Your mission, Tom Cruise, is to improve at interviews. And please keep sending the cakes

He risks his life for entertainment, but getting an anecdote out of him is a trickier matter. Happily, Cruise is no stranger to knuckling down and pulling off the impossible

The US government is failing Americans on AI

Trump and Republicans want companies to regulate themselves. It’s a dereliction of duty that will make AI less safe

Whisper of the Heart review – Studio Ghibli deep cut is pep talk on how to live the artistic life

Hayao Miyazaki-scripted 90s teen romance sees an aspiring writer drawn to a potential soulmate thanks to library books and a curmudgeonly cat

The Cycle of Love review – a 6,000-mile bike ride caps a real life Swedish-Indian romance

One Oscar-winning director, one horoscope-prompted meet-cute and a continent-crossing cyclist – is this the start of documentaries that make you happy-cry?

Wednesday briefing: Why tech companies might be only too happy for us to believe AI will ‘kill us all’

In today’s newsletter: It is hard to tell fact from fiction when it comes to AI. What is really going on – and what should the government do about it?

Anthropic lands deal in $31bn datacentre in western Queensland, David Crisafulli says

Premier describes deal as ‘major win’ that will deliver more jobs for the state and put more energy into its grid

Your photos, your words and your work: will Labor make it easier for AI companies to take them for free?

Every family photo you ever posted would be fair game for AI companies unless you choose to opt out

Singapore pays people to pick up a book in battle against doomscrolling

Affluent city-state hopes plan will improve critical thinking and imagination ‘in a world of extraordinary abundance of stimulation’

Anthropic CEO renews call for AI slowdown as Nvidia’s urges acceleration

At San Francisco conference, OpenAI chief Sam Altman calls for more rigorous security measures

A Talent for Murder review – Helen Mirren is a viperous Patricia Highsmith in hit-and-miss thriller

A fictionalised version of the cantankerous crime author plots a murder with an ambitious editor in a story in need of a sharper edge

Labor accused of throwing creatives ‘under the bus’ with proposal to ease copyright protections for AI giants

Compromise revealed as senior personnel from OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT, meets Albanese ministers

Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon call for curbs on AI at ‘pro-human’ summit

Leftwing senator and far-right strategist rail against tech oligarchs but offer competing visions on Chinese ‘cold war’

Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo review – Takashi Miike follows Ferrara and Herzog with a disappointment

There’s a surprisingly tame quality to the gorehound’s contribution to the rough and ready franchise and a general aimlessness that frustrates

AI on course to kill us all within 10 years? Donald Trump says: ‘Hold my Coke’

US president insists that fears expressed by top experts are a hoax – and that humanity can sleep easy while he’s at the wheel

Could AI really wipe out humanity – six experts spell out the risks

We examine claims and counterclaims about the risks and calls to slow down the pace of AI development