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Mortgage lenders say house buying at risk from surveyor ‘down valuing’

London and the south-east said to be worst affected, with valuations often coming in at…

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Beware buy now, pay later temptation on Black Friday, debt charities warn

Billions will be spent on credit over the discount weekend but experts say the payment…

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Will pay-per-mile raise Reeves money or drive people away from electric vehicles?

Need for new road taxes is clear – but there are concerns that pricing plan…

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Bro boost: women say their LinkedIn traffic increases if they pretend to be men

Collective experiment found switching profile to ‘male’ and ‘bro-coding’ text led to big increase in…

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How HMRC and insurance firms make bereavement even harder | Letters

Dr Susan Treagus spotted an error that could have cost her dearly, plus a letter…

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Energy price cap for Great Britain to get surprise increase from January

Quarterly cap for a dual fuel energy bill will increase to £1,758, from £1,755 in…

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Elon Musk’s Grok AI tells users he is fitter than LeBron James and smarter than da Vinci

Users noted that in a raft of now-deleted posts, the chatbot would frequently rank Musk…

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Ofcom at risk of losing public trust over online harms, says Liz Kendall

Technology secretary fears digital frontier may be outpacing regulator, with AI chatbots a particular concern…

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French authorities look into Holocaust denial posts from Elon Musk’s Grok AI

X chatbot suggested gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau were ‘designed for disinfection’ not mass executions Europe…

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You be the chancellor? Play our interactive budget game

Could you keep the markets calm and your MPs happy as you pull the economic…

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