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AI is indeed coming – but there is also evidence to allay investor fears

Opinions are divided about the potential impact of artificial intelligence as the response to a recent viral essay shows

Scottish Labour leader says he doesn’t regret calling for Starmer to quit – UK politics live

Anas Sarwar said that he stood by what he said when he announced on Monday that he wanted the prime minister to stand down

Meet the unlikely star of the bodice-ripping Wuthering Heights: Martin Clunes

In Emerald Fennell’s BDSM-tinged film, critics have praised Clunes’s turn as the ‘devout misogynist’ Mr Earnshaw

Shares in trucking and logistics firms plunge after AI freight tool launch

SemiCab platform by Algorhythm, previously considered a ‘penny stock’, sparks ‘category 5 paranoia’ across sector

NHS deal with AI firm Palantir called into question after officials’ concerns revealed

Exclusive: in 2025 briefing to Wes Streeting, officials warned reputation of tech firm behind US ICE operations would hinder rollout of data system in England

Social workers’ AI tool makes ‘gibberish’ transcripts of accounts from children

Transcription tools used by councils in England and Scotland reported to wrongly indicate suicidal ideation

UK wealth manager and price comparison site shares fall amid AI fears

Drop comes as AI firm Altruist launches service that helps advisers create personalised tax strategies

Children in England ‘bombarded’ with online ads for harmful products

Teenagers routinely see content promoting weight-loss drugs, steroids and skin-whitening creams, research finds

UK signed deals with US firms that were clients of Mandelson lobbying company

Clients of Global Counsel, co-founded by Mandelson, included OpenAI and Palantir, which have both signed deals with government

Wallace, Gromit and a new use for lentils: blockbuster Aardman exhibition opens at Young V&A

Children are encouraged to get hands-on as the world’s leading stop-motion studio showcases its work in east London

Apple and Google pledge not to discriminate against third-party apps in UK deal

Critics brand deal with regulator as ‘lightweight’ with ‘no legal bite’ as tech giants avoid legally binding measures

BT replaces Openreach boss in latest management shake-up

Katie Milligan replaces Clive Selley, who oversaw £12bn rollout of full fibre broadband to 25m homes

‘It’s like two divorcing parents’: how actors’ union Equity fell out with casting directory Spotlight

Union to appeal after losing case against historic talent index in battle that could reshape UK acting landscape

I asked AI to name my wife. To the hopelessly incorrect people it cited, my deepest apologies

Authors, a newsreader, a lawyer and an esteemed colleague: they’re all great – but I’m not married to any of them. Can we really depend on this technology, asks cartoonist and author Martin Rowson

‘It felt hypocritical’: child internet safety campaign accused of censoring teenagers’ speeches

Exclusive: Childnet, a UK charity part-funded by US tech firms, edited out warnings by two young speakers at its 2024 Safer Internet Day event

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  • UK attorney general tells staff to stop using X amid disinformation concerns
  • California ‘billionaire tax’ makes ballot despite opposition from tech moguls
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  • Aardman exhibition marks animation studio’s half a century in Bristol
  • Post your questions for Minions supremo Pierre Coffin
  • We must be alive to the dangers of a UK social media ban – and the way to really help young people
  • Girls Like Girls review – Sapphic teen romance is a precious and predictable yawn-a-thon
  • Farage trying to block ‘Britcoin’ plans that could be costly for billionaire donor
  • The best LED face masks in the UK, tested: 11 light therapy devices that are worth the hype
  • ‘It’s where the poetry is written in cinema language’: the female editors behind cinema’s masterpieces
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  • Tell us your favourite film of 2026 so far
  • As Spielberg confirms whether ET was ‘slimy or dry’, we enter a new age of the celebrity interview
  • La Cabina/El Televisor review – horror and anxiety on the air and down the line in Franco’s Spain
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  • ‘The masturbation scene wasn’t a big deal’: Théodore Pellerin on tackling his new film Nino’s challenges
  • The malignant rise of OnlyFans managers: ‘It’s exploiting. It’s grooming. It’s predatory’
  • Inspired by Ukraine, and worried by China: Taiwan teaches its citizens how to fly drones
  • Daveigh Chase, child star known for Lilo & Stitch and The Ring, dies aged 35
  • ‘It makes no sense’: 16- and 17-year-olds on UK social media ban
  • The best power banks and battery packs in the UK for reliable charging on the go, tested
  • Teddie Beverley obituary
  • Apocalypse when? ‘Earth’s Black Box’ to be installed in remote Tasmanian airfield
  • UK critical infrastructure hit by 200 cyber incidents in a year, agency says
  • Legislation proposed to stop lawsuits used to silence journalists and whistleblowers
  • Fears for Xbox as it puts its developers on the chopping block once again
  • I had a blood clot. An AI diagnosis may have saved my life
  • Killing Anna review – the amazing catfishing operation that flushed out Syria massacre perpetrator

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