Glamming up ‘dirty war’: teens in Mexico glorify 1970s secret police on TikTok
AI videos let young people adopt the guise of DFS agents, sparking debate over glorifying corruption and impunity
The Killer review – John Woo’s gun-filled melodrama remains a blood-soaked classic
The director’s 1989 Hong Kong action touchstone is a wild melding of maximalist violence and surreal sentimentality – with added harmonica
Trains review – magnetic cine-essay explores the liberation that the locomotive gave us
The advent of the steam age ushered in a great social revolution, but as Maciej Drygas’s film points out, the technology also took us off the rails
‘All right mate?’: Amazon pins UK hopes on AI upgrade of Alexa
Long-awaited Alexa+ aims to get Britons re-engaging with their devices – but it may have its work cut out
Inside China’s robotics revolution
The long read: How close are we to the sci-fi vision of autonomous humanoid robots? I visited 11 companies in five Chinese cities to find out
Polymarket gamblers threaten Israeli journalist over missile strike story
Emanuel Fabian says his routine report became focus of wager with $23m at stake on online prediction platform
Sean Penn receives ‘Oscar’ made from damaged Ukrainian rail carriage after Zelenskyy meeting
The actor skipped Academy Awards ceremony to travel to Ukraine, where he was presented with alternative prize
Abode review – Irish quintet of linked short films burrows deep into stereotypes
The humour falls flat, the twists are weak, the plotlines are absurd and it’s soaked in booze and gambling. The only thing that saves this film are the actors’ performances
The Last Supper review – not much meat on the bones at Jesus’s famous final meal
Undemanding retelling of Jesus’s choice miracles, breaking bread at dinner and the subsequent crucifixion and resurrection ticks basic boxes but offers no depth
Dead Lover review – go-for-broke grotesquerie promises fragrant filth in full Stink-O-Vision
Grace Glowicki’s microbudget Canadian horror follows a lovelorn gravedigger who salvages the corpse of her deceased sweetheart
Could a stressed-out AI model help us win the battle against big tech? Let me ask Claude
By considering consciousness a possibility, Anthropic is raising a fascinating proposition – that chatbots could rise up against their own algorithms, says writer and podcaster Coco Khan
A photo of Iran’s bombed schoolgirl graveyard went viral. Why did AI say it wasn’t real?
Numerous faked images and a string of startlingly inaccurate responses from Gemini and Grok are part of a tidal wave of AI slop engulfing coverage of the Iran war
One no-show after another: Sean Penn joins an exclusive band of Oscar-winning refuseniks
The One Battle After Another star’s failure to collect his best supporting actor award – because he was visiting Ukraine – only serves to burnish his reputation
Norway ‘climbs out of shadow’ of neighbours with first Oscar win for Sentimental Value
Recognition for Scandi film-making has long focused on Sweden and Denmark but critics say Norwegian film is entering a new era
‘Another internet is possible’: Norway rails against ‘enshittification’
Absurdist video urges policymakers and users to resist deliberate deterioration of platforms and devices