If there's one thing you can count on when you see a Tom Cruise franchise action movie, it's the look on his face. It is cool and poised, sleek and alert; it's all dashing resolve. But during "The Mummy," I kept looking at Cruise and having a strange sensation, which is that the emotion those familiar features seemed to be radiating was, in a word, confusion. Throughout the movie, he looked a little slack and a little blank, a little what-the-heck-is-going-on? It could, theoretically, have been an element of Cruise's performance. His character, a tomb raider named Nick Morton, gets invaded by the spirit of an Egyptian mummy; his soul then becomes a battleground between good and evil (at least, that's the idea).

Accenture and the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) have formed an alliance to make the most out of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. Accenture will get access to DFKI research results, AI tools, and its "Living Labs". Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wahlster, CEO of DFKI, says it is seeing a "high degree of maturity for applications in the areas of smart data and services, deep learning, human-robot-collaboration and AI-based retail". According to Accenture, AI is a major growth and productivity factor for the economy, and is projected to boost labour productivity by up to 40% through "fundamentally changing how we work and reinforcing the role of people to drive growth in business". The firm adds that AI has the potential to more than double Germany's annual growth rate of gross value added from 1.4% to 3% by 2035.