How big tech got its way on Trump’s AI executive order
The US president’s reversal on calling for a safety review of new AI models is a green light for tech’s unchecked power
Final frontier for meds? UK startup sends drug-making into space
BioOrbit hopes drug-crystallisation technology will lead to self-injected cancer treatment that could save millions
French stars are rightly worried by billionaire Vincent Bolloré. Here’s how to rein him in
The conservative tycoon’s grip on media and cinema is unhealthy. An EU fund could protect democracy in perpetuity says Guardian Europe writer Alexander Hurst
Sunrise Movement takes credit for disrupting Trump’s New York state rally – as it happened
Activists arrested at rally in Rockland county belong to youth-led climate justice group, spokesperson says
The Birthday Party review – grimly compulsive unhappy occasion in deepest France
Cannes film festival: This could be better paced but the crisis which descends on an up-against-it dairy farm is delivered by some very memorable goons
The Dreamed Adventure review – beautiful but opaque Bulgarian tale of digging up the past
Cannes film festival: Valeska Grisebach’s complex drama tracks an archaeologist whose mountain dig is interrupted by an old friend with rather dirtier hands
Coward review – soldiers find escapism and romance in wartime theatrical troupe
Cannes film festival: Lukas Dhont’s first world war-set gay romance is a heartfelt examination of cowardice and lives lived in secret amid the brutality of battle
Meta and Snapchat blocking Saudi dissidents’ accounts
US social media firms acting on orders from Middle East kingdom accused of being ‘instruments of repression’
Digested week: memories of Covid resurface with hantavirus and Ebola news
Plus, John Travolta’s beret, Rachel Reeves reclaims basic civility and Judy Garland comes to east London
Spotify and Universal Music agree deal to let subscribers create AI remixes
Licensing agreement will allow listeners to use AI to create content on streaming platform for first time
The Black Ball review – the complicated secrets of gay sexuality in Spain are brilliantly told
Cannes film festival: Threading together three stories from distinct eras of Spanish life, this narrative triptych is superlatively acted and beautifully shot
OpenAI makes breakthrough on 80-year-old maths problem
Company says work on Paul Erdős planar unit distance problem shows advance in AI reasoning
New Orleans prosecutors file formal battery charges against Shia LaBeouf
Prosecutors opt not to pursue hate-crime charges over February incident despite anti-gay slurs captured on video
Mick Jagger to play Josh O’Connor’s father in new film from Alice Rohrwacher
The Rolling Stone will play a lighthouse keeper in Three Incestuous Sisters, joining a cast including Dakota Johnson, Jessie Buckley and Saoirse Ronan
Eagles of the Republic review – seductive thriller of corruption and compromise in post-Mubarak Egypt
The third film in Tarik Saleh’s ‘Cairo trilogy’ is a about a washed-up movie star who is bullied into starring in government propaganda