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The AfD won a shock election in Germany. Elon Musk was thrilled

The billionaire and the party have developed a symbiotic relationship to spread their far-right views both in Germany and the US

‘Cheap iPhone deal’: warning over scam sites selling latest Apple mobiles

Criminals exploit demand for iPhone 18 Pro and foldable Duo to trick people eager to get their hands on one

Tesco alerts police as supermarket becomes latest victim of scam ‘endorsement’ ads

Exclusive: Supermarket joins line of firms and sports stars including Bellingham and Haaland to have their image hijacked via ads

Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother review – Mahershala Ali is a grieving hitman in soulful thriller

The two-time Oscar-winner is an unusual killer in a compelling mix of pulpy action and family drama

Misty Green review – Chris Rock’s jumbled LA drama saved by fiery Rosalind Eleazar

There’s a stunning lead performance from the breakout British actor but the film surrounding her can’t quite match what she’s bringing

Woman Unknown wins Venice film festival as NAZA takes special jury prize

May el-Toukhy becomes eighth female director to take Golden Lion as Lee Chang-dong’s Possible Love and Guardian-produced exposé of Israel’s Gaza killings also awarded

Bold and bravura choices as Venice celebrates A Woman Unknown, Possible Love and NAZA

After facing heavy criticism over its lack of female directors, the film festival may have redeemed itself with its winners’ list

‘We must slow the pace’: CEO of Anthropic calls for an AI slowdown

In a social media post, Dario Amodei proposed a plan including third-party evaluations of AI systems

Film producer Jeremy Thomas was a cross between a kindly Cambridge don and the movie world’s cool uncle

The man behind The Last Emperor had the confidence of an old-fashioned studio boss along with the soul of a cineaste

Everybody Wants to Fuck Me review – Taron Egerton is hounded in sharp-toothed dating nightmare

It’s Get Out meets the Shitty Media Men list in this entertaining mix of dark comedy and thriller with a brilliant alternating turn from Taron Egerton

Jeremy Thomas, British producer of The Last Emperor and Sexy Beast, dies aged 77

An outstanding figure in the UK film industry, Thomas was noted for collaborations with directors including Bernardo Bertolucci and David Cronenberg

Girl Group review – Rebel Wilson’s dreadful music comedy is a spice-free wannabe

The actor turned writer-director’s ode to girl groups is a shoddily made and embarrassingly unfunny catastrophe

Michael Barrymore becomes unlikely TikTok star with nearly 5m followers

Former primetime TV host films himself eating dog biscuits, doing ‘munchie runs’ and addressing pool death case

Deepfakes are wrecking influencers’ credibility, one fake ad at a time

Influencers aren’t just battling competitors for brand deals. They’re now battling AI versions of themselves

‘Immature playground boasting’: Mathematicians uneasy at OpenAI’s latest scalp

As OpenAI model cracks Millennium Prize Problem that puzzled experts for decades, many feel shocked at pace of change

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  • TUC warns of danger of ‘out of control political spending’ but stops short of backing caps on donations – UK politics live
  • Venice best actress winner says she signed on at Danish job centre days before her victory
  • She was the Royal Ballet’s first ‘young choreographer’ – Charlotte Edmonds’ next 10 years show how dance is changing
  • Legend of Destruction review – starry voices grace animated telling of the Jewish revolt against the Romans
  • Are you outraged by Sydney Sweeney – again? More fool you
  • The best iPhones: which Apple smartphone is right for you, according to our expert
  • One of Sydney’s largest councils joins ban on ‘pervert’ glasses at local swimming pools
  • Louise Haigh: UK must heed warnings from AI experts
  • Fast, furious and potentially fatal: why are supercars suddenly so popular?
  • AI safety requires more than just slowing our pace
  • Why a decade of doomsday warnings failed to slow the AI race
  • Night of the Coyotes review – border-crossing role-play is tourist attraction in struggling Mexican town
  • Trump facing AI backlash in Congress as push for guardrails intensifies
  • Premature review – sunny charm provides screwball energy for surprise-pregnancy comedy
  • Digital ID comes of age as pubs and bars get go-ahead for biometric scan tech
  • Benedict Cumberbatch on his Earth-saving eco film: ‘We are in the last grab of the extraction era’
  • The wilting rose emoji: what its rise and fall tells us about gen Alpha
  • Texas governor threatens to penalize datacenters not obeying water laws
  • AI-linked stocks slide after tech bosses call for slowdown in ‘reckless’ development
  • Elsinore review – Andrew Scott is astonishing as Ian Charleson in devastating Aids drama
  • Europe must build own AI or risk getting cut off by US or China, says ECB’s Lagarde
  • Microsoft proposes limits on its AI with code of conduct amid safety debate
  • Jeremy Thomas obituary
  • Did you solve it? Do you have the brain of an engineer?
  • Sunday in the Park With George musical cancelled, after Ariana Grande and Jonathan Bailey both drop out
  • Israeli minister threatens to strip Israeli film-makers of citizenship over Gaza documentary NAZA
  • Phones are the new cigarettes: why restaurants are discouraging and even banning them
  • Australia’s outdated technology is vulnerable to AI hacking attacks, signals chief says
  • Ancestors review – messy but moving ghostly drama about the Aids crisis
  • ‘The eye-gouging was very, very satisfying’: how we made cave horror classic The Descent

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