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Unlock Editor’s Roundup for freeRoula Khalaf, editor of the FT, selects her favorite stories in this weekly newsletter.MPs rejected calls for a new national inquiry into care gangs on Wednesday evening, after the issue was forced onto the parliamentary agenda by Tories amid pressure from tech billionaire Elon Musk.In the House of Commons, the government used its majority to reject a Tory amendment to education legislation that proposed a national inquiry. A total of 364 deputies voted against the amendment, while 111 were in favor.The vote by MPs came after ministers earlier indicated they were open to launching a new…

Tim Barat loved being an executive at an electrical company in Australia, where he grew up, even through the chaos of the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires. that burned over 1 million hectares and left many without power or homes. But when he moved to the US in 2013, his wife was less enthusiastic about him continuing down that path. “My wife didn’t want me to work on high voltage anymore for safety reasons,” Barat told TechCrunch. So he went back to school, eventually getting his master’s degree in electrical engineering from UC Berkeley. But he just couldn’t stop thinking about…

Elon Musk has caused alarm across Europe with a series of attacks on the continent’s leaders.Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has accused US tech billionaire Elon Musk of leading an “international reactionary movement” and warned that the far right could be resurgent in European politics. Musk, who is expected to serve as an adviser in US President-elect Donald Trump’s administration, has struck across Europe in recent weeks with a series of attacks on the continent’s leaders, including German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the British Prime Minister Keir, Starmer caused a stir. Musk also weighed in on Spanish affairs on Sunday…

The Crown Prosecution Service is reviewing a dossier of evidence relating to a Premier League footballer who was arrested on suspicion of rape.The man, in his 30s, is accused of sexual offenses between 2021 and 2023. The Metropolitan Police have now referred their file to the CPS and the player remains under investigation as inquiries continue.The footballer denies the accusations.A spokesman for the force said: “Dating officers are investigating a number of reports of alleged sexual offenses between 2021 and 2023.“A full file has been passed to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and detectives are continuing to work with prosecutors.”Those…

Steve Granitz/WireImage The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’ Dorit Kemsley is giving an updated status about her marriage with PK Kemsley. “We’re standing exactly where we were at the beginning,” Dorit, 48, said Tuesday, Jan. 7. RHOBH After the show when asked where she and PK stand after announcing their separation in May 2024. Dorit continued, “There’s movement, but it’s just not forward – it’s left to right. I’d like to move forward and I’m constantly trying to protect it.” “Ask me for another six months. I hope I will have a better answer,” she added, stressing that she and…

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Meta excluded some of its top advertisers from the usual content moderation process, protecting its multibillion-dollar business amid internal concerns that the company’s systems wrongly penalized major brands.According to internal documents from 2023 seen by the Financial Times, the owner of Facebook and Instagram introduced a series of “safeguards” that “protected high spenders”.The previously unreported memos said Meta would “suppress disclosures” based on how much an advertiser spent on the platform, and that some top advertisers would be human-reviewed.One document suggested that a group called “P95 spenders” — those who spent more than $1,500 a day — were “exempt from…

Tran Le was an engineering student at Stanford University when she tried to enroll in a clinical trial for her chronic condition. Although she identified some promising trials, she found the enrollment process daunting—she had to have extensive email exchanges with clinical sites and fill out lengthy 20-page forms. All that paperwork was so cumbersome, Le saw an opportunity to use generative AI to reduce the time it takes to enroll in a trial from weeks to minutes. Earlier this year, she teamed up with Sohit Gatiganti, a fellow engineer at Stanford Medicine, to co-found Grove AI. Although many patients…

The president-elect is scheduled to be sentenced in a criminal trial in New York ten days before the start of his second term.US President-elect Donald Trump has asked the Supreme Court to stay proceedings in his New York criminal case over hush money payments to an adult film star. The court filing released Wednesday comes just two days before Trump is scheduled to be sentenced in the case. Trump was convicted last May of 34 counts of falsifying business records, which prosecutors said Trump did in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election to cover up an affair that could…

As if the ear of incoming US President Donald Trump wasn’t enough, tech billionaire Elon Musk has been on a tear this week, lashing out at European politicians on both the left and right and using posts on the platform of his social media, X, for him. disrupt politics across the continent.The French president, politicians in Germany and European Commission officials have all felt Musk’s wrath online, over issues related to their election and alleged hypocrisy. But it is his pointed attacks on British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and other UK politicians that have caught the eye.In a 72-hour span…