AI ‘art’ is boring, soulless theft – and when I see it as an artist I see red

I draw the old way – with my hand. Doing it with AI would not make me more creative, it would drain the colour out of my existence

Lifting of internet restrictions reveals Iranians’ anger over food inflation

As government begins restoring connection, population voices dismay over food price increases and shortages

Tony Blair is strong on diagnosis, deluded on prescription: Britain’s ills can’t be fixed by him

The former PM’s essay rightly calls for a coherent economic plan, but then sets too much store by AI – and a worldview stuck in the past, says Guardian columnist Larry Elliott

Samsung memory chip staff in line for £310,000 bonuses after AI profit-sharing deal

Agreement averts strike and shows latest impact of AI boom as two more chipmakers join $1tn club

People in the US: what are your views on Pope Leo’s comments about AI?

We’d like to hear what Americans think about the pope’s latest remarks criticizing the rapid development of AI

Backrooms review – Kane Parsons’ icily disturbing horror rewrites the genre rulebook

Debut from 20-year-old director examines memory, reality and fear after Chiwetel Ejiofor accesses an infinite series of hidden rooms that all feel creepily askew

What We Ask Google by Simon Rogers review – the secrets of our search history

The company’s data editor trawls through billions of queries to deliver a portrait of the world’s preoccupations

Kiln-free recycled tile startup agrees pilot deal with major UK supplier

Dekiln to scale up its low-carbon technology with Johnson Tiles, in boost for struggling British ceramics industry

Nearly in one in five UK girls receive unwanted images online, poll finds

Barnardo’s says survey shows online abuse and harassment becoming ‘part of background noise of growing up’

Nasa selects Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin for first of three uncrewed lunar missions

Three lunar landings are planned for this year in preparation for the construction of a $20bn moon base

Labour set to announce crackdown on social media for children within weeks

Age limits and changes to allegedly addictive design features could be in place by the end of the year

Labour says Reform UK ‘in chaos’ as Zia Yusuf publicly tells Jenrick he’s got party’s deportation policy wrong – as it happened

‘Robert’s answer is not Reform policy’, Yusuf said about an answer that Jenrick gave to journalists days earlier

Iran’s access to global internet starts to resume after 88-day blackout

End of shutdown comes despite interim court order questioning authority of body overseeing the move

Spotify boss defends move to AI music, saying it is better than ‘slop’

Streaming platform says remix tool agreed with Universal Music Group will protect artists from piracy

‘What you see here is a wetland without water’: how the datacentre boom is exacerbating Chile’s mega-drought

The country is positioning itself as Latin America’s next technology hub, but communities are pushing back