Meta agrees to pay up to $18bn to settle social media addiction trial
Meta has agreed to pay up to $18bn (£13.2bn) to dozens of US states to settle claims that its social media platforms harmed children.
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Vanguard is acquiring Altruist, the AI custody platform it backed six years ago
Vanguard has agreed to acquire Altruist, an AI-driven custody and software platform for independent financial advisers that it first invested in during 2020, on undisclosed
Qwen4’s architecture is here early, firing 6B parameters out of 125B
Alibaba’s Qwen team has released Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, an open-weight preview of the architecture it intends to use for Qwen4, carrying 125B parameters but activating only 6B
Brazil’s Flavio Bolsonaro to institute debt ceiling if elected president
A debt ceiling would trigger automatic spending cuts, which conservatives could use to pare back social programmes.
8 migrants buried in Tunisia’s coastal town of Ben Guerdane
Residents of Tunisia’s coastal town of Ben Guerdane on Wednesday attended the funerals of eight young migrants.
Video: Ukrainian drones target Wildberries e-commerce hub in Russia
Ukrainian drones have again targeted the Russian online shopping giant Wildberries.
Parrot eggs hatch after suspected Thai smuggler arrested at South African airport
A 50-year-old Thai suspect was arrested with the eggs in a “homemade incubator” carried as hand luggage.
Two German airport workers die of malaria after ‘mosquito arrives on plane’
It is believed the mosquitoes arrived at Germany’s busiest airport on a plane, according to German public health officials.
Watch Nashville fans lay flowers in tribute to Dolly Parton
The BBC’s Helena Humphrey is outside the Country Music Hall of Fame where fans gathered to mourn Dolly Parton.
India’s sugar squeeze threatens its biggest season for sweets
Domestic sugar prices have jumped nearly 40%, forcing India to import 1 million tonnes of the sweetener.
US sanctions Palestine Action as ‘transnational terrorist group’
Protesters from “Palestine Action” demonstrate on the roof of Guardtech Group in Brandon, Suffolk. Pic Reuters
Anthropic signs $45B compute deal with Britain’s Nscale
Anthropic has agreed to spend $45B over six years renting AI computing power from Nscale’s flagship West Virginia data centre development, covering about 460 megawatts.
Flipboard acquires Graze, the tool for building your own social algorithm
Flipboard has acquired Graze, a Portland startup that lets creators build, tune and monetise custom social feeds without writing code, mainly on Bluesky. Graze says