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We are so back. 5 you might have missed to kick off 2025:

👑 1) Stephen Fry and Jacqueline Wilson are among those from the arts to be recognised in the New Year’s Honours List.

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🎮 5) Fun read from the New York Times on how eye-wateringly expensive it is to make games look hyper-realistic and whether people are actually bothered.

https://t.co/G5qxFymj0t

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5 you might have missed this week before you dig into the Quality Street...

✍ 1) The big one this week is the launch of the government’s consultation on copyright laws as they relate to AI and the creative industries. 10 weeks to get your views in

https://t.co/OkgQgLNAJQ

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📞 5) You can now phone ChatGPT for a lil’ catch-up about its plans for the holidays with OpenAI launching a new 1-800 number

https://t.co/SvbXCxrpPf

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5 you might have missed this week…

🏓 1) The Cabinet Office has announced £100m of funding to make the state ‘more like a startup’. Slides and ping pong tables blocking Whitehall soon. Will be chaos (https://t.co/nsNjph1ACt)

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🤳 5) Nearly half of US teens are online ‘almost constantly’, finds a new Pew study. Lucky this study doesn’t extend to UK males aged 30-35

(https://t.co/L7hKHli6s4)

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