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UK
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News Rules & courts
UK CMA issues interim order halting BT integration of TalkTalk
The competition regulator served a binding pre-emptive action order requiring BT to keep TalkTalk's broadband and wholesale backhaul operations completely separate.
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News Work & careers
Six percent of UK businesses using AI report cutting staff, ONS finds
Thirty percent of UK companies now deploy artificial intelligence, but net employment reductions remain concentrated in a small minority of adopting employers.
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News Rules & courts
UK opens public interest inquiry into BT acquisition of TalkTalk
The Competition and Markets Authority must report by 19 October following a government notice citing public health, emergency services, and vulnerable customers.
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News Rules & courts
UK regulator provisionally finds a fibre deal by Virgin Media O2's owners would weaken broadband competition
The CMA says the deal would cut the share of nexfibre's network where three wholesale providers compete from about 32% to 18%. It is not a final decision; comments are due by 23 October.
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News Work & careers
UK digital-sector jobs were estimated at 1.81 million in 2025, a rise within the survey's margin of error
The government's estimate is up from 1.77 million in 2024, after a fall of 120,000 the year before. It warns that the change has not been tested and may be sampling noise.
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News Energy, climate & transport
UK offers nearly £10 million towards a £43 million plant to extract lithium from Cornish geothermal brine
Production is planned from 2029, at around 1,500 tonnes of lithium carbonate a year, the developer says. It is an offer in principle, not a final grant.
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News Work & careers
UK job vacancies in information and communication were 36,000 this summer, about half their 2022 peak
The official count was unchanged on a year earlier. Across the whole UK economy, vacancies fell to 702,000, the lowest since early 2021.
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News Rules & courts
UK will ban social media for under-16s from spring 2027, on Australia's model
Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Snapchat, Facebook and X would be covered, but not WhatsApp or Signal. Livestreaming and contact from strangers will be off by default for 16- and 17-year-olds.