How AI firm Anthropic wound up in the Pentagon’s crosshairs
Standoff with DoD over Claude chatbot reignites debate over how AI will be used in war – and who will be held accountable
The Great Arch review – a visionary architect crushed by the politics of prestige
Claes Bang plays the Danish designer of Paris’s Grande Arche in a meticulous drama about artistic purity colliding with bureaucratic ego and national vanity
Congress must prevent AI surveillance. The Anthropic feud proves it
The company’s clash with the Pentagon is a fight over the future of American privacy
‘Cathartic violence’: why Kill Bill: Volume 1 is my feelgood movie
The next in our ongoing series of writers picking their favourite comfort films is an argument that Tarantino’s bloody revenge saga is a feelgood winner
Scarlet review – Mamoru Hosoda turns Hamlet into tale of prowling knights and deep ‘nothingness’
The normally great director misses the mark with a wonderfully animated but narratively clunky retelling of the Shakespearean staple
Why Train Dreams should win the best picture Oscar
With its meditative pace and sincere interest in moral questions, Clint Bentley’s film of a rudderless man cutting down trees in Idaho’s verdant vistas has the air of a Hollywood classic from another era
Terraforma review – unhurried portrait of Ascension Island’s human-made nature
Documentary reflects on how Victorian botanists began to remodel a barren ocean outpost, but omits some crucial environmental and social questions
VPN apps rocket up download charts in Australia as porn websites begin blocking users
Proton VPN moves from 174th to 19th place as NordVPN goes from 189th to 13th, as porn websites in Australia start requiring age verification for users
AI allows hackers to identify anonymous social media accounts, study finds
New research suggests tech behind AI platforms such as ChatGPT makes it easier to perform sophisticated privacy attacks
Readers reply: What if Shakespeare was dropped in modern-day London?
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions ponders the hypothetical reactions of eminent historical personages to today’s Trafalgar Square
Which are more like life, novels or films?
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts
ChatGPT driving rise in reports of ‘satanic’ organised and ritual abuse, UK experts say
Exclusive: ‘Witchcraft, spirit possession and spiritual abuse’ offending typified by sexual abuse, violence and neglect
Current and former Block workers say AI can’t do their jobs after Jack Dorsey’s mass layoffs: ‘You can’t really AI that’
The CEO said he cut the company’s workforce by 4,000 people – almost in half – because of gains in AI productivity
Tech oligarchs reshape humanity while billionaires of old seem quaint
From Gates to Musk and Altman, today’s ultra-rich steer AI and tech, raising questions about who decides the future
The making of Fargo at 30: ‘Man, you don’t give me this role, I’m gonna shoot your dog’
As the Oscar-winning Coen brothers classic reaches its three decade anniversary, stars of the film discuss the stories behind its production