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The scandal surrounding Married At First Sight UK has taken a fresh turn, as six former stars are reportedly planning to sue bosses over 'welfare failures.' 

"Companies spending heavily on AI are growing headcount faster, even in the entry-level roles that many fear are doomed," writes TechCrunch. That's the conclusion of new report tracking AI spending from Ramp's corporate card/bill pay data as well as Revelio Labs' workforce records from 21,599 U.S. firms: According to the report, "high-intensity adopters" — firms that spend on average $30 per employee per month on AI in the first three months — saw headcount increase 10.2%. Headcount also rose across functions, including engineering, sales, administration, customer service, finance, marketing, and scientist roles. The strongest job growth among high-intensity adopters was in the information sector, which includes software, internet, media, and tech-adjacent firms. Despite these positive signals, the data isn't as rosy as it seems. It skews heavily toward tech-forward, knowledge-work firms — ones that might have VC-backing and are growing fast anyway, making it difficult to say whether AI is contributing to the hiring or just showing up at companies that are expanding anyway. "This paper does not show that AI universally creates jobs," the paper's authors admit, "but it does counter claims that AI will lead to broad job losses." It also counters claims that AI is killing all junior jobs. Recent research from Goldman Sachs found that AI has already erased about 16,000 net jobs per month over the past year, with Gen Z and entry-level workers taking the brunt of the burden. But in tech-forward firms, the report finds that entry-level headcount actually rose by 12%... "For software and technology firms, AI can make core output cheaper or faster to produce: writing code, debugging, building internal tools, producing technical documentation, and supporting product development," the report reads. "Lower production costs in these workflows can raise the return to expanding the whole firm, not just the engineering team." But companies that buy subscriptions and run pilots, yet did not go on to make sustained investments, don't tend to see any gains in headcount, per the report. That sets up the potential for a widening gap between firms that have the resources — like capital, technical staff, founder networks, and management bandwidth — to turn AI adoption into actual business gains and those that are stuck experimenting with subscriptions. In other words, this report suggests that firms that already have the resources are the ones that will see the largest gains. CNBC argues another AI "narrative" was challenged this week: that open source can't make money. "The assumption was that giving your model away for free meant no business. That's breaking too, as open-model companies start posting real revenue and enterprises move from renting AI to running their own."

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The tie will kick off at 1am UK time on Monday morning - despite talks that it would be moved forward due to bad weather.

Clarkson's Farm's Kaleb Cooper has married his long-term partner and mother of his three children Taya Wilkinson in an idyllic ceremony in Oxfordshire. 

Figures show drivers ensnared by speed cameras in the controversial zones soared from 21,125 in 2023 to 127,915 last year - a staggering 500 per cent jump.

Comedian Alan Carr paid more than £3.3million for his Scottish castle, the Mail can disclose, despite attempts to keep the price a secret.

While the wives and girlfriends have made the most of their trip abroad with shopping trips and swanky dinners, they've also offered a boost to their bank balances with big money brand deals.

Two teenage boys were rushed to hospital on Saturday evening after being injured with a bladed weapon.

A post mocking Brittany Mahomes after Taylor Swift's recent wedding to Travis Kelce received a 'like' from controversial NFL reporter Dianna Russini.

Microsoft is investing $2.5 billion in a new group "assisting clients with AI implementations," reports CNBC: [Microsoft] said Thursday that 6,000 employees will be embedded with clients, in a practice that's become known as forward deployed engineering [or FDE]... The announcement comes two days after cloud rival Amazon said it was putting $1 billion behind an FDE initiative to support fast-paced AI engagements. Leading AI labs Anthropic and OpenAI both established FDE groups in May, partnering with private equity firms, banks and consulting firms. Alongside its technology peers, Microsoft has sunk tens of billions of dollars into building data centers that run generative AI models. Microsoft has also released a variety of AI services, with mixed results. The Microsoft 365 Copilot AI assistant has yet to gain anything approaching ubiquity in the business world, and the GitHub Copilot coding agent has ceded market share to newer players. Microsoft's stock has slumped 21% this year, by far the worst performance among the mega-cap tech companies. One concern on Wall Street is that AI models that quickly compose code might threaten mature software companies... Microsoft has for years provided support and implementation services to customers. The company generated about $2.1 billion in revenue from enterprise and partner services in the March quarter, up 2.5% from a year earlier.

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Terrified residents of the Big Apple in Queens, Brooklyn and Manhattan watched as the plane landed in the choppy water and partially capsized.

Rumours have swirled for months that the model was no longer pals with the singer, but sources shared the pair have made enough amends for her to land an invite to the 1,000-guest ceremony on Friday.

Terrifying footage has captured the panicked moment eight people on board a small plane crashed and started to capsize in New York's East River on Sunday morning.

The I'm A Celebrity star, 35, took to Instagram on Sunday to announce the news with an emotional tribute, stating that she was 'so upset' that Janice wouldn't be around to meet their second son.

The Prime Minister, who has just days left in No.10 following his resignation last month, shared the clip on his X account alongside three England flags.

The study by the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) think tank found this was up from an average of three over the last five years, highlighting Britain's 'NEETs crisis'.

Christian Horner returned to the Formula One paddock for the first time since he was sacked by Red Bull with the Netflix cameras in tow, and was reassured by the sport's ruler Mohammed Ben Sulayem that he will definitely be back on the pit wall.

Among Mexico's legions of passionate supporters are a team of WAGs who have been grabbing almost as many headlines as their star players.

Have you ever needed a Linux application which only exists in the Windows world? Long-time Slashdot reader BrendaEM writes: Windows does have a lot of useful app (but smaller than "power apps"). Some of these are closed source, some are open, but they're not all available in Linux yet. My list would have to contain Gimp Tookit versions of: IrfanView image manager, which I think is unequaled in Linux (though it does work to some extent under Wine). I also miss the full version of 7-Zip, because of its better compression settings, which File-Roller does not provide, though the Linux port p7zip is available (though unnoticed by common distributions). Lastly, I think that Notepad++ would be a good addition to Linux. That last one drew some pushback from long-time Slashdot reader jesco. "If there's one area where Linux shines, then it's the availability of high-quality text editors. Last time I looked Kate was still pretty nice, and there's Emacs, Vim and Neovim" if you're partial to command lines. But are there any daily-drive apps you still find yourself needing? Share your own thoughts in the comments. Which apps aren't available on Linux?

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MIKE KEEGAN IN MEXICO CITY: Much was written about the hostile reception England would face but the reality was off a nation that welcomed the Three Lions with open arms.