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Popcorn with your Puccini: can opera on screen ever work?

Composers have harnessed TV and cinema since Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors pulled in five million viewers 75 years ago but for my money Kombat Opera’s satire showed us how to do it best

New prize launches for books co-written with AI

After months of controversy over the possible use of AI by winners of prestigious awards, the Prix Pascal de Littérature IA is rewarding fiction written with the help of LLMs

'The audience gets to be in on it': How narrative-led gameplay is Call of Duty’s greatest weapon

As video games chase spectacle, Modern Warfare 4 makes a case for putting character and consequence at the heart of its biggest battles

As fans reject AI-generated music, even boosters are drawing the line

Enthusiasts like Grimes and A$AP Rocky may embrace AI-generated content, but they won’t produce it themselves

Will Alaska End Ranked-Choice Voting?

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Scream review

Self-aware romp through the genre is redolent of the 90s but its ghost-masked killer is as alarming as ever

Cyndi Lauper on fun, fashion and freedom of expression: ‘We have braces on our brains’

As she auctions off her treasures, the synth-pop savant opens up about her eccentric style and why she doesn’t believe in cancel culture

Making Marie Antoinette review

Shot by Sofia’s mother Eleanor this documentary shows something of the strain of shooting a period piece, but is a far cry from the tumultuous portrait of her husband in Hearts of Darkness

The New Stanford Prison Experiment review

This rehash of the notorious study in which volunteers role-play as prisoners and guards pretends to be science. It isn’t – it’s patronising reality television

Light, camera … razor blades?! How photography became an art form

A new exhibition – which the Guardian gave five stars – tells the story of the birth of art photography. Here are some of the most astounding images, along with tales of the strange techniques that made them

Samsung, SK Hynix upgrading China plants to make more advanced chips, people say: Reuters

Samsung and SK Hynix are upgrading China NAND plants to meet AI demand and counter YMTC, despite U.S. export-control constraints.

‘A difficult line’: meet the editors tackling Wikipedia’s arms trade pages

Volunteers and new recruits come together for ‘wikithon’ to put more detail about industry into public domain