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Jack Dorsey to cut 4,000 jobs due to AI advances at Square parent Block

Shares in company increased over 20% as investors were encouraged by CEO’s assertion that cuts will drive profits

Top Gs Like Me review – dark comedy sees Andrew Tate-style influencer tackling wrestlers, health gurus and sexual assault

Emerging playwright Samson Hawkins takes on toxic influencers in an exuberantly directed drama with echoes of TV’s Adolescence

A Spider-Man Universe without Spider-Man is completely pointless. Why won’t Sony sling him in?

Six movies in, the series about characters linked to the web-slinger is looking ever ropier. More are on the way – but with no sign of the obvious way refresh the franchise

Brigitte Bardot tribute at the César awards greeted with boos

A shout of ‘racist’ could also be heard during the segment at France’s version of the Oscars

Scholar, seductress, alchemist: who was the real Cleopatra?

The Egyptian queen has fascinated me from childhood, but following the archives led only to ancient gossip and Roman propaganda. Fiction was the way to liberate her from misogynist myth

Bring Her Back to Molly vs the Machines: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Sally Hawkins will give you the heebie-jeebies in a grisly horror, plus Marc Silver’s tragic documentary is an absolute must-watch

‘I’ve never been so frightened’: the veteran reporter who turned his lens on the empty bedrooms of school shooting victims

The director of an Oscar-nominated documentary that goes into the bedrooms of children killed in US school shootings on why it was his most daunting challenge to date – and the hard task of encouraging people to see it

TV tonight: high drama with the largest lion pride in the world

Brave film-makers follow big cats in Botswana. Plus: struggling to sleep? Denise Van Outen has some tips for you. Here’s what to watch this evening

If France could lead the world with Minitel in the 1980s, surely Europe can free itself from Silicon Valley’s shackles now?

Back then, France punched above its weight when it came to tech. The EU needs it to rediscover its taste for the cutting edge, says Paris-based writer Alexander Hurst

Woman at heart of US trial says she was addicted to social media at age six

Lead plaintiff, now 20, says use of social media made her relationships with friends and family anxious and strained

Burger King cooks up AI chatbot to spot if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’

OpenAI-powered assistant will help to ‘understand overall service patterns’, company says, as move sparks backlash

Anthropic says it ‘cannot in good conscience’ allow Pentagon to remove AI checks

Pete Hegseth had threatened to cancel $200m contract unless it was given unfettered access to Claude model

Tourette syndrome tests the limits of acceptance – I’ve struggled with it for 30 years

The anger toward John Davidson’s racist Baftas outburst is understandable. But I’ve had to ask what I owe to others with the condition

TikTok and Snapchat posts urge London pupils to join ‘school wars’ fights

Met urges pupils not to get involved and asks platforms to ban accounts promoting ‘fights’ with images of weapons

Shia LaBeouf must seek treatment as part of bail terms after alleged attack

The actor, long open about his struggle with sobriety, was also ordered to undergo drug testing and pay $100,000 bond

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