‘Tentacles squelching wetly’: the human subtitle writers under threat from AI

Artificial intelligence is making steady advances into subtitling but, say its practitioners, it’s a vital service that needs a human to make it work

Feisty, frail or fiendish: why do film-makers still insist on shoving older characters into stereotypes?

There’s been a dramatic increase in actors of pensionable age playing starring roles in movies – but why are the three Fs the only personalities they get to play?

Chatbot site depicting child sexual abuse images raises fears over misuse of AI

Child safety watchdog calls for child protection guidelines to be built into AI models from the outset

Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man

Exclusive: Instagram pictures of girls as young as 13 were posted to promote Threads site ‘as bait’, campaigner says

New AI tool can predict a person’s risk of more than 1,000 diseases, say experts

Delphi-2M uses diagnoses, ‘medical events’ and lifestyle factors to create forecasts for next decade and beyond

Sephora workers on the rise of chaotic child shoppers: ‘She looked 10 years old and her skin was burning’

Preteens are parroting influencer speak and demanding anti-ageing products as the pressure to fit in intensifies

How memes, gaming and internet culture all relate to the Charlie Kirk shooting

Kirk’s rise to fame was largely bolstered by being extremely online – and it seems the suspect has that in common with him

Can I Get a Witness? review – Sandra Oh leads the line in dystopian future fable of planned death

There’s real chemistry between Oh and Keira Jang as a mother and daughter living in a society where pastoral scenes hide a more brutal reality

Online misinformation putting women off contraceptive pill, study finds

Researchers say social media myths drive ‘nocebo effect’ of side-effects that are real but psychological in origin

Six great reads: rebels in Nazi Germany, how creativity works and Europe’s biggest pornography conference

Need something brilliant to read this weekend? Here are six of our favourite pieces from the past seven days

Virulent debater and clickbait savant: how Charlie Kirk pushed a new generation to the right

The far-right activist, who was fatally shot this week in Utah, galvanized young conservatives through online antics and inflammatory views

Britain is ‘a terrible place’ to sell medicines, says drug firm executive

Sanofi’s market access chief urges ministers to come up with a roadmap to raise spending on new treatments

Boom times and total burnout: three days at Europe’s biggest pornography conference

The crowd that gathers in Amsterdam is exuberant. Pornography use is more common than ever, so earnings for many here are through the roof. But there is trouble afoot, from AI to chronic illness …

Snapchat allows drug dealers to operate openly on platform, finds Danish study

Social media platform accused of failing to filter out obvious key usernames such as ‘coke’, ‘weed’ and ‘molly’

Deaf review – cinema as empathy machine as a deaf mother struggles with parenting issues

Angela’s apparently idyllic family life begins to fray when she becomes pregnant and the hearing world’s old prejudices are reawakened