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• La startup TextWeave a obtenu un financement d'amorçage de 10 millions de dollars le mois dernier pour exploiter les LLM afin de générer des textes marketing pour les petits commerces. • La plateforme répond à des besoins de niche en matière de création de contenu, démontrant comment les solutions d'IA spécialisées alimentent la croissance des startups. • Ce financement s'inscrit dans les tendances d'adoption par les entreprises, où l'IA générative domine l'actualité des startups technologiques pour des tâches telles que la rédaction automatisée.

Philip Young change tous ses plaidoyers en culpabilité après avoir initialement nié les accusations de production d'images indécentes d'enfants Un ancien conseiller Conservative ayant reconnu près de 50 infractions pour avoir drogué, violé et agressé sexuellement son ex-épouse a plaidé coupable d'infractions supplémentaires de production d'images indécentes d'enfants. Philip Young, 49 ans, a plaidé coupable en janvier devant la Winchester crown court de 11 chefs d'accusation de viol et 11 chefs d'administration d'une substance avec l'intention de stupéfier son ex-épouse Joanne Young, 48 ans, qui a renoncé à son droit à l'anonymat. Continue reading...

• Anthony Odiong est accusé d'avoir abusé sexuellement de trois fidèles vulnérables sur le plan spirituel à Waco • Des plans sont en cours pour que l'archidiocèse catholique romain de La Nouvelle-Orléans retire le nom d'un prêtre d'une chapelle qu'il a aidé à construire à l'extérieur de la ville, alors qu'un procès pénal se profile au Texas pour l'ecclésiastique sur des accusations criminelles selon lesquelles il aurait abusé sexuellement de trois fidèles vulnérables sur le plan spirituel à cet endroit, a appris le Guardian. • Anthony Odiong aurait récolté 600 000 $ pour construire puis ouvrir la Our Lady of Guadalupe Healing Chapel à Luling, en Louisiane, en 2020, alors qu'il était curé d'une église adjacente, des années avant que les autorités ne l'inculpent pénalement au Texas, où il avait également exercé son ministère auparavant. Son nom figure depuis lors sur diverses inscriptions à l'extérieur de la chapelle et sur la structure elle-même, alors même que l'affaire pénale à son encontre progresse vers un procès. Continue reading...

Les conducteurs ne semblent pas découragés par les prix élevés du carburant et les prévisions météorologiques moroses, alors que des travaux de maintenance annoncent des retards pour les usagers du rail. Les automobilistes ont été avertis de s'attendre au trafic le plus dense pour un week-end prolongé de mai au Royaume-Uni depuis des années, malgré le coût élevé du carburant et la fin imminente de la période ensoleillée qui menace de gâcher ce long week-end. Plus de 19 millions de trajets de loisirs en voiture sont attendus entre vendredi et lundi, selon une étude de l'organisation automobile RAC – un record depuis 2016. Des travaux de maintenance sont également susceptibles de perturber les trajets ferroviaires ce week-end. Lire la suite...

Le véhicule circulait à Juvisy-sur-Orge lorsqu'il a quitté la route et est tombé dans le fleuve. Quatre personnes ont été secourues dans la Seine près de Paris après qu'un bus conduit par un chauffeur stagiaire est entré en collision avec un véhicule en stationnement avant de plonger dans le fleuve. Le bus traversait la ville de Juvisy-sur-Orge, au sud-est de la capitale française, lorsqu'il a dévié de sa trajectoire et est tombé dans la Seine, a indiqué le parquet. Lire la suite...

• FOX Business Network (FBN) a surpassé CNBC en termes d'audience sur la journée de travail, les heures de marché et la programmation de l'ensemble de la journée en avril 2026, selon les données de Nielsen Media Research publiées le 29 avril. • Les émissions phares de FBN, « Varney & Co. » et « Kudlow », ont maintenu leurs positions en tant que deux meilleurs programmes d'affaires à la télévision, atteignant respectivement leurs 50e et 55e mois consécutifs de dépassement de leurs homologues de CNBC. • Cette victoire d'audience souligne la domination compétitive de FOX Business sur le marché de l'information financière durant une période marquée par d'importantes annonces de politique de la Réserve fédérale et par la volatilité du marché.

• Des militants affirment que les arrêtés de protection des espaces publics sont également utilisés pour criminaliser un large éventail d'activités quotidiennes • Un conseil local sur cinq a interdit les jurons en vertu de nouveaux arrêtés dits « importunes », contre un sur 20 en 2022. • Un nouveau rapport de la Campaign for Freedom in Everyday Life a révélé que les public spaces protection orders (PSPOs) – initialement destinés à lutter contre les comportements antisociaux graves – sont utilisés par les conseils d'Angleterre et du Pays de Galles pour criminaliser un large éventail d'activités quotidiennes, telles que se tenir en groupe, crier ou ramasser des pierres.

• Les détenteurs de badges et les aidants signalent être harcelés, filmés et menacés par des inconnus qui pensent qu'ils simulent leur handicap. • Des personnes handicapées utilisant des badges bleus pour leurs activités quotidiennes affirment être harcelées, interrogées et même agressées, alors que la rhétorique anti-allocations se généralise au Royaume-Uni. • Environ 3 millions de personnes au Royaume-Uni possèdent désormais un badge bleu, dont un adulte sur 15 en Angleterre. Le nombre de personnes éligibles à ce dispositif – qui permet aux conducteurs de se garer sur des places plus accessibles – a conduit certains à mettre en garde contre les abus et la fraude. Lire la suite...

• Sky Roberts a déclaré que les survivants « se battent toujours pour être entendus » après que le roi, dont le frère Andrew a été accusé d'agression par Giuffre, n'a pas souhaité les rencontrer. • Le frère de la défunte Virginia Giuffre a critiqué le Roi Charles III pour ne pas avoir rencontré les survivants des abus de Jeffrey Epstein lors de sa visite aux États-Unis cette semaine. • « Les survivants sont ici, aux côtés de membres du Congrès, se battant toujours pour être entendus, poussant toujours pour une véritable responsabilisation, alors que bon nombre de figures puissantes liées à ces systèmes restent hors de portée, incapables de reconnaître les survivants face à face », a déclaré Sky Roberts, le frère de Giuffre. « On s'attendrait à ce que ce soit le moment pour le roi d'envoyer un message au monde own disant qu'il soutient les survivants. »

Des images de vidéosurveillance circulant sur les réseaux sociaux ont montré des enfants du centre de garde Little Aresha à Yogyakarta, la plupart âgés de moins de deux ans, allongés au sol en couches, les mains et les pieds liés avec des chiffons.

Lauren Ashley Mastrosa given 18-month community corrections order after book was read by handful of advance readersThe author behind an offensive novel depicting toddler role-play has been convicted but spared jail for penning child abuse material.Lauren Ashley Mastrosa, a 34-year-old former marketing executive for a Christian charity, wrote Daddy’s Little Toy under the pen name Tori Woods and published it through an online pre-release in March 2025. Continue reading...

Police warn of violent pornography and ‘toxic’ influencers as suicides outstrip homicides for third year runningThe first teenage girl has been identified as having been driven to kill herself after domestic violence, as police chiefs blamed violent pornography and “toxic” influencers for being behind a rise in teen abuse.Suicides after domestic abuse have outstripped homicides for the third year running, according to the Domestic Homicide Project, which records deaths in England and Wales after domestic abuse. Continue reading...

• Delta Air Lines reported first-quarter net income of $1.8 billion, up 22% year-over-year, benefiting from strong leisure and business travel demand with average fares rising 8% despite lower capacity growth across the industry. • CEO Ed Bastian stated that forward bookings through summer 2026 indicate "resilient demand," with premium cabin bookings up 15%, offsetting concerns about potential economic slowdown and suggesting corporate travel spending remains solid. • The strong results bolstered airline sector sentiment, lifting Southwest Airlines and United Airlines stocks by 2.4% and 1.9% respectively on optimism about sustained pricing power and margin expansion through peak summer travel season.

Students aged 12 to 15 steered bus to safety and called for help after driver lost consciousness from asthma attackMiddle school students in Mississippi acted quickly to halt their school bus from crashing after their driver passed out while on a highway, prompting the operator to declare: “They saved my life.”The bus in question had just left the Hancock middle school in the Mississippi community of Kiln on Wednesday when the driver, Leah Taylor, suffered an asthma attack and lost consciousness. Continue reading...

Kendrick Guidry, alone among judges, initially ruled that the state supreme court’s decision to uphold a ‘lookback window’ for abuse claims did not set a binding precedentOnly one judge in Louisiana has ruled in favor of the Catholic church’s ongoing attempts to strike down a law there which allowed old abuse claims their day in court – even after a state supreme court decision upheld the constitutionality of that so-called “lookback window”.But now, that judge – Kendrick J Guidry of Lake Charles – is being forced to acknowledge that his ruling benefited a specific church on whose finance committee he sits, giving him a direct financial interest that required his recusal under the state’s judicial code. Continue reading...

Labour MPs are reportedly urging colleagues to demand Burnham’s return in order to position him as Starmer’s eventual successorIf Keir Starmer is looking for a saviour to keep him in No 10 after the May elections and the scandal of the Mandelson saga, there is an unlikely figure in the north-west who might help him – temporarily.It has been the week where the prime minister seemed at his most isolated. But Labour MPs told the Guardian they were urging colleagues not to depose Starmer next month, and were instead preparing to demand that Andy Burnham return to parliament in order to succeed him before the next general election. Continue reading...

Police allegedly found images on iCloud account of singer accused of killing 14-year-old Celeste Rivas HernandezA Los Angeles prosecutor said that the singer D4vd, who was charged this week in the killing of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, was in possession of a “significant amount of child pornography”.Police allegedly found the images on the iCloud account of the 21-year-old singer, whose legal name is David Anthony Burke. Continue reading...

HMRC owed more than £640,00 by company that advised clients such as TikTok, GSK and PalantirPeter Mandelson’s former consultancy business, Global Counsel, went bust owing £4.6m – including more than £600,000 to the taxman – a report by the group’s administrators reveals.The company, which provided advice to high-profile clients including Chinese-owned TikTok, US tech business Palantir and UK pharmaceutical firm GSK, collapsed into administration in February, after it lost a series of accounts over the peer’s relationship with the convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Continue reading...

Analyst who worked on Internet Watch Foundation report says content exists ‘across all social media platforms’ and is ‘very easy’ to findThe number of commercial child sexual abuse websites has doubled in a year as experts say that criminal gangs are making “huge profits” from online sexual exploitation.According to data collected by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), 15,031 commercial child sexual abuse sites were found in 2025, compared with 7,028 found in 2024, a 114% increase. Continue reading...

Partner of soldier accused of war crimes says the couple discussed possibility of moving overseas to ‘create some normalcy in our lives’Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastBen Roberts-Smith was planning to leave Australia to live overseas and had a business class flight out of the country booked in four days’ time when he was arrested at Sydney airport this month, court documents allege, with investigators telling a court “his willingness to return to Australia to face prosecution cannot be judged”.Roberts-Smith was ultimately granted bail last week under strict conditions, a move opposed by prosecutors who said there was potential concern he was a flight risk and might try to avoid ever having to face trial for a series of alleged murders he committed in Afghanistan. Continue reading...

• The number of small businesses in the United States continues to grow amid entrepreneurial optimism. • Owners report increasing difficulty securing startup capital needed to launch and expand operations. • Policies associated with President Trump are cited by business leaders as dampening access to financing for new entrepreneurs pursuing the American Dream.

Exclusive: Corrective Services investigates how Richard Guilliatt of The Australian was able to interview Rob and Karen Gilfillan for Shadow of DoubtFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastCorrective Services New South Wales is investigating how a journalist from The Australian was able to interview a man and a woman convicted of abusing their daughter for a podcast that raised questions about their guilt.After legal restrictions were lifted last month the victim said the podcast had been highly detrimental to her mental health. Continue reading...

Amid growing congressional scrutiny of his conduct, Patel has claimed he has ‘never been intoxicated on the job’US politics live – latest updatesHouse judiciary Democrats have launched a formal inquiry into FBI director, Kash Patel’s alleged drinking habits, demanding he complete a standardized alcohol abuse assessment and submit the results to Congress.In a letter sent on Tuesday, led by Jamie Raskin, a Maryland representative, Democrats on the committee called on Patel to take the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (Audit) – a 10-question World Health Organization screening tool used to identify harmful patterns of drinking – along with a sworn statement attesting to his answers. Lawmakers also requested all security clearance questionnaires Patel has completed since taking the role. Continue reading...

ABF, which owns Kingsmill, Twinings and Patak’s, to demerge fashion chain to maximise shareholder returnsBusiness live – latest updatesPrimark is to break free from its sister food company, which owns Twinings, Kingsmill and Patak’s, next year despite warning that the conflict in the Middle East is likely to hit consumer spending.The fashion chain’s owner, Associated British Foods (ABF), confirmed the plan to split off Primark from the rest of the group, first mooted last year. Continue reading...

‘Stone age’ system of booking cross-border rail tickets holding back climate action by consumers, says thinktankEurope’s “stone age” system of booking train tickets makes it needlessly difficult for travellers to avoid polluting flights, a report has found.Booking equivalent train tickets is “difficult or impossible” on almost half of the EU’s busiest international air routes, analysis from the Transport & Environment (T&E) thinktank shows. Continue reading...

Preston Davey died aged 13 months after ‘routine abuse’ by Jamie Varley and his partner, John McGowan-Fazakerley, jury hearsA baby boy was “routinely ill-treated, sexually abused and physically assaulted” before he was killed by a secondary school teacher adopting him, a jury has heard.Jamie Varley, the teacher, 37, and his partner, John McGowan-Fazakerley, 32, were in the process of adopting Preston Davey. Continue reading...

The 82-year-old was accused of abusing girls in the 1960s but was acquitted in Perth despite judge finding the alleged victim was telling the truthGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe former champion footballer Barry Cable has been acquitted of a slew of historical child sexual abuse charges despite a judge finding the alleged victim was likely telling the truth.The 82-year-old faced a judge-only criminal trial over allegations he abused a girl aged about eight or nine at his family home in the late 1960s. Continue reading...

Owner of X summoned along with former CEO Linda Yaccarino over investigation by cybercrime unitBusiness live – latest updatesEurope live – latest updatesElon Musk has been summoned to Paris, where investigators are looking into allegations of misconduct related to the social media platform X, including the spread of child sexual abuse material and deepfake content.The world’s richest man and Linda Yaccarino – the former chief executive of X – were on Monday summoned for “voluntary interviews”, while other employees of the platform were scheduled to be heard as witnesses throughout this week, the Paris prosecutor’s office said. Continue reading...

Retail analysts say breaking up food and fashion group would make sense in challenging business environmentPrimark may break free from Kingsmill, Twinings and the sugar business this week when Associated British Foods announces plans on a mooted demerger.The potential split comes at a tricky time for the group controlled by the billionaire Weston family, with its fashion and food arms facing tough competition and rising costs. Continue reading...