City firms bank on ‘Savvy Squirrel’ advertising campaign to push Britons towards investing The campaign is part of government initiative to boost financial risk taking, amid fears UK growth is being stymied
Number of billionaires globally could reach 4,000 in next five years There are now 3,110 billionaires but analysis shows ‘deep structural acceleration’ in wealth creation around world
The Onion plans to lease Alex Jones’s Infowars after judge blocks purchase The satirical website’s parent company will have to pay $81,000 a month to the misinformation platform
Richard Desmond loses £1.3bn damages battle over national lottery licence Media tycoon vows to appeal after dismissal of action against Gambling Commission for awarding Allwyn the franchise
Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings to leave streaming service Chair’s decision to not seek re-election ‘not as a result of any disagreement’, company says in filing
News of BBC jobs cuts ‘real concern’, says UK’s culture secretary Lisa Nandy says staff have been strongly affected as some express frustration that high-paid presenters and executives likely to be safe
Starmer tells social media firms: ‘Things can’t go on like this’ PM demands real world changes in Downing Street meeting with senior figures from Meta, TikTok, Google and X
BBC to cut up to 2,000 jobs in biggest downsize in 15 years Announcement comes before Matt Brittin replaces Tim Davie as director general next month
Lidl and Iceland ads are first banned under new UK junk food rules ASA rules ads on Instagram and Daily Mail website broke ban on promoting items high in fat, salt and sugar
Telegraph takeover by German buyer cleared by culture secretary Lisa Nandy says there are no grounds to refer Axel Springer deal to Ofcom, ending almost three years of uncertainty for titles
Gary Neville’s media group buys football YouTuber Mark Goldbridge’s channels Exclusive: Neville has criticised “those bloody YouTubers” – but The Overlap has now acquired channels with 3.7m subscribers for seven-figure sum
Judge dismisses Trump’s lawsuit against Wall Street Journal and Murdoch Judge rules complaint fails to outline malice after Trump argued lewd drawing allegedly sent to Epstein at heart of story was fake
Meta creating AI version of Mark Zuckerberg so staff can talk to the boss Digital clone being trained on his thoughts, tone and mannerisms to help workers feel connected
Elon Musk’s X cuts payments to users who post clickbait Platform says it will reward original creators as it penalises ‘aggregators’ for flooding timelines with ‘stolen posts’
Crispin Odey drops £79m libel claim against FT over sexual misconduct allegations Ex-hedge fund manager ‘forced to accept’ newspaper likely to succeed in its public interest defence, say his lawyers