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Yale researchers say that despite the anxiety about AI taking people's jobs, there's very little evidence of it actually happening.…

The extent of Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban 's mammoth wealth was laid bare in their divorce filing this week - days after their shock split was revealed.

Yoshua Bengio called for a pause on AI model development two years ago to focus on safety standards. Companies instead invested hundreds of billions of dollars into building more advanced models capable of executing long chains of reasoning and taking autonomous action. The A.M. Turing Award winner and Universite de Montreal professor told the Wall Street Journal that his concerns about existential risk have not diminished. Bengio founded the nonprofit research organization LawZero earlier this year to explore how to build truly safe AI models. Recent experiments demonstrate AI systems in some circumstances choose actions that cause human death over abandoning their assigned goals. OpenAI recently insisted that current frontier model frameworks will not eliminate hallucinations. Bengio, however, said even a 1% chance of catastrophic events like extinction or the destruction of democracies is unacceptable. He estimates advanced AI capable of posing such risks could arrive in five to ten years but urged treating three years as the relevant timeframe. The race condition between competing AI companies focused on weekly version releases remains the biggest barrier to adequate safety work, he said.

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The reason why women tend to live longer than men has long eluded scientists, but an international team of researchers now claim to put the debate to bed.

Projected £1.5M running costs balloon to £12M under new contracts

Updated  The UK government is set to see annual spending on a procurement portal designed to help save money increase by more than eight times compared to projected plans.…

Based on Universal Blue, it's akin to Fedora Kinoite with knobs on… A lot of knobs

Aurora, a relatively young distro from Austria, bills itself as "your stable, privacy-respecting and ultimate productivity OS." These are rather bold claims, though many other Linux distros make the same promise.…

Ms Klass, 47, took the stand to tell jurors of her ordeal at the hands of Peter Windsor, 61, who is accused of sending her a note calling her a 'naughty vixen'.

The Surrey-born actress, 90, has only seen her success soar in recent years as the voice of Lady Whistledown in Netflix 's popular Bridgerton series - all while looking as youthful as ever.

Born via surrogate in 2002, Bigi was the baby Michael infamously dangled over a fourth-floor hotel balcony in Berlin to show him off to the fans below.

Only 15% considering deployments and just 7% say it'll replace humans in next four years

Enterprises aren't keen on letting autonomous agents take the wheel amid fears over trust and security as research once again shows that AI hype is crashing against the rocks of reality.…

The trio were spotted on several surveillance cameras wearing their $60,000 haul as they left the Paramount Miami Worldcenter in the city's ritzy downtown last month.

Abdul-Rahman Al-Ahmed, 21, chased his first victim through a town centre in broad daylight before stabbing him several times.

The Wednesday star, 23, made a glamorous appearance in the French capital for the presentation of creations by Dior for the Women Ready-to-wear Spring-Summer 2026 collection.

Judson Althoff gets the job of keeping the biz running

Microsoft boss Satya Nadella told staff on Wednesday that he's appointing Judson Althoff to a new role as CEO of the company's commercial business, so that the big boss can concentrate on Redmond's future plans and strategy.…

Britain's net public debt has climbed from 35% of GDP in 2005 to 95% today. The government is borrowing over 4% of GDP annually despite no emergency comparable to the financial crisis or pandemic that drove much of the earlier increase. The belt-tightening needed to stabilize debt levels amounts to about 2% of GDP. The Labour government holds a 157-seat majority in Parliament and has four years until the next election. Britain spends about 6% of GDP supporting pensioners, an increase of over a third this century. Some 15% of the working-age population now claims jobless allowances following a surge in disability claims since the pandemic. Labour attempted to reduce spending on pensioners and welfare this year but reversed both reform plans after political outcry from within the party. Tax revenue is already on course to reach 38% of GDP, a historical high for Britain. Labour promised before the election not to raise broad-based taxes on income and consumption. Four in five Britons say the government is mismanaging the economy. Yields on long-term government debt exceed those in any other major rich economy. The economy grew faster than any other G7 country in the first half of 2025, but the fiscal adjustment that would bring Britain to a primary surplus of less than 0.5% remains politically elusive.

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Celine Dion is the new face of Charlotte Tilbury as she makes a triumphant return to the spotlight amid her health battle.

A man is running a 21km Spartan Race to fund the trip of a lifetime for a family after their mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer.

The 12-year-old rescue dog was a constant companion of the Briton as he jetted around the racing circuit and had long been a fan-favourite both in the paddock and on social media.

Proposals by Italian cocktail bar and restaurant spark concerns about 'significant' risks

Microsoft has announced that Xbox Game Pass Ultimate will cost $29.99 per month, up from $19.99. The company restructured its subscription service into three tiers ahead of the October 16 launch of two Xbox ROG Ally handheld consoles. The new Essential tier offers 50-plus games for $9.99 monthly. Premium includes 200-plus games for $14.99. Ultimate subscribers gain access to more than 400 games, day-one releases, improved cloud streaming quality, and services including EA Play, Ubisoft+ Classics, and Fortnite Crew. Game Pass generated nearly $5 billion in fiscal 2025 revenue with 34 million subscribers in 2024. Console hardware prices are also increasing, with the Xbox Series X rising $50 to $649.99 starting October 3.

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