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

‘RAMageddon’: tech crunch hikes the price of your next iPhone by £100

Shortage of memory chips and other critical components reverses trend of electronics becoming cheaper

Pixel 11 Pro XL: Google’s big-screen superphone with top-class camera

Fantastic display and two-day battery life plus everything that’s great about Google’s more pocketable Pixel Pros

The Guardian view on AI v mathematicians: humans are still vital to the field, but tech firms refuse to see that

Editorial: OpenAI claims its agents have solved the Navier-Stokes problem. But questions remain about how useful and independent its work really is

‘An out-of-touch Silicon Valley radical’: meet Trump’s AI whisperer pushing for limited regulation

David Sacks convinced Trump against any restrictions on AI – putting the White House out of step with its own party

La Bola Negra wins Toronto film festival people’s choice award

The queer period drama wins Oscar-predicting award, being named the most popular audience film at the festival

Meta launches legal challenge against UK media regulator over Online Safety Act

Action against Ofcom comes as social media companies are being accused of using courts to slow down implementation

Bernie Sanders is right about the four-day workweek – but wrong about how to get there

The senator proposed a federal overtime rule mandate, but incentives can better spur employers to reshape the workweek

UK startup snares $20m to recreate gigs with ‘hyper-realistic’ digital avatars

Unit1 hopes to offer lower cost version of shows such as Abba Voyage, showcasing living and dead artists in any venue

Readers reply: what would be the most useful superpower?

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts

Caitlin Moran: social media went from utopia to hellhole in a decade – if you want to feel hopeful again, get offline

Fourteen years ago, Twitter was the fastest, funniest game on the web. Now I’ve been driven out by so-called ‘online activists’. The only answer is to unplug and try this instead

AI slowdown calls justified but collapse of bubble may be more immediate threat

Scale of debt issuance being used to fund the hectic pace of the datacentre rollout by tech firms is a worry

‘Resident Evil movies? I’ve never seen one’: Weapons director Zach Cregger on resurrecting the beloved zombie franchise

Raised on punk, alt-comedy and the church, Cregger’s Lynchian approach to horror is anything but typical. After two wildly original hits, his pivot to a 30-year-old video game has caused a storm among protective fans

Why China is pushing back on US warnings over rapid AI development

Beijing believes slowdown calls aim to lock in US advantage, and is pursuing a different balance between safety and pace

‘Flip the table and rise up’: Lib Dems’ president in combative mood as party gathers in Brighton

Josh Babarinde wants to target big tech and crypto billionaires while giving power and cash back to the public