Baroness Michelle Mone says she regrets denying her connection to a PPE firm awarded huge contracts during the pandemic – and which is now being investigated by the National Crime Agency (NCA). Following a silence lasting almost two years, the Ultimo bra tycoon has taken part in a YouTube documentary funded by the same company,
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Just hours after Liz Magill resigned as president of the University of Pennsylvania over the evasive answers she and two other academic leaders gave in a testimony at a House hearing this week, the three were being mocked on the Saturday Night Live cold open. So was Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), the Trump-supporting congresswoman whose
The misuse of copyrighted music by artificial intelligence companies could exploit musicians, a former executive at a leading tech startup has warned. The technology is trained on a huge number of existing songs, which it uses to generate music based on a text prompt. Copyrighted work is already being used to train artificial intelligence models
Stan Rogow, a veteran producer for the Hilary Duff-starring Lizzie McGuire series and feature film, and an Emmy nominee for his earlier work on the TV series Fame, has died at 75. Rogow died Thursday at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, reports indicate. No cause was given. Born in Brooklyn, Rogow graduated from Boston
New immigration rules could prevent universities from hiring the best international talent and send a message that the UK is “closing ranks”, higher education leaders have warned. Academics and University bodies have told Sky News an increase in the minimum salary for a skilled worker visa effectively prices out early career academics and researchers vital
President Joe Biden told the crowd at a fundraiser this evening, “You’re the reason that Donald Trump is a former president, or he hates when I say it, a defeated president.” At the Holmby Hills home of designer Michael Smith and former ambassador James Costos, Biden spent a substantial part of his 11 minutes of
Microsoft’s multibillion-dollar partnership with ChatGPT maker OpenAI could face investigation by the UK’s competition regulator. The tech giant is a major investor and strengthened ties following the chatbot’s wildly successful launch in November 2022, committing another $10bn (£7.9bn) earlier this year. It is reported to own a 49% stake in the company, which is at
EXCLUSIVE: Lubna Hanna has been promoted to Manager by Redefine Entertainment. Hanna works with clients Njeri Brown (Dear White People, Queens), Alyssa Lerner (Diary of a Future President), Amber Dupre (The Spoils, Loki), Madeline Hendricks (Jane the Virgin, Good Trouble), Kimiko Matsuda Lawrence (Twenties, Boomerang) and Suzy Esposito (Neon). A native of Los Angeles, Hanna
The UK’s average two-year mortgage rate has dipped below 6% for the first time in nearly six months. The rate now sits at 5.99%, falling from 6.01% the day before, according to Moneyfactscompare.co.uk. The last time the rate was below 6% was on 16 June 2023, when it dropped to 5.98%. The highest it has
EXCLUSIVE: There’s a lot of noise in town about Skydance Boss David Ellison and RedBird Capital making a go at Paramount Global, but via National Amusements. The Michael Redstone-founded, Norwood, Mass.-based exhibitor owns 77% of Paramount’s Class A (voting) shares. For anyone wanting to take control of Paramount Global, the trojan horse is by taking
Vodafone, EE, Three and O2 are facing a “£3bn-plus” class action claim that alleges they used their market dominance to overcharge on up to 28.2 million UK mobile phone contracts. The four largest network operators are accused of penalising loyal customers – meaning they paid more than new customers for the same services. Many contracts
EXCLUSIVE: Professional auto racer Patricio “Pato” O’Ward, who competes full-time in the NTT IndyCar Series, has signed with Range Media Partners. The signing comes off the heels of the recent announcement that O’Ward, the Arrow McLaren driver, was named a Formula One Reserve Driver for McLaren F1 for the upcoming 2024 season. As he speeds
Cash usage has grown for the first time in a decade as households look to balance their budgets amid the cost-of-living squeeze. Across the UK, coins and banknotes accounted for nearly a fifth (19%) of transactions in 2022, according to the British Retail Consortium (BRC) annual Payments Survey. Its report said: “This year’s Payments Survey
UPDATE: The debate ended with each candidate getting in a closing statement and revealing which previous president inspired them. Chris Christie answered that it is Ronald Reagan who, he noted, will be the topic of his next book, due in 2024. Nikki Haley said it is George Washington. Ron DeSantis said it is Calvin Coolidge
“The last thing I do before going to sleep at night is check the trains to see whether they’re running on time and then the first thing I do in the morning, before I reach for a cup of tea, is pick my phone up and check again. And then you can still get to
Andy Borowitz‘s satirical column in The New Yorker is coming to an end, as the publication has dropped the feature as part of cost cutting. Borowitz wrote on Facebook that “because of financial difficulties, The New Yorker has been forced to cut costs. As a result, it has decided to stop publishing The Borowitz Report.
Europe’s biggest travel operator has revealed that it may seek to pull out of the London Stock Exchange amid continuing questions over the City’s post Brexit future. TUI said that it could put the idea to a shareholder vote at its AGM next February. The German-based company revealed that it could seek to upgrade its
The European Union has bowed to demands from carmakers across Europe and the British government for a delay to the introduction of 10% export tariffs on electric vehicles. Brexit commissioner Maroš Šefčovič had initially refused calls to extend a trade deal deadline that, from January, 60% of a battery’s total value had to be sourced
The Bank of England has said that UK households and businesses have been “resilient” in the face of rising interest rates – but repeated previous warnings that the full effect of higher interest rates was yet to come through. Unveiling its latest Financial Stability Report – which is published twice yearly – the Bank said
Nearly three months after Charter Communications and Disney struck a landmark distribution deal, Charter CFO Jessica Fischer said it “absolutely” has created a template for future agreements. “We’re not willing to make our customers pay twice for content,” the exec said during an appearance at the UBS Media and Communications Conference in New York. “What
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