Amir Khan’s union the GFA hires £500-an-hour silk to probe fighters’ rights
The GFA is aiming to raise £500,000 through crowdfunding to complete its certification as a union and launch the three-month inquiry into the safety, governance and treatment of fighters in all combat sports. Caplan…
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Meta plans $95bn stock offering to help cover AI expansion
The owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp is a leading investor in AI and is ploughing multibillion-dollar sums into datacentres, the central nervous systems of the technology. Meta's announcement on Monday came…
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‘You can walk in the road!’: Inside Oxford Street’s first day without traffic
In the middle of the newly cordoned-off stretch, I stop to read a series of museum exhibit-style boards, narrating the history of the road from the Romans to today: “Long before Oxford Street became London’s busiest…
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Anthropic's blockbuster share listing - 5 surprising things we now know
The 335-page document included fresh details of how the Claude chatbot owner makes money, what it spends that money on and who it is controlled by. Anthropic also detailed some of the risks it claimed AI technology…
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iPhone Duo owners report cracks in Apple’s first foldable handset
Reports of cracks have emerged on Reddit and social media platforms since the handset went on general sale globally on Friday. Experts said there had been too few examples to determine whether there was a more serious…
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Microsoft to reportedly offer buyouts to 60,000 employees in latest cuts
This is the latest of several trimmings Microsoft has made to its workforce this year. The company announced in April that it was offering voluntary retirement to about 7% of its US workforce, which consisted of about…
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Deloitte hikes pay for top boss while headcount shrinks
According to the firm’s latest accounts, Deloitte’s chief executive of EMEA, Richard Houston, saw his pay increase to £7.1m, almost fifty per cent more than the £4.9m he was paid in 2025 . Houston led Deloitte’s UK…
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Healey to ‘increase minimum wage by 3.9 per cent’
Healey is expected to deliver a huge pay increase of 3.9 per cent to low-wage workers on Wednesday, according to The Times . However, the increase will also mark the end of the government’s desire to equalise wages for…
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No 10 clarifies Andy Burnham’s stance on freedom of movement
Burnham fuelled speculation about a return to freedom of movement in an interview at the weekend, prompting questions about how close the UK could become to Brussels. Confusion deepened after further interviews were…
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Meta unveils $95bn share sale as AI spending drains cash reserves
The tech giant said on Monday it would raise $35m through public equity offerings, followed by a further $60bn through a programme allowing it to sell shares at the market price at the time of the announcement.…
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