What are Britain’s AI growth zones and are the plans feasible or ‘complete bunk’?

Lanarkshire datacentre run by renewables and creating thousands of jobs not achievable by 2030, Guardian investigation finds

Revealed: landmark Scottish AI project has no prospect of meeting renewables promise

Exclusive: Government and developers privately acknowledged Lanarkshire datacentre site had power provision ‘issue’

Meta bosses grilled over decision to cut ‘censorship’ that has potentially unleashed more antisemitic content

‘Over-enforcement poses significant risk to the communities that we try to protect,’ royal commission told

A Place in the Sun review – subversive exposé of picture-postcard luxury in the Canary Islands

Documentary intersperses pastel scenes of spotless tourist resorts with candid interviews with the asylum seekers who labour to keep them pristine

Sennheiser Momentum 5 headphones review: great sound meets exceptional battery life

Premium Bluetooth noise-cancelling cans combine comfort with extensive connectivity and a user-replaceable battery

‘It was pretty depressing when Stranger Things ended’: Finn Wolfhard on growing up on TV – and his new life in music

The actor spent almost a decade fighting monsters – and making friends – on the hit Netflix show. Then, last year, it all came to an end. How’s he adjusting?

China wants to solve the hardest problem in robotics – making hands

Race to develop ‘embodied AI’ focuses on creating dextrous hands to transform humanoid robots from gimmicks into useful products

AI poses ‘Hiroshima’-style threat to humanity without global rules, says Cooper

Exclusive: Foreign secretary warns of combined risks of AI, climate crisis, irregular migration and foreign interference

Freddy the German: psyop, mirror to US rapacity or Tocqueville in a CR7 shirt?

The true identity of the World Cup’s breakout fan has been the topic of feverish debate. He is also the tournament’s most revealing character

‘In stories like this, the data and the methodology are key’: when private equity meets public service journalism

A team from across the Guardian set out to investigate the full extent of private equity’s stake in Britain’s public and essential services. The scale and opacity posed many challenges

What’s Kylie’s favourite masking tape? How does Lena Dunham train pigs? It’s all out there – and I’m loving it

The more I learn about celebrities and their odd passions, the more encouraged I am. So much for AI drowning us in a flood of bland ‘tasteslop’, writes Emma Beddington

The Story of Documentary Film (The 1980s) review – Mark Cousins educates and intrigues once more

The film-maker and critic traces a decade of documentaries, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to Michael Moore, via Klaus Barbie and The Wombles

‘Tough pill to swallow’: LadBible boss on the traffic hit from Meta’s feed shake-up

Digital publishers struggle to reinvent business model after algorithm is changed in favour of promoting creator content

Bipartisan bill fails to protect US consumers from datacenters’ true costs, critics warn

Experts say Ratepayer Protection Act ‘posing as a consumer protection measure’ and will raise prices on working people

From ‘heat panic’ to ‘sacrificed at the altar’: Europe’s air conditioning culture wars heat up

Cooling down has become political amid record highs, as experts say row is distracting from work of protecting lives