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Meta whistleblower’s lawyer says he too is prevented from promoting her book

Ravi Naik says legal ruling that forced Sarah Wynn-Williams to make silent appearance at Hay festival also applies to him

Ghost in the Machine review – entertaining AI polemic dives into its dark history in race politics and eugenics

The roots of AI in rightwing ideology is examined in Valerie Veatch’s enjoyable doc, including an array of colourful, often crazed, figures

‘Put your phone away:’ Sweden urges parents to restrict screen use around children

People also encouraged to make parts of home phone-free after research showed impact of adult screen use on children

‘What if I come out with nothing on?’ Marilyn Monroe and the defiance of her final photoshoot

For the star’s 100th anniversary, Lawrence Schiller relives the nude photoshoot that showed, far from being a ‘messy’ blond bombshell, Monroe was a shrewd controller of her image

Nvidia launches ‘superchip’ putting AI power into laptops and PCs

Firm says its RTX Spark PC chip for Microsoft Windows will let AI agents replace the mouse and keyboard

Fuck the Polis review – cryptic docu-essay is a sphinxlike study of Greek myth and modernity

This film may be making a point about the classical vis a vis the contemporary, but its visual collages and dense poetic texts render it inert

‘You can let your inner freak out!’: welcome to Pixelate and the growing craze for internet-culture raves

At Pixelate, the music is as garish as the meme-referencing costumes. Is it internet ‘brainrot’ come to life – or a much-needed offline community?

Kane Parsons becomes youngest film-maker to open at No 1 in the US with Backrooms

Backrooms stunned industry observers by taking $81m in its first weekend, a record for studio A24

The dating apps that failed to deliver the joys of sex and romance now offer AI as cupid. No thanks

Endless swiping has left a generation of singles burned out. But get real: dating assistants and AI-aided chats will never recreate the friction of real romance, says technology journalist Tatum Hunter

‘Lets me believe in myself’: why Billy Elliot is my feelgood movie

The latest in our series of writers highlighting their most rewatched comfort films is a personal tribute to the inspirational British drama

Bonnie & Clive review – cheerfully ridiculous Covid road trip heads for Cornwall

Bonnie has two days to get from south London to her grandparents’ house before lockdown in this super low budget British comedy

Shared NHS patient records could cut 20,000 A&E visits a year, ministers claim

Modernisation bill would require GPs and hospitals in England to share data, reducing errors and duplication

The Guest review – the risks of protecting refugees in the Poland-Belarus danger zone

Zvika Gregory Portnoy and Zuzanna Solakiewicz’s documentary lays bare the problems faced by refugees and the compassion of good samaritans

AI is devoid of meaning and humanity. That’s why its vapid voice suits this political moment

For ease and speed, we are degrading our ability to connect and to organise our societies. We must assert our trust in humans over machines, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

Charities decry UK plan to use AI to assess age of young asylum seekers

Coalition of more than 100 organisations says move could lead to more children ending up in adult detention facilities

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