AI companies make powerful tech – but they’re also savvy marketers
Anthropic’s Claude Mythos AI is said to be frighteningly capable, but we shouldn’t get carried away by the hype
AI learns language from skewed sources. That could change how we humans speak – and think
Large language models aren’t trained on real-life conversations. As we encounter their language, it could affect our own
Endless Cookie review – Cheech and Chong meet Tristram Shandy in trippy tales of First Nations life
An animator records the shaggy dog stories of his Indigenous brother in a loopy, hallucinatory animation
Is the new Super Mario Galaxy movie really that bad?
A shallow plot and advert-adjacent cameos justify the critics’ condemnation of Nintendo’s latest film. But there’s sincere affection for the universe here, too
‘Such a water-cooler show!’ Jane Krakowski on Ally McBeal – and life as the world’s biggest scene-stealer
The 1990s series set her career alight; then came 30 Rock, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and countless theatre triumphs. She discusses Tina Fey, Stephen Sondheim and why it would take a broken leg to keep her off stage
Kinaesthesia review – treasure trove of early cinema visions and the dream life they contain
Gerald Fox’s documentary on early film-makers’ fascination with dreams and human consciousness is a fascinating, if rather scholarly endeavour
Gary Neville’s media group buys football YouTuber Mark Goldbridge’s channels
Exclusive: Neville has criticised “those bloody YouTubers” – but The Overlap has now acquired channels with 3.7m subscribers for seven-figure sum
Searching for Satyrus review – on the hunt for an elusive butterfly and the lepidopterist who named them
Rena Effendi attempts to find the species named after her wayward, womanising father – and a connection to the man she never knew – in this moving documentary
British teenager who killed three girls likely viewed footage of Sydney’s Wakeley stabbing before carrying out attack, report finds
Report finds Axel Rudakubana bypassed X age controls and likely viewed footage of Mar Mari Emmanuel stabbing before carrying out UK attack
Hacker group threatens to release Grand Theft Auto VI data in Rockstar Games attack
The group named ShinyHunters have accessed a third party server and have given the company a deadline of 14 April to enter ransom negotiations
Goldman Sachs chief ‘hyper-aware’ of risks from Anthropic’s Mythos AI
US bank has the Claude model and is working closely with the tech firm to improve cyber protection
Mark Ruffalo and Emma Thompson among 1,000+ signatories on open letter opposing Paramount’s Warner buyout
Merger will ‘prioritise the interests of a small group of powerful stakeholders over the broader public good’, letter states
Meta creating AI version of Mark Zuckerberg so staff can talk to the boss
Digital clone being trained on his thoughts, tone and mannerisms to help workers feel connected
Luca Guadagnino defends Timothée Chalamet over opera and ballet remarks: ‘How can one comment become a planetary polemic?’
The director, who cast Chalamet in 2017’s Call Me By Your Name, spoke out in the actor’s defence ahead of the premiere of his staging of opera The Death of Klinghoffer
SYBAU, WYLL and PMO: what do the latest teen text abbreviations actually mean?
Just when parents thought they could decode teenage text speak, a new list comes along that raises more questions than answers