An interrogater tries to get to the bottom of a surreal scandal while green screen actors meddle with the story in Jess and Morgs' inventive production W hat audiences remember most from a political interview, a voiceover tells the prime minister (Kennedy Muntanga) as he prepares to face his TV interrogator (Rebecca Bassett-Graham, coiffed à la Emily Maitlis), is less the words themselves than the tone of voice and the tenor of the body. Muntanga is on point, then: his arms sweep, his fingers beetle and his hands spread out, as if he were wordlessly fielding fly-by questions and offering open statements. This setup lands right in the zone for creative duo Jess and Morgs (Jessica Wright and Morgann Runacre-Temple), whose turf is a congenial mix of choreography, film and theatre. In Deepfake, along with writer Jeff James, they explore the various unravellings of an encounter in which the interviewer tries to find the truth behind a surreal - but maybe real? - story in which the PM was seen variously spattered with yellow paint, with his flies undone, and partaking in a ritual involving a deer's head. The content of these scenarios perhaps matters less than the ingenious manner of their staging (props to the design team too), which deploys green screen, live relay and other film and stage effects to storify the interview with simulated settings, duplicates of the figure of the PM, selective perspectives and closeups of the central encounter.

Seth Meyers on Florida's dengue fever outbreak: 'Man, RFK Jr has only had the job two years and Florida is already turning into an episode of House.' Seth Meyers on Florida's dengue fever outbreak: 'Man, RFK Jr has only had the job two years and Florida is already turning into an episode of House.' Seth Meyers on Trump canceling $1bn in federal funds: 'Is he adding a waterslide to the reflecting pool?' Late-night hosts weighed in on Trump's relationship with tech leaders and the White House's new AI-powered site On Tuesday night, late-night hosts discussed a Maha summit in Washington DC, the White House's new AI -powered website and Donald Trump once again falling asleep on live TV. On NBC, Seth Meyers focused on the president's ill-phrased announcement of the US murder rate declining. "We have the best, uh, murder," Trump said. "What are you talking about, 'We have the best murder'?" On Monday, Trump also took issue with the claim by the US ambassador to China, David Perdue, claim that he offered to sell weapons to China, saying: "I think he was probably talking about Taiwan."

'This gap opens up of doubt and scepticism about everything': Jess and Morgs confront the politics of deepfakes I t appears the interviewer has got him on the ropes. "For the record, I did not take part in a pagan ceremony with minor members of the royal family in which we daubed ourselves in paint," states the beleaguered politician, caught outside Buckingham Palace with his flies undone and forced to defend himself. This is a fabrication, of course - I'm watching the scene play out in an east London dance studio - but it doesn't feel miles away from something that could be true. And how do we know what's the truth anyway? The pair tell modern stories with ambitious tech - film and live camera work - and often techy themes, too.

Lian Yunzhi broke the women's 3x3 average world record on two occasions in September, according to Chinese media. Lian Yunzhi broke the women's 3x3 average world record on two occasions in September, according to Chinese media. Lian Yunzhi solves 3x3 puzzle on several occasions in average time of under 4.5 seconds, according to state media A six-year-old Chinese girl has set a new women's world record for solving a Rubik's Cube in just over four seconds, state media reported. "Speedcuber" Lian Yunzhi broke the women's 3x3 average world record twice this month at two World Cube Association certified competitions in Wuhan and Guangzhou, according to state broadcaster CCTV on Monday. She posted averages of 4.52 and 4.27 seconds, after solving the Rubik's Cube five times.

The books in our list aim to explain and critique the AI industry and provide deeper political and social context to the AI moment. The books in our list aim to explain and critique the AI industry and provide deeper political and social context to the AI moment. Feeling overwhelmed by the AI doom loop? Here's the essential reading list to make sense of it all It's a chaotic time in an industry that's reshaping our lives - Guardian reporters and experts recommend the books that help explain how we got here, and where we're heading Have you been feeling trapped in an endless cycle of artificial intelligence hype and panic? It's a chaotic time to make sense of the industry that's reshaping our lives, whether or not we like it.

A hint of Fisher-Price about it The new GameCube is displayed at a press preview in Tokyo in August 2001. A hint of Fisher-Price about it The new GameCube is displayed at a press preview in Tokyo in August 2001. The first console I ever bought, it was hyped as a threat to the PlayStation, then mocked as a flop. But now, as it marks its 25th anniversary, it's looked back on with misty-eyed reverence T his week marks the 25th anniversary of the Nintendo GameCube, the first console I ever bought with my own money. I vividly remember getting on the bus after school with a year's worth of savings safely zipped into the pocket of my bag and going to a branch of Currys, where I dumped a bunch of notes, coins and vouchers on the counter to collect my pre-order.

'If publishers, studios, streamers, can point to the writer as the problem, that gives them the excuse to behave however they'd like with content,' Thorne said. 'If publishers, studios, streamers, can point to the writer as the problem, that gives them the excuse to behave however they'd like with content,' Thorne said. Jack Thorne warns some fellow scriptwriters are using AI'to cheat' Jack Thorne, one of Britain's most successful screen and stage writers, has warned that some people in his profession are using AI "to cheat", as he called for laws banning the secret use of the technology to generate scripts. Thorne, who co-wrote the hit Netflix drama Adolescence and wrote the stage play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, said that "writers need to be squeaky clean" in the face of AI models that "steal" the creative industry's work. In a wide-ranging speech in London, Thorne attacked government inaction over the AI industry's mass-scraping of material to train their models.

Co-developed by longtime Lara custodians Crystal Dynamics and Polish studio Flying Wild Hog, Legacy of Atlantis is a reimagining of the classic 1996 game Tomb Raider, and this familiar cliffside location is now brimming with new life and believable detail. Yet while our reunion gets off to an auspicious start, I have my concerns. It feels like reconnecting with an old friend at the pub, only for them to begin spouting conspiracy theories two pints in. Where the '96 original forced players to rely on their wits - or a pricey strategy guide - to figure out what to do, Lara can now straight-up cheat. She's equipped with an environmental scanner, so a button tap reveals extra environmental lore or simply the solution to a puzzle. It's a change that feels somewhat sacrilegious, and may detract from the eerily isolating atmosphere that made the original so beloved.

Big tech goes to Hollywood: is Silicon Valley ready for a silver-screen reckoning? The first teaser trailer of Luca Guadagnino's Artificial has been released. After being dropped by Amazon MGM Studios in June, the biopic of the OpenAI tech executive Sam Altman will be released in the US on 25 December by Neon after it premieres at the New York film festival this October. In the trailer, Andrew Garfield as Altman walks down the staircase of a luxurious mansion before entering a basement containing dozens of machine guns. Luca Guadagnino's Sam Altman movie dropped by Amazon after it announces OpenAI partnership "The future's inevitable," says Altman as ominous electronic music plays.

The ability for players to smoke marijuana to detect an enemy has resulted in the game being banned in Australia. The ability for players to smoke marijuana to detect an enemy has resulted in the game being banned in Australia. Illicit deeds have just gotten a new Halloween video game banned in Australia - and it's not because of the violence Academics - and a former director of Australia's Classification Board - say Halloween: The Game's ban due to'incentivised drug use' highlights an incoherent set of standards H alloween's Michael Myers is one of film's most feared boogeymen, responsible for some of the most brutal on-screen deaths in horror cinema. US video game developer Illfonic looked to reproduce those terrors in its upcoming title Halloween: The Game, with gruesome killings a major focus of the gameplay: for instance, you can stomp another player's head through a toilet seat, or fry their brain by throwing them through a television screen. But Australians will not be able to play Halloween: The Game, because it has been refused classification by the Classification Board, which means it is banned from sale within the country.