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Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has ordered an independent review of the murder of Henry Nowak, an 18-year-old university student who was stabbed to death in Southampton in December.

Vickrum Digwa, who falsely claimed that he had suffered racist abuse and acted in self-defence, was sentenced to life imprisonment in June, with a minimum term of 21 years. The case prompted widespread criticism after bodycam footage showed police handcuffing Nowak as he lay dying despite his repeated pleas that he had been stabbed and could not breathe.

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Former justice secretary Alex Chalk KC will lead the review, which Nowak’s family described as a “significant moment in our fight for justice”.

The investigation was launched “despite a sentencing judge ruling that Nowak would not have survived his injuries, however quickly he received treatment”, said Henry Moore on the BBC.

What next?
The inquiry will initially examine whether police, health services, schools and other organisations missed opportunities to prevent the murder. A second phase will assess police conduct and the police watchdog’s response after its own investigation concludes. The review is expected to report its findings within five months.

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Anthropic has revealed key details of its business ahead of its plan to sell shares to the public in a move that experts believe will be an indicator of the future of AI.

In the filing Anthropic said its revenue had risen rapidly to $16.3 billion (£12.2 billion) in the first half of the year – a 14-fold increase from a year earlier – but it also revealed losses of more than $80.7 billion (£60.5 billion). The maker of the Claude chatbot did not say how much capital it plans to raise in its IPO, but “there is speculation that it could seek around $100 billion at a $2 trillion valuation”, said Axios. That would exceed SpaceX, which this summer was the biggest ever stock listing at an initial valuation of about $1.8 trillion (£1.4 billion).

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The AI giant “painted a picture of future growth propelled by the technology”, said The New York Times. The projected successes include “advances in science, discovering cures for diseases and bringing about explosive economic growth”.

“It will be the first true AI company to go public, marking a test for the future of the technology,” said BBC News.

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This IPO “is likely to become a referendum on the business of AI, even if it’s just a securities offering from a single company”, said Axios.

Across Malawi, filling up your petrol tank has become an endurance test. In the past four weeks fuel shortages have become a “national emergency” in the south-east African country, according to The Guardian.

Drivers wait for hours at empty forecourts for deliveries, with one morphing into a “makeshift village” where some camp out for days. At Mount Meru petrol station in Zomba – the former capital and Malawi’s fourth largest city – drivers sleep “under the bellies of trucks” and “aggressively block any queue-jumpers” as the situation turns “patience into hostility” at the nation’s pumps.

Fuel shortages have been a “recurring problem” in Malawi for years and were a “major issue” in last year’s general election, said Reuters. There had been a temporary improvement in supplies, but the onset of the Iran war has plunged the country back into crisis.

Despite being one of the poorest countries in the world, Malawi has one of the “highest fuel pump prices in Africa” at more than $3 (£2.25) a litre, said Semafor. The recent crisis has sparked a “nationwide crackdown” on stockpiling and “black market sellers”; petrol stations “caught hoarding” risk losing their licence and unauthorised sellers face arrest.

In a bid to solve the crisis, pressure is being applied to the government to “change its importation policies” and open the fuel market to more suppliers, said Malawi24. The Consumers Association of Malawi believes that licensing more operators to import fuel and sell it “at prices that reflect the cost of securing supplies under the current market conditions” will ease the situation, “even if consumers have to pay higher prices”.