Anthropic confidentially files for initial public offering on US stock market
Posted on Monday June 01, 2026

Financial stakes of AI race rise as Elon Musk’s SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic are slated to go public this year

Anthropic has filed confidentially for an initial public offering on the US stock market, the company announced on Monday. The AI firm makes the Claude chatbot, popular with software engineers and other business clients, and has seen a meteoric rise this year.

The company did not disclose the valuation it will target on the stock market, nor did it make public other terms of the offering. The startup announced on Thursday that it had raised $65bn in funding to value the company at $965bn post-money. Anthropic was valued at $380bn in February.

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‘Utter disaster’: Alan Bates attacks schemes compensating post office operators
Posted on Monday June 01, 2026

Government should not be involved in providing redress to victims of Horizon IT scandal, campaigner tells MPs

Sir Alan Bates has said that the schemes set up to compensate post office operators over the Horizon IT scandal have been an “utter disaster” and that the government should not be involved in running them.

Bates, who led a two-decade fight for justice for thousands of post office operators falsely accused and wrongfully convicted for theft and false accounting, has previously accused the government of presiding over a “quasi-kangaroo court” system for compensation.

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London tube strike to go ahead after 11th-hour talks fail to find resolution
Posted on Monday June 01, 2026

About half of drivers will take action on Tuesday as RMT blames TfL’s ‘refusal to engage meaningfully’

The strike on the London Underground will go ahead on Tuesday after a day of talks failed to avert industrial action.

About half of London’s tube drivers will take action, bringing widespread transport disruption to the capital. A second strike is planned for Thursday.

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‘Catastrophic for creative industries’: Brexit barriers shut UK actors out of EU jobs
Posted on Monday June 01, 2026

Casting shifts to EU talent as paperwork delays and visa limits make hiring British crews less viable

From blacklists for UK passport holders to being asked to work illegally while on holiday, the plethora of extra costs and red tape thrown up post-Brexit are restricting opportunities for British actors seeking work in the EU.

Mainland Europe has always been a springboard for those in the creative industries, from gaining crucial first credits on a TV, film or theatre production to building a marketable resume and paying the bills while attempting to make it big in the UK or US.

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Nvidia launches ‘superchip’ putting AI power into laptops and PCs
Posted on Monday June 01, 2026

Firm says its RTX Spark PC chip for Microsoft Windows will let AI agents replace the mouse and keyboard

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A new front has opened up in the battle for dominance in AI chips, as Nvidia said its latest development could replace the mouse and keyboard in how people use computers.

The $5tn (£3.7tn) US semiconductor company has launched a “superchip” that puts AI capabilities into laptops and desktop computers, a move that will pit it against Intel, Apple, Qualcomm and AMD.

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Charities decry UK plan to use AI to assess age of young asylum seekers
Posted on Monday June 01, 2026

Coalition of more than 100 organisations says move could lead to more children ending up in adult detention facilities

A coalition of more than a hundred refugee children’s organisations has said controversial plans to use AI to assess the age of young asylum seekers could lead to more children wrongly ending up in adult prisons or detention centres.

The warning follows a Home Office announcement on Friday of a contract to roll out AI facial age estimation technology on young asylum seekers whose age is disputed.

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Serena Williams confirms her tennis comeback at Queen’s next week aged 44
Posted on Monday June 01, 2026

• Calls the event ‘perfect place’ for her return to court

• Williams will play doubles with Victoria Mboko

Serena Williams, one of the greatest athletes of all time, has announced her return to professional tennis next week at Queen’s Club.

The 44-year-old will return to competition with a wildcard into the doubles draw in the WTA 500 event in west London. She has not competed since the US Open in 2022, where she described her departure from the sport as “evolving away” from tennis rather than retirement. However, Williams remained on the retired players’ list until last year.

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McCullum and Key are lucky to have kept their jobs. Now they have to nail England’s rebuild | Mark Ramprakash
Posted on Monday June 01, 2026

Series against New Zealand will be a litmus test to see if the leadership team’s failed approach has really changed

There’s a quote from Legacy, James Kerr’s book about the All Blacks, that I have always liked: “Our values decide our character, our character decides our value.” As England’s Test side sets about its great post-Ashes reset, I think it is applicable.

Culture is a work in progress and always will be, and the positive that has emerged from their winter in Australia – when, on and off the field, their culture was found wanting – is that they now have an opportunity and an appetite to reset it.

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