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Amazon’s main UK arm handed £7.6m tax credit as profits soar to £355m

Tech company received infrastructure relief as its five biggest UK divisions generate £32bn in revenues

Boom Box: the story of undercover police who set up a fake music studio in London

New four-part documentary reignites criticism of Operation Peyzac, in which officers posed as music industry figures to gather intelligence

‘Catastrophic for creative industries’: Brexit barriers shut UK actors out of EU jobs

Casting shifts to EU talent as paperwork delays and visa limits make hiring British crews less viable

‘LA is not film friendly’: how Hollywood’s woes became a political cudgel in mayoral race

Troubled Baywatch reboot production echoes film-making woes in a city best known for its movie and TV industry

Incoming Ofcom chair vows to take on ‘tech bros’

Ian Cheshire says media regulator must address perception it has been complacent and slow on online safety

Broadcasters must react to threat from ‘creator journalism’, says ex-head of BBC News

Deborah Turness, who resigned last year, says traditional news in danger of being replaced by personality-led content

How TMZ is finding its footing on the political scene, even after some misfires

The salacious gossip website is hounding politicians and tracking vacationing members of Congress

‘Peak TV is behind us’: UK developers pivot from building studios to datacentres amid AI boom

Ambitious plans are being scaled back – but film and TV industry point to big existing investments in British production

Warner Bros Discovery vote to approve $110bn merger with Paramount Skydance

The merger will still require governmental approval and could be delayed by a lawsuit seeking to block it

The Pitt and Game of Thrones spinoff given age ratings as BBFC deploys new AI tool

Regulator says tool, which creates reports for humans to review, has helped classify entire UK catalogue of HBO Max

New Ofcom boss Ian Cheshire’s in-tray is full but one issue will dominate

Implementation of the Online Safety Act has just got going, leaving ex-chair of Channel 4 with a huge task on his hands

Former Google executive Matt Brittin selected to be next BBC director general

Former Olympic rower to lead corporation as it hammers out future funding model with government

Matt Brittin: why the BBC’s new Doctor Who-loving boss may not have much time for sleep

After almost two decades at Google, the incoming director general is taking on British media’s most powerful and treacherous job

Warner Bros CEO David Zaslav in line for $700m payout from Paramount deal

One of the best-paid executives in Hollywood has already made $113m after selling shares in WBD this month

Paramount Skydance wins Warner Bros Discovery bid after Netflix walks away from deal

Streamer said ‘deal no longer financially attractive’ at price required to match offer by David Ellison’s firm

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  • ‘We got banned from YouTube but they showed Saddam Hussein being hanged’: the wild viral visions of Romain Gavras
  • All signs point to Trump pushing AI growth
  • UK regulator orders social media firms to adopt measures to stop viral illegal content
  • Amazon’s main UK arm handed £7.6m tax credit as profits soar to £355m
  • I watched as Meta’s threats stopped Sarah Wynn-Williams from speaking – we must have stronger rights for whistleblowers
  • Bank of England warns of AI scams as deepfakes of Farage-Bailey fight spread
  • Think Musk the billionaire was bad? Brace yourself for Musk the trillionaire
  • ‘A man of great appetites’: what’s it like to be a dictator’s personal chef?
  • Signal One review – Dennis Quaid and David Thewlis star in high-concept, low-risk first contact yarn
  • White House urges UK not to ban social media for under-16s
  • Pink Narcissus review – garish colour and dreamlike images in a homoerotic vision of 60s New York
  • Doctors and NHS could be sued for mistakes made by AI tools, report warns
  • Let this be a warning – if Europe worries about Trump, it has even more reason to fear JD Vance
  • Tuesday briefing: Is a social media ban in the UK enough to help protect young people?
  • World’s first wind-powered underwater datacentre starts operating in China
  • French star Patrick Bruel held by police investigating new sexual assault allegations
  • Plan for AI legal assistants in England and Wales ‘cannot replace funding and staff’, lawyers say
  • Child sexual abuse victims in England and Wales to get help to remove online images
  • OpenAI confidentially files for initial public offering on US stock market
  • Apple debuts revamped ‘Siri AI’ and new child safety features for iPhones and iPads
  • The Guardian view on children and the internet: rolling back big tech’s untrammelled power
  • Rushed social media ban for under-16s in UK could ‘unravel’, charity warns
  • Child phone nudity law could largely end online child sexual abuse if widely adopted, Jess Phillips claims – as it happened
  • Revealed: the ‘less lethal’ weapons Australian police don’t want you to know about
  • If Australian datacentres are going to power the AI revolution, we deserve a fair return
  • Tell us: which Steven Spielberg movie means the most to you?
  • ‘Screaming girls chased me down the street’: how we made Strictly Ballroom
  • I was addicted to my phone – but one screen time hack actually made a difference
  • Artists are making ‘anti-slop’ to rebel against AI: ‘It’s been rammed down our throats’
  • How much does Sean Penn hate selfies? Enough to invoke the Holocaust

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