Will California’s billionaire tax proposal make it to ballots?

Despite more than double the needed number of signatures to qualify for ballot, there’s uncertainty it’ll make it to voters

How to Live on Earth review – Benedict Cumberbatch exudes positivity in response to the climate crisis

An antithesis of the doom and gloom docs about environmental destruction, Cumberbatch and expert contributors look at how we can all help to protect it

AI in the classroom prompts tide of concern from US parents and experts

While tech companies and Trump have been pushing teachers to use AI in the classroom, many argue that there is little evidence that it would actually help children

Majority of datacenters are vulnerable to climate threats like floods and fires, study finds

Study warns AI datacenters are vulnerable to the climate hazards that their global greenhouse gas emissions bolster

Australia ‘sleepwalking’ into AI crisis and ‘tech bro free-for-all’, says Greens senator

Sarah Hanson Young’s warning comes as David Pocock urges government to prevent firms using Australian content to train AI models

Sizzle reels: nine films to watch in a heatwave

Whether you fire up the outdoor projector or Netflix and chill in a cool, dark place – let the escapism of cinema be a balm amid the punishingly hot weather

‘I’ve had a huge life, so I needed a big budget’: Madonna says biopic was scrapped after ‘falling out’ with studio

‘Maybe they just didn’t believe in me,’ the pop star said of Universal, which was set to make a film about her life starring Julia Garner

Rory Kennedy revisits Boeing in new film sparked by whistleblower’s death: ‘We’ve got to stay at this’

Film-maker talks about her documentary on John Barnett, the Boeing whistleblower who killed himself in 2024

500 Miles review – kids hit the road to visit Irish grandad Bill Nighy in YA tearjerker

Nighy is the Dingle dwelling grandfather of a Sheffield family in strife in sentimental adaptation of Mark Lowery’s novel Charlie and Me

‘Climate change is a form of oppression’: the voices affected most by environmental crisis

In HBO documentary The Welcome Table, director Josh Fox brings together people from across the world whose lives have been dramatically altered by the climate crisis

The Morrigan review – spirit of pagan demon queen unleashed in Irish burial chamber horror

Archaeologists blunder into an ancient and unwittingly release a vengeful monster – with predictable and conventional results

Landship review – soldiers yearn for tinned meat in muddy first world war drama that stays inside the tank

It’s too murky to distinguish one stiff upper lip from another in Callum Burn’s drama about a real-life mission that came unstuck

Self-doubt, burnout … and Taylor Swift: why Toy Story 5 is the ultimate millennial girl movie

Nostalgia hits hard for anyone who has grown up with the franchise. But little could prepare me for the emotional punch of this latest film – and the very specific vulnerabilities it taps

Lost memoir of Hiroshima survivor found after decades in US archive

Written in 1947, Kiyoshi Tanimoto’s account of the horrors of the atomic bomb attack will be published in August and is being made into a film

Met to expand use of live facial recognition into central London by Christmas

Technology to be used in six more areas next year as critics say tens of thousands of people will be forced into ‘digital police lineup’