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AI ‘carries risks’ but will help tackle global heating, says UN’s climate chief

Simon Stiell insists it is vital governments regulate the technology to blunt its dangerous edges

Nvidia to invest $100bn in OpenAI, bringing the two AI firms together

Deal will involve two transactions – OpenAI will pay Nvidia for chips, and the chipmaker will invest in the AI startup

Suzie Miller on her Prima Facie follow-up Inter Alia: ‘Boys are looking for male mentors. Instead they get the internet and porn’

Starring Rosamund Pike as a judge whose son is accused of sexual assault, a filmed version of the hit play lands in UK and Australian cinemas this month

The Mandalorian and Grogu trailer: first look at big-screen Star Wars spinoff

Pedro Pascal, Sigourney Weaver and Jeremy Allen White team up for first movie in Star Wars universe since 2019

Harry Potter to Hot Milk: post your questions for Fiona Shaw

Four decades of roles on stage and screen range from Petunia Dursley to Richard II, via My Left Foot, Fleabag, Three Men and a Little lady and Super Mario Bros. Now she’s ready to discuss her career with you

Documents offer rare insight on Ice’s close relationship with Palantir

For years, little was known about the multibillion-dollar company that handles data for the US immigration enforcement agency. Now, a cache of emails, training documents and reports sheds light on how Palantir helps Ice with investigations and on-the-ground enforcement

Dreamers review – powerful film about immigrant kids in the US, denied their chance of citizenship

Study of the fate of undocumented children brought to the US, now grown up and paying taxes, yet under constant threat of deportation and removal

Feisty, frail or fiendish: why do film-makers still insist on shoving older characters into stereotypes?

There’s been a dramatic increase in actors of pensionable age playing starring roles in movies – but why are the three Fs the only personalities they get to play?

A Night Like This review – two strangers roam the London nighttime on Christmas eve

A pair of men with their own individual demons spend the evening together, but a cliche-ridden script and uninspired filming remove the spark

‘Never fails to delight’: why Metallica: Some Kind of Monster is my feelgood movie

The next in our series of writers celebrating their most rewatched comfort films is an ode to the scrappy 2004 music documentary

Detective Conan: One-Eyed Flashback review – anime sleuth wades through a bamboozling bureaucratic maze

A labyrinthine but lively 28th instalment of the hit manga series juggles byzantine intrigue, spies and cop rivalries with stylish flair

Seven at 30: David Fincher’s devilish thriller is a chilling immersion in evil

The grim serial killer hit dared to take a mainstream audience to a hopeless place despite pressure from executives and test screenings to sanitise

If Anyone Builds it, Everyone Dies review – how AI could kill us all

If machines become superintelligent we’re toast, say Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares. Should we believe them?

Invention review – meta indie docu-fiction has a deadpan take on truth and healing

A woman inherits the patent for a healing machine from her quack father in this exploration of grief, in which a number of low budget film-makers cameo

More Britons view AI as economic risk than opportunity, Tony Blair thinktank finds

TBI says poll data threatens Keir Starmer’s ambition for UK to become artificial intelligence ‘superpower’

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  • AI datacentres plan on-site power stations on huge scale despite climate risks, research reveals
  • Nvidia hires leading US law firm to investigate Jensen Huang’s relationship
  • Give Me the Ball! review – tennis trailblazer Billie Jean King is ferocious force for equality
  • Farewell to Elon Musk’s Cybertruck. Has any car ever been more repellent?
  • Female Perversions review – Tilda Swinton searches for erotic adventures in rework of Madame Bovary
  • NAZA documentary on Gaza killings becomes one of year’s most watched
  • Germany reportedly bans Chinese drones at military bases over security concerns
  • Nima Momeni sentenced to 16 years to life in murder of Cash App founder Bob Lee
  • US justice department sues Lyft over alleged refusal to serve passengers with disabilities
  • UK social media ban expansion for under-16s could cover YouTube Kids
  • Inquiry launched into UK budget bank tax leak; Wall Street hit by US inflation data – as it happened
  • Tinto Brass obituary
  • ‘Flying cars’ could launch in China next summer, maker of two-seat model says
  • Anthropic targets valuation of up to $1.4tn in stock market flotation
  • 13 Assassins: Takashi Miike’s viscerally violent remake is full-throttle samurai mayhem
  • Whispers in the Woods review – paddling in the moonlight in tender study of human-animal interaction
  • Meghan makes first public appearance since father’s arrest but pulls out of speech
  • Nvidia and Jensen Huang sued in US over affair with alleged Chinese spy
  • Traces of Justice review – ‘Chinese Sherlock Holmes’ at centre of arresting forensic cop thriller
  • ChatGPT’s Teen Mode could deprive teenagers of a fundamental need
  • ‘I’m looking for faces which surprise me’: how Richard Avedon photographed the soul of his subjects
  • Are walking pads worth it? We put the best under-desk treadmills to the test
  • Soul Patrol review – heartstopping story of the US army’s first Black special ops team at work in Vietnam
  • Apple MacBook Pro review: lighter, thinner and a stunning OLED touchscreen
  • ‘We are human too’: the Roma film-makers striking back at stereotypes
  • Australia to introduce mandatory reporting after OpenAI hack to combat artificial intelligence ‘going rogue’
  • One Nation dumps Victorian election candidate who praised Adolf Hitler as ‘GOAT’
  • Teenager who planned terror attack in Sydney tells court he was radicalised online and used AI to strategise
  • Silicon Valley and Trump rally behind Nvidia CEO after his affair with alleged Chinese spy
  • Jensen Huang’s image has been shattered. Could he be pushed out at Nvidia?

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