Rejection spreadsheets: would 1,000 knockbacks make you a better person?
Online, people are documenting their attempts to clock up as many ‘nos’ as they can this year. Is this actually the best possible route to more ‘yeses’ than you’re used to?
US tech workers call on CEOs to demand Trump remove ICE from cities
More than 800 employees sign petition calling for withdrawal of ICE agents and cancellation of contracts
The Blind Side actor Quinton Aaron on life support after blood infection
Aaron’s wife, Margarita, told outlets he was intubated on Friday and put on life support after losing feeling in legs
How ICE is using facial recognition in Minnesota
Mobile Fortify tech being used to scan faces of citizens and immigrants – but its use has prompted a severe backlash
Claire Denis’s Stars at Noon: who knew the end of the world could feel so romantic?
Starring Margaret Qualley and Joe Alwyn as lovers on the run from shadowy forces in Nicaragua, the French auteur’s quasi-thriller is intentionally puzzling – and all pleasure
Bafta has caught the zeitgeist with One Battle After Another, but let’s hear it for The Ballad of Wallis Island
Paul Thomas Anderson’s antifa parable is queasily relevant to the times, but here’s hoping Tim Key and co can get some reward for their brilliant British film
UK ministers accept $1m from Meta amid social media ban consultation
Campaigners decry ties with ‘Trump-supporting’ tech firms after funding is accepted to develop state AI systems
Sydney Sweeney was ‘not authorised’ to hang her bras on Hollywood sign, say site owners
Hollywood Chamber of Commerce says it did not approve a promotional stunt linked to the actor, after lingerie was draped over the landmark’s letters
Witchboard review – New Orleans couple channel dead French witch in fun occult thriller
As the budding restaurateurs suffer 17th-century flashbacks, Jamie Campbell Bower – AKA Vecna in Stranger Things – saves director Chuck Russell’s remake from cheesy oblivion
At Davos, tech CEOs laid out their vision for AI’s world domination
Tech chiefs waxed poetic about AI to delegates at Davos. Plus, the ‘human’ drama of AI startups and why Tesla is thriving in Texas
‘Wake up to the risks of AI, they are almost here,’ Anthropic boss warns
Dario Amodei questions if human systems are ready to handle the ‘almost unimaginable power’ that is ‘potentially imminent’
Can’t decide on a food delivery? Just Eat launches AI chatbot to help you choose
Delivery firm aims to overcome ‘choice overload’ using voice assistant in its UK app, with global rollout planned
Roger Allers obituary
Co-director of the animated Disney hit The Lion King who also worked on The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast
Combat intensifies as One Battle After Another takes 14 Bafta nominations to Sinners’ 13
Paul Thomas Anderson’s gonzo caper takes slight nominations lead over the Ryan Coogler horror, with surprise five noms for British Tourette movie I Swear
Bafta film awards 2026: full list of nominations
All the nominees for the 2026 Bafta film awards have been announced, ahead of the winners’ ceremony on 22 February at London’s Royal Festival Hall