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Sony collars Snoopy in £340m deal to take control of Peanuts franchise

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Japanese conglomerate raises to 80% its stake in firm that owns the intellectual property created by Charles SchulzBusiness live – latest updatesSony has taken control of Charles Schulz’s Peanuts franchise including Snoopy and Charlie Brown in a deal worth C$630m (£340m).The Japanese conglomerate has bought 41% of Peanuts Holdings, which owns the intellectual property Schulz […]

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Television in titbits: the rise of the billion-dollar microdrama industry

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Hollywood is betting big on vertical microdramas told in chunks under two minutes. Can a gimmick turn into a new form of entertainment?If you have been anywhere close to the social media blast radius of The Summer I Turned Pretty, Amazon Prime’s breakout YA series on a tortuous teen love triangle, you may be familiar

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Proposal to allow use of Australian copyrighted material to train AI abandoned after backlash

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Productivity Commission recommends waiting three years to establish review into technology after furious response from creative industriesFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Productivity Commission has abandoned a proposal to allow tech companies to mine copyrighted material to train artificial intelligence models, after

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UK’s largest proposed datacentre ‘understating planned water use’

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Analysis suggests consumption at Northumberland site could be 50 times higher than US operator QTS estimatesThe UK’s largest proposed datacentre is understating the scale of its planned water use, according to an analysis.The first phase of construction for the hyperscale campus in Cambois in Northumberland has been given the go-ahead by the local council. The

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Unsloth AI and NVIDIA are Revolutionizing Local LLM Fine-Tuning: From RTX Desktops to DGX Spark

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Fine-tune popular AI models faster with Unsloth on NVIDIA RTX AI PCs such as GeForce RTX desktops and laptops to RTX PRO workstations and the new DGX Spark to build personalized assistants for coding, creative work, and complex agentic workflows. The landscape of modern AI is shifting. We are moving away from a total reliance

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UK actors vote to refuse to be digitally scanned in pushback against AI

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Equity says vote signals strong opposition to AI use and readiness to disrupt productions unless protections are securedActors have voted to refuse digital scanning to prevent their likeness being used by artificial intelligence in a pushback against AI in the arts.Members of the performing arts union Equity were asked if they would refuse to be

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George Osborne has a new job in tech, and it doesn’t bode well for Britain | Chris Stokel-Walker

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OpenAI is the latest to make a political hire as big tech spreads its tentacles around the world. So what’s the attraction?George Osborne getting a new job isn’t exactly news. Since leaving frontline politics, the former chancellor has served as the chair of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership, edited (not entirely successfully) the Evening Standard, advised

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‘Uniquely evil’: Michigan residents fight against huge datacenter backed by top tycoons

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Locals band together in David v Goliath battle against facility they say would jack up bills, increase pollution and destroy area’s characterA who’s who of the nation’s most powerful politicians and tech tycoons are forcing through a proposal for a huge datacenter in rural Michigan as locals from across the political spectrum have come out

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AI boom has caused same CO2 emissions in 2025 as New York City, report claims

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Study author says tech companies are reaping benefits of artificial intelligence age but society is left to pay costThe AI boom has caused as much carbon dioxide to be released into the atmosphere in 2025 as emitted by the whole of New York City, it has been claimed.The global environmental impact of the rapidly spreading

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