Michelle RobertsDigital health editor Getty Images If you feel unwell with a bad throat and a temperature you may well have caught one of the new strains of Covid circulating this autumn. XFG, called Stratus by some, and NB.1.8.1, known as Nimbus, are now the most common variants being passed around in the UK, according…
Anthropic is prepared to repurpose conversations users have with its Claude chatbot as training data for its large language models—unless those users opt out. Previously, the company did not train its generative AI models on user chats. When Anthropic’s privacy policy updates on October 8 to start allowing for this, users will have to opt…
Published September 30, 2025 Heritage British menswear brand Dunhill will have a new chief executive in the middle of next month with Matthew Ives to be installed as the Richemont-owned company’s CEO. See fashion showDunhill – Spring-Summer2026 – Menswear – Italie – Milan – ©Launchmetrics/spotlight He replaces Andrew Holmes, Dunhill COO and CFO, who’s been…
Alex TaylorBBC News reporter BBC Morning Live Former Para-athletic world champion Stef Reid wants sport footwear companies to match their inclusive marketing with genuine action Stef Reid grew up as a sports-obsessed child, dreaming of playing rugby internationally. But on the eve of her 16th birthday, her life changed forever. Severe propeller lacerations from a…
A further two inquests have been opened into the deaths of former patients of jailed surgeon Ian Paterson. Judge Richard Foster opened the inquests of Pauline Brown, who died aged 62, and Jennifer Fox, who died aged 47, at Birmingham Coroners’ Court on Tuesday. There are now 65 inquests ongoing into the deaths of patients…
Antonia Matthews and Danielle HerbertBBC Wales Corinne Wardle Molly had nine hours of surgery, aged just 12 weeks, when the tumour was finally discovered A mum whose baby daughter was diagnosed with a brain tumour, after her symptoms were dismissed as colic and reflux for more than two months, is calling for better awareness of…
By Bloomberg Published September 30, 2025 On Holding AG appointed a new chief operating officer (COO) as the Swiss brand looks to scale up innovations like its Lightspray shoemaking robots and take more market share from rivals Nike Inc. and Adidas AG. On – On Scott Maguire, who joined as On’s chief innovation officer in…
On Thursday, I published a story about the police-tech giant Flock Safety selling its drones to the private sector to track shoplifters. Keith Kauffman, a former police chief who now leads Flock’s drone efforts, described the ideal scenario: A security team at a Home Depot, say, launches a drone from the roof that follows shoplifting…
Wes Streeting has ruled out introducing value added tax (VAT) on private healthcare at the forthcoming Budget. It comes after newspaper reports that the Treasury was looking at bringing private healthcare services within scope of the sales tax. But asked whether this was under consideration, the health secretary told BBC Breakfast: “it’s not happening”. It…
Published September 30, 2025 ASOS delivered a full-year trading update on Tuesday and while it didn’t give much away in terms of what’s happening on the monetary front (but sales have been lower than expected and adjusted EBITDA is at the lower end of its forecast) it did show that progress is being made at…
