The women in love with AI companions: ‘I vowed to my chatbot that I wouldn’t leave him’
Experts are concerned about people emotionally depending on AI, but these women say their digital companions are misunderstood
Stuart Craig, Oscar-winning production designer on The English Patient and Harry Potter, dies aged 83
In a glittering career spanning more than four decades his vision contributed to some of the most memorable worlds in cinematic history
Powering change: UK battery firms aim to unlock the way to net zero
Companies using different technologies for long-duration storage seek funding as country shifts to renewables and requires greater energy security
‘It’s so different from the media narrative’: telling a different story of 7 October
Brandon Kramer’s documentary Holding Liat follows an Israeli family torn apart by the Hamas attacks, but clinging to hopes of reconciliation
The Christophers review – Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel spar in smart Soderbergh original
The actors play off each other beautifully in an intimate London-set comedy drama about art, commerce and the mess in-between
To Be Frank review – Fun Lovin’ Criminal drummer offers up life lessons from many irons in fire
Documentary portrait of musician’s varied career is engaging if a little too easy in its admiration for its subject
Brave the Dark review – delinquent teen drama comes off as if James Dean met Mr Chips
Warmly drawn melodrama based on a true story follows a delinquent teen taken under the wing of his kindly drama teacher
Peter Kyle, the ‘tech bro’ minister charged with kickstarting UK growth
‘Hard-working’ business secretary opens his tenure with delicate trade missions to Washington and Beijing
‘I broke completely’: how jobseekers from Africa are being tricked into slavery in Asia’s cyberscam compounds
A growing number of Kenyans, Ugandans and Ethiopians are being trafficked to Myanmar, where missing online scam targets leads to beatings and torture
Meta hid harms to children from VR products, whistleblowers allege
Company accused of manipulating virtual reality research as senator attacks Meta’s ‘disgusting web of lies’
Dust to Dreams review – a baffling short film from director Idris Elba
The actor recruits Seal for a Lagos-set 19-minute misfire that inelegantly stuffs in far too much
‘Most important, most beautiful, most musical’: Bagpuss set for big screen return
Stop-motion animation voted the UK’s all-time favourite kids’ show will be rebooted with the ‘saggy old cloth cat’ now busy mending in modern Britain
Amazon fires 150 unionized third-party drivers, Teamsters says
Union says ‘Amazon is breaking the law’ after drivers working for contractor Cornucopia were terminated
Ex-WhatsApp cybersecurity executive says Meta endangered billions of users in new suit
Attaullah Baig, fired this year for alleged poor performance, said he had warned Mark Zuckerberg engineers had unaudited access to user data
Nuremberg review – Russell Crowe’s Göring v Rami Malek’s psychiatrist in swish yet glib courtroom showdown
Crowe and Malek are hugely watchable but this ultimately fails to deliver an authentic version of events