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Emily Blunt and Sag-Aftra join film industry condemnation of ‘AI actor’ Tilly Norwood

US actors’ union joins stars in opposition to Norwood, which it says was created ‘using stolen performances’

The divide: who really profits in today’s economy?

Broadway flops despite rising ticket costs, farmers face huge shortfalls largely due to Trump’s tariffs, tech cashes in

Welcome to the Filter US, the Guardian’s home for product reviews and recommendations

We’re here to help you with rigorous product reviews, advice on taking care of what you already own – and we’ll even tell you what not to buy

It’s time to prepare for AI personhood

Technological advances will bring social upheaval. How will we treat digital minds, and how will they treat us?

Tilly Norwood: how scared should we be of the viral AI ‘actor’?

A bunch of code is being pushed as the next Scarlett Johansson, a creation that is already causing pushback from real human actors

South Korea raises cyber threat level after huge data centre fire sparks hacking fears

National cyber security centre raises alert level to ‘caution’ as technicians race to restore government systems after battery fire sparked nationwide chaos

California police stumped after trying to ticket driverless car for illegal U-turn

San Bruno officers pull over Waymo but say a ticket wasn’t issued, as ‘citation books don’t have a box for “robot”’

YouTube agrees to pay Trump $24.5m to settle lawsuit over account suspension

Platform suspended the US president’s YouTube channel in 2021 after the January 6 Capitol riot

Musk calls Anti-Defamation League ‘hate group’ for documenting Christian extremism

Organization earlier this year came to the tech mogul’s aid over his widely criticized salutes at Trump’s inauguration

Woman admits UK bitcoin fraud charges after ‘world’s largest’ crypto seizure

Zhimin Qian pleads guilty after wallets with 61,000 bitcoins, currently worth over £5bn, seized from north London home

Dyson’s profits fall by nearly 50% in ‘difficult’ year

Revenues down more than £500m after company cut more than a quarter of UK workforce

Labour plans to consult on use of live facial recognition before wider roll-out

Policing minister says government will ‘put some parameters’ around its deployment in England

The Guardian view on AI and jobs: the tech revolution should be for the many not the few

Editorial: Britain risks devolving its digital destiny to Silicon Valley. As a TUC manifesto argues, those affected must have a greater say in shaping the workplace of the future

‘To them, ageing is a technical problem that can, and will, be fixed’: how the rich and powerful plan to live for ever

When Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin were caught on mic talking about living for ever, it seemed straight out of a sci-fi fantasy. But for some death is no longer considered an inevitability …

Far-right Facebook groups are engine of radicalisation in UK, data investigation suggests

Rioters were influenced by network that exposes hundreds of thousands of Britons to racist disinformation, Guardian research indicates

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  • AI surveillance is being supercharged – and it will chill social progress
  • The Guest review – Trine Dyrholm pulls out all the stops as a bipolar mother in dysfunctional family drama
  • AI altering meaning of users’ drafts on issues from abortion to climate, study finds
  • Robert Richardson: The White Devil review – tempestuous DoP’s relationship with A-list directors laid bare
  • The one change that worked: I banned myself from social media – and my children have never been happier
  • ‘Impossible to be a mom’: new film shines light on how America fails its mothers
  • Couples Weekend review – Alexandra Daddario annd Josh Gad lead spicy comedy of marital melee
  • ‘Cosy competency porn’: why The Post is my feelgood movie
  • Israeli command system identified 850,000 targets in Gaza and Lebanon wars, says supplier
  • Shoot the People review – a powerful portrait of a talented yet controversial photographer
  • ‘It’s smoke and mirrors’: hope turns to fear in Scottish village chosen for AI datacentre
  • What are Britain’s AI growth zones and are the plans feasible or ‘complete bunk’?
  • Revealed: landmark Scottish AI project has no prospect of meeting renewables promise
  • Meta bosses grilled over decision to cut ‘censorship’ that has potentially unleashed more antisemitic content
  • A Place in the Sun review – subversive exposé of picture-postcard luxury in the Canary Islands
  • Sennheiser Momentum 5 headphones review: great sound meets exceptional battery life
  • ‘It was pretty depressing when Stranger Things ended’: Finn Wolfhard on growing up on TV – and his new life in music
  • China wants to solve the hardest problem in robotics – making hands
  • AI poses ‘Hiroshima’-style threat to humanity without global rules, says Cooper
  • Freddy the German: psyop, mirror to US rapacity or Tocqueville in a CR7 shirt?
  • ‘In stories like this, the data and the methodology are key’: when private equity meets public service journalism
  • What’s Kylie’s favourite masking tape? How does Lena Dunham train pigs? It’s all out there – and I’m loving it
  • The Story of Documentary Film (The 1980s) review – Mark Cousins educates and intrigues once more
  • ‘Tough pill to swallow’: LadBible boss on the traffic hit from Meta’s feed shake-up
  • Bipartisan bill fails to protect US consumers from datacenters’ true costs, critics warn
  • From ‘heat panic’ to ‘sacrificed at the altar’: Europe’s air conditioning culture wars heat up
  • NHS to use AI on its app to direct patients to appropriate services
  • Doctors’ soaring use of AI scribes prompts Australian government warning over privacy
  • Elon Musk posted twice as often on UK race and immigration as about SpaceX in IPO run-up
  • OpenAI’s apparent failure to visit key site raises questions over UK investment

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