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Record 1,000 UK taxpayers under 30 earned more than £1m last year

HMRC figures show 11% rise in young million-pound earners, with influencers and tech pay cited as key

To infinity and beyond! Visitors can dive into Pixar worlds in immersive London show

Shrink to toy-size or dive into an ocean in exhibition where studio brings Toy Story, Finding Nemo and Up to life

Plantation weddings and pre-civil war fashion: the film that critiques the historical fantasy of Natchez

A documentary about Mississippi examines competing forces: the nostalgic celebration of the old south and the refusal to sanitize the brutal history of enslavement

‘Full of emotional wisdom’: Guardian writers on the best movie romances you might not have seen

For Valentine’s Day, writers picked their favourite lesser-known film love stories – from a dom-sub chamberpiece to a magical teen comedy

My cultural awakening: Thirteen influenced my hedonistic youth, until a psychotic episode ended it

My teenage self was shy and miserable, before a coming-of-age film unleashed an adolescence of drink, sex and drugs. It was a years-long party that eventually came crashing down

Given the toxicity of social media, a moral question now faces all of us: is it still ethical to use it?

With so many platforms rife with racism, misogyny and far-right rhetoric, there must be a point where decent people walk away, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

From Wuthering Heights to Mario Tennis Fever: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

Emerald Fennell’s film brings the raunch to Brontë’s romance, while Nintendo’s beloved plumber stars in a colourful, family-friendly sports game

Elon Musk’s xAI faces second lawsuit over toxic pollutants from datacenter

NAACP alleges artificial intelligence firm is violating Clean Air Act and polluting Black communities in Mississippi

No Good Men review – intelligent and urgent Afghan romance

Shahrbanoo Sadat is a charming presence in front of the camera and a skilled film-maker behind in this shrewd and contemporary tale

Sunny Dancer review – ‘chemo camp’ gives teen drama a fresh spin

Bella Ramsey leads this likable coming-of-age story where the shared experience of adolescent cancer gives new warmth to a familiar genre

A Prayer for the Dying review – pestilent western feels like a short stretched too long

Johnny Flynn and John C Reilly offer casting heft, but this moody, technically sound tale of an unfolding epidemic in 1870s Wisconsin lacks emotional substance

‘It’s not a documentary’: costume designers on ditching accuracy for spectacle

Wuthering Heights is the latest film to turn heads over anachronistic costumes, but it’s not by any means the first

Everybody Digs Bill Evans review – absorbing delve into the tumultuous world of the great jazz man

Grant Gee’s film thoroughly inhabits the creative and personal torment experienced by the American pianist – with a terrific supporting Bill Pullman turn

Arundhati Roy is right, not Wim Wenders – here are eight films that have changed politics

From ‘honour’ killings to nuclear war, some screen works have led directly legislative action – despite what jury head Wenders suggested at the Berlin film festival

‘I loved it!’: Brontë museum staff praise racy Wuthering Heights film

Staff at Brontë Parsonage Museum in Howarth embrace Emerald Fennell’s sex-laced take, while Emily Brontë’s most recent biographer calls BDSM version ‘a lot of fun’

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  • Nvidia hit by shareholder lawsuit over Jensen Huang’s relationship with suspected Chinese spy – business live
  • Nvidia and Jensen Huang sued by shareholders over affair with alleged Chinese spy
  • Soul Patrol review – heart stopping story of Vietnam’s first Black special ops team
  • Apple MacBook Pro review: lighter, thinner and a stunning OLED touchscreen
  • ‘We are human too’: the Roma film-makers striking back at stereotypes
  • Australia to introduce mandatory reporting after OpenAI hack to combat artificial intelligence ‘going rogue’
  • One Nation dumps Victorian election candidate who praised Adolf Hitler as ‘GOAT’
  • Teenager who planned terror attack in Sydney tells court he was radicalised online and used AI to strategise
  • Silicon Valley and Trump rally behind Nvidia CEO after his affair with alleged Chinese spy
  • Jensen Huang’s image has been shattered. Could he be pushed out at Nvidia?
  • The AI poster boy, the ‘Chinese spy’ and Trump: how an affair may have harmed US security
  • The French fridge hacks were relatively unsophisticated. An AI-enabled attack would raise the stakes
  • Revealed: Palantir lobbied minister to stretch AI tools’ reach to NHS GP records
  • Who is Alice Huang, the woman linked to Nvidia’s CEO?
  • Donnie Dunagan, original voice of Disney’s Bambi and triple Purple Heart marine, dies aged 92
  • Nvidia’s board needs to do some succession planning – sharpish
  • More than 400,000 Russians killed fighting in Ukraine war, leaked data suggests
  • EU sues IBM and two European firms over troubled entry/exit border system
  • Parents and teachers decry Google pledge to yank Search if schools block AI: ‘This threat is nothing but extortion’
  • ‘Obvious risk of further tragedy’ at rail crossing type at which Amazon driver died, inquiry finds
  • Why is Nvidia’s Jensen Huang at the centre of a US-China row?
  • 1 in 2 review – compassionate film about dealing with bowel cancer is a personal plea on behalf of the young
  • ‘We did 10 takes of it!’ Kerr Smith on Dawson’s Creek and filming US TV’s first gay kiss
  • ‘Sadistic, forbidden pleasure’: why Gone Girl is my feelgood movie
  • A Fox Under a Pink Moon review – Iranian teen refugee paints boldly imaginative self-portrait
  • 100 Sunset review – elliptical, elusive drama dreamlike through Toronto’s tight-knit Tibetan community
  • Look at Me by Dustin Hoffman review – an era-defining actor says his piece
  • Robert Pattinson has auditioned for James Bond – and finally the 007 race is interesting
  • ‘Thicky thicky dumb dumb’ satirist Cody Dahler on his viral videos: ‘my material is presented to me on a silver platter!’
  • Godzilla Minus Zero takes US box office by storm in opening weekend

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