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Chasing Utopia review – renegade Google exec Mo Gawdat searches for ethical AI in alarming insider warning

Delivering much information about the scale of what’s coming, documentary also follows Gawdat’s campaign to get the programs with empathy

Trump heads to China to spread the gospel of American tech while emulating Xi Jinping on AI

Tim Cook and Elon Musk, among other tech CEOS, will accompany the US president on a trip to China

Datacentres should be forced to invest in wind and solar energy, all states agree – except Queensland

State and federal energy ministers say investments in new renewable energy and storage should ‘fully offset’ new datacentres’ energy needs

Texas accuses Netflix of spying on children in new lawsuit

Ken Paxton accuses streamer of designing addictive platform and falsely representing data collection practices

Amazon halts sales of illegal high-speed ebikes in California after fatal crashes

Recent consumer alert on ebike safety laws says some vehicles should be classified as mopeds or motorcycles

Theatre streaming is not a threat to in-person attendance, new research shows

Report suggests that popular initiatives such as NT Live and NT at Home are making UK audiences more adventurous

Molière Ex Machina: AI used to create ‘new work’ by beloved French playwright

Comedy debuts at Versailles featuring dialogue, music, costumes and scenery created with help of AI tool Le Chat

Palantir’s access to identifiable NHS England patient data is ‘dangerous’, MPs say

Health service has given US tech firm ‘unlimited access’ to certain data to build integrated platform, according to reports

UK firefighters called to one lithium-ion battery fire every five hours

FoI responses collected by insurer show brigades tackled 1,760 battery-linked fires in 2025, up 147% in three years

Cape Verde bets on tech to reverse postcolonial brain drain

African archipelago hopes startups, digital infrastructure and diaspora investment can transform its economy

Defence sovereignty: Europe races to build the low-cost weapons of future

With Trump wavering on Nato and war in Ukraine, Europe is scrambling to spend billions on weapons such as drones

Google developers significantly misstate carbon emissions of proposed UK datacentres

Emissions understated by factor of five in Essex plans for tech giant, while Greystoke’s Lincolnshire plans show similar error

What I saw at the Musk-OpenAI trial: petty billionaires, protests and a stern judge

Showdown between Musk and Altman has rendered the world’s most wealthy comical under egalitarian eye of court

Trump Media and Technology Group lost $406m in first three months of 2026

Parent company of president’s Truth Social platform generated only $870,000 even as net sales were up 6%

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  • French film industry at risk from the far right, say actors and directors
  • Broadcasters must react to threat from ‘creator journalism’, says ex-head of BBC News
  • Sound baths are supposed to help relax and ‘soothe’ your nervous system. But do any of these claims ring true?
  • Tomorrow, When the War Began: a film made in a lab for 2010s Australian teens
  • Matching Gary Oldman’s Krapp with a teenager’s take on Godot is a masterstoke
  • ‘He’s inspired generations’: Stormzy to produce biopic about football great Ian Wright
  • GameStop’s $55.5bn bid for eBay rejected as ‘neither credible nor attractive’
  • Trump heads to China to spread the gospel of American tech
  • Chasing Utopia review – renegade Google exec Mo Gawdat searches for ethical AI in alarming insider warning
  • Nobu review – story of obsession and loss that lies behind the luxury sushi empire
  • Paying in sweat! How Debbie Allen went from stardom in Fame to conquer Hollywood
  • Ciao UFO review – Hong Kong tear-jerker is less ET than time-hopping chronicle of housing estate kids
  • Trump heads to China to spread the gospel of American tech while emulating Xi Jinping on AI
  • Sunset Boulevard: The Backstage Cut review – does Norma Desmond really need another closeup?
  • Sailm nan Daoine (Psalms of the People) review – one man’s quest to keep Gaelic psalm singing alive
  • Datacentres should be forced to invest in wind and solar energy, all states agree – except Queensland
  • Cannes spotlight reverts to auteurs as Hollywood retreats from film festival
  • ‘It’s our kinship’: can Australia learn to coexist with dingoes?
  • Texas accuses Netflix of spying on children in new lawsuit
  • BuzzFeed sold to Byron Allen, who will take over as CEO in $120m deal
  • ‘A consistent pattern of lying’: Musk v OpenAI trial exposes what insiders think of Sam Altman
  • Amazon halts sales of illegal high-speed ebikes in California after fatal crashes
  • Miami sheriff’s deputies sue Ben Affleck and Matt Damon over The Rip movie
  • Michael Pennington obituary
  • Theatre streaming is not a threat to in-person attendance, new research shows
  • Michael Pennington, Shakespeare and Star Wars actor, dies aged 82
  • ‘Using his Terminator voice, Arnie said: “Your song. Give it to me. Now”’: George Thorogood on Bad to the Bone
  • Molière Ex Machina: AI used to create ‘new work’ by beloved French playwright
  • Palantir’s access to identifiable NHS England patient data is ‘dangerous’, MPs say
  • The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo review – haunting queer fable burns with love and menace

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