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UK staffing levels fall and government clears EP Group’s takeover of Royal Mail

Australia’s financial intelligence agency has taken gambling giant Entain to the federal court, alleging it “deliberately obscured the identities” of high risk customers and failed to stop a “serious risk of criminal exploitation”, my colleague Henry Belot explains.

The Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre’s (Austrac) civil penalty proceedings allege that Entain, which runs the Ladbrokes and Neds betting brands, committed “serious and systemic non-compliance with Australia’s anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing laws”.

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OpenAI whistleblower who died was being considered as witness against company

Suchir Balaji, listed in court filing as having ‘relevant documents’ about copyright violation, died on 26 November

Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI engineer and whistleblower who helped train the artificial intelligence systems behind ChatGPT and later said he believed those practices violated copyright law, has died, according to his parents and San Francisco officials. He was 26.

Balaji worked at OpenAI for nearly four years before quitting in August. He had been well-regarded by colleagues at the San Francisco company, where a co-founder this week called him one of OpenAI’s strongest contributors who was essential to developing some of its products.

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