist’ – as it happened
  • Girls creator Lena Dunham welcomes baby girl delivered via surrogate
  • Location-tracking apps have turned me into a gibbering wreck – but I just can’t look away
  • Resident Evil review – Zach Cregger’s rebooted action horror is a wild rollercoaster ride
  • ‘Godfather of AI’ says tech regulation is nearing Covid-style pivot moment
  • Everything Australians put online could be scraped for AI under proposed new rules. How will you be affected?
  • The dominance of AI is not inevitable. We can choose to change things for the better
  • EU moves closer to social media ban for under 13s
  • Smile at Last review – photo-love-story style parable of a teen abandoned at a tough Soviet youth facility
  • Amazon to launch Ring ‘neighbourhood watch’ app in UK amid US privacy fears
  • Battle of Chile director Patricio Guzmán dies aged 85
  • In-I in Motion review – Juliette Binoche pulls back the curtain on dance duet with Akram Khan
  • Datacenter rush will create ‘tsunami’ of discarded electronics, report says
  • Allowing AI firms to collude to ‘pace the frontier’ is a dangerous proposition
  • The best life hack I’ve ever heard? Monetise what you’re bad at
  • ‘If you’re building Frankenstein, stop’: JD Vance dismisses calls for AI regulation
  • Your mission, Tom Cruise, is to improve at interviews. And please keep sending the cakes
  • The US government is failing Americans on AI
  • Whisper of the Heart review – Studio Ghibli deep cut is pep talk on how to live the artistic life
  • The Cycle of Love review – a 6,000-mile bike ride caps a real life Swedish-Indian romance
  • Wednesday briefing: Why tech companies might be only too happy for us to believe AI will ‘kill us all’
  • Anthropic lands deal in $31bn datacentre in western Queensland, David Crisafulli says
  • Your photos, your words and your work: why is Labor making it easier for AI companies to take them for free?
  • Singapore pays people to pick up a book in battle against doomscrolling
  • Anthropic CEO renews call for AI slowdown as Nvidia’s urges acceleration

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