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‘Revolutionary’: Ukrainian para-biathlete wins silver using ChatGPT as his coach

Maksym Murashkovskyi won silver at the Winter Paralympics in the visually impaired biathlon and revealed his secret weapon was using ChatGPT as a coach

X suspends 800m accounts in one year amid ‘massive’ scale of manipulation attempts

Social media company tells MPs of continual fight against state-backed efforts, with Russia being most prolific

Missing money, shipped chips and a 350,000% profit: key takeaways on AI ‘phantom investments’

A Guardian investigation has put the UK government’s AI plans under the microscope. Here are the key details

AI firm Anthropic sues US defense department over blacklisting

Lawsuits come after Pentagon labeled Anthropic a ‘supply chain risk’, a decision the company says is unlawful

Effi o Blaenau review – Greek myth retelling Iphigenia in Splott becomes blistering Welsh-language film

Leisa Gwenllian is a force of nature as working-class heroine Effi in this big screen version of Gary Owen’s one-woman play

Et tutu, Timothée? Backlash mounts over Chalamet snipes at opera and ballet

Jamie Lee Curtis is among a number of prominent figures to take exception to the Oscar nominee for disparaging artforms ‘no one cares about any more’

Rosanna Arquette says Quentin Tarantino’s use of N-word in Pulp Fiction is ‘racist and creepy’

Arquette says 1994 film is ‘great on many levels’ but she ‘cannot stand that [the director] has been given a hall pass’

From press release … to scrap metal site: the Essex ‘supercomputer’ that’s still a scaffolding yard

Nscale’s AI project still in use as depot ahead of pledged completion date – with planning permission filed after Guardian’s inquiries

Revealed: UK’s multibillion AI drive is built on ‘phantom investments’

Exclusive: Rented datacentres and unrealised supercomputer site raise questions for Starmer’s push to ‘mainline AI into veins of economy’

British AI datacentre firm Nscale raises $2bn as Sheryl Sandberg and Nick Clegg join board

London-based startup, which is vital to the government’s AI ambitions, is now valued at $14.6bn

OpenAI delays ‘adult mode’ for ChatGPT to focus on work of higher priority

Startup still believes in ‘principle of treating adults like adults, but getting experience right will take more time’

Bad Voodoo review – escaped-convict horror worthy of a theme park ghost train

A fairly original and twisting plot is skewered by cliched dialogue and unforunate cinematography

Nigel Farage invests £215,000 in Kwasi Kwarteng’s bitcoin firm

Reform UK leader strengthens ties with crypto sector with stake in former Tory chancellor’s company Stack BTC

Pixar chief says LGBTQ+ plot elements cut from Elio as company is ‘not making therapy’

Pete Docter says Pixar will concentrate on more commercially appealing films after staff dissent over deleted scenes that implied lead character was gay

Liverpool and Manchester United complain to X over ‘sickening’ Grok AI posts

AI feature generated offensive posts about Diogo Jota and the Hillsborough and Munich disasters

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  • US water facilities targeted by ‘malicious cyber actors’ – who’s to blame?
  • Prisoners of Paradise review – Ellie Bamber heads to Mauritius for chaste literary tale of star-crossed lovers
  • Web of billions: how Spider-Man became the most heroic franchise in Hollywood
  • Love Me Tender review – Vicky Krieps custody-battle drama is intelligent, sensual and bitter slice of life
  • Post your questions for Imelda Staunton
  • Metro Bank customer fights for £14,000 refund after AI-linked fraud
  • The Summer Book review – Glenn Close powers sweet-natured take on Tove Jansson’s grief classic
  • Careless whispers: what really happened between George Michael and Lindsay Anderson? The Wham! movie producer reveals all
  • ‘Fortnite on steroids’: the virtual gaming worlds transformed to train British soldiers
  • Apple launches legal challenge against UK government demand to access data
  • Fred Stone obituary
  • Vincent Pastore obituary
  • Justin Hardy, director of Wicker Man sequel, dies three weeks before its premiere
  • Spider-Man: Brand New Day makes $932m at box office in second biggest opening weekend in history
  • Children using social media at younger age appear to do worse in school tests
  • Kmart sells out of low-cost rival to Meta camera glasses across Australia amid warnings of ‘privacy nightmare’
  • Best TV shows and movies streaming in Australia this month
  • Lonely planet: why are we addicted to the social media scroll when it is so clearly harming us?
  • Spider-Man: Brand New Day: new characters, new flaws, new tech and brain-exploding future consequences – discuss with spoilers
  • Ring Cycle review – AI staging dispenses with drama to create banal bric-a-brac
  • Nolan’s film could make The Odyssey the most sought-after book in the US
  • ‘A reminder of why we have unions’: Matewan writer and director on the film’s lessons for the labor movement
  • Nolan’s Odyssey shows what happens when a leader’s violations are rewarded
  • This Tempting Madness review – watchable psychological suspense offers Mexican standoff of gaslighting
  • Barbie sequel at risk as salary talks with Robbie, Gosling and Gerwig hit impasse
  • The Ribbon Hero review – do-gooder princess battles giant flying earwigs in update of classic yarn
  • Memory review – a cinematic exorcism through a child’s eye view of terror in the Chechen wars
  • The right hates The Odyssey because of its ‘wokeness’ – but it missed an even bigger threat to its worldview
  • Atlas of Disappearance review – forensic quest for thousands of forgotten victims of the Spanish civil war
  • Finally, we have a PM for the digital age. But real change requires more than just being good on camera

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