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Elon Musk’s pledge to stop X’s AI chatbot Grok making sexualised images of people is a “vindication for Keir Starmer”, Downing Street sources have said. The company has announced that it had imposed restrictions on “editing images of real people in revealing clothes such as bikinis”. The move followed a days-long outcry over reports Grok was allowing users to manipulate images of children to sexualise them, leading to media watchdog […]

A “pervasive” culture of mistreatment at work is leading to women losing their jobs if they are pregnant or become a parent, according to a report. The TUC said its research suggested that one in seven women who have children or are expecting a child have left work or felt forced to leave a job due to pregnancy or becoming a parent because of problems including lack of flexible working. New and […]

More than one in three (35%) undergraduate students say Reform UK should be banned from speaking at events at UK universities, according to a poll. Findings from the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) show two in three (69%) students agree that universities should never limit free speech, slightly higher than the proportion that said this in previous years of the poll. Nearly all (90%) of the 1,012 students who responded […]

South East Water is under investigation by the industry watchdog after repeated outages since November have left tens of thousands of households and businesses without supply across Kent and Sussex. Ofwat said it had launched a probe into whether the supplier had complied with its customer service standards obligations and offered appropriate support to affected customers during supply failures. The latest incident has seen thousands of properties in Kent and […]

The UK economy returned to growth in November after a boost from Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) factories restarting production following a cyber attack, according to official figures. The Office for National Statistics said UK gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 0.3% for the month, following a 0.1% decline in October. The increase was sharper than expected, with economists having predicted a 0.2% rise for the month. Official figures also showed […]