Chris Pratt on new film Mercy: I asked to be locked into an executioner's chair Being locked barefoot in an executioner's chair sounds uncomfortable, but that is what Chris Pratt requested for his latest film, Mercy. More familiar as a wisecracking action hero in blockbusters like Guardians of the Galaxy and Jurassic World, this role is quite a departure for him. He plays homicide detective Chris Raven, who's fighting for his life after being accused of murdering his wife. Raven is an alcoholic who wakes in the chair after a drinking binge, with just 90 minutes to convince an AI judge he's innocent, or he'll be executed immediately. The film is set in real time, so we see Raven defend his case - while enduring a crashing hangover.

'Music is not a problem to solve' Mikey Shulman, co-founder and CEO of Suno. 'Music is not a problem to solve' Mikey Shulman, co-founder and CEO of Suno. Is this man the future of music - or its executioner? AI evangelist Mikey Shulman says he's making pop, not slop Worth a staggering $2.45bn, Suno is an AI music company that can create a track with just a few prompts. Why is its CEO happy to see it called'the Ozempic of the music industry'?

A pair of riddles used during job interviews for Google and Goldman Sachs may have many applicants perplexed, but it's no problem for artificial intelligence. Google's deep neural network was put through the tests of the'hats riddle' and the'switch riddle' both which require complex-problem solving to determine the fates of hypothetical prisoners. The answers to these riddles are based upon coordinated strategy, and the researchers say the AI's ability to master such tasks reveals a step in the direction of collaborative systems. The prisoners can see the hats of the people lined up in from of them, but they cannot look at the hats behind them, or at their own. The executioner asks the last prisoner to state the colour of his hat.