Former City trader’s weekly Gary’s Economics videos took off during the Covid pandemicThe City trader turned wealth tax campaigner Gary Stevenson has announced he is quitting the YouTube channel that made his name, citing health concerns.His announcement, in a 48-minute address to camera, came after a mixed reaction to a televised documentary that brought him to a wider audience but drew some scepticism from left-leaning tax experts as well as more rightwing critics. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jul/26/gary-stevenson-to-quit-youtube-channel-garys-economics">Continue reading...</a>

Former City trader’s weekly Gary’s Economics videos took off during the Covid pandemic

Gary Stevenson to quit YouTube channel, citing health concerns

Government-backed investigation finds risks are normalised amid ‘a narrowing of the public conversation’ Journalists are self-censoring their reporting on rightwing protests, Donald Trump’s administration and trans issues because of growing concerns about their personal safety, with newsrooms accused of “normalising” the risks they face.Hundreds of journalists from across the UK have anonymously disclosed increasing nervousness over their security. Some have reported avoiding or altering coverage on certain topics due to intimidation, leading to self-censorship and “a narrowing of the public conversation”. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jul/26/uk-journalists-changed-how-what-report-fears-safety">Continue reading...</a>

Government-backed investigation finds risks are normalised amid ‘a narrowing of the public conversation’

UK journalists ‘self-censoring stories about Trump and the right over safety fears’

Vega made remarks to ABC’s John Quiñones at National Association of Hispanic Journalists conference Cecilia Vega, the former 60 Minutes correspondent, said on Thursday she felt pressured by CBS News’s executives to incorporate “political bias” into segments for the broadcast program.Vega made the remarks during an onstage interview with John Quiñones, the ABC News correspondent, at the National Association of Hispanic Journalists’ annual conference in New Orleans. Her comments were first reported by <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.status.news/p/cecilia-vega-cbs-60-minutes-bari-weiss">Status</a>. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/25/cecilia-vega-60-minutes-cbs-political-bias">Continue reading...</a>

Vega made remarks to ABC’s John Quiñones at  National Association of Hispanic Journalists conference

Cecilia Vega of 60 Minutes says she felt pressure from CBS to add ‘political bias’

Director Ryan Coogler announces British actor in lead role alongside co-stars Letitia Wright and Winston DukeThe British actor David Jonsson has been unveiled as the new Black Panther by the film’s director, Ryan Coogler.Jonsson, 32, known for roles in Industry, The Long Walk and Alien: Romulus, will play the son of Chadwick Boseman’s T’Challa in the third Black Panther movie. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jul/26/industry-star-david-jonsson-to-play-black-panther-in-marvel-sequel">Continue reading...</a>

Director Ryan Coogler announces British actor in lead role alongside co-stars Letitia Wright and Winston Duke

Industry star David Jonsson to play Black Panther in Marvel sequel

Not even a grisly hand injury could halt the rise of the Saturday Night Live UK comedian. And soon he’ll get to parody the prime minister every week. So why can’t he enjoy the good times?The day before I’m supposed to watch Paddy Young perform a work-in-progress version of his new show Will Sir Be Laughing Alone?, I’m told the gig has been cancelled; the standup has sliced his hand open and is about to have surgery. Soon after, Young shares a <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DZe8TzMDfpa/">photo of himself on Instagram</a> in a hospital gown, thanking the Australian comedian Sam Campbell for “bringing the sword to my home” – a post quickly rehashed by the tabloids (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/snl-uk-star-paddy-young-37292050">The Mirror</a>: “SNL UK star Paddy Young hospitalised after samurai sword accident”). When I finally see him on stage a fortnight later, he’s dosed up on codeine, his arm is in a sling and he’s in the uncertain early stages of refashioning this bizarre anecdote into a routine.“You’re getting an exclusive on the hand,” he tells me in an east London coffee shop the next day, after I’ve opened a bottle of water for him. Young and Campbell, who recently collaborated on the winningly madcap Channel 4 series Make That Movie, were preparing to host their occasional comedy night Floggers, which involves them dressing up as old men (fat suits, wigs, prosthetics) and helming a real daytime TV-style auction. Campbell had ordered the sword online as a prop, and when the pair’s Uber arrived Young hurriedly picked up the bag it was in. “Blood splattered up the wall like Kill Bill – we all laughed initially.” When his housemates removed the tea towel they’d wrapped around his hand “they could see yellow, which I think is tendon or muscle. Then I fainted.” He went to A&amp;E for stitches but still did the show afterwards – “I cringe thinking about it because I was basically juggling [in the show]” – returning to hospital later to learn that one tendon was 90% lacerated and required an operation. Just before surgery, Young passed out again. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/jul/26/paddy-young-comedian-saturday-night-live-interview">Continue reading...</a>

Not even a grisly hand injury could halt the rise of the Saturday Night Live UK comedian. And soon he’ll get to parody the prime minister every week. So ...

‘Andy Burnham can grow a moustache!’: SNL UK’s Paddy Young on breakout stardom – and impersonating the new PM

More than seven decades after they were first released, the dark novels of Osamu Dazai have become a publishing sensation, as a new generation of readers engage with his bleakness, humour and brillianceThere’s no question that&nbsp;Japanese literature has&nbsp;been one of the outstanding successes for British bookshops in&nbsp;recent years: in 2024 close to half of the bestselling translated fiction titles were from Japan. Much of&nbsp;the Japanese fiction translated into English fits into broad categories – cats, crime, coffee shops – but one surprise bestseller stands alone.Sales of books by Osamu Dazai, who&nbsp;killed himself in 1948 aged 38, have rocketed in the last few years. His&nbsp;best-known novel, No Longer Human (1948), has sold more than 75,000 copies in&nbsp;the UK alone. An&nbsp;intense semi-autobiographical account&nbsp;of one man’s alienation, it was&nbsp;the last work of&nbsp;fiction completed before Dazai’s death. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jul/26/from-author-to-anime-hero-the-unlikely-revival-of-a-japanese-literary-star">Continue reading...</a>

More than seven decades after they were first released, the dark novels of Osamu Dazai have become a publishing sensation, as a new generation of readers...

From author to anime hero: the unlikely revival of a Japanese literary star

From Mo Farah to Bus Aunty, new prime minister makes good on promise to ‘do things differently’ when it comes to communicationThey say a week is a long time in politics, but handily for followers of Andy Burnham on social media, you can get daily updates of what the new PM has been up to on his timeline.Before Burnham stepped inside No 10 this week he promised to “do things differently” in British politics. If his feed is anything to go by, he’s already way ahead of his predecessor. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/25/tiktok-andy-burnham-zohran-mamdani-social-media">Continue reading...</a>

From Mo Farah to Bus Aunty, new prime minister makes good on promise to ‘do things differently’ when it comes to communication

The UK’s first TikTok PM? Andy Burnham channels Zohran Mamdani as he hits social media

The hard-working character actor has over 400 screen credits, from The Thing to Platoon to Rick and Morty, and he isn’t slowing down any time soonKeith David’s voice precedes him. Deep and resonant, with mellifluous notes that hark back to his boys’ choir days, it has spent decades inhabiting warriors, gods, rogues, fathers and a welter of cartoon oddballs. Before David appears in a Zoom window from his Los Angeles home office, his voice reverberates through my tinny laptop speakers like a foghorn. “Can you see me now?” he booms once our connection is established after fits and starts. “OK. Outside of technology, you know I’m … OK.”He fizzes about the project he just wrapped: a dark buddy comedy called My Friend Jim, in which he stars opposite Rob Lowe. It’s the latest entry in a seemingly unstinting slew of productions that have kept him booked and busy since the late 1970s, from The Thing to Platoon to There’s Something About Mary to Nope. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jul/26/keith-david-president-curtis-actor-interview">Continue reading...</a>

The hard-working character actor has over 400 screen credits, from The Thing to Platoon to Rick and Morty, and he isn’t slowing down any time soon

Keith David on his incredible career: ‘I want you to understand Black men as full-scope human beings’

Twelve states led by California had obtained temporary restraining order blocking merger from closing for 28 daysParamount ⁠Skydance ⁠has agreed to ​pause its $110bn acquisition ⁠of ​Warner ‌Bros ‌Discovery until a ‌ruling on several states’ challenge ‌to the deal, or ​until 1 June ⁠2027, according ​to court ​papers ​filed ​on Friday.A group of 12 US states headed by California obtained a temporary restraining order this week that blocked the merger from closing for 28 days, pending the outcome of a motion for a preliminary injunction. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/24/paramount-warner-bros-merger">Continue reading...</a>

Twelve states led by California had obtained temporary restraining order blocking merger from closing for 28 days

Paramount agrees to pause $110bn Warner Bros merger as case plays out

Both restaurant work and medicine involve abusive training and relentless devotion to minutiae – and the joy of offering comfortI pass a mother heaving in grief while her son’s heart monitors flatline. It is the last time she will ever hold his hand. For me, this is another day on call in the intensive care unit as a pediatric physician. For her, this is the day her life shatters.Later that night, a striking, charismatic surgeon from work treats me to an exquisite meal. Served outside a trailer, humidity barreling through our scrubs, the food is neither extravagant nor decadent. It is, however, the most succulent Texas barbecue brisket I will ever taste. This is the night I rest my head on his shoulder and he doesn’t flinch. This is the night an “us” was born. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/26/the-pitt-hospital-work-the-bear">Continue reading...</a>

Both restaurant work and medicine involve abusive training and relentless devotion to minutiae – and the joy of offering comfort

The Pitt is powerful – but it’s the rawness of The Bear that truly portrays hospital work

There’s no denying the power of the film on the big screen. But how far should modern moral sensibilities influence adaptations of classics?Everyone knows how dumb it is to be this person: the one who mourns the film adaptation of a favourite text because it misses out this scene, or misreads that particularly beloved character, or has a slightly “inauthentic” take on some detail. Of course I’m talking about Christopher Nolan’s film adaptation of the Odyssey, a poem I have loved since I was a teenager. I enjoyed the movie, in common with a huge number of other people. It seems remarkable, even dizzying, that the adaptation of a nearly 3,000-year-old poem <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jul/20/the-odyssey-box-office">took $264m</a> (£196m) at the box office over its opening weekend, has sent translations of the Odyssey <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/books/odyssey-book-editions.html">surging up the bestseller charts</a>, and is sold out (for instance) at London’s BFI Imax screen deep into September. We are living in an <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/12/epic-win-why-the-odyssey-is-having-a-moment">Odyssey time</a>, amid an Odyssey frenzy.There is no point trying to be a purist about a beloved classic text. Whoever reads the Odyssey, including Nolan, inescapably does so through the prism of their prejudices, informed by the conditions of their own place and time. Since the Odyssey is the result of decades, maybe centuries, of non-literate oral poets working with memory and improvisation, there’s no precise “original” place or time to return to, anyway. But what I can’t help doing is observe the choices Nolan has made and think about their consequences – because there are always divides in the road, paths not taken by any adapter. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/25/christopher-nolan-odyssey-homer-epic-film-classics">Continue reading...</a>

There’s no denying the power of the film on the big screen. But how far should modern moral sensibilities influence adaptations of classics?

Christopher Nolan has made an Odyssey for our times – by sacrificing the delicious darkness of Homer's epic | Charlotte Higgins

The new detective series with Emmy Rossum and Quincy Tyler Bernstine chasing a female serial killer is a must-see for Killing Eve fansA male friend recently attended a Lily Allen show, and shakily described the experience to me. “I felt like a vegetarian fox at an armed chicken convention,” he said. An overwhelmingly female crowd were experiencing powerful catharsis, united in their anger at men and joy of bangers. I told him chickens couldn’t handle firearms, but I don’t think he heard me. He had tinnitus from the screaming.There isn’t much screaming in Furious, Disney+’s new detective series (from Monday, 27 July). Also missing are the standard tropes of murder dramas: mutilated female bodies, an absence of women’s agency generally. Furious is the cat and mouse story between junior FBI agent Alice Black (Emmy Rossum) and Catherine (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/dec/25/lola-petticrew-interview-say-nothing-trespasses">Lola Petticrew</a>), a serial killer who is bumping off male victims with calculated sadism. Catherine might be the least serial killer name imaginable, but that’s just one way this show rewrites the rule book. I’d say it’s the most feminist show I’ve ever seen – except that might lead some to write it off. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/jul/25/furious-serial-killer-thriller-is-the-most-staggeringly-feminist-tv-youll-ever-watch">Continue reading...</a>

The new detective series with Emmy Rossum and Quincy Tyler Bernstine chasing a female serial killer is a must-see for Killing Eve fans

Furious: this serial killer thriller is the most staggeringly feminist TV you’ll ever watch

In this week’s newsletter: The release calendar is more shaped by award seasons than what viewers might be looking for, with even the big platforms offering little to get excited aboutBack in 2015, when I worked on the old print version of the Guide, we <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/picture/2015/jun/20/the-guide-cover">ran a cover</a> calling on readers to “Stay inside this summer”. Our argument went that, such was the <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/jun/20/top-summer-tv-shows-2015">amount of great TV</a> airing in the months from June to August that year (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/apr/09/hbo-true-detective-season-two-teaser-trailer">True Detective</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/aug/27/my-fat-mad-diary-sharon-rooney-box-set-review">My Mad Fat Diary</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/apr/12/veep-silicon-valley-hbo-satire">Veep</a> and, err, a show about Abz from the boyband 5ive’s new career in farming), you’d be a fool to head outside for some vitamin D.This wasn’t a contrarian viewpoint. Streaming’s sudden rise had broken down the walls that had previously left the summer a parched, desolate wasteland and kept the good TV penned into the more viewer-friendly periods of spring and autumn. Now, great new shows would arrive all year round. In the years that followed, some of the most talked-about scripted TV would debut around or after the solstice: Stranger Things, Yellowstone, Euphoria, I May Destroy You, The Bear, and plenty more besides. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/jul/24/once-the-season-of-surprise-break-out-hits-this-summers-tv-has-lost-its-heat">Continue reading...</a>

In this week’s newsletter: The release calendar is more shaped by award seasons than what viewers might be looking for, with even the big platforms offer...

The Guide #253: ​Once the season of surprise breakout hits, this summer’s TV has lost its heat

End of News Feed

On the latest episode of Equity, we discussed why Moonshot AI's Kimi seemed to panic Silicon Valley and Wall Street.

Making sense of the panic over Chinese AI

How one founder house is betting work-life balance can beat burnout . 

Inside one London founder house rewriting the founder-house rules 

"The first autonomous agent cyberattack is an unprecedented event. It deserves an unprecedented response!"

Hugging Face CEO calls for ‘radical transparency’ after ‘unprecedented’ OpenAI hack

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it. 

TechCrunch Mobility: Uber bets on its former CEO

A running look — in reverse chronological order — at the bigger tech companies that have announced significant layoffs this year with AI as a stated factor.

Monday.com is the latest tech company to blame AI for layoffs — here are 20 others

The lawsuit will likely renew debates about whether term employment agreements are enforceable under California. law

Warner Bros. lawsuit accuses Amazon of illegally poaching executives

An awe-inspiring hacktivist who hacked two controversial government spyware makers may be the most prolific hacker to have never gotten caught. What do we know about Phineas Fisher?

An awe-inspiring hacktivist who hacked two controversial government spyware makers may be the most prolific hacker to have never gotten caught. What do w...

The hacker who humiliated spyware makers and was never caught

Elon Musk's tunneling startup is reportedly in talks for a major new funding round.

Elon Musk’s Boring Company reportedly raising funding at a $20 billion valuation

Kalshi claims the trailer is “defamatory” and contains “both fabricated documents and false and misleading statements.”

Kalshi demands Netflix take down trailer for ‘Prediction Games’ documentary

At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.

Librarians are hosting viral ‘Avoiding AI’ workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech

A close call in Northern Virginia revealed just how poorly data centers respond to grid disruptions. Here's how to fix the problem.

One fallen power line exposed a growing AI data center problem. Here’s how to fix it.

OpenAI's fancy new AI keypad will be a lot of fun for some, while many others are probably not going to touch it. 

I tried out OpenAI’s new AI keypad — which will be fun for some coders and slightly mystifying to everyone else

The company ticked off a few more boxes on the second Starship V3 flight, but appears to have had another issue relighting the booster's rocket engines.

SpaceX launches new V3 Starlink satellites but suffers another booster failure

The neolab is betting that automating routine computer tasks will soon outpace coding as AI's biggest use case. 

Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Mark Pincus in talks to raise $100M

Money has evolved into far more than the cash in your wallet or your bank account. And at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, we’re devoting an entire stage to that progression. 

Money has evolved into far more than the cash in your wallet or your bank account. And at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, we’re devoting an entire stage to that...

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s new Smart Money Stage explores fintech, payments, AI, and everything between 

Australia was the first country to issue a ban in late 2025, aiming to reduce the pressures and risks that young users may face on social media, including cyberbullying, social media addiction, and exposure to predators.

Australia was the first country to issue a ban in late 2025, aiming to reduce the pressures and risks that young users may face on social media, includin...

Vietnam is looking to restrict social media for kids; here are the growing number of other countries doing the same

The contract between the two companies ends in May 2028, Uber told TechCrunch.

Waymo reportedly mulling a breakup with Uber

The indictment, which was unsealed Friday, alleges the Volkswagen engineers used confidential insider information to buy stock in Rivian. 

Volkswagen engineers charged with insider trading tied to Rivian joint venture

The acquisition brings Poke’s conversational style and interaction model to Cognition’s coding agent Devin, reflecting a growing belief that how AI assistants interact with users is as important as the models powering them.

The acquisition brings Poke’s conversational style and interaction model to Cognition’s coding agent Devin, reflecting a growing belief that how AI assis...

Why Cognition bought Poke: AI personality is becoming a competitive advantage

A U.S. citizen has asked a court to throw out the government's claim that he gave over a passcode to border authorities that wiped his phone's data, opening up fresh questions about a person's constitutional rights at the U.S. border.

A U.S. citizen has asked a court to throw out the government's claim that he gave over a passcode to border authorities that wiped his phone's data, open...

Malcolm Wall Media

Malcolm Wall Media

MEDIA FEED

GUARDIAN MEDIA NEWS

TECHCRUNCH.COM NEWS