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The devil owns Amazon: big tech has infiltrated the fashion world – will we see a revolt?

Anna Wintour has welcomed the Bezoses – and their patronage – with open arms. But after a controversial Met Gala, industry insiders are less enthusiastic

The hill I will die on: If Hollywood blockbusters must dabble in science, can’t they get the small stuff right?

Project Hail Mary, Jurassic Park: from dino-mosquitoes to a spaceship’s roar, pointless mistakes on the scientific details make me wince, says science writer Helen Pilcher

I avoid AI tools because thinking is supposed to be hard. It’s what makes us human

As intelligence itself becomes privatised by big tech, allowing your intellectual faculties to wither in service of inane bots seems a dangerous move, says author Wendy Liu

‘We’re expanding the cinematic toolbox’: AI fault lines on show at Cannes

Darren Aronofsky among proponents of using technology, while Guillermo del Toro says he would ‘rather die’

Cannes got it wrong this year by awarding Palme d’Or to Cristian Mungiu’s very moderate Fjord

Film about a couple on trial for child abuse isn’t a patch on the director’s previous Palme winner, while other disappointing films seemed to grab the jury’s attention

Cristian Mungiu wins second Palme d’Or at Cannes for child abuse drama Fjord

English-language debut by Romanian director who triumphed in 2007 with 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days takes top prize

How big tech got its way on Trump’s AI executive order

The US president’s reversal on calling for a safety review of new AI models is a green light for tech’s unchecked power

‘You can’t control everything’: the rise in plastic surgeons asked to create ‘AI face’

Growing numbers of people are seeking improbable cosmetic surgery based on chatbots’ recommendations

UK’s ‘anxious generation’ of young people struggling to adapt to workplace

Former Labour health secretary Alan Milburn says firms must offer more flexibility and mental health support

Final frontier for meds? UK startup sends drug-making into space

BioOrbit hopes drug-crystallisation technology will lead to self-injected cancer treatment that could save millions

‘I thought I was the saviour of the planet’: how Game of Thrones’ Hannah Murray found a wellness cult – and lost her mind

She landed a role in hit TV show Skins at 17 and went on to star in the fantasy epic. Then she was drawn towards a mysterious spiritual community. How did she end up being sectioned?

From The Mandalorian and Grogu to Dear England: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

The helmeted Star Wars hero and ‘baby Yoda’ get a big-screen adventure, while James Graham’s play about England boss Gareth Southgate comes to TV

French stars are rightly worried by billionaire Vincent Bolloré. Here’s how to rein him in

The conservative tycoon’s grip on media and cinema is unhealthy. An EU fund could protect democracy in perpetuity says Guardian Europe writer Alexander Hurst

Trump Mobile investigating potential exposure of would-be customers’ personal information

Phone company launched by Donald Trump’s family says names and contact details appear to be affected, but not credit card or banking information

Sunrise Movement takes credit for disrupting Trump’s New York state rally – as it happened

Activists arrested at rally in Rockland county belong to youth-led climate justice group, spokesperson says

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  • 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
  • Hammer to rerelease 1958 Dracula in UK with long-lost footage added
  • Funny, absurd and sentimental, Mr Deeds is one of Adam Sandler’s most underrated films
  • Iran’s access to global internet starts to resume after 88-day blackout
  • ‘What you see here is a wetland without water’: how the datacentre boom is exacerbating Chile’s mega-drought
  • Musk and Altman’s AI rivalry reaches boiling point as IPO race heats up
  • No Place for Football review – battling ice and snow to play the beautiful game in Greenland
  • Ferrari shares fall after launch of first EV as Jony Ive design proves divisive
  • ‘Hello ladies and sons of ladies’: women are using ‘microfeminisms’ to flip the gender script
  • ‘We can stitch together our past’: the AI-generated time-travellers vlogging from history
  • Leonora in the Morning Light review – pioneering British artist who fled convention for the surrealists
  • Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu: streaming, strikes and Baby Yoda – discuss with spoilers
  • Scientists create wearable ultrasound to continuously monitor babies in womb
  • Mother of boy who may have died in TikTok challenge urges No 10 to ban social media
  • Fairyland review – moving memoir of queer parenting and new kinds of family in 70s San Francisco
  • US students on why they booed their pro-AI graduation speakers: ‘They’re not reading the room’
  • Landmarks review – Lucrecia Martel’s beautiful account of an Indigenous murder case
  • I stopped checking the weather forecast – and got a series of wonderful surprises
  • Vivid Sydney cancels shows after 83 drones plunge into Darling Harbour
  • ‘A tsunami of harm’: views on tackling online safety for under-16s in the UK
  • ‘Like tobacco’: Wes Streeting calls for partial social media ban for under-16s

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