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Danny, 39, has seen his 10-year marriage to Georgia Horsley thrown into turmoil, after he was caught on camera locking lips with Maura Higgins at the Universal BRITs afterparty.

Farmers have warned that Labour's decision to close a green funding scheme is a 'shattering blow' to the sector.

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Strivers fund UK's benefits mountain

Google says its new open-source AI model, Gemma 3, achieves nearly the same performance as DeepSeek AI's R1 while using just one Nvidia H100 GPU, compared to an estimated 32 for R1. ZDNet reports: Using "Elo" scores, a common measurement system used to rank chess and athletes, Google claims Gemma 3 comes within 98% of the score of DeepSeek's R1, 1338 versus 1363 for R1. That means R1 is superior to Gemma 3. However, based on Google's estimate, the search giant claims that it would take 32 of Nvidia's mainstream "H100" GPU chips to achieve R1's score, whereas Gemma 3 uses only one H100 GPU. Google's balance of compute and Elo score is a "sweet spot," the company claims. In a blog post, Google bills the new program as "the most capable model you can run on a single GPU or TPU," referring to the company's custom AI chip, the "tensor processing unit." "Gemma 3 delivers state-of-the-art performance for its size, outperforming Llama-405B, DeepSeek-V3, and o3-mini in preliminary human preference evaluations on LMArena's leaderboard," the blog post relates, referring to the Elo scores. "This helps you to create engaging user experiences that can fit on a single GPU or TPU host." Google's model also tops Meta's Llama 3's Elo score, which it estimates would require 16 GPUs. (Note that the numbers of H100 chips used by the competition are Google's estimate; DeepSeek AI has only disclosed an example of using 1,814 of Nvidia's less-powerful H800 GPUs to server answers with R1.) More detailed information is provided in a developer blog post on HuggingFace, where the Gemma 3 repository is offered.

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Updated  Microsoft's claim of a quantum computing breakthrough has attracted strong criticism from scientists, though the software giant says its work is sound – and it will soon reveal data that proves it.…

Luigi Mangione, 26, is accused of fatally shooting Brian Thompson , 50, on December 4 outside of the Hilton hotel in Midtown Manhattan while the CEO made his way to an investor conference.

ED CHAMBERLIN: More people came through the doors 12 months ago for Tuesday and Wednesday but I came away from them as deflated as I had been about the Festival in a long time.

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Miss Scarlet on U&Alibi: Her Duke may have gone, but feisty Miss Scarlet's lost none of her fizz

DOMINIC KING AT CHELTENHAM: Barry Connell had fulfilled a lifelong ambition but his only thought was to talk about the young man whose life had been taken too soon.

Under the controversial plans by City watchdogs, more than 40,000 institutions would have been forced to provide annual reports on staff numbers by race, religion and sexual orientation.

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Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) is acquiring Nianticâ(TM)s gaming division for $3.5 billion through its subsidiary Savvy Games Group. Niantic's titles include the hit mobile game Pokemon Go, Monster Hunter Now and Pikmin Bloom. "Despite launching almost a decade ago, Pokemon Go is still amongst the highest-grossing mobile games in the world, with 30 million monthly players," notes the BBC. From the report: Scopely is one of the biggest names in mobile gaming, with its most successful title, Monopoly Go, being downloaded more than 50 million times and generating more than $3 billion in revenue. Pokemon itself is jointly owned by Nintendo, Game Freak and Creatures, which licensed the brand to Niantic so it could develop the game. Ed Wu, who leads the Pokemon Go team at Niantic, said in a blog post he believed the move was "a positive step" for the game's future. "Pokemon Go is more than just a game to me, it's my life's work," he said. "I won't say that Pokemon Go will remain the same, because it has always been a work in progress. But how we create and evolve it will remain unchanged, and I hope that we can make the experience even better."

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A UK couple who decided to sell their family home years after saying they would keep it on Channel 4 's Love it or List it have been criticised after showing their £100,000 renovation on the show.

The Glasgow-born star has struggled to find work since he was accused of exposing himself to co-workers while on set of Doctor Who and Torchwood.

The former Manchester United captain, 39, returned to his wife, 38, and children in Cheshire after another disastrous spell in management ended after seven months.

Most nurseries say they will cut free places and raise fees due to a 'perfect storm' of changes including Labour's National Insurance hike.

Pupils are facing larger class sizes due to 'sluggish' teacher recruitment and high exit rates, according to a report.

Conservative peer Lord Norton of Louth wants to tighten the rules around the conferment of peerages so they are given on merit.

The Chancellor was said to be considering the idea of reducing the amount that can be saved into cash Isas annually to encourage people to direct more money into stocks and shares.

The carpets of spring daffodils may be a tempting solution for those who forgot to organise a Mother's Day gift.