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SpaceX targets biggest ever stock market debut, putting Musk on course to be trillionaire

IPO could raise up to $75bn, giving SpaceX market value of $1.75tn as it sets up Musk for extraordinary wealth

Scary Movie review – spoof comedy returns but maybe it should have stayed in the 2000s

Successful jokes are thin on the ground in the musty sixth installment of the once-popular parody franchise, taking aim at everything from Scream to Sinners

Mark Williams: ‘I browsed tractor magazines with Robbie Coltrane on the set of Harry Potter’

The star of The Fast Show and Father Brown – as well as the original Arthur Weasley – on friendly death eaters, famous Brummies and Chinese trains

How to actually reduce your screen time: 12 simple, realistic tips to stop doomscrolling

Want to spend less time on your phone? We asked psychotherapists, professors and specialists for practical (and achievable) ways to cut down

Boom Box: the story of undercover police who set up a fake music studio in London

New four-part documentary reignites criticism of Operation Peyzac, in which officers posed as music industry figures to gather intelligence

‘I’d rather read a book’: Tarantino criticises ‘flavourless sausage factory’ Hollywood

Pulp Fiction director writes in Sight and Sound that ‘since the pandemic … it seems almost impossible for a new movie to come out that I don’t pick to death’

Disney racks up $4.2bn deficit on Paris parks

Exclusive: Analysis shows resort has yet to recoup Disney’s investment despite record revenue and 16m annual visitors

‘Happiness is not just about GDP’: ambitious plan or utopia?

Some will question its credibility – but the alternative future to the one imagined in the Global Justice Report is far more bleak

‘I’m asking people to do a lot, but that’s what it means to be a human’: why one man made the first straight-to-video movie in 20 years

Robert dos Santos decided to make his first film after being held at gunpoint once too often. The resulting drama, only available on VHS, is a broadside against AI: ‘Someone once said that if your mum can do it, it doesn’t have value’

Smartglasses and earpieces may worsen exam cheating in schools, says Ofqual

Stronger checks likely to be needed in England to safeguard reputation of GCSE, AS and A-levels, says Ian Bauckham

My year with the robots: how Joanna Stern let AI into her home, work – and heart

In 2025, the tech journalist invited artificial intelligence to do nearly everything for her, including editing the book she was writing about the experiment. Some of it was useful, some not – but it was her time with a chatbot companion that really shook her

‘A Pavarotti rebirth’: the Samoan tenor taking over the world’s most gilded opera stages

Born on a tiny, impoverished South Pacific island, Pene Pati remembers going to school without food. Now he is performing in operas at La Scala and the Met

Tech industry wins big in California after millions spent on primary election

Silicon Valley is fighting against AI regulation and taxation and will benefit from having political leverage

Seattle poised to ban new datacenters in blow to big tech hub

Measure in Amazon and Microsoft’s backyard expected to succeed next week as backlash grows amid AI boom

Savage House review – Claire Foy and Richard E Grant sell it hard in bewigged 18th-century caper

The leads are the most watchable thing in this raucous period yarn about a grimy pair of status-obsessed nobles

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  • George and Amal Clooney evacuate from French house: ‘We do not know whether our beautiful home will survive’
  • Black people in the US: have you used AI for health-related questions?
  • ‘It’s the Meryl Streep of the orchestra’: why cinema loves the cello
  • Raids across UK in crackdown on nuisance car finance texts
  • ‘The crude language of Maga folks’: Joyce Carol Oates criticises Emily Wilson for criticising Nolan’s Odyssey
  • Lloyds Bank to cut £2bn in costs as part of AI-powered strategy
  • ‘Kind of like a fairytale’: documentary tells the unusual tale of Flaco the Owl
  • The best cordless vacuum cleaners in the UK for a spotless home – tested
  • ‘They played noughts and crosses on the PM’s huge forehead!’ An Indian standup picks his favourite gen Z protest memes
  • One big chart: deaths in the Odyssey
  • Hollywood producer charged with seven counts of wire fraud in $100m scheme
  • Meta misses earnings forecasts after Zuckerberg media push to promote AI
  • Hackers steal sensitive data from UK Department for Education and police
  • Excessive time spent online linked to stress and worse mood – study
  • Tony review – knives out in tasty reheat of Anthony Bourdain’s memoir
  • FTSE 100 hits record high despite AI sell-off
  • Atlassian tightens tracking of staff AI use as other technology firms encourage ‘tokenmaxxing’
  • Can’t hear what’s playing on TV? It’s not your ears, it’s the flat screen. These affordable soundbars can help
  • After 40 years, Aliens is still shaping the way video games are made
  • Andrew Scott’s Oscar-tipped Ian Charleson biopic to open London film festival
  • Jared Leto denies accusations of criminal sexual conduct against teenagers
  • Rogue OpenAI agent that hacked startup tried to attack other firms
  • Glen Hansard, Oscar-winning Irish singer-songwriter, dies aged 56 in motorcycle crash
  • Boris Karloff’s unlikely love of cricket lives on with foundation in his name
  • Billy Liar review – Tom Courtenay is superb in classic study of a young man and his quixotic dreams
  • Personal Problems review – an exhilarating lo-fi epic of Black working-class life in 80s New York
  • Datacentre projects face fees for grid access to ease connection queue, Ofgem says
  • The Devil’s Mouth review – Amazon’s shark thriller gives us just about enough to chew on
  • Solo Sunny review – a rueful East German gem of ambition, loneliness and faded dreams
  • AI tool will lead to more child refugees being treated as adults, charity warns

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