Radio 2 DJ covers 135 miles in five days carrying a Pudsey Bear backpack from Kielder Forest to Leeds The BBC presenter Sara Cox has completed her challenge to run 135 miles in five days, raising more than £9.5m for the Children in Need charity. The 50-year-old, who presents Radio 2’s Teatime show on weekdays, … Read more
Two senior figures have been suspended at site in Kent that has been plagued by failings in past few years Two of the most senior staff running Manston, the controversial processing centre in Kent for small boat arrivals, have been suspended and are under investigation for misconduct, the Guardian has learned. Witnesses said they were … Read more
Britain was always going to prefer homegrown technology for the SMR reactors at Wylfe. The US would have done the same It had all been so harmonious two months ago. “Together with the US, we’re building a golden age of nuclear that puts both countries at the forefront of global innovation and investment,” purred the … Read more
Richer countries have agreed to give poorer nations hundreds of billions to cut emissions, but details can be hard to find Sixteen years ago, at the climate summit in Copenhagen, rich and polluting countries pledged to provide $100bn (£76bn) each year by 2020 so that poorer countries could cut their emissions and adapt to a … Read more
Reaction follows Wall Street’s worst day in a month and unprecedented slump in investment in China Global markets suffered another day of volatile trading after a tech sell-off that fuelled Wall Street’s worst day in a month and weak economic data from China showed an unprecedented slump in investment. The FTSE 100 fell by 1.1% … Read more
Vincent Karremans called semiconductor supply chain crisis a ‘wake-up call for western leaders’ The Chinese government has expressed “extreme disappointment” with the Dutch minister at the heart of a row over chip supply to the car industry. A spokesperson for the ministry of commerce was responding to a Guardian interview with Vincent Karremans on Thursday … Read more
Switch in budget plan causes cost of UK government borrowing to rise by the most in a single day since early July UK bond markets took fright on Friday after it emerged that Rachel Reeves had ditched plans for a manifesto-busting increase in income tax at this month’s autumn budget. On a day of choppy … Read more
Hits include country songs and a Dutch anti-refugee anthem, both entirely made without human composition Three songs generated by artificial intelligence topped music charts this week, reaching the highest spots on Spotify and Billboard charts. Walk My Walk and Livin’ on Borrowed Time by the outfit Breaking Rust topped Spotify’s “Viral 50” songs in the … Read more
Anthropic says financial firms and government agencies were attacked ‘largely without human intervention’ A leading artificial intelligence company claims to have stopped a China-backed “cyber espionage” campaign that was able to infiltrate financial firms and government agencies with almost no human oversight. The US-based Anthropic said its coding tool, Claude Code, was “manipulated” by a … Read more
Machine learning model predicts whether donor is likely to die within the timeframe that liver remains viable Doctors have developed an AI tool that could reduce wasted efforts to transplant organs by 60%. Thousands of patients worldwide are waiting for a potentially life-saving donor, and more candidates are stuck on waiting lists than there are … Read more