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A ‘freaked out’ US food industry is hitting back at Maha – with social media influencers

Cross-partisan support in Washington on issues like pesticides and food additives pose a threat to the industry’s bottom line

Bill Gates thinks AI could kill a billion people – but can we trust his judgment after Epstein?

He knows a thing or two about tech, but what to make of the views of a man who met Jeffrey Epstein 30 times and couldn’t see what a monster he was?

A fake image of a Georgia mayor kissing a person went viral. Can US voters trust everything they see?

Deepfakes and misinformation driven by artificial intelligence have become a point of deep concern for legislators, advocates and the public

Cotton Queen review – mystery, matriarchs and magic in pioneering Sudanese debut

Suzannah Mirghani’s first feature contains a powerful performance by Rabha Mohamed Mahmoud as a village’s elder woman and tackles the long shadow of British imperialism and women’s rights

The Swan contestants on the ‘sadistic’ pageant reality show: ‘Ultimately, we were just a job’

In a new documentary, film-maker Erin Lee Carr lifts the lid on the 2000s TV series that shocked America

Rapture review – cult Spanish horror is a deeply strange cheese dream of cinemania

Pedro Almodóvar provides a vocal cameo and his style can be traced back to this influential film

How Deep Is Your Love review – under the sea at Earth’s last frontier with the Psychedelic Elvis Worm

Film-maker Eleanor Mortimer accompanies a scientific expedition to the deep Pacific, where new creatures are abundant yet threatened by sea mining

SKF advert review – let’s hope this dull AI Greta Garbo is not the future

Swedish-American actor exhumed for bizarre, humourless 99 seconds that give us another reason to resent AI

Nandy says children’s social media ban only ‘staging post’ in online safety drive

Exclusive: Culture secretary says UK will crack down further and be ‘pioneer of tech as a force for good’

Reanimated AI Greta Garbo stars again … in a ball-bearing advert

Relatives of Hollywood legend say her doppelganger could now be used for more glamorous roles

Supreme court allows Trump to temporarily resume deporting people to third countries – as it happened

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Trump AI deal rebrands ‘artificial intelligence’ as ‘superintelligence’

The US president announces vague ‘morally binding’ AI agreement among tech CEOs for ‘tremendous self-policing’

OpenAI announces ‘dots’ agent after scrapping launch of new AI model over safety concerns

Company’s product comes weeks after Meta introduced its own artificial intelligence agent Muse

Patricio Guzmán obituary

Chilean film-maker whose trilogy on Augusto Pinochet’s coup brought him to international attention

The cure for doomscrolling? Why Tom Cruise stopped a woman mid-scroll

Viral CCTV footage shows the star checking in on a woman he thought was in distress, but who was only engrossed in social media. Perhaps we could all use some Cruise

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  • Powerhouse Parramatta opens this weekend – and it’s dazzling inside and out
  • Winner of the Prix Goncourt literary prize admits to using AI
  • UK government considers smart glasses ban over secret filming concerns
  • Elke Sommer obituary
  • The best Christmas gifts in the UK for dads, grandads, uncles and friends – tested for 2026
  • John Leeson obituary
  • The downfall of Russell Brand: from Big Brother and Hollywood to convicted rapist
  • Raise the Red Lantern review – Gong Li gives a decade-defining performance in an addictively ruthless masterpiece
  • I Play Rocky review – Anthony Ippolito adds knockout sweetness to the story of Stallone’s Hollywood triumph
  • Jimmy review – simple-minded James Stewart biopic is too straightforward
  • Tech barons cozied up to Trump. What will they do in newly blue America?
  • Activists across Europe prepare two days of protests against datacentres
  • Think of England review – far-fetched tale of state-sponsored second world war porn turns deadly serious
  • Being Heumann review – stirring biopic of a pioneering disability rights campaigner
  • Apple iPad mini A20 Pro review: the best small tablet but with a big price
  • UK found to be ‘dangerously’ reliant on China for critical minerals needed for defence and AI
  • Elon Musk’s nearly half a billion dollars in midterms spending was a flop
  • Datacenters were on the ballot. US voters rejected them
  • A Dog’s Perfect Christmas review: Netflix kicks off holiday movie season with a whimper
  • ‘Wellness is on the ballot’: why did so many pilates studios tell me to vote in the midterms?
  • US parents and teachers: share your thoughts on Google turning off Search for schools that reject AI
  • Tinto Brass, director of Caligula and maestro of Euro erotica, dies aged 93
  • ‘He lent me his RSC Oberon cape for my school play’: Patrick Stewart remembered by readers
  • Albanese government warned it is ‘sleepwalking into another robodebt scenario’ over use of algorithms and AI
  • French blood banks hacked in latest cyber-attack on Europe
  • Ramayana: Rise of a Legend review – India’s most expensive film ever becomes spectacular, huge-scale epic
  • Callum Turner emerges as James Bond favourite as Pierce Brosnan endorses actor: ‘He’s so strong’
  • UK to deploy facial recognition in biggest-ever immigration crackdown
  • Crawlers review – killer-spiders movie offers giant-arachnid action alongside anticapitalist commentary
  • Very good boys? The dark, dystopian rise of robot dogs

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