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Is the most popular song played on Australian radio stations the product of generative AI?

Josh Fawaz’s song, a cover of Like a Prayer, has raised questions about how generative AI is being used in music and whether it should be declared

Christopher Nolan says people ‘disdain’ AI and the idea it will replace humans is ‘nonsense’

Odyssey director addresses industry fears over artificial intelligence and says rightwing criticism of Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy is ‘irrelevant’

Patricia Greene obituary

Actor who played Jill Archer for 68 years on the long-running BBC radio soap opera The Archers

‘These are some of the most complex structures ever created’: how tech reporting moved into the physical world

The Guardian’s global tech reporting team are investigating the impact of the vast datacentres being built to power the AI revolution. We spoke to them about how their beat has become increasingly offline

CurrentBody Multi Light Therapy LED mask review: hands down the best I’ve tested

With five light modes targeting everything from fine lines to blemishes and pigmentation, CurrentBody’s latest mask promises a lot – and so does its price tag

‘This was a righteous case. A holy war’: the lawyer who took on Meta and Google – and won

When Mark Lanier and his young client Kaley faced the tech giants in an LA courtroom earlier this year, it seemed a bigger battle than David v Goliath. But they scored a landmark victory, proving that the social media giants had created ‘addiction machines’ that harmed mental health. How did they pull it off?

‘I felt dizzy’: bodybuilder recalls how drug abuse caught up with him

Jamie Mantzouridis used steroids, growth hormones and insulin until the side effects became impossible to ignore

‘More postmodern than ancient’: why the Odyssey is everywhere, from Oz to Westeros

Christopher Nolan’s take on the Odyssey is set to break box-office records. What made the director so determined to adapt the ancient Greek epic? And why does a poem from 600BC hold a vice-like grip on pop culture?

Fitness influencers linked to wellness brand helping run illegal steroid market on Telegram

Ambassadors for Gencore Global directed followers to Telegram channels promoting steroids, prescription medicines and experimental peptides

‘A very good clone’: news stories faked to lure victims to scam investment sites

Fraudsters create false articles that appear to be from publishers such as the Guardian to share on social media

‘We were kids dressed as gangsters, running riot’ – Alan Parker’s Bugsy Malone at 50, by its cast and crew

Jodie Foster hated her 6am starts, Parker couldn’t stop swearing, Dexter Fletcher was traumatised by his haircut … There was as much drama off-screen as on during the making of this classic movie

Datacentres drive up big tech’s carbon emissions to a third of those of France

Microsoft, Amazon and Google say they still aim to achieve net zero output despite construction boom

AI ‘actor’ Tilly Norwood has a movie coming out. Spare us this future

Acting is about human connection across cultural and social divides. But we can’t expect much of that in the ‘Tillyverse’

Safe from AI: which jobs will help you thrive in the future?

Experts say there will still be opportunities ahead in everything from teaching to hotels and the law

From Moana to Suki Waterhouse: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

Dwayne Johnson and Catherine Laga’aia star in the latest Disney animation to get the live-action treatment, and the model-actor-singer proffers more of her signature lush soft rock

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  • ‘I thank God for killing me and bringing me back’: Nicolas Winding Refn on the emergency op that inspired his new sci-fi horror
  • Netanyahu seeks to strip citizenship from Israelis as threats to NAZA film directors intensify
  • English far-right extremist who discussed killing Jews, Muslims and migrants is jailed
  • Planning permission for new Scottish AI datacentres suspended for up to a year
  • The Liberation review – Carrie Coon joins all-female cult in unsettling drama
  • Amazon raises starting pay to $20 an hour and adds Whole Foods discount
  • UK politics: Burnham says budget will be ‘challenging’ and denies he is just ‘tax and spend socialist’ – as it happened
  • Girls creator Lena Dunham welcomes baby girl delivered via surrogate
  • Location-tracking apps have turned me into a gibbering wreck – but I just can’t look away
  • Resident Evil review – Zach Cregger’s rebooted action horror is a wild rollercoaster ride
  • ‘Godfather of AI’ says tech regulation is nearing Covid-style pivot moment
  • Everything Australians put online could be scraped for AI under proposed new rules. How will you be affected?
  • The dominance of AI is not inevitable. We can choose to change things for the better
  • EU moves closer to social media ban for under 13s
  • Smile at Last review – photo-love-story style parable of a teen abandoned at a tough Soviet youth facility
  • Amazon to launch Ring ‘neighbourhood watch’ app in UK amid US privacy fears
  • Battle of Chile director Patricio Guzmán dies aged 85
  • In-I in Motion review – Juliette Binoche pulls back the curtain on dance duet with Akram Khan
  • Datacenter rush will create ‘tsunami’ of discarded electronics, report says
  • Allowing AI firms to collude to ‘pace the frontier’ is a dangerous proposition
  • The best life hack I’ve ever heard? Monetise what you’re bad at
  • ‘If you’re building Frankenstein, stop’: JD Vance dismisses calls for AI regulation
  • Your mission, Tom Cruise, is to improve at interviews. And please keep sending the cakes
  • The US government is failing Americans on AI
  • Whisper of the Heart review – Studio Ghibli deep cut is pep talk on how to live the artistic life
  • The Cycle of Love review – a 6,000-mile bike ride caps a real life Swedish-Indian romance
  • Wednesday briefing: Why tech companies might be only too happy for us to believe AI will ‘kill us all’
  • Anthropic lands deal in $31bn datacentre in western Queensland, David Crisafulli says
  • Your photos, your words and your work: will Labor make it easier for AI companies to take them for free?
  • Singapore pays people to pick up a book in battle against doomscrolling

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