China’s BYD overtakes Tesla as world’s biggest electric car seller

China’s BYD overtook Tesla as the world’s largest electric carmaker in 2025, after the US company run by Elon Musk reported a slump in deliveries at the end of the year.BYD sold 2.26m battery electric cars during the year, easily outstripping the 1.63m deliveries reported on Friday by Tesla for the same period.The switch is a symbolic moment in the rise of China’s car companies, which have used the transition to electric cars to try to dominate the global automotive industry

FTSE 100 hits 10,000 point milestone for first time, after best year of gains since 2009 – as it happened

Time to wrap up…The FTSE 100 hit the 10,000 point milestone for the first time, after finishing its best year of gains since 2009. The FTSE 100 jumped on Friday morning to a high of 10,046, a new peak for the index, before easing back slightly. The milestone marks a stellar 12 months for the “Footsie”, which rose by 21.5% over the course of last year.The Chinese car-maker BYD has overtaken Tesla as the top seller of electric cars around the world

Elon Musk’s Grok AI generates images of ‘minors in minimal clothing’

Elon Musk’s chatbot Grok posted on Friday that lapses in safeguards had led it to generate “images depicting minors in minimal clothing” on social media platform X. The chatbot, a product of Musk’s company xAI, has been generating a wave of sexualized images throughout the week in response to user prompts.Screenshots shared by users on X showed Grok’s public media tab filled with such images. xAI said it was working to improve its systems to prevent future incidents.“There are isolated cases where users prompted for and received AI images depicting minors in minimal clothing,” Grok said in a post on X in response to a user

Google AI Overviews put people at risk of harm with misleading health advice

People are being put at risk of harm by false and misleading health information in Google’s artificial intelligence summaries, a Guardian investigation has found.The company has said its AI Overviews, which use generative AI to provide snapshots of essential information about a topic or question, are “helpful” and “reliable”.But some of the summaries, which appear at the top of search results, served up inaccurate health information and put people at risk of harm.In one case that experts described as “really dangerous”, Google wrongly advised people with pancreatic cancer to avoid high-fat foods. Experts said this was the exact opposite of what should be recommended, and may increase the risk of patients dying from the disease

PDC World Championship darts semi-finals: Littler v Searle, Van Veen v Anderson – live

Searle rattles in four treble-20s in six darts – no signs of nerves here – and he’s down to 101 with Littler distant. Despite stumbling, he has time to pin double eight for the set!First set: Littler (0) 2-2 Searle* (0) Five perfect darts out of six for Littler, then a 147 set-up. Searle is miles back, but it’s all about holding throw next time …First set: *Littler (0) 1-2 Searle (0) Searle on 136, which he can only trim to 78. He misses double top, but gets an early let-off as Littler misses three darts to break, allowing him to return and tidy up.First set: Littler (0) 1-1 Searle (0)* Littler hits straight back, taking out double top to hold despite decent scoring pressure from Searle

Reluctant trailblazer Khawaja confronts racial stereotypes before Sydney farewell | Taha Hashim

More than half an hour into the press conference, with his retirement from Test cricket confirmed, Usman Khawaja was asked about the role of opening the batting and its relevance in the modern game. He answered with ease, detailing the specific mental challenges of facing the new ball. Minutes later, he was asked how Australia can unite after last month’s terrorist attack at Bondi Beach. Again, there was little hesitation before the lengthy reply. He cited the teachings of the prophet Muhammad, politicians who “try to divide and conquer” and closed with his reflections on the tragedy itself