Halt super-intelligent AI with non-proliferation treaty, Ed Davey to say

At Lib Dems’ conference in Brighton, leader will accuse Andy Burnham of relying on Donald Trump and ‘tech bros’ to solve problem

Moviegoer using phone during film pepper-sprayed in LA, police say

California man charged with misdemeanor battery in Burbank over incident sending three patrons to hospital

Stop relying on AI chatbots for customer care, UK banks and energy firms told

Citizens Advice says providers of essential services such as energy, banking, phone and internet should guarantee the ‘right to talk to a human’

Sense and Sensibility review – Daisy Edgar-Jones leads sober-minded next-gen do-over of Austen romcom

With Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles as the Dashwood sisters, this fresh take on a beloved classic is not to be confused with Ang Lee’s

Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they relate to feminism

Theatre told that Facebook and Instagram filter out ads mentioning ‘social topics’ such as civil rights or feminism

‘Being in Madness kept some of them out of jail’: how the baggy-trousered nutty boys made a guerrilla cinema classic

From a jail-inspired light sabre fight to the moment a sax-player flew, Take It Or Leave It brilliantly captured the band’s grimy origins. Will the film’s return see it finally honoured as a music movie landmark?

Dunesday: will this be Barbenheimer on steroids – the biggest weekend of cinema ever?

Since the mammoth success of the films Barbie and Oppenheimer in 2023, Hollywood has taken to jointly marketing movies released on the same day – and December’s matchup of Dune: Part Three and Avengers: Doomsday could break all records

We’re not in a new Gilded Age in America: inequality is now far worse

Today’s wealth gap is much bigger, and the country’s richest have much more power than they once did. It’s an Age of Oligarchy

Google fined more than €400m by Irish regulator over its use of location data

Watchdog says users may have been unaware their information was used to target adverts or infer their interests

Nvidia boss says there is ‘0% chance’ AI destroys the world by 2030

Jensen Huang dismisses warnings from former Anthropic researcher and others as ‘doomsday narratives’

The Seasons review – Portuguese pastoral offers poetic excavation of myth and mapping

The rugged roads and lush vegetation of southern Portugal are showcased in this weaving-together of disparate threads of history and landscape

Heart of the action: why organ couriers are cinema’s new heroes

Whether its a nod to frontline Covid heroes or a return to biology in a world of digital noise, there’s a rich vein of new films featuring organ deliveries, including Runner and the latest Resident Evil

‘Still feel a jolt of joy’: why Dirty Dancing is my feelgood movie

The latest in our ongoing series of writers highlighting their most rewatched comfort films remembers a 1987 teenage girl classic

Rising Up at Night review – community spirit shines bright in Kinshasa’s shadows

Religion and collective resilience are beacons of hope in an electricity-deprived DRC in this otherworldly documentary debut

Exhausted by optimisation, I’m seeking solace in the past. As Sibelius’s swans soar skywards, so do my spirits

Humans have always been capable of transcending the lock box of daily life with little more technology at their side than wood, string, a baton and their voices