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In the coming AI future, Britain must not end up at the mercy of US tech giants

Trump is volatile, capricious and unreasonable – but he belongs to the old world of analogue power. What comes next will be harder to manage, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

Sam Neill announces he is cancer-free after taking part in Australian clinical trial: ‘I’m very, very excited’

Jurassic Park actor is advocating for CAR T-cell therapy, which he underwent as part of a clinical trial, to be rolled out for blood cancer patients across Australia

Mickey Mouse is watching you: Disneyland deploys facial recognition

Walt Disney Company says technology at California theme park will prevent fraud and streamline re-entry

Wolfram review – Warwick Thornton’s sequel to Sweet Country never quite comes together

Set four years after Thornton’s blistering neo-western, this film is impressively atmospheric and has strong performances, though Deborah Mailman is criminally underused

‘Stole a charity’: Elon Musk accuses Sam Altman of betrayal in courtroom showdown

Trial is culmination of a years-long feud between Musk and Altman that has become increasingly vicious

UK politics: Starmer avoids privileges committee inquiry into vetting of Peter Mandelson – as it happened

MPs rejected a Conservative party proposal for the prime minister to face a parliamentary inquiry into his appointment of Peter Mandelson

UK must seize initiative on AI or be left at its mercy, Liz Kendall says

Technology secretary speaks amid concerns country is struggling to make its own way in AI

Google reportedly signs classified AI deal with US Pentagon

Tech company is latest Silicon Valley firm to sign agreement with US military despite widespread employee opposition

People aged 18-29: tell us about your cinema going habits

We would like to hear from younger people about how often they go to the cinema

The Tin Can phone: is this the simple secret to a screen-free childhood?

Created by three dads from Seattle, the resolutely un-mobile handset doesn’t have internet access, apps or even a screen. No wonder anxious parents are snapping it up

Boom! A melodrama fit for Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton’s doomed love affair

A dying glamour puss falls for her parasitic houseguest in Joseph Losey’s 1968 fever dream that earns its exclamation mark

‘It feels like a betrayal’: anger as Apple to close its first unionized store in the US

Tech giant accused of ‘cynical attempt to bust the union’ in decision to shutter location in Towson, Maryland

Deborah Mailman: ‘There’s almost a permission now – people can just be incredibly cruel and racist’

The actor, who reunites with Warwick Thornton in his frontier western Wolfram, reflects on her late parents, the failed voice referendum and her obsession with space

The personal pettiness of the Elon Musk v OpenAI trial

In theory, Musk and Altman’s court fight could pose key questions about AI safety – in reality, it’s motivated by money and personal grievance

Michael smashes UK records for biggest biopic opening

Michael Jackson biopic debuted with £11.6m at the UK box office – almost double achieved by next-best Bohemian Rhapsody

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  • Minimum wage rise has made it difficult for employers to hire young people, says Alan Milburn – UK politics live
  • ‘Instagram truly is the new LinkedIn’: why gen Z is using social media to get hired
  • ‘Impossible, exhausting, horrifying’: how a chilling supernatural play explains the terror of life in Iran
  • Studio Display XDR review: Apple’s pro display shines very brightly
  • If you’re still on Elon Musk’s X, ask yourself this: why?
  • ‘Not many kids had gay dads who died of Aids’: Andrew Durham and Sofia Coppola on movie memoir Fairyland
  • ‘This isn’t freedom’: anger, anxiety and tears as Iran’s internet flickers back
  • The strange surveilled life of Piper Rockelle: why did a former child influencer decide to go on OnlyFans?
  • AI ‘art’ is boring, soulless theft – and when I see it as an artist I see red
  • Lifting of internet restrictions reveals Iranians’ anger over food inflation
  • ‘Put an end to this war’: Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev makes new plea to Putin
  • The great Australian nightmare: how the housing crisis inspired a wave of brutal – and funny – pop culture
  • The best fans to keep you cool in 2026 – tried and tested
  • Tony Blair is strong on diagnosis, deluded on prescription: Britain’s ills can’t be fixed by him
  • Power Ballad review – Nick Jonas and Paul Rudd star in terrific comedy of bromance and betrayal
  • Samsung memory chip staff in line for £310,000 bonuses after AI profit-sharing deal
  • People in the US: what are your views on Pope Leo’s comments about AI?
  • Backrooms review – Kane Parsons’ icily disturbing horror rewrites the genre rulebook
  • What We Ask Google by Simon Rogers review – the secrets of our search history
  • ‘Argentina needs to end its fantasy of being a European country’: Lucrecia Martel on the story of a killing
  • Bullet in the Head review – John Woo’s Vietnam war fever dream is an explosive masterpiece
  • Nearly in one in five UK girls receive unwanted images online, poll finds
  • Kiln-free recycled tile startup agrees pilot deal with major UK supplier
  • Spider-Noir review – Nicolas Cage’s stylish take on the superhero as a 1940s detective is huge fun
  • Pressure review – Andrew Scott and Brendan Fraser can’t save lower-tier D-day drama
  • Paddington 4: Armando Iannucci to write bear’s next movie with Thick of It and Veep cowriter
  • Nasa selects Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin for first of three uncrewed lunar missions
  • Labour set to announce crackdown on social media for children within weeks
  • Labour says Reform UK ‘in chaos’ as Zia Yusuf publicly tells Jenrick he’s got party’s deportation policy wrong – as it happened
  • ‘The avalanche of slime has been unbelievable’: E Jean Carroll shares life post-Trump in new film

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