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Cherry on the top: Jessie Buckley pulled off a stunning double Oscar win for herself … and Chanel

The best actress winner was a red carpet triumph in her blood red and rose pink gown, the colours bringing an emotional warmth and a singularity that stood out among the familiar choices of black or gold

Google scraps AI search feature that crowdsourced amateur medical advice

Exclusive: Revelation comes as company faces mounting scrutiny over use of AI to provide health tips

Bouchra review – Prada-wearing coyote is anti-identitarian alter ego in film that maps queer experience

Art and reality merge in Orian Barki and Meriem Bennani’s debut feature, which depicts its subjects as sweetly anthropomorphic animals

The Infinity Machine by Sebastian Mallaby review – the story of the man who changed the world

A journalist charts the progress of AI pioneer Demis Hassabis from child chess prodigy to Nobel prize winner

Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra review: its huge screen blocks shoulder surfers from spying on you

Latest Android superphone packs great cameras, fast chips, long battery, a stylus and first-of-its-kind privacy display

South Korea celebrates ‘miracle’ Oscar wins for KPop Demon Hunters

Performance of Golden during Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony hailed for bringing Korean culture into the heart of Hollywood

Paul Thomas Anderson endured one snub after another. Now the Oscars have finally seen sense

In honouring One Battle After Another, Academy voters finally welcomed Hollywood’s prodigal son into the fold

TV tonight: inside Facebook and Meta with ex-staff and whistleblowers

Marianna Spring goes Inside the Rage Machine. Plus: the finale of the brilliant comedy Small Prophets. Here’s what to watch this evening

India’s scattered workforce: the chatbot keeping families in touch during emergencies

Covid exposed the lack of data on the country’s 140 million mobile migrant workers, but a new project in Odisha is helping to fill in the gaps

‘Orwell went off to fight. I thought I’d have to do the same’: Raoul Peck on his intimate connection with the writer

The Haitian director was given unprecedented access to George Orwell’s archives – and found a fellow crusader for truth. His extraordinary new film highlights the sinister links between Big Brother, Trump and Putin

Oscars 2026: One Battle After Another wins best picture – as it happened

The night belonged to One Battle After Another but there were also awards for Sinners and Hamnet – as well as touching tributes, jokes from Conan and plenty more on Hollywood’s biggest night

Key takeaways from Oscars 2026: horror wins, tech loses and politics is hard to ignore

This year saw some Chalamet exhaustion, wins for Warner Bros and memorable music while one winner was nowhere to be seen

‘Next year, it’s going to be a Waymo in a tux’: the best quotes from Oscars 2026

From Conan O’Brien roasting Timothée Chalamet to several winners getting political, here are the night’s best quotes

James Van Der Beek and Brigitte Bardot among stars snubbed from Oscars in memoriam tribute

Key names were omitted from this year’s tribute to industry figures who have died over the last 12 months

Free Palestine and ICE out: how this year’s Oscars got political

As One Battle After Another swept, Paul Thomas Anderson, Javier Bardem and Conan O’Brien gave a welcome reality check to the glitzy ceremony

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  • Anna Wintour shares Vogue cover with Hollywood doppelganger Meryl Streep
  • Tell us: do you use AI chatbots to make decisions for you?
  • Paul Seed obituary
  • Oh what a circus! The Greatest Showman hits the stage as a high-flying, hammer-juggling, banger-filled spectacular
  • Legendary Disney composer Alan Menken on winning Oscars, Razzies and his ‘filthy’ rock musical
  • An AI company with an arsenal of spacecraft: what exactly is SpaceX?
  • Row over ‘virtual gated community’ AI surveillance plan in Toronto neighbourhood
  • Musk’s SpaceX courts retail investors as it aims for record-breaking stock market flotation
  • Porn, dog poo and social media snaps: the ‘taskers’ scraping the internet for Meta-owned AI firm
  • ‘There’s a lot of desperation’: skilled older workers turn to AI training to stay afloat
  • The Stranger review – lustrously beautiful and superbly realised modern take on the Camus classic
  • Sluts, simps and body shaming: the rise of Africa’s manosphere
  • Slither review – James Gunn’s Troma-style comedy horror debut gets a reboot in reputational glow-up
  • Children in UK report online sextortion attempts in record numbers
  • ‘I felt ashamed and scared’: how an online friendship became a sextortion nightmare
  • ‘Coke and booze didn’t help my creativity’: Joe Eszterhas on his wild times – and his supernatural, anti-woke Basic Instinct reboot
  • Tech companies are cutting jobs and betting on AI. The payoff is far from guaranteed
  • The Drama: sex, secrets and that gobsmacking twist – discuss with spoilers
  • Iran’s internet blackout is longest national shutdown since Arab spring
  • Noel Chanan obituary
  • Using AI to speed up Australia’s environmental approvals risks ‘robodebt-style’ failures, scientists say
  • Private jets, deserted shores and an unbuilt resort: alleged links to sanctioned ‘scam’ empire revealed in Timor-Leste
  • ‘Traceability is vital’: labs test thousands of unregulated substances amid peptide craze
  • Do we really need truncheons and pepper spray to fight off London’s ‘feral’ teenage shoplifters?
  • ‘The original triple threat’: two exhibitions celebrate Marilyn Monroe as creative pioneer
  • Dracula review – Romania’s most reliable export is focus of knockabout cut-up satire
  • ‘It started with a tipoff’: how a Guardian investigation exposed child sex trafficking on Facebook and Instagram
  • House of Gloss review – tender portrait of a young trans couple finding refuge in new kind of family
  • My mother, Audrey Hepburn: the star’s son Sean on her movies, marriages, good works and fascist parents
  • ‘I always considered social media evil’: big tobacco whistleblower on tech’s addictive products

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