Alan Rickman’s personal scripts and mementoes up for auction
Lots include the annotated shooting script for Die Hard and a hand-drawn Halloween card from his Harry Potter co-star Rupert Grint
Tech companies and UK child safety agencies to test AI tools’ ability to create abuse images
New law will allow technology to be examined and ensure tools have safeguards to stop creation of material
Keir Starmer may be too busy to master the latest dance craze – but he needs to be on TikTok
Yes, there’s a country to run, but the social media platform has 30 million users in the UK. Can the PM afford to abandon them all to Nigel Farage, asks Carys Afoko
Unlicensed review – boxing meets dodgy City trader in tale of prizefighting redemption
Mark Hampton wrote, directed and stars in this drama, but his easy onscreen charisma can’t overcome a shaky, soap opera-style plot
AI chatbots could help stop prisoner release errors, says justice minister
HMP Wandsworth gets ‘green light’ to use AI after team sent in to find ‘quick fixes’ after spate of mistakes
Can OpenAI keep pace with industry’s soaring costs?
As investor jitters grow, the loss-making ChatGPT firm’s vast spending commitments test the limits of Silicon Valley optimism
UK transport and cyber-security chiefs investigate Chinese-made buses
Move to assess potential risk of remote meddling by Beijing with Yutong buses follows investigations in Norway and Denmark
Slow Horses’ Jack Lowden: ‘I feel more at home on stage than I do in life’
Speaking at a screening of hit play The Fifth Step, the actor reveals he is ‘not comfortable at all on camera’
Bad Bridgets podcast about crime among Irish women in US inspires film
Margot Robbie’s company to make movie based on Northern Ireland academics’ stories of poverty and prison
AI-powered nimbyism could grind UK planning system to a halt, experts warn
Tools that help people scan applications and find grounds for objection have potential to hit government’s housebuilding plans
Elon Musk makes himself far-right fixture after White House departure
The Tesla CEO once hinted he was done with politics – but he’s been leaning further into the international far right
Joey Barton found guilty of sending offensive posts on social media
Former footballer guilty over posts directed at football pundits Lucy Ward and Eni Aluko, and broadcaster Jeremy Vine
Elizabeth Olsen believes she will die old and alone in a foggy English coastal town. Here are her options
While promoting new film Eternity, the actor outlined a specific end-of-life scenario that should be cold, wet and include one cheese shop
Meet gen X: middle-aged, enraged and radicalised by internet bile
Who is driving the populist insurgency? It’s not grumpy pensioners or vulnerable teenagers – it’s my generation, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
Driving competition: China’s carmakers in race to dominate Europe’s roads
Chinese manufacturers are using the electric transition to seize market share, with the UK as their gateway