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Chancellor plans major intervention to help poorer UK households with rising energy bills
Exclusive: Officials working on further radical changes that would change how much energy companies could charge customers
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Morrisons is not a must-do deal for Sainsbury’s
Odds are good the CMA would approve of a supermarket merger. But does Sainsbury’s need Morrisons?
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Google told to halt work on datacentres in Finland over environmental concerns
Order on two construction sites comes after Google failed to carry out environmental impact assessments
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Is regulation enough to stop AI systems killing us all? | Letters
Letter: Martyn Thomas wonders how any rational person can argue that independent oversight and regulation will be sufficient
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Stop worrying about my AI, says multibillionaire Sam Altman. So we bear the risks and he keeps the money | Chris Stokel-Walker
OpenAI’s CEO seems to want to privatise his company’s huge financial gains while making all of us pay for any negative consequences, says author Chris Stokel-Walker
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Asos warns customer data may be compromised after ‘unauthorised’ app access
Shares in fashion company fall 11% after its app systems are accessed by ‘unidentified third party’
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Paramount completes $111bn acquisition of Warner Bros to form new media empire Skydance
David Ellison and ex-Mattel CEO Ynon Kreiz to oversee both film studios, HBO Max, CNN and CBS News as co-executives
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Who owns ‘brain rot’? Inside the international legal drama over a beloved meme
Copyright law in the US only applies to human-made creations, but AI characters like Tung Tung Tung Sahur are challenging that
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Trump makes it clear his power is becoming entwined with AI
New alliances between the White House, the Pentagon, US intelligence and AI companies are looming ominously
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Ofcom investigates Meta over Instagram Instants safety checks
Watchdog examining whether company carried out adequate risk assessment as required by Online Safety Act
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Jailed Lego collector’s insurance scam highlights UK’s £1.3bn fraud problem
Industry leaders say bogus claims rose 14% last year, pushing up premiums for all customers
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Sorry, but I’m bringing my iced coffee to the job interview | Tayo Bero
What, exactly, about the drink is so distracting? The viral debate raises bigger questions about who defines ‘professionalism’
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UK events firm that hosts arms fairs and comic shows sold to rival for £2bn
FTSE 100 firm Informa to buy Clarion from private equity group Blackstone
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Asos investigating after thousands of customers get notification saying retailer has been hacked – as it happened
Euro extends last week’s 1.2% drop amid French debt fears and political uncertainty in Europe
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While British children go hungry, we waste 1.1bn meals a year. Bring on the redistribution revolution | Charlotte Hill
Food businesses and the government must make redistribution a key policy to address food insecurity. We know the surplus food is out there, says Charlotte Hill, chief executive of the food redistribution organisation Felix
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‘Pull the plug’: protesters resort to direct action against AI firms
Campaign groups report surge in membership after a spate of AI safety alerts and apocalyptic warnings
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Australian consumer confidence plunges to worst level since 1990s after RBA rate rise
Key indicator dropped about 20% after the Reserve Bank last month announced the highest interest rates since 2011
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Burnham’s surprise EU-turn could deliver the Tories from a generational mess | Gaby Hinsliff
Badenoch would never have reopened the door on Brexit, but now that the PM has, it suits the Conservatives to let him walk through it, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
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The butter boom – how the world fell back in love with the glorious golden spread
It’s being sculpted for fashion parties, collected by tourists and hoarded in freezers. There are even entire shops devoted to it. What’s behind the revival of the much-maligned foodstuff?
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Tories unite behind Badenoch, but road to recovery remains long
Party has common enemy in defectors, while Nigel Farage’s woes have given some insiders reason to hope
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Gatorade maker recalls 122,000 cases of popular sports drink across 37 US states
PepsiCo initiated class II recall of 28oz bottles last month over ‘undeclared’ yellow dyes, FDA notice says
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Conservative plans to slash aid budget would ‘irreparably damage’ UK’s global credibility, charities say
Party’s pledge to reduce aid budget from £9bn a year to £1bn to fund new prison places branded as ‘posturing’
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The Guardian view on Tory economics: Britain’s future needs more than Thatcher’s past | Editorial
Editorial: The Conservatives blame their failures on abandoning their 1976 principles. But the country needs investment and resilience rather than another round of spending cuts
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Badenoch is trying to match Farage step for step – but it’s a dance of death for the Tories | Polly Toynbee
At conference here in Birmingham I found a small battalion of centrist remainers with a vision for the Conservative party to come, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
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