OpenAI’s Altman and Anthropic’s Amodei address UN security council

Heads of two of the world’s largest artificial intelligence companies give separate briefings on AI safety

‘I miss old Google’: readers tell us how they search the internet in the age of AI

A feature called AI Overviews has been a profound change, and the browsing habits of billions of people are shifting

How the ‘poisonous tide’ of disinformation spreads division and despair

Whether produced by Russia, China or far-right influencers, deepfakes and disinfo are being used to spread deceitful narratives

The Guardian view on Russian disinformation: a foreign threat that relies on UK complicity

Editorial: Andy Burnham’s accusation against the Kremlin tells half the story. Domestic extremists amplified by US big tech are part of the same problem

UK politics: PM’s new anti-disinformation unit gets cross-party backing, as Farage declares it an attack on free speech – as it happened

Farage referred to the new unit and said Burnham was setting it up ‘using the excuse that Russia wants to interfere with elections’

Criminals recruiting students on social media to be ‘parcel mules’, say police

Organised crime groups offer cash to move packages containing drugs or weapons, says West Yorkshire force

My (complicated) relationship with AI: often seductive, occasionally frustrating and always demanding vigilance

As a multilingual academic, artificial intelligence has levelled the playing field. But I will continue to think, judge and develop ideas that are stubbornly mine

‘He made something every single day’: David Lynch’s inscrutable photography celebrated in LA show

The director’s surrealist films helped to define Los Angeles. Now the city is celebrating his other passion: photography

The living dead: we can watch ‘Janis Joplin’ perform or reunite the Beatles, but who are the real winners here?

Advances in digital technology mean that avatars are ever more realistic, and zombie concerts are coming our way. Exciting as it might be to witness the Fab Four, or Maria Callas on stage, I’d rather have flesh and blood live experiences any day.

John Green got an astronomical following from his books. What came next? ‘I’m still competing for clicks’

Returning with his first-ever adult novel, the bestselling author reflects on fame, YouTube and his brother’s AI controversy

Manhunter review – Michael Mann serves up a bold and queasy starter to the serial killer spectacle

Before Anthony Hopkins’ Dr Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs, Brian Cox played a cannibalistic killer in Mann’s pioneering Red Dragon adaptation

Pornhub investigated over concerns it can still be accessed by UK children

Watchdog Ofcom says site’s age-checking regime may not be ‘highly effective’, as required by the Online Safety Act

Boorman and the Devil review – enjoyable re-evaluation of the disaster that was Exorcist II: The Heretic

John Boorman generously details the mortifying experience of making a sequel to 1973 hit horror The Exorcist, which was widely and unfairly panned

Another taste of honey: Shelagh Delaney’s long-lost play about a teenage truant is a little gem

The playwright’s daughter found Catch Me Who Can after her mother’s death. Now it has become a compelling audio drama with Toby Jones and Rita Tushingham

North Sea, Nature Untamed review – stunning footage finds the beauty and splendour under the water

Diver Peter van Rodijnen’s footage of basking whales, plankton blooms and fatherly fish disputes the idea that the North Sea is a bleak wilderness