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Creative Industries & Tech Stuff

Film & TV
Playwright James Graham is to deliver this year’s MacTaggart Lecture, and will
examine TV’s issue with class.

Inside Out 2 is currently setting multiple international box office records for Disney. Good
for them. Great to see the little guy finally win!

Fashion
The British Fashion Council has voiced concerns over the London IPO of fast fashion
firm Shein. Bloomberg on how it has work to do.

Somebody called Anna Wintour sits down for a chinwag with The Guardian spanning
sport to the plight of the UK’s arts sector.

Interesting read from Business of Fashion on why fashion finds it so hard to curate your
feed using algorithms. I have enough Crocs! Suggest something else!

Music & Audio
Don’t know if you heard, but Taylor Swift is touring currently… and she’s made it to the
UK. Earthquake monitors were even set off on the first few nights.

Charli XCX has just dropped the album of the summer. GQ on how she may in fact
be taking over the world.

Plans for an 8,500 capacity arena in Edinburgh have been backed by the local council.

A Pharrell Williams biopic. Great! Love NERD and he’s a great fashio… I haven’t finished.
A Pharrell Williams biopic but everyone is made out of LEGO.

Gaming
The owner of Steam, the world’s largest gaming platform, is being sued for £656m for
supposedly ripping off 14m UK gamers.

Tech
Apple has entered the AI fray. Apple Intelligence (clever) is to be cooked into devices and
across apps and there’s a collaboration with OpenAI involved.

The UK’s AI sector is worth £72.3bn, larger than any other country in Europe, according
to Tech Nation. We’re so winning the Euros, aren’t we...

Ok fine. France are, actually. The darling of European AI, Mistral, has just raised a $640m
Series B at a $6bn valuation. Sacre bleu.

50% of teenagers feel anxious without their smartphones, according to a BBC survey.

British microcomputer maker Raspberry Pi has seen its shares jump by a third on its
debut on the London Stock Exchange.