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Tuesday 6 October · personalised for you

Good afternoon.
Your Lunchtime Briefing.

Prime Day steals. Amazon’s October sale drops today, and WIRED has already picked out the devices worth grabbing under £50. With prices still higher than pre-August hikes, the bargains aren’t what they used to be, but a few stand out.

Teeth and territories. Where you live shapes your dental health, says a new study comparing the UK and Denmark. Meanwhile, in Scotland, Argyll and Bute Council faces a £millions shortfall to keep services running, forcing a fresh look at spending.

Swift’s spectral return. Taylor Swift’s new video reimagines Daphne du Maurier’s *Rebecca*, weaving gothic romance into her own ghostly tale. Over in China, burnt-out youth turn to digital comforts, and wildfires edge closer to home.

Not just AI. China is building technologies that challenge U.S. dominance OpenAI film ‘Artificial’ is “most urgently relevant film of our time”, critics say It gives Imogen West-Knights no pleasure to report that someone has launched what they…How to Tackle the UK’s ‘Oligarch Media’ – Two Top Veterans of the Mainstream Media Weigh In If you think of GB News as the media wing of Nigel Farage’s political project, the total…