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Equity threatens mass direct action over use of actors’ images in AI content

Union says growing numbers of its members have made complaints about infringements of copyright in AI material

Trio win Nobel economics prize for work on technology-driven growth

Joel Mokyr looked at growth and technological progress, while Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt have written about the role of ‘creative destruction’

UK MPs urged to investigate TikTok’s plans to cut 439 content moderator jobs

Trade unions and online safety experts sign letter warning jobs losses could expose children to harmful content

‘Lab to fab’: are promises of a graphene revolution finally coming true?

Two decades after the material was first produced, some UK firms have reaped its potential but others are struggling

Tony Blair and Nick Clegg hosted dinner giving tech bosses access to UK minister

Exclusive: Six tech leaders dined with investment minister, documents reveal, underlining growing influence of ex-PM’s consultancy

The Freak: script of Charlie Chaplin’s unfinished final film to be published

Exclusive: Fantasy about ‘a beautiful creature with wings’ has been compiled from drafts, storyboards and sketches

BBC airing false claim about Euan Blair blamed on young producers ‘marinated in social media’

Broadcaster apologised after Have I Got News For You falsely said former PM’s son had won digital ID contract

Google given special status by watchdog that could force it to change UK search

CMA puts Google under tighter regulation with ‘strategic market status’ designation and can enforce changes

Rishi Sunak takes advisory roles with Microsoft and AI firm Anthropic

Former UK prime minister told post-ministerial jobs watchdog roles would not involve lobbying or UK policy influence

Gen Z faces ‘job-pocalypse’ as global firms prioritise AI over new hires, report says

British Standards Institution study across seven countries found quarter of bosses believe entry-level tasks could be automated to reduce costs

Iron Ladies review – inspiring account of the women on the miners’ strike picket lines

Fascinating exploration of the women inspired to activism in the Margaret Thatcher era of union-bashing

I Swear review – biopic of pioneering Tourette syndrome activist is funny, fierce and full of heart

Kirk Jones’s moving film about of John Davidson, the man who taught Britain about Tourette, offers compassion and catharsis

Ovo pricing change could double charging costs for some EV owners

Customers on Charge Anytime deal who drive fewer than 700 miles a month say they will be left with higher bills

Bank of England warns of growing risk that AI bubble could burst

Possibility of ‘sharp market correction has increased’, says Bank’s financial policy committee

A Want in Her review – daughter’s searing portrait of family addiction and mental illness

Film-maker Myrid Carten exposes her relationship with her mother – who has both bipolar disorder and alcoholism – in this painful but powerful documentary

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  • I was wary of driverless cars and their tech overlords – but they could give me a different future
  • The Warriors come out to Broadway with Lin-Manuel Miranda musical
  • The weirdest things a leak revealed about Peter Thiel’s secret club
  • The 40 best Prime Day deals in the US on things our editors actually tested and love
  • Meta pauses employee tracker for AI training amid privacy concerns
  • Karl Stefanovic reportedly leaving Nine after podcast with UK far-right activist Tommy Robinson
  • The Last Viking review – Mads Mikkelsen thinks he’s John Lennon in Von Trier-ish prankster comedy
  • If an AI chatbot misleads you, who is to blame?
  • ‘You can’t make billions without hurting people’: Cory Doctorow on Elon Musk, the AI bubble and bosses’ cruel fantasies
  • Dear You review – enjoyable Chinese romdram crosses generations as it tracks down a missing husband
  • Hold the Fort review – gory goings-on at the neighbours association get-together
  • Deja viewing: the return of the cheapo compilation film
  • ‘Who is going to pay us when we’re replaced by robots?’ The Indian factory workers told to film themselves for AI
  • Chinese supercomputer leapfrogs best US machines to be ranked world’s fastest
  • Keir Starmer and Andy Burnham have met away from No 10 to discuss transition – as it happened
  • Quantum of Solace: a heartbroken James Bond is fuelled by rage in Daniel Craig’s most underrated 007 film
  • US AI stock sell-off shakes markets from Wall Street to Asia
  • You’re only supposed to blow the bloody hooves off: AI Michael Caine narrates Odyssey audiobook
  • Will California’s billionaire tax proposal make it to ballots?
  • AI in the classroom prompts tide of concern from US parents and experts
  • How to Live on Earth review – Benedict Cumberbatch exudes positivity in response to the climate crisis
  • Majority of datacenters are vulnerable to climate threats like floods and fires, study finds
  • Australia ‘sleepwalking’ into AI crisis and ‘tech bro free-for-all’, says Greens senator
  • Sizzle reels: nine films to watch in a heatwave
  • ‘I’ve had a huge life, so I needed a big budget’: Madonna says biopic was scrapped after ‘falling out’ with studio
  • Rory Kennedy revisits Boeing in new film sparked by whistleblower’s death: ‘We’ve got to stay at this’
  • 500 Miles review – kids hit the road to visit Irish grandad Bill Nighy in YA tearjerker
  • ‘Climate change is a form of oppression’: the voices affected most by environmental crisis
  • The Morrigan review – spirit of pagan demon queen unleashed in Irish burial chamber horror

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