This article reports that filmmaker Christopher Nolan has praised the success of “Backrooms” and expressed his view that younger audiences are increasingly rejecting AI-generated content. Nolan is quoted as saying that this generation’s judgement of “AI slop” has been “immediate and harsh”, framing the reaction as a meaningful pushback against low-quality automated material. The story…

The Guardian has published a behind-the-scenes piece about how its global technology reporting team has increasingly shifted from covering screens and software to investigating the physical infrastructure underpinning the AI boom, chiefly the vast datacentres being built worldwide. The change matters because these structures come with tangible constraints — power, water, land, chips and grid…