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Truly, I am the country’s biggest fan. But in the spirit of free speech its leaders apparently love, here’s a few things the rest of the world needs them to know

We in the rest of the world have had to hear a lot – such a lot – about what this US government and its hardcore fanbase thinks about us. So you know they’ll be super-relaxed and free-speechy about hearing some thoughts about how they look from the outside. Let’s use last Saturday as a single snapshot. In Minneapolis, they had the shooting by ICE agents of a protesting nurse who posed no threat – an event promptly, provably and blatantly lied about at the highest level by Donald Trump’s politburo. Then that evening in Washington, a lot of those same politburocrats turned out for the White House premiere of a ridiculous propaganda film about the president’s wife, also attended fawningly by bloodless Apple oligarch Tim Cook. And he’s not even the oligarch who paid an insane amount for the film. Top line, guys: all this makes you look like what your president likes to call a “shithole country”. Sorry! I assume it’s fine to use officially licensed vocabulary?

Obviously, it’s not a proper shithole country until the soft-skinned puppetmasters in the presidential palace cut some grizzled local warlord off at the knees for following orders, so it’s good to learn overnight that border patrol “commander at large” Gregory Bovino has been pulled out of Minneapolis, possibly locked out of his social media accounts, and may soon “retire”, presumably a fall guy for the likes of stage 4 homeland security tumour Stephen Miller. Bovino’s the guy who’s literally got the same haircut and outfit as the Sean Penn character in One Battle After Another. But hey, at least he wears a uniform. Again, what are international outsiders to make of the spectacle of ICE’s federal officers coming masked and frequently dressed in civilian clothes, while images from protests across the States show resisting civilians increasingly drawn to military-style clothing? Can Trump’s storm detachment not at least be issued with matching shirts? They don’t have to be brown, but Maga chic desperately needs to make even a first step to getting itself together. In the entire history of the movement, only one follower – the QAnon shaman – has ever had true style.

Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnist

Paul Thomas Anderson’s antifa parable is queasily relevant to the times, but here’s hoping Tim Key and co can get some reward for their brilliant British film

• Combat intensifies as One Battle After Another takes 14 Bafta nominations
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The Bafta nominations list underscores the enormous award-season love being felt for Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, his subversive vampire riff on America’s black experience – though it isn’t making history in quite the same way as it is at the Oscars, having 13 Bafta nominations, one behind Paul Thomas Anderson’s league-leader One Battle After Another with 14.

The awards-season prominence of Anderson’s epic antifa parable, inspired by the Thomas Pynchon novel Vineland, with Leonardo DiCaprio as a dishevelled, clueless ex-revolutionary facing off against Sean Penn’s brutal honcho Colonel Lockjaw, is happening at a queasily appropriate zeitgeist moment. The grotesquely trigger-happy immigration officers of ICE are shooting people dead on US streets and this ugly fiasco is giving us a horribly familiar-looking new figure.

Designer’s third collection confirms his dream start at the label, as warmth for the women who wear it shines through

It is the biggest job in fashion and Matthieu Blazy is knocking it out of the park. Chanel, the most famous fashion house in the world, with annual sales of almost $20bn (£14.6bn) and a designer lineage that includes Coco Chanel and Karl Lagerfeld, is an intimidating prospect for a 41-year-old Belgian designer who, until his appointment last year, was little known outside the industry. But this haute couture debut, his third collection for the house, confirmed that Blazy is off to a dream start.

The show concluded with a standing ovation from the audience including Anna Wintour, Nicole Kidman and Dua Lipa. Backstage, veteran Chanel personnel were high-fiving each other – a remarkable display of giddiness in an industry where cool is all. In the Grand Palais venue, transformed into a willow wood of sugar-pink trees and fairytale giant mushrooms, clients tossed sable coats to the ground and clustered for grinning selfies. By every metric, approval ratings for the new-look Chanel are off the charts.

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• American vents frustration after quarter-final loss

• Gauff believed she was letting out anger in private

Coco Gauff has expressed her disappointment after video of her smashing her racket at the Australian Open was picked up on camera.

The American was well below her usual high standards during her 6-1, 6-2 defeat to Elina Svitolina on Tuesday. Gauff had trouble with her forehand and serve throughout the match - she double-faulted five times in the first set alone – and hit 26 unforced errors to just three winners, losing in just 59 minutes. She also appeared to believe there was something wrong with her equipment as she struggled with her control, and had three of her rackets restrung in the opening set.

Umer Khalid, 22, had started refusing water in escalation of protest against charges and treatment in jail

The last Palestine Action-affiliated prisoner on hunger strike has ended his protest, two days after he started refusing water.

Umer Khalid, 22, who is being held at Wormwood Scrubs in west London, had escalated his action on Friday by going on thirst strike, raising fears that he could die within days.

GAO urges NWS to firm up its AI language plans as policy shifts slow multilingual warnings

US spending watchdogs have called on the National Weather Service (NWS) to deliver an updated plan for its AI language translation project to reduce the risk posed by extreme weather events to people not proficient in English.…

De mensheid staat op een kruispunt, waarschuwt Dario Amodei, de baas van AI-bedrijf Anthropic. We krijgen bijna onvoorstelbare macht in handen en hij betwijfelt openlijk of we volwassen genoeg zijn om daarmee om te gaan. Dat schreef hij niet in een kort opiniestukje, maar in een essay van 19.000 woorden. Alleen dat al is een signaal: dit is geen vrijblijvende waarschuwing.

Volgens Amodei zitten we midden in wat hij de “adolescentie van technologie” noemt. Puberteit dus: veel kracht, weinig zelfbeheersing. AI-systemen die slimmer zijn dan Nobelprijswinnaars, autonoom kunnen handelen en zelfs nieuwe systemen kunnen ontwerpen, kunnen binnen een of twee jaar realiteit zijn. Misschien later, geeft hij toe, maar de vaart zit erin. En wie de afgelopen jaren heeft opgelet, weet: dit is geen sciencefiction meer.

Wat opvalt, is de timing. Terwijl Amodei alarm slaat, sluit zijn bedrijf deals met overheden, waaronder het VK, om AI in te zetten voor publieke diensten zoals loopbaanadvies. Veiligheid en een versnelling gaan dus hand in hand. Dat is geen hypocrisie, maar wel de kern van het probleem: de verleiding is te groot om gas terug te nemen. De economische belofte van AI – hogere productiviteit, lagere kosten, minder mensen – is zo groot dat niemand op de rem wil trappen.

Test voor beschaving

Amodei wijst op recente incidenten, zoals de ophef rond seksueel getinte deepfakes van Grok, ontwikkeld door Elon Musk en verspreid via X. Het feit dat sommige bedrijven zo achteloos omgaan met de seksualisering van kinderen, stemt hem somber over hun vermogen om toekomstige, veel grotere risico’s te beheersen.

Interessant is dat deze waarschuwingen niet komen van iemand die tegen AI is, maar van iemand die zelf meebouwde aan de AI-wedloop, na zijn vertrek bij OpenAI. Hij kent de verleiding van binnenuit. Juist daarom is zijn boodschap ongemakkelijk: het gevaar zit niet alleen in wat AI kan, maar in wie wij zijn.

Amodei blijft voorzichtig optimistisch. Met doordacht beleid en echte grenzen kan het goed aflopen. Maar alleen als we stoppen met doen alsof dit een technisch probleem is. Het is een test voor onze beschaving.

Bron: The Guardian

DE BILT (ANP) - Ook in Noord-Holland, Flevoland en Overijssel geldt dinsdagavond code geel, meldt het KNMI. Eerder gaf het weerinstituut de waarschuwing voor gladheid door sneeuwval al af voor de Waddeneilanden, Friesland, Groningen en Drenthe.

In de meest noordelijke provincies (Friesland, Groningen en Drenthe) en op de Waddeneilanden geldt code geel vanaf dinsdagavond tot donderdagmiddag. In de andere provincies geldt de waarschuwing dinsdag van 20.00 tot 00.00 uur.

Het KNMI waarschuwt voor ongelukken door gladde wegen, bruggen, fietspaden en voetpaden. In Groningen houdt de sneeuwval de hele nacht aan en kan het ook woensdagochtend nog sneeuwen. In het noordoosten blijft de sneeuw langer liggen en kan het daardoor woensdag overdag op de binnenwegen nog glad zijn.