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Rapid spread of AI may worsen global inequality, UN warns

Panel proses shared framework for responsible AI development as adoption grows unevenly across world

People in the US: share your views on Trump’s earnings in his second term

We’d like to find out how Americans feel about Donald Trump’s $2.2bn earnings since returning to the White House

Best TV shows and movies streaming in Australia this month

Discover what’s coming to Netflix, HBO Max, Disney Plus, Prime Video and others in July, including The Devil Wears Prada 2, The Sheep Detectives and Christopher Nolan’s back catalogue

No console-flation: how the thirst for AI chips is sending games console prices soaring

AI data centres, memory scarcity and factory capacity are costing consumers –and console makers

The Guilty review – Russell Tovey is commanding in cop thriller that fills you with dread

Tovey plays a lone officer in a control room dragged into a mysterious case in this gripping drama directed by Punchdrunk’s Felix Barrett

Alarm bells over conflict of interest as filing shows Trump raked in $2bn in 2025

Crypto ventures eclipse much of property portfolio, with revenue also coming from Trump-branded products

Anthropic says US has lifted export controls on Fable and Mythos AI models after security fears

AI company was forced last month to suspend access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models for all foreign nationals

Spielberg’s Disclosure Day is making some wonder: will we have real disclosure soon?

The short answer is that there’s nothing to disclose. But that doesn’t mean we won’t make contact with extraterrestrial life

Shrinks on the verge of a nervous breakdown: how horror movies came for therapists

From Rose Byrne in If I Had Legs I’d Kick You to Jodie Foster in A Private Life, an onscreen parade of psychoanalysts are unravelling before us, tapping into our worst fears

Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie review – two goofballs in search of a gig roll back the years

Channelling Bill and Ted, slacker buddies accidentally travel back to 2008, but open up a psychic wound which threatens their band’s existence

The best theatre to stream this month: all rise for Rosamund Pike’s Inter Alia

The star delivers a breathtaking performance in Suzie Miller’s play about a judge under pressure, while Paddington gets everyone singing and Peter Shaffer’s Black Comedy is back

‘Get away from there – run!’ The stunning film about love blossoming amid the carnage of Aleppo

Birds of War is an award-winning docudrama in which its own directors fall in love while reporting the horrors in Syria. They explain why they needed a psychotherapist to complete it

Enola Holmes 3 review – Netflix mystery franchise is starting to lose steam

Millie Bobby Brown returns, along with the creative team behind Adolescence, for an often thoughtful yet ultimately lesser threequel

Frequent AI chatbot users more likely to believe anti-vaccine myths, poll finds

Poll finds use of AI tools for health advice is correlated with belief in vaccine falsehoods, such as shots causing autism

Citizen Vigilante review – Armie Hammer returns to obliterate the imaginary woke piñata of Europe-stan

Low-budget film-maker Uwe Boll sets Hammer up for a further fall from grace by cannibalising all manner of tired tropes in this incoherent schlocker

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  • The Killer: without John Woo’s gun fu classic, Hollywood action films would be far more dull
  • AI sell-off intensifies as investors ditch chip stocks
  • Spider-Man: Brand New Day review – Zendaya saves Tom Holland’s semi-Cronenberg-style superhero
  • Debate over AI’s future divides Silicon Valley as China gains ground
  • Who dares ridicule Gianni Infantino as the World Cup boss creates global peace? Not me: is it you?
  • Lesvia review – the rise and fall of an amazing lesbian community on Sappho’s actual island home
  • Spies in the sky: how worried should we be about the arrival of AI-enabled smart lamp-posts?
  • Why has Christopher Nolan got rid of all the sex in The Odyssey?
  • A self-emptying, frictionless marvel: Shark PowerDetect Speed Clean and Empty Pet Pro review
  • Just when you thought it was safe … the shark movie is back for more
  • Tinsman Road review – found footage haunted horror as a film-maker searches for his sister haunts
  • Wham! 10 Days in China review – pop meets politics in George and Andrew’s great leap east
  • ‘She wasn’t acting, she wanted to live it’: how a fake pregnancy resulted in the wildest true crime film of the year
  • It’s the vibe: Australian comedy classic The Castle set to become a stage play
  • Meta disregarded its own research on teen harm, Tennessee lawyers tell jury
  • New York school district halts plan to use humanoid robot amid backlash
  • David Jonsson: the London rising star handpicked to be the new Black Panther
  • Plas Johnson obituary
  • ‘I would be ashamed to have written any part of this’: Odyssey translator Emily Wilson attacks Nolan blockbuster
  • ‘It reminded me of James Bond’: Guardian readers on The Odyssey
  • Boss of startup hacked by rogue OpenAI agent urges ‘radical transparency’ in investigation
  • Tom Holland says some of his films are ‘shit’ and people shouldn’t see them
  • Charli xcx portrait added to National Portrait Gallery collection
  • Alarm at NHS patient records being put under control of US private equity firm
  • The Phantom Pain of Rojava review – Kurdish veterans of the war against IS tell story of courage and survival
  • Joyce Carol Oates thinks the 90s TV adaptation of The Odyssey is the best. I beg to differ
  • ‘The greatest album never made’: the untold story of George Michael’s secret, star-packed duets project
  • There was one thing I swore I’d never do on WhatsApp. And now I’ve gone and done it
  • Unauthorised version of Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey shared on X
  • A Dairy Story review – giving cows and calves a happier life through progressive farming

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