UK overall inflation remains at 3.8% in August, but food price growth climbs for fifth month in a row - business live

GSK laid out plans on Wednesday to invest $30bn (£22bn) in research and supply chains in the US over the next five years, in an announcement timed to coincide with Donald Trump’s state visit to the UK.This includes $1.2bn of new money to build an AI-powered biologics factory in Pennsylvania that will develop treatments for the lung disease COPD and asthma, as well as cancer. It will also fund the roll-out of AI across GSK’s existing five manufacturing sites in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Maryland and Montana. This will create hundreds of highly skilled jobs, on top of construction jobs, expanding GSK’s 15,000-strong US workforce

UK inflation holds steady at 3.8% as fuel prices offset falling air fares

UK inflation held steady in August, official figures show, maintaining pressure on households as the Bank of England prepares to keep borrowing costs at elevated levels.Figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show the annual rate of inflation as measured by the consumer price index remained at 3.8% last month, the same level as July and matching the forecasts of City economists.Financial markets are widely predicting Bank policymakers will keep interest rates on hold at 4% on Thursday amid signs of sustained inflationary pressures at almost twice its official 2% target rate.After sharp increases in the headline rate in recent months, the ONS said various price movements offset each other in August

ChatGPT developing age verification system to identify under-18 users after teen death

OpenAI will restrict how ChatGPT responds to a user it suspects is under 18, unless that user passes the company’s age estimation technology or provides ID, following legal action from the family of a 16-year-old who killed himself in April after months of conversations with the chatbot.OpenAI was prioritising “safety ahead of privacy and freedom for teens”, chief executive Sam Altman said in a blog post on Tuesday, stating “minors need significant protection.The company said that the way ChatGPT responds to a 15-year-old should look different than the way it responds to an adult.Altman said OpenAI plans to build an age-prediction system to estimate age based on how people use ChatGPT, and if there is doubt, the system will default to the under-18 experience. He said some users “in some cases or countries” may also be asked to provide ID to verify their age

How memes, gaming and internet culture all relate to the Charlie Kirk shooting

Hello, and welcome to TechScape. Dara Kerr here, filling in for Blake Montgomery, who promises he’ll come back from vacation. Meanwhile, I’m looking at the memes, gaming and internet culture behind the shooting of Charlie Kirk.The bullet that killed conservative activist was inscribed with a message: “Notices bulge OwO whats this?” The online world quickly recognized the reference. It’s a phrase used in internet culture to troll people in online role-play communities, specifically furries (a subculture that cosplays as anthropomorphic animal characters)

From the Pocket: they may be old but Scott Pendlebury’s Collingwood are wily and hungry

The “too old, too slow” slight is as old as football. In the AFL era, Hawthorn in 1991 and Geelong in 2011 both played like they were insulted at the idea of being pensioned off. But by today’s standards, the age composition of those two premiership teams shouldn’t have been cause for concern. Michael Tuck was 38 but it felt like he’d been 38 since the early 1980s. Chris Mew was 30 and Gary Ayres turned 31 on grand final day

County Championship: Notts build lead despite Fisher’s 10-wicket heroics for Surrey – as it happened

Seventeen wickets fell on a feet-tappingly tense day at the Oval, the game swinging like an out-of-kilter pendulum as the bowlers hunted in packs, with assistance from a pitch with a twinkle in its eye. Nottinghamshire finished the day with a lead of 277 and two wickets left, to leave Surrey the biggest score of the match to chase – but on a pitch that usually irons out.After a calm first hour Surrey collapsed from 101 for one to 173 all out, only for Nottinghamshire’s batters to repeat the feat, quickly 89 for six against the excellent Matt Fisher, who has picked up 10 wickets in the match and may have bowled himself on to the Lions’ winter tour of Australia. Liam Patterson-White and Lyndon James then added crucial late afternoon runs.Surrey announced that 80,000 people had come through the gates at the Oval to watch Championship cricket this year – a record for the 21st century