Scotland could freeze datacentre projects in challenge to UK’s AI strategy

Scottish government to consider SNP national council motion for moratorium on all new datacentres

Ann Blyth obituary

Oscar-nominated Hollywood actress who starred alongside Joan Crawford in the 1945 noir melodrama Mildred Pierce

‘Attacked behind the scenes’: Children of Blood & Bone author Tomi Adeyemi distances herself from film adaptation

The Nigerian-American writer says she ‘will not watch’ Gina Prince-Bythewood’s adaptation of her fantasy bestseller

Into the spider’s lair: how an Australian film-maker made an impossible documentary with AI

Jodie Heenan says her award-winning short film Guardians of the Burrow ‘looks and feels’ real

AI surveillance is being supercharged – and it will chill social progress

These systems will soon be able to track our public and private lives. But we can make the policy choices to reject it

The Guest review – Trine Dyrholm pulls out all the stops as a bipolar mother in dysfunctional family drama

Writer-director Mads Mengel’s film about a seaside christening disrupted by a previously shunned relative is shot in the spirit of Dogme 95

AI altering meaning of users’ drafts on issues from abortion to climate, study finds

Researchers say small changes in drafting could spread rapidly and create long-term shifts in public opinion

Robert Richardson: The White Devil review – tempestuous DoP’s relationship with A-list directors laid bare

Intimate documentary interviews Scorsese, Tarantino and Stone as well as Richardson’s family – with staggering home movie footage, too

The one change that worked: I banned myself from social media – and my children have never been happier

I used to think my phone helped me to relax. But setting strict limits on my usage has improved my mood and my relationships

‘Impossible to be a mom’: new film shines light on how America fails its mothers

Documentary No Country for Mothers details how US moms lack support, paid leave and childcare help – and hopes to inspire push for action

Couples Weekend review – Alexandra Daddario annd Josh Gad lead spicy comedy of marital melee

Two couples start to fall apart during a midwinter break, involving a lot of shouty dialogue that’s neither realistic nor funny

‘Cosy competency porn’: why The Post is my feelgood movie

A reminder of Steven Spielberg’s prowess and speed in the latest in our series of writers highlighting their go-to comfort watches

Israeli command system identified 850,000 targets in Gaza and Lebanon wars, says supplier

Elbit Systems supplied Tzayad digital army programme to map people, vehicles and other objects in real time

Shoot the People review – a powerful portrait of a talented yet controversial photographer

Misan Harriman was catapulted into a new career after turning his camera to anti-racist demonstrations – though the shadow of more recent criticism looms

‘It’s smoke and mirrors’: hope turns to fear in Scottish village chosen for AI datacentre

Suspicions grow in Lanarkshire that local people have been misled on supposed benefits of the huge development