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Deluge of abuse sent on X to prominent UK politicians in election period

Rishi Sunak, Keir Starmer, Diane Abbott, Suella Braverman and Sadiq Khan received between them 85,000 abusive messages, study finds

Meet the ‘gen Z whisperers’: the young advisers helping companies understand their employees

A new wave of consultants are out to persuade employers their generation doesn’t deserve its bad reputation

Telegram chief’s arrest sends a clear message: tech titans are not above the law

The detainment of the murky messaging service’s founder in France shows the online moguls can no longer act with impunity

‘If journalism is going up in smoke, I might as well get high off the fumes’: confessions of a chatbot helper

A data annotator reveals the threat his job poses to the art of real writing – and big tech’s growing concerns over AI’s limitations

April review – Dea Kulumbegashvili comes into her own with haunting abortion drama

Shocking violence is tempered by strange, silent sequences in a sophomore feature about an obstetrician under investigation, in which buried trauma has echoes of The Piano Teacher

YouTube to restrict teenagers’ exposure to videos about weight and fitness

Platform will ensure algorithms do not keep pushing similar content to young viewers, even though it does not breach guidelines

Film industry ‘nowhere near’ gender parity, says London festival head

Kristy Matheson bemoans ‘alarmingly’ low number of mid-career female directors as festival lineup unveiled

US gambling sector’s ‘relentless’ social media posts breached own rules, study claims

Exclusive: University of Bristol academics say gambling industry code ‘not being followed’ after analysis of social media posts by leading firms

The Whip review – carer turns to crime in a heist movie with a conscience

Austerity-minded MPs are the target of this likable drama, in which a struggling carer hatches an implausible plan to get her own back on the government

My First Film review – charismatic new star beefs up audacious grad school-style project

Slippery and unsubtle, Zia Anger’s film about a film-maker is saved from self-indulgence by its sly humour

No screens before age of two, Swedish health authority tells parents

Guidelines also stipulate teenagers should have no more than three hours of screen time a day

Fragile Memory review – a personal tribute to a prolific Soviet film-maker

Ihor Ivanko’s documentary looks at his grandfather Leonid Burlaka’s career through a treasure trove of undeveloped photos and explores the role film has in preserving history

Don’t Forget to Remember review – art, identity and the slow disintegration of dementia

This elegiac Irish film documents the relationship between street artist Asbestos and his mother, and the public art project he makes to help process his grief

‘You laugh the hardest in grief’: And Mrs, the cathartic romcom about marrying your dead fiance

Finding the funny side of bereavement may be taboo, but Colin Hanks and director Daniel Reisinger hope their new film starring Aisling Bea will help to change that

Sorry, Labour, but ChatGPT teachers are a lesson in how not to transform our schools

The government seems to think AI will allow it to do more with less. But there are plenty of reasons to be doubtful, writes Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

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  • A day in the life of a dancer who went viral for pretending to be a parakeet
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  • Elon Musk and co may relish march of the robots but there must be AI boundaries in the workplace
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  • X accused of giving racists ‘impunity’ after refusing to bar N- and P-word posts
  • NHS staff battling wave of food supplement disinformation
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  • Make platforms that promote violent content pay towards riot costs, Streeting says
  • UK government announces £132.5m after-school clubs package
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  • ‘A movie for everyone, not just Drag Race fans’: stars of drag comedy Stop! That! Train! on making the summer’s funniest film
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  • The right has created a false reality – fuelled by toxic images delivered straight to your phone
  • Palantir loses legal challenge to force Swiss magazine to publish responses
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  • UK to ban under-16s from ‘high risk’ social media apps
  • David Hockney, pioneering British artist famed for his pools and portraits, dies aged 88
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