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Clear Street launches pre-IPO platform, lists AI giant Databricks
Business News Close-up of Databricks company logo on building facade, Rincon Hill, San Francisco, June 7, 2024. Smith Collection/ gado | Archive Photos | Getty Images Clear Street, the prime brokerage startup that recently shelved plans for its own IPO, is now aiming to give investors access to some of Silicon Valley’s hottest private companies […]
Two more small boat pilots jailed for Channel crossings
BBC News Two men who piloted overcrowded small boats have been jailed for endangering others while crossing the Channel. Omar Heidari, a 34-year-old Afghan national who steered a dinghy carrying 95 people to the UK in June, has been jailed for two years. Manas Yuk, an 18-year-old Sudanese national, was sentenced to 18 months in […]
‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ box office: Record $72M preview sales
Business News Tom Holland stars as Peter Parker, aka Spider-Man in Sony and Marvel’s “Spider-Man: Brand New Day.” Sony Spider-Man is already webbing up a massive box office haul. Sony and Marvel’s “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” secured $72 million in preview ticket sales, the highest collection for any domestic film in Hollywood history. The previous […]
Robert Bush: Sentence for Legacy funeral boss ‘never enough’
BBC News Ron Marsh said he had contacted Legacy Independent Funeral Directors when his mother Joyce Moulton died in September 2023, aged 98. He said Bush was professional and the service he organised was “excellent”, but the family never received her ashes, with attempts to contact Legacy going unanswered. In March 2024, he was visited […]
Nirmal Purja: Who is the famed mountaineer missing on Broad Peak?
BBC News The 43-year-old was born in a small village in Nepal’s mountainous Myagdi district, located around 1,600m above sea level. He comes from a family of Gurkhas, a world-famous group of Nepalese soldiers who have served in different armed forces, including the British Army. Following in the footsteps of his father and elder brothers, […]
Spain: Tens of thousands of migrants enter Ceuta from Morocco
BBC News Tens of thousands of migrants have entered Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta, with many swimming and using inflatables to travel from Morocco. Others ran through a gate in the border fence. The territory’s leader, Juan Jesús Vivas, said the number of arrivals has been overwhelming resources and urged the Spanish government to […]
How Sam Fender and Olivia Dean’s Rein Me In broke longest standing music record
BBC News This reworking of Rein Me In, from Fender’s third studio album, the Mercury Prize-winning People Watching, features an extra verse about the breakdown of a relationship from a female perspective, from Dean. “[It’s] very personal and reminded us of home, but when Olivia put her touch on it, it became a much more […]
New Google Earth AI tool could fuel misinformation, experts say
BBC News Google also insists guidelines built into its AI model will prevent the creation of imagery depicting “harmful topics”, however BBC Verify has found that small changes to prompts can be used to bypass these guidelines. For example, a request to create a “raised platform to hang traitors” next to the UK parliament was […]
Burnham faces criticism over plans for mayors to get share of income tax
BBC News Tracy Brabin, the Labour mayor of West Yorkshire, said that giving regions like hers a proportion of income tax would mean “people will be able to see and feel the real benefit of their hard work and where that money is going”. Richard Parker, the Labour mayor for the West Midlands, described the […]