The Orwellian machinery critics are desperate to protect is the algorithms, not laws that seek to reduce harm

Critics of Australia’s digital duty of care bill stand in defence of the right of platforms to promote harm over health, rage over reason, and fake over fact

Labor wants Australians to be able to opt out of online algorithms. How will it change your feed?

The prime minister has predicted blowback to the scheme, which will affect social media, search engines and AI chatbots

OpenAI claims to have solved maths problem that stumped humans for decades

Company behind ChatGPT says 10,000 of its AI systems cracked the Navier-Stokes problem in 88 hours

Company review – Casey Affleck entertains us with creepy campfire tales

Affleck’s third film as a director is a diverting gothic anthology about mysterious strangers, murder and – pointedly – wronged men

UK to force Apple and Google to block explicit images on children’s smartphones

Lisa Nandy says government will introduce legislation after talks end without breakthrough

Bunker review – Cruz and Bardem just can’t dig Florian Zeller’s shallow thriller out of a hole

An architect (Javier Bardem) alienates his book editor wife (Penélope Cruz) when he agrees to build a luxurious bunker for a tech billionaire

Andrew Garfield takes on Sam Altman in creepy first teaser for Artificial

Luca Guadagnino-directed film will be released by Neon after being dropped by Amazon amid OpenAI partnership

Practical Magic 2 review – Bullock and Kidman return for odd sequel that still casts a spell

A nostalgia-bait return to the witchy 90s comedy is as strange and messy as the first but there are warm seasonal pleasures to be had

Elon Musk told ex-girlfriend he needed ‘a legion of children before the civil war’

Ashley St Clair was speaking at the Venice film premiere of Alex Gibney’s documentary Musk, where she warned of his dangerous influence

State handouts, 10,000 lasers – and Trump’s election: six things we learned from the Elon Musk film

Alex Gibney’s marathon documentary delivers numerous eye-raising insights into the broligarch’s business deals, early idealism and apocalyptic appetite for fathering children

OpenAI releases new AI agent – after admitting one went rogue

Plus: Americans think they have it bad with unwanted surveillance. They should visit London

Musk review – epic study of the world’s richest and most banal man

Alex Gibney interviews former colleagues, wives, the trillionaire’s father and a CG avatar in this absorbing documentary

Just an Illusion review – Louis Garrel and Camille Cottin sizzle as an 80s couple in crisis

The directing duo behind uplifting mega-hit Intouchables return for this heartwarming coming-of-age drama, but it is the parents in the story who pull focus

How meteorologists recreated weather that helped decide second world war

Experts helped guide weather scenes in Pressure – a film depicting dramatic buildup to 1944’s D-day landings

AI will help find cure for cancer ‘within our lifetimes’, says Arm Holdings chief

Rene Haas also claims artificial intelligence could pave way for widespread use of humanoid robots within five years