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At around 11.40pm on Wednesday, June 3, the off-duty officer spotted the motorcycles in the Shinewater area of Eastbourne and alerted colleagues after observing them being ridden in a dangerous manner. One of the motorcycles was reportedly displaying no registration plate, and the riders were believed to be carrying fuel canisters. Given ongoing issues involving stolen motorcycles in the area, officers swiftly launched a search. The motorcycles were located on Willingdon Drove, where officers attempted to stop them. The riders failed to stop and made off through Eastbourne, prompting a coordinated response involving local policing teams, operational support units and…

The 2026 FIFA World Cup is cooking up one of the busiest marketing opportunities of the year with 53% of UK brands on Klaviyo’s European Cultural Moments Marketing Report saying they will be running campaigns around the tournament. Also, 88% of brands plan to increase marketing spending to make the most of the competition, with 54% who will be taking up spending by more than a fifth. Marketers see events such as the World Cup as a rare chance to try new ideas. According to Klaviyo, 72% of UK marketers say cultural moments such as the World Cup give them…

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky has had enough of merely being an artificial intelligence kingmaker. He now plans to back a new AI lab of his own. The news, broken by Bloomberg and confirmed to TechCrunch by a person familiar with the situation, marks Chesky as one of many Silicon Valley machers who are unsatisfied with the models coming out of the frontier labs. While Airbnb has adopted AI coding tools, Chesky said last year it hasn’t struck an LLM partnership because existing products weren’t quite ready. Still, Chesky has plenty of insight. He met Sam Altman in 2006 through Y…

Thursday 04 June 2026 10:04 pm Argan, Inc. (NYSE: AGX) (“Argan” or the “Company”) today announces financial results for its first quarter of fiscal year 2027 ended April 30, 2026. The Company will host an investor conference call today, June 4, 2026, at 5:00 p.m. ET. Consolidated Financial Highlights ($ in thousands, except per share data)       April 30,         For the Quarter Ended:   2026   2025   Change   Revenues   $ 290,954   $ 193,660   $ 97,294   Gross profit     61,114     36,863     24,251   Gross…

Princes Square by M, the Victorian glass-roofed arcade on Buchanan Street, revealed it is now fully let following the finalisation of recent deals with café Marcel, restaurant Le Set and women’s fashion spot Jigsaw. Since their acquisition of the centre in 2024, M Core have filled 17 empty units, lifting annual footfall up 10% on 2025, with 2026 visitor numbers running also 15% higher than that of 2025. Not many retail spots have such an iconic interior (Image: LCP Properties) Alex Williams, asset manager for Princes Square by M and head of Scotland at LCP UK, part of M Core, said:…

“We want to make our communities a hostile environment for those involved in the drugs trade and the message from this operation is clear: there is no safe place for you in North Belfast”Drugs seized during the operationA police operation in North Belfast has recovered firearms, ammunition and drugs over a two-week period.Officers took part in the operation last month in the city which involved 10 separate searches that found £15,000 of suspected cocaine and crystal meth along with £2,000 of cannabis vapes. Police also say £85,000 in assets such as cars, cash and other items were seized.Three men were…

Researchers have identified a massive hidden geological feature beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, revealing a previously unrecognized connection between some of the continent’s largest buried landscapes. The newly recognized structure consists of a network of enormous basins concealed beneath ice that exceeds three kilometers (nearly two miles) in thickness in some locations. Together, these basins form a continent-scale fan-shaped pattern that researchers have named the East Antarctic Fan-shaped Basin Province. The province encompasses several well-known subglacial features, including the Wilkes and Aurora basins, as well as the basin containing Lake Vostok, the largest known subglacial lake on Earth. Although…

Key TakeawaysCoinbase and Better completed a pioneering Fannie Mae-backed mortgage tied to bitcoin collateral.Qualified borrowers can pledge bitcoin or USDC to support down payment financing.The milestone arrives as federal housing agencies examine crypto in mortgage assessments. Bitcoin Collateral Moves From Crypto Portfolios Into Home Lending The first Fannie Mae-backed bitcoin mortgage has been funded, clearing the way for a nationwide rollout. On June 4, Coinbase (Nasdaq: COIN) and Better Home & Finance Holding Company (Nasdaq: BETR) announced the milestone, describing it as “the first Fannie Mae-backed mortgage backed by Bitcoin in the United States.” Borrowers can pledge bitcoin or USD…

Have you ever had the desire to see Sam Altman and Palmer Luckey square off over a moderately suspenseful card game? If so, you are in luck. Silicon Valley’s leaders are rushing to embrace the power of media for the purposes of marketing and political capital. Now, in a sign of the times, Founders Fund, the venture capital firm co-founded by Peter Thiel, has launched its own game show. MAFIA the GAME, will apparently be an ongoing thing, where prominent tech luminaries get together and face off over a game of cards (the show is named after the party-game favorite).…

Private investors have been falling over themselves to get a piece of Anthropic, given the AI model maker is growing at a dizzying pace. Multiple investors told TechCrunch that the company’s $65 billion fundraise at a $965 billion valuation, announced last week, was greatly oversubscribed. Now, with that private demand still strong, Anthropic has revealed that it’s taking steps toward a public listing by filing confidentially for an IPO. Co-founder Daniela Amodei, speaking at the Bloomberg Tech conference on Thursday, said the decision comes down to capital. “It’s a really big upfront cost to train the models and to serve…