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John Wick game starring Keanu Reeves unveiled at PlayStation showcase

BBC News

The billion-dollar action film series John Wick is being turned into a video game, featuring the likeness and voice of star Keanu Reeves. Untitled John Wick Game, as it is currently known, will be made by Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 developer Saber Interactive and include input from film franchise director Chad Stahelsk. A trailer for the game, which is expected to be a prequel to the series, was unveiled at PlayStation's State of Play showcase on Thursday. The Sony event also revealed several remakes of major game franchises, including the God of War trilogy, as well as a 30th anniversary edition of platformer Rayman. The John Wick film franchise, which has earned more than $1bn (£735m) worldwide, follows the story of the retired assassin played by Keanu Reeves on a path of bloody vengeance.


OBR head's resignation leaves potential landmines for Reeves

BBC News

The shock resignation came for a very specific reason, but the OBR saga will continue with a series of decisions the chancellor will have to make over Richard Hughes' replacement. Firstly the Chancellor will have to find a respected and credible economist to run the OBR. There are several candidates, who might fit the mould of fiercely independent bean counters. The list will be carefully watched by the markets for any departure from the normal model. The problem is that there is some political pressure to do just that.


Budget 2025: What's the best and worst that could happen for Labour?

BBC News

Budget 2025: What's the best and worst that could happen for Labour? Any big red box moment is risky. Now the chancellor's big choices are out there, what's the best-case scenario for Reeves and Starmer, and what's the worst that could happen next? On the positive side of the ledger, Labour MPs have gone off to their constituencies in a better mood this week. That is in large part down to the chancellor's decision to scrap the limit on bigger families getting some extra benefits.


Chris Mason: Starmer could have scrapped child benefit cap last year - why did he wait?

BBC News

Starmer could have scrapped child benefit cap last year - why did he wait? I can't remember when I last heard Sir Keir Starmer sounding so passionate. The prime minister's critics regularly lambast him for what they see as robotic or emotion-free communication, but you could not accuse him of that as we spoke on a post-Budget visit to a community centre in Rugby, Warwickshire. I could see it in his eyes and hear it in his tone. I have repeatedly said that I want my government to drive down child poverty.


Bond market power: why Rachel Reeves is keen to keep the 2.7tn 'beast' onside

The Guardian

For months Rachel Reeves has been schmoozing the biggest players in the UK government debt market to ensure the smooth passage of her plans. For months Rachel Reeves has been schmoozing the biggest players in the UK government debt market to ensure the smooth passage of her plans. Bond market power: why Rachel Reeves is keen to keep the £2.7tn'beast' onside Hugely influential traders will be hanging on the chancellor's every word when she announces her budget At just after 12.30pm on Wednesday, the machine will be listening, the trading algorithms ready, and billions of pounds of buy-and-sell orders stacked up awaiting Rachel Reeves's budget. For the first time on the London trading floor of Deutsche Bank, a custom-built artificial intelligence tool will tune in to the chancellor's speech. It will transcribe her words, spot shifts in tone and spit out alerts when the numbers deviate from expectations.


For sale: Batmobile, John Wick's Mustang, and more Hollywood cars

Popular Science

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. A little more than 30 miles from Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France, another kind of church pays homage to movies, TV shows, and cultural touchpoints. Billing itself as "the temple of pop culture," Pop Central Museum in Étréchy is now selling off an impressive collection of original stunt cars. The vehicles up for sale were used in the franchise,,,, and . Others are replicas seen in classics like, (in all of its late 1960-era glory),, and movies.


UK will be second-fastest-growing G7 economy, IMF predicts

BBC News

The UK is forecast to be the second-fastest growing of the world's most advanced economies this year and next, according to new projections from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The rates of growth remain modest at 1.3% for both years, but that outperforms the other G7 economies apart from the US, in a torrid year of trade and geopolitical tensions. However, UK inflation is set to rise to the highest in the G7 in 2025 and 2026, the IMF predicts, driven by larger energy and utility bills. UK inflation is forecast to average 3.4% this year and 2.5% in 2026 but the IMF says this will be temporary, and fall to 2% by the end of next year. The G7 are seven advanced economies - the US, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Canada and Japan - but the group doesn't include fast-growing economies such as China and India.


Google announces 5bn AI investment in UK before Trump visit

The Guardian

Google predicted the investment would help to create 8,250 jobs annually at UK companies. Google predicted the investment would help to create 8,250 jobs annually at UK companies. Rachel Reeves says move is a'vote of confidence' in British economy as she prepares to open firm's first UK datacentre Google has said it will invest £5bn in the UK in the next two years to help meet growing demand for artificial intelligence services, in a boost for the government. The investment, which comes as Google opens its new datacentre in Waltham Cross in Hertfordshire, is expected to contribute to the creation of thousands of jobs, the US tech company said. The chancellor, Rachel Reeves - who is attempting to drive growth amid pressure over the lacklustre state of the UK economy - said the investment into research and development, capital expenditure and engineering was a "vote of confidence" in the UK economy.


Alabama paid a law firm millions to defend its prisons. It used AI and turned in fake citations

The Guardian

In less than a year-and-a-half, Frankie Johnson, a man incarcerated at the William E Donaldson prison outside Birmingham, Alabama, says he was stabbed around 20 times. In December of 2019, Johnson says, he was stabbed "at least nine times" in his housing unit. In March of 2020, an officer handcuffed him to a desk following a group therapy meeting, and left the unit, after which another prisoner came in and stabbed him five times. In November of the same year, Johnson says, he was handcuffed by an officer and brought to the prison yard, where another prisoner attacked him with an ice pick, stabbing him "five to six times", as two correctional officers looked on. According to Johnson, one of the officers had actually encouraged his attacker to carry out the assault in retaliation for a previous argument between Johnson and the officer.


Hike in capital gains tax will spark tech exodus from UK, investor says

The Guardian

Tech entrepreneurs will leave the UK "en masse" if the chancellor announces a significant increase in capital gains tax at this month's budget, according to a leading industry investor. Harry Stebbings, a British podcaster turned investor who raised a 400m ( 310m) fund this week, said the UK was "a bad place to do business" because of its tax environment. The Guardian reported last week that the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, was considering raising capital gains tax (CGT) to between 33% and 39% in the budget on 30 October. Stebbings said plans to scrap the non-dom tax regime had also sent a negative signal but an increase in CGT – which is levied on the sale of assets such as shares and second homes – would pose the most serious concern to entrepreneurs. "The stance on capital gains tax is by far the biggest [issue]," he told the Guardian.