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Huw Edwards talks shame in first published poem as he attempts career comeback
Huw Edwards has published the first poem on his controversial new Substack page, after being met with backlash for attempting to reboot his public career. The disgraced former BBC host was given a six-month suspended prison sentence, and axed from…
Live: Big tech faces higher tax if it does not reach deals with local publishers
Choose what information you see below by using filters Assistant Treasurer Daniel Mulino says artificial intelligence companies will remain exempt from the government's News Bargaining Incentive. The government has made some adjustments to its News…
Force of nature' Cathy Parson, co-founder of Publishers Group UK, dies
Sales, marketing and distribution company Publishers Group UK (PGUK) has announced its co-founder and joint managing director Cathy Parson has died aged 70, following a brief illness. Parson and her PGUK co-MD Medwyn Hughes founded Hi Marketing in…
Australia to tax Meta if it doesn't pay news publishers
Update 3 August 2026: The Australian government has tweaked how its planned News Bargaining Incentive levy will apply to tech giants. The levy is being increased from 2.25% to 2.5% but is now only on search and social media companies' digital…
Publisher's Platform: Food safety is not expensive. Outbreaks are expensive.
I laid out eight things last Friday morning on FSN that Washington should have done about Cyclospora. The obvious objection to a list like that is money — that food safety is expensive, that budgets are finite, that somebody has to pay for…
OpenAI's Astra solves 10 long-open math problems and publishes the proofs
OpenAI Group PBC revealed Saturday that an internal version of Astra, the model family it calls its next major release, produced new results for 10 problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science that had been open for at least a decade…
Disgraced Huw Edwards reflects on shame in first published poem
Have YOU got a story? Email tips@dailymail.co.uk Disgraced BBC newsreader Huw Edwards has turned to poetry to tell the story he says others got wrong. In his first published poem, written for the 2026 National Eisteddfod's prestigious Crown…
Former award-winning journalist and parliamentary assistant publishes crime novel
As a teenager on work experience at her local newspaper, Olivia Bell gained an insight into writing for a living and discovered the word misogynist. It paved the way into an award-winning career in journalism using her skills as wordsmith to craft…
Publisher's Platform: The T-Shirts Arrived. All of Them Say: Test Infant Formula for Botulism.
In early July I wrote that I had bought Congress a t-shirt — one for every member. The boxes are here. Each shirt comes rolled and compressed inside a little plastic baby bottle small enough to hold in your palm. Unroll it and it reads: For…
The Future, Made in China
Kai-Fu Lee, the C.E.O. of the artificial-intelligence company 01.AI, lives in a mirrored high-rise in Beijing, near a procession of landmarks that emperors considered the center of the cosmos. Lee takes early meetings at a nearby hotel that could…
New Yorker: China races to own the industries of the future
America has been napping or distracted by trivialities while China is racing toward the future, in part by taking advantage of President Trump's trade, immigration and budget policies. That's the eye-opening reality that Evan Osnos unfurls in a…
AI boom, factory gloom: China tech soars while traditional industries feel chill
A top theoretical journal of the Communist Party has acknowledged that a stark economic divide exists between China's booming AI sector and its struggling traditional industries. And while arguing that this divergence was not unique to China, the…
Health Care Roundup: Market Talk
The latest Market Talks covering the Health Care sector. Published exclusively on Dow Jones Newswires at 4:20 ET, 12:20 ET and 16:50 ET. 0811 GMT – A potential tie-up between AstraZeneca and Bristol Myers Squibb could face antitrust hurdles…
AI in sperm selection: Changing the future of IVF
IVF has become one of modern medicine's most advanced and emotionally significant fields. It combines sophisticated hormonal treatments, genetics, imaging, laboratory expertise and decades of clinical experience. Yet at one of the most critical…
Malaysia cracks down on social media hiking trend after jump in numbers needing rescue
Malaysia's government is tightening hiking rules nationwide after a social media trend left increasing numbers of adventurers needing to be rescued when they became lost or stranded in remote locations. In the first five months of 2026, Malaysia…
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