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OpenAI projected to bring in $20bn less in revenue than expected

Questions raised over AI growth as ChatGPT maker forecasts this year’s revenue at $50bn, way below the $70bn signalled before

‘Is death necessary?’: why Peter Greenaway’s assisted dying drama is stuck in post-production hell

Exclusive: Three years after filming began on the contentious Lucca Mortis, starring Dustin Hoffman, the British director is still in dispute with producers over which version to release, and a battle over rights rumbles on

Matchbox the Movie to Poor Things: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Another toy adaptation hits the screen – and it’s a fun, breezy ride. Plus, Emma Stone shines in Yorgos Lanthimos’ deeply weird and delightful comedy

Palantir’s Tom Watson says ‘mob rule’ must not dictate awarding of government contracts

Former Labour deputy leader says tech firm would work with a Reform UK government on immigration crackdowns

British households would be £5,000 richer if we were more innovative. Let’s unleash our talents

We have a deep reservoir of assets, but struggle to turn small companies into global success stories. Innovation needs to be at the heart of government policy, says former UK prime minister Gordon Brown

‘Old-timey fascism was kept secret. Now you don’t have to hide it’: Martin McDonagh, John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell on Wild Horse Nine

McDonagh’s latest film has Malkovich and Rockwell shooting the breeze as CIA agents in 1973 on Easter Island. They discuss grandchildren, swimming with turtles and who shot JFK

Anthropic bans users from ‘needless abusive or cruel behavior’ towards Claude

A spokesperson for the tech company did not specify what kind of behavior would be considered abusive

Animals review – Ben Affleck’s dull Netflix thriller is lacking in bark and bite

Actor-director’s listless LA-set crime thriller makes for a surprisingly anonymous effort and one that feels very similar to many other, better films

Trump hosts awards party for tech billionaires, almost as if he doesn’t care about ordinary Americans

Amid a cost-of-living crisis, with US midterms a month away, the president held a ceremony to celebrate our tech overlords – again

Film shoot appearing to echo Renee Good killing roils Montana town

Production of Pawn Shop allowed to go on despite concern about disruption and portrayal of immigration crackdown

Matchbox: the Movie review – as pointless as a film based on a toy car could be

John Cena and Jessica Biel collect paychecks in a soulless and synthetic slab of corporate product that hints at what we can expect from the Paramount-Warner merger

Microsoft suspended from applying for green cards for H-1B workers, JD Vance says

Vice-president also says Adobe is barred from visa program that allows high-skilled workers to apply for US residency

Israel promotes film that mimics NAZA documentary

Embassies post links to hastily produced online film echoing style of real Guardian documentary about mass killings of Gaza civilians

BBC axes long-running Radio 4 show You and Yours in push towards podcasts

Thinking Allowed, The Artificial Human and Free Thinking among other programmes hit by £500m cuts

Sofia Coppola: ‘I’m glad we weren’t kicked out of Tokyo making Lost in Translation’

The director talks about what she learnt from her mother, working with a rookie Tim Burton, and 20 years of her cult classic Marie Antoinette

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  • AI-powered malware ‘highly likely’ to be used to hack UK infrastructure by 2028
  • Who is hacking Europe’s supermarket fridges and freezers, and why?
  • ‘Screams on the level of a Taylor Swift concert’: horny romp Wicker gets the 4DX treatment
  • Shop fridges and freezers across Europe hit by fresh suspected cyber-attack
  • One in a Million review – deeply moving film about displacement, freedom and the upheaval of starting again
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  • ‘Sad lost souls’: Taika Waititi lambasts critics after Klara and the Sun box-office disaster
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  • From puregatory to lifehoarding – how best to describe our strange, anxious times?
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  • Palantir AI tech unused or little used by 29 NHS trusts said to be benefiting from it
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  • Dead Howling review – werewolf hunts zombies in tough-love apocalypse horror
  • ‘We both know how we feel about death and dying’: Rhys Ifans and Laura Linney on their brutally honest Parkinson’s drama
  • I Died review – moving portrait of Tzotzil women confronting patriarchal violence in the Mexican highlands
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