Body representing some of Britain’s biggest graduate employers reveals misconduct is at a record high

A potential five-year lease is on the cards for a company to run cultural events as part of a temporary

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Whistleblower says recording and analysis of all probate calls in Co-op Legal Services is oppressive

MIT computer scientist led development of software for moon mission and earned Presidential Medal of Freedom

A Kemp Town resident has called for action to get the lights on the Black Rock boardwalk working by this

Exclusive: Britain’s largest private-sector employer has also trained managers to spot signs of domestic abuse

Four manufacturing sites will close with the expected loss of around 740 jobs

Exclusive: Instructors at tech training company Multiverse hit out at ‘remorseless’ and ‘unnerving’ monitoring system

Disclosure reveals ⁠new area of privacy risk for the company and illustrates ​how difficult it is to inventory unauthorized activity tied to its agents

Herstmonceux Castle, east of Hailsham, has partnered with nature restoration experts Nattergal to rewild and restore 240 acres of the estate.

The £210m South East Investment Fund is open. Loans from £25k to £2m, equity to £5m, across Sussex, Surrey, Kent and beyond. What it is and who qualifies.

Datacentre hailed by government was supposed to launch next year but may be held back into mid-2030s A huge datacentre project hailed by the UK government will miss its launch date next year and could be delayed into the mid-2030s. The site in Loughton, Essex, was described as the country’s largest AI supercomputer when it was announced in 2025, but power supply problems mean it now faces a lengthy wait before coming online. Continue reading...

Macklemore has announced a series of European concerts, called the Free Palestine Tour, after he was controversially dropped as Ed Sheeran's support act.

The incident is the first known breach to affect a government agency, and Australia's prime minister has vowed to hold OpenAI accountable.

Albanese says OpenAI did not alert the Australian government to breach until 10 September

Hundreds of former workers are owed around £489,000 in employee wages arrears and holiday pay

More than a million people have left work to look after loved ones in the past two years, Carers UK says

Experts air concern over AI lingo redolent of James Joyce’s prose that is creating headaches for monitoring and oversight

Rhys becomes first actor to win lead acting awards for different shows in the same night, while Hacks’ Smart is the first woman to win for every season of a show

Health service faces exodus as almost four-fifths of BAME managers surveyed reported racism, exclusion and barriers to career progression

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news * AI-linked stocks fall after tech bosses call for slowdown in ‘reckless’ development * AI CEOs say they need to slow the pace of development. But will they? * The Guardian view on controlling AI: humanity cannot outsource its survival Companies threatened by the march of AI are seeing their share prices rise this morning! RELX, the analytics group, are up 4.2% and leading the FTSE 100 risers. Earlier this year its shares tumbled after the Claude chatbot added new data and automation tools. Continue reading...

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The former chief executive of Southern Water has appeared in court charged with conspiring to defraud the public purse by preventing wastewater quality from being tested as a way to avoid fines. Matthew Wright and six colleagues as well as the company itself relating to the alleged conspiracy which has been estimated to have saved

‘We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models,’ says Dario Amodei

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In a social media post, Dario Amodei proposed a plan including third-party evaluations of AI systems

Scientists are trying to figure out whether algorithms could one day wake up and feel

Exclusive: Calls from Labour grow as 105 MPs write to PM urging ‘obvious’ step to alleviate cost of living crisis Andy Burnham is coming under increasing pressure from his own MPs to commit to improving paternity leave in the UK in the next budget, with more than a quarter of Labour MPs writing to the prime minister to urge him to take action. Ahead of the chancellor’s first budget next month, 105 MPs have written to Burnham calling on him to increase statutory paternity leave to help alleviate the cost of living crisis and arguing that lowest-paid fathers are the hardest hit by meagre paternity leave provision. Continue reading...

Facilities likely to employ 10,400 workers, compared with 40,000 in industry estimates, thinktank says

Google Cloud expands its enterprise AI push with Accenture, betting on forward-deployed engineers to drive adoption and overcome deployment bottlenecks.

Exclusive: Staff expect ‘brutal’ cutbacks as broadcaster seeks to reduce costs amid advertising slowdown

Two neighbours have objected to a licence application for the Land Beyond Festival which is due to take place in

Proposals to merge smaller councils to form larger authorities have been paused or withdrawn in a number of areas.

Review led by Donna Ockenden launches after campaign by families and media investigation into deaths