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Is Jacob Elordi really what Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights should look like?

Bad boy Heathcliff is described as ethnically ambiguous and ‘dark’ in the novel, yet is played by a pretty straightforward white Australian Elordi

Anthropic raises $30bn in latest round, valuing Claude bot maker at $380bn

Maker of chatbot with coding ability says annualised revenue grew tenfold in each of past three years, to $14bn

Tell us: has the new Wuthering Heights film adaptation inspired you to read Emily Brontë’s novel?

We want to hear people’s thoughts on reading the novel ahead of the new adaptation – and if you’ve watched the film how does it compare?

The Taste of Things to Romancing the Stone: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

The award-winning French foodie romance is a perfect filmic feast for Valentine’s Day, while Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner serve up an adventurous rom-com ride

Down with the neo-puritans: I say a true Christian can watch horror films – and Emmerdale

My praise for the movie Send Help drew brickbats. If it’s new Puritans versus liberal cavaliers, I know which side I’m on, says vicar and standup comedian Ravi Holy

Shares in trucking and logistics firms plunge after AI freight tool launch

SemiCab platform by Algorhythm, previously considered a ‘penny stock’, sparks ‘category 5 paranoia’ across sector

‘We thought Midnight Cowboy might end everybody’s career’: the diverse, disruptive, Oscar-winning cinema of John Schlesinger

In the 60s and 70s, he pioneered kitchen-sink drama and made bisexuality mainstream. So why did the director end up making Tory ads? Those who knew him best reveal all

Trump doubles down on racist video, saying no staffer has been disciplined

US president, who blamed aide for post depicting Obamas as apes, maintains video is not a problem

NHS deal with AI firm Palantir called into question after officials’ concerns revealed

Exclusive: in 2025 briefing to Wes Streeting, officials warned reputation of tech firm behind US ICE operations would hinder rollout of data system in England

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die review – AI is the bad guy in lively yet overstuffed caper

There’s fun to be had in Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski’s satisfyingly tech-fearing adventure – but some restraint wouldn’t have gone amiss

How to deal with the “Claude crash”: Relx should keep buying back shares, then buy more

Relx remains confident even as the market flips from seeing it as an AI winner to fearing its profit margin will implode

Share values of property services firms tumble over fears of AI disruption

But despite second day of declines on Wall Street, analysts say sell-off ‘may overstate immediate risk to complex deal-making’ of AI

James Van Der Beek obituary

American actor best known for his role in the television drama Dawson’s Creek

The Uncool by Cameron Crowe audiobook review – memoir of an awestruck insider

The film-maker and author narrates this vivid account of his wide-eyed adventures as a young music journalist in 70s America, hanging out with heroes from David Bowie to Led Zeppelin

Elon Musk posted about race almost every day in January

Many social media posts by Tesla CEO on his platform are indiscernible from those of white supremacists, say experts

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  • One Night Only review – sex is legal for 12 hours a year in bizarre romcom
  • AI models shock UK testers by using fake identities to trick developers
  • Holy Days review – even Miriam Margoyles, Jacki Weaver and Judy Davis as nuns can’t save this film
  • Darth Vader to become a TikTok star as Disney strikes deal on short video
  • ‘Leicester Square, please guv’: Self-driving taxis cleared for London streets ‘later this summer’
  • Film posters for The Mummy banned from public display in UK
  • Ice Cream Man review – Eli Roth’s junky slasher is one of year’s worst horrors
  • A Child of My Own review – barely believable true crime tale of desperation and delusion
  • Himmler’s ‘anti-Nazi’ masseur: Claes Bang stars as SS chief’s ‘magic Buddha’
  • Analogue evil: why today’s horror film-makers are obsessed with obsolete tech
  • ‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley
  • Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie review – plucky pups do their thing on Jurassic-style island
  • Democracy is at stake when foolish humans bet on machines being intelligent
  • Queens of the Dead review – drag performers slay on the party scene in playful zombie comedy
  • Palantir paid just £2m corporation tax in UK in 2024 despite lucrative public sector contracts
  • SpaceX beats revenue expectations in first earnings report after IPO crash
  • AI-generated stories rated better quality than human-written ones, study finds
  • Big Chicken: A Fast Food Conspiracy review – Mo Gilligan ruffles feathers in battle against ultra-processed foods
  • Trump administration reportedly drafting ban on Chinese datacenter components
  • Tell us: has Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey stoked your interest in classics and poetry?
  • Elon Musk’s X latest to block Saudi dissident accounts inside kingdom
  • Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey gives UK poetry sales an epic boost
  • Star Wars dubbed into Welsh for first time for S4C broadcast
  • The best microwaves in the UK for every kitchen and budget – tested
  • Google Earth’s potential disinformation nightmare
  • Lucky Strike review – likably manly Scott Eastwood fights his way home in second world war yarn
  • 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

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