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• Startup TextWeave mengamankan pendanaan seed sebesar $10 juta bulan lalu untuk memanfaatkan LLM dalam menghasilkan copy pemasaran bagi toko-toko kecil. • Platform ini menjawab kebutuhan ceruk dalam pembuatan konten, menunjukkan bagaimana solusi AI khusus mendorong pertumbuhan startup. • Pendanaan ini selaras dengan tren adopsi perusahaan, di mana AI generatif mendominasi berita startup teknologi untuk tugas-tugas seperti penulisan otomatis.

• Philip Young mengubah semua pengakuan menjadi bersalah setelah awalnya membantah dakwaan pembuatan gambar tidak senonoh anak-anak • Seorang mantan anggota dewan Konservatif yang mengakui hampir 50 tindak pidana pembiusan, pemerkosaan, dan pelecehan seksual terhadap mantan istrinya telah mengaku bersalah atas tindak pidana tambahan berupa pembuatan gambar tidak senonoh anak-anak • Philip Young, 49, mengaku bersalah pada bulan Januari di Winchester crown court atas 11 dakwaan pemerkosaan dan 11 dakwaan pemberian zat dengan maksud untuk membius mantan istrinya Joanne Young, 48, yang telah melepaskan hak anonimitasnya. Lanjutkan membaca...

• Anthony Odiong dituduh melakukan pelecehan seksual terhadap tiga jemaat perempuan yang rentan secara spiritual di Waco • Rencana sedang berjalan bagi keuskupan agung Katolik Roma New Orleans untuk menghapus nama seorang pastor dari kapel yang ia bantu bangun di luar kota seiring mendekatnya persidangan pidana di Texas bagi pastor tersebut atas dakwaan pelecehan seksual terhadap tiga jemaat perempuan yang rentan di sana, menurut laporan Guardian • Anthony Odiong dilaporkan telah mengumpulkan $600.000 untuk membangun dan kemudian membuka Our Lady of Guadalupe Healing Chapel di Luling, Louisiana, pada tahun 2020, saat ia menjadi pastor di gereja yang berdekatan, bertahun-tahun sebelum pihak berwenang mendakwanya secara pidana di Texas, tempat ia juga pernah melayani sebelumnya

Para pengemudi tampaknya tidak gentar dengan tingginya harga bahan bakar dan prakiraan cuaca yang buruk, sementara pekerjaan teknis mengakibatkan penundaan bagi penumpang kereta api. Pengendara telah diperingatkan untuk mengantisipasi lalu lintas libur bank Mei tersibuk di Inggris dalam beberapa tahun terakhir, meskipun harga bahan bakar tinggi dan berakhirnya periode cuaca cerah mengancam akan mengganggu akhir pekan panjang tersebut. Lebih dari 19 juta perjalanan wisata dengan mobil diperkirakan terjadi sepanjang akhir pekan panjang dari Jumat hingga Senin, menurut riset oleh organisasi otomotif RAC – yang terbanyak sejak 2016. Pekerjaan teknis juga kemungkinan akan mengganggu perjalanan kereta api akhir pekan ini. Lanjutkan membaca...

Kendaraan sedang melaju melalui Juvisy-sur-Orge ketika keluar jalur dan jatuh ke sungai. Empat orang telah diselamatkan dari Seine dekat Paris setelah bus yang dikemudikan oleh pengemudi magang bertabrakan dengan kendaraan yang sedang parkir sebelum terjun ke sungai. Bus tersebut sedang melaju melalui kota Juvisy-sur-Orge di tenggara ibu kota Prancis ketika keluar jalur dan jatuh ke Seine, kata jaksa. Lanjutkan membaca...

• FOX Business Network (FBN) melampaui CNBC dalam jumlah penonton di seluruh program hari bisnis, jam pasar, dan sepanjang hari selama April 2026, menurut data Nielsen Media Research yang dirilis pada 29 April. • Acara unggulan FBN "Varney & Co." dan "Kudlow" mempertahankan posisi mereka sebagai dua program bisnis teratas di televisi, mencapai bulan ke-50 dan ke-55 berturut-turut dalam mengungguli rekan-rekan mereka di CNBC secara berurutan. • Kemenangan rating ini menegaskan dominasi kompetitif FOX Business di pasar berita keuangan selama periode pengumuman kebijakan Federal Reserve yang signifikan dan volatilitas pasar.

Para kampanye menyatakan bahwa perintah perlindungan ruang publik juga digunakan untuk mengkriminalisasi berbagai aktivitas sehari-hari • Satu dari lima dewan lokal telah melarang kata-kata kasar di bawah perintah "busybody" yang baru, meningkat dari satu banding 20 dewan pada tahun 2022. • Laporan baru dari Campaign for Freedom in Everyday Life menemukan bahwa public spaces protection orders (PSPOs) – yang awalnya dimaksudkan untuk menangani perilaku anti-sosial yang serius – digunakan oleh dewan di Inggris dan Wales untuk mengkriminalisasi berbagai aktivitas sehari-hari, termasuk berdiri dalam kelompok, berteriak, dan memungut batu. Baca selengkapnya...

• Pemegang lencana dan pengasuh melaporkan adanya pelecehan, direkam, dan diancam oleh orang asing yang menganggap mereka memalsukan disabilitas. • Penyandang disabilitas yang menggunakan blue badge untuk menjalani aktivitas sehari-hari mengatakan bahwa mereka dilecehkan, dipertanyakan, dan bahkan diserang, seiring dengan retorika anti-tunjangan yang menjadi lebih arus utama di Inggris. • Sekitar 3 juta orang di Inggris saat ini memiliki blue badge, termasuk 1 dari 15 orang dewasa di Inggris. Jumlah orang yang memenuhi syarat untuk skema ini – yang memungkinkan pengemudi parkir di ruang yang lebih mudah diakses – telah menyebabkan beberapa pihak memperingatkan adanya penyalahgunaan dan penipuan.

Sky Roberts said survivors ‘still fighting to be heard’ after king, whose brother Andrew was accused of assault by Giuffre, did not meet with themThe brother of the late Virginia Giuffre criticized King Charles III for not meeting with survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse during his visit to the United States this week.“Survivors are here sitting with members of Congress, still fighting to be heard, still pushing for real accountability, while many of the powerful figures connected to these systems remain just out of reach, unable to acknowledge survivors face to face,” Giuffre’s brother Sky Roberts said. “You would expect this to be a moment for the king to give a message to the world that he stands with survivors.” Continue reading...

CCTV footage circulating on social media showed children at the Little Aresha daycare centre in Yogyakarta, most under two, lying on the floor wearing only diapers with their hands and feet bound with rags.

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.

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...

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...

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...