FBI and NSPCC alarmed at ‘shocking’ rise in online sextortion of children
Snapchat logged about 20,000 cases last year of adults grooming children online, more than other social media platforms combined
Mektoub My Love: Canto Due review – gobsmackingly weird series drops another surreal sex shocker
Blue Is the Warmest Colour director Abdellatif Kechiche’s latest erotic melodrama delivers another heady dose of flirting, farce and bafflement
Mare’s Nest review – an opaque, challenging reflection on the end of the world
Ben Rivers’s cine-poem, based on Don DeLillo’s climate crisis play The Word for Snow, follows a child’s strange encounters as she wanders in a postapocalyptic world devoid of adults
‘It’s missing something’: AGI, superintelligence and a race for the future
As US and Chinese tech giants chase artificial general intelligence, experts warn the hype may be outrunning the science
Dead of Winter review – Emma Thompson lights up icy Fargo country thriller
Thompson turns up the accent dial to play a good-natured Minnesota widow bringing her charm – and her gun – to tackle some concentrated nastiness
OpenAI will not disclose GPT-5’s energy use. It could be higher than past models
Experts working to benchmark resource use of AI models say new version’s enhanced capabilities come at a steep cost
The UK’s Online Safety Act is a licence for censorship – and the rest of the world is following suit
From the US and Australia to France and Italy, those seeking to obliterate privacy and restrict content are on the move, says technology journalist Taylor Lorenz
Yellowstone, Top Gun, Chalamet: what will the Paramount-Skydance merger mean for film and TV?
Controversial $8bn deal finalized this week and the future is set to look different for one of the biggest Hollywood studios
Why ‘grifter’ has become the go-to political insult of 2025
These days it’s not enough to disagree with opponents – it seems we have to accuse them of being con artists too, says Britain editor of the New Statesman, Anoosh Chakelian
The Guide #203: Has Hollywood rediscovered the joy of the 90-minute movie?
Once notorious for testing audience endurance, modern blockbusters seem to be trimming the fat, from superhero sagas to comedic classics
My cultural awakening: a Steve Carell film made me realise I was being abused
After my dad died, my mum and I endured the coercive control of her new partner for years. It was The Way Way Back that freed us both
Freakier Friday to Ethel Cain: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
There’s more intergenerational larks in a sprightly body-swap sequel, and the Floridian dream-pop singer-songwriter is back with a new album of dark, skewed Americana
Microsoft investigates Israeli military’s use of Azure cloud storage
Concerns that tech company’s Israel-based staff may have concealed key details of work follow Guardian investigation
‘Alien is a warning, isn’t it?’: Essie Davis on Alien: Earth and Tasmania’s ecological crisis
The Babadook and Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries star plays a corporate scientist pushing the limits of human survival in the new series Alien: Earth
Social media accounts of Palestinians desperate for funds are being flagged as spam
People in Gaza use Bluesky to crowdfund for milk and diapers – repeated deletion of their profiles has spawned a guerrilla verification squad