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Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Network sequel officially in development

Oscar-winning writer returns to subject of his 2010 hit for follow-up based on Wall Street Journal series on Facebook

‘We were all pretty privileged’: Allison Williams on Girls, nepo babies and toxic momfluencers

She made her name in Lena Dunham’s landmark series, then starred in Get Out. As she returns in M3gan 2.0, the sequel to the hit horror about a murderous AI doll, she talks about parenting in an age of smartphones, Botox and her famous father

‘Have you heard of this BDSM trend?’ What I learned recording thousands of hours of teens on their phones

When documentary-maker Lauren Greenfield immersed herself in the online and offline lives of 25 teenagers, she unearthed a world of sexually explicit images, rape culture, bullying and suicidal ideation. Adolescence, she says, has become like the wild west

Disney and Universal sue AI image creator Midjourney, alleging copyright infringement

Studios accuse AI firm of ‘piracy’ and seek injunction over alleged use of copyrighted characters

Unstoppable force loses battle with immovable object: Elon bows to Trump

Four days into a public feud between the world’s most powerful person and the world’s richest person, I declare Musk the loser

AI plundering scripts poses ‘direct threat’ to UK screen sector, says BFI

Film institute’s report raises fears AI will eliminate junior roles in film, TV, video game and special effects industries

America’s infatuation with boy geniuses and ‘Great Men’ is ruining us

We’re obsessed with narratives about powerful men and how they got that way. But our mania for founder myths obscures an ideology of inequality

Luca Guadagnino set to direct fact-based drama about OpenAI

Challengers director in talks to direct Artificial, film based on behind-the-scenes 2023 drama involving Sam Altman

Video stars: the booming VJ scene localising Hollywood films for Ugandans

Part-interpreters, part-comedians, video jockeys translate and contextualise western movies for audiences at home

‘Nobody wants a robot to read them a story!’ The creatives and academics rejecting AI – at work and at home

Is artificial intelligence coming for everyone’s jobs? Not if this lot have anything to do with it

WTF with Marc Maron is ending. Here are five of the podcast’s best interviews

After nearly 16 years the veteran standup comic is calling time on the show that redefined podcasting

Sean Penn says he’d work with Woody Allen again ‘in a heartbeat’

The actor, who was speaking on The Louis Theroux Podcast, also cast new light on his meeting with former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, and had harsh comments on both Donald Trump and Elon Musk

Seeking Mavis Beacon review – tracking a Black female tech icon, who didn’t exist

Documentary investigates the whereabouts of the model who played an influential corporate character, as well as the relationship between race and technology

US media stocks slide on Wall Street after Trump threatens movie tariffs

Netflix, Amazon, Warner Bros Discovery and Paramount shares fall as studios reel from announcement

Cloud review – bizarre internet action thriller descends into hail of bullets

Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s baffling crime farrago follows a cyber fraudster pursued by an angry gang of disappointed shoppers

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