Gangs using Airbnb-type rentals as drug stash houses, top Belgian official says
Flexible short-term bookings used to store and pack drugs and stash weapons and cash, says Ine Van Wymersch
The Pout-Pout Fish review – Nick Offerman is best thing in kids cartoon adventure on the high seas
Offerman leads a talented cast, but this preschool picture book spinoff fails to inspire
Love me, love my bruised ego: what the narcissist-artist film tells us about the fear of ageing
Bitter Christmas, Late Fame and The Christophers all depict geniuses aware of their waning acclaim and terrified it will end
Trump’s media company, which also owns Truth Social, reports $238m loss
Company also announced a paid service for early access to president’s posts on policies to the social media site
Zuckerberg pushes ‘superintelligent’ AI for all as Meta releases open-weight model
Meta CEO presents utopian vision of AI in 6,000-word essay amid Silicon Valley debate over government regulation
The Guardian view on Meta’s smart glasses: regulators must get on the front foot
Editorial: Privacy needs defending against invasive wearable gadgets. So far, businesses are ahead of the government
Bernie Sanders calls on Silicon Valley to ‘pause AI development’ in interest of humanity
Progressive US senator urges Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic to ‘stop building machines that humans cannot control’
Barack Obama launches podcast about books that ‘shaped his worldview’
The former US president will host six episodes of A Great Book for Audible, discussing work from Toni Morrison and John le Carré to James Baldwin
John Cameron Mitchell: ‘It’s punk to turn off your phone – you’re walking away from the herd’
The writer, director and star of Hedwig and the Angry Inch on turning down David Bowie, falling off a Broadway stage, and a cringeworthy moment with Nicole Kidman
Sam Neill on making Hunt for the Wilderpeople: ‘We were attacked by a puppet pig!’
Speaking just before his death, the actor recalled his hostile hunting dog Zag, director Taika Waititi’s comedy genius – and the wild boar scene that left children traumatised
This Is Ballroom review – pulsating documentary tells story of Brazilian ballroom
Paris is Burning gets a South American update in a film that shows the Brazilian scene as a space of solidarity and tension
How to feel optimistic in the face of crisis? Ask the kids fighting slug-like aliens
The Animorphs books taught my generation about digging deep in the face of an existential threat. We need that spirit now more than ever, says Guardian Europe writer Alexander Hurst
What happens when medical students rely on AI – and never develop their own judgment?
AI’s danger isn’t just in experts losing the ability to reason. It’s that trainees may never learn how to do so in the first place
Lesbians, latex and $2,000 condoms: why are this summer’s movies so obsessed with sex?
From One Night Only to The Invite, a wave of new movies are a raunchy antidote to gen Z celibacy
RL Stine’s Pumpkinhead review – horror from Goosebumps writer has kid confined inside large fruit
Based on a short story by the Goosebumps author, this derivative but tautly plotted tale over-relies on Scooby-Doo-style sleuthery, and its truly unsettling turn comes too late