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Campaigner launches £1.5bn legal action in UK against Apple over wallet’s ‘hidden fees’

James Daley says anti-competitive behaviour led to additional charges that have pushed up costs for…

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Student loans: ‘My debt rose £20,000 to £77,000 even though I’m paying’

Millions of graduates are trapped by ballooning debts, as their repayments are dwarfed by the…

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TikTok announces it has finalized deal to establish US entity, sidestepping ban

Majority US-owned venture includes Larry Ellison’s Oracle, private-equity group Silver Lake and Abu Dhabi’s MGX…

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UK savers urged to move fast for the best deals paying up to 4.5%

Despite the recent interest rate cut, many fixed-rate bond or easy-access account rates have held…

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Experts warn of threat to democracy from ‘AI bot swarms’ infesting social media

Misinformation technology could be deployed at scale to disrupt 2028 US presidential election, AI researchers…

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Grok AI generated about 3m sexualised images this month, research says

Estimate made by Center for Countering Digital Hate after Elon Musk’s AI image generation tool…

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Scarlett Johansson and Cate Blanchett back campaign accusing AI firms of theft

Hundreds of writers, musicians and performers urge licensing deals instead of scraping creative work Scarlett…

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The year of the ‘hectocorn’: the $100bn tech companies that could float in 2026

OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceX and Stripe are rumoured to be among ten of the biggest companies…

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Bezos’s Blue Origin announces plans to deploy thousands of satellites in 2027

Deployment will serve data centers, governments and businesses, jumping into market dominated by SpaceX Jeff…

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Nostalgia for local cafes risks halting progress | Letters

Alderman Gregory Jones KC responds to an article by Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett about her beloved…

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