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Argentinian businessman Rogelio 'Roger' Nores, 35, was cleared last month of any involvement in the former One Direction star's tragic death.

Microsoft is reportedly developing its own large language model series capable of rivaling OpenAI and Anthropic's models. SiliconANGLE reports: Sources told Bloomberg that the LLM series is known as MAI. That's presumably an acronym for "Microsoft artificial intelligence." It might also be a reference to Maia 100, an internally-developed AI chip the company debuted last year. It's possible Microsoft is using the processor to power the new MAI models. The company recently tested the LLM series to gauge its performance. As part of the evaluation, Microsoft engineers checked whether MAI could power the company's Copilot family of AI assistants. Data from the tests reportedly indicates that the LLM series is competitive with models from OpenAI and Anthropic. That Microsoft evaluated whether MAI could be integrated into Copilot hints the LLM series is geared towards general-purpose processing rather than reasoning. Many of the tasks supported by Copilot can be performed with a general-purpose model. According to Bloomberg, Microsoft is currently developing a second LLM series optimized for reasoning tasks. The report didn't specify details such as the number of models Microsoft is training or their parameter counts. It's also unclear whether they might provide multimodal features.

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Romeo Beckham and his new girlfriend Kim Turnbull risked an awkward run in with his ex, Mia Regan, on Friday as they all stepped out in during Paris Fashion Week. 

Security manager Nick Kitaruth had travelled 200 miles from London to Cornwall to visit his parents for four days from August 14 to August 17, 2023.

The moisturiser is said to be a firm favourite among the likes of Michelle Keegan, Sydney Sweeney, Karlie Kloss and Lady Gaga

The fashion designer, 50, returned to the annual event for the third year running as she debuted her Fall/Winter 2025-2026 women's ready-to-wear collection.

Hollywood's revered Variety magazine decried With Love, Meghan as a 'gormless lifestyle filler' laced with 'tangible desperation'. Others were less complimentary.

Baggy-eyed, pale, unshaven and puffing on a vape, former BBC News anchor Huw Edwards cuts a haunted figure walking along a street in Wales near where he grew up.

EXCLUSIVE: Sir Lindsay Hoyle, the 158th Speaker of the House of Commons, always flies via British Airways and its partner airlines, with an entourage that includes two or three aides.

The family put on a united display as they stormed the French capital, though Victoria's eldest son Brooklyn did not arrive with his siblings.

Labour's war on rural England seems set to continue as new planning regulations look to remove powers of objection from rural local councils and instead hand more control to developers.

Just as Monaco has its Grand Prix and Milan its Fashion Week, so the Cotswolds are limbering up for the social highlight of the year.

For Trump, freedom and democracy - the core values of the country he leads and the Atlantic Alliance which has united the US and Europe for 80 years - mean nothing.

Signal President Meredith Whittaker warned at SXSW that agentic AI poses significant privacy and security risks, as these AI agents require extensive access to users' personal data, likely processing it unencrypted in the cloud. TechCrunch reports: "So we can just put our brain in a jar because the thing is doing that and we don't have to touch it, right?," Whittaker mused. Then she explained the type of access the AI agent would need to perform these tasks, including access to our web browser and a way to drive it as well as access to our credit card information to pay for tickets, our calendar, and messaging app to send the text to your friends. "It would need to be able to drive that [process] across our entire system with something that looks like root permission, accessing every single one of those databases -- probably in the clear, because there's no model to do that encrypted," Whittaker warned. "And if we're talking about a sufficiently powerful ... AI model that's powering that, there's no way that's happening on device," she continued. "That's almost certainly being sent to a cloud server where it's being processed and sent back. So there's a profound issue with security and privacy that is haunting this hype around agents, and that is ultimately threatening to break the blood-brain barrier between the application layer and the OS layer by conjoining all of these separate services [and] muddying their data," Whittaker concluded. If a messaging app like Signal were to integrate with AI agents, it would undermine the privacy of your messages, she said. The agent has to access the app to text your friends and also pull data back to summarize those texts. Her comments followed remarks she made earlier during the panel on how the AI industry had been built on a surveillance model with mass data collection. She said that the "bigger is better AI paradigm" -- meaning the more data, the better -- had potential consequences that she didn't think were good. With agentic AI, Whittaker warned we'd further undermine privacy and security in the name of a "magic genie bot that's going to take care of the exigencies of life," she concluded. You can watch the full speech on YouTube.

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The fashion designer, 50, was supported by her husband David, 49, and kids Romeo, 22, Cruz, 20, and Harper, 13, as they all proudly watched from the front row.

The fashion designer and footballer David's eldest son, 26, was the only member of the family not present in the French capital due to his own business commitments.

I don't feel I've done anything wrong and need some reassurance from you that I can step back without any guilt and get on with my own life.

Al-Nassr are pushing to finish in the AFC Champions League spots for next season, but are in danger of missing out after they dropped points at home to Al-Shabab - despite Ronaldo scoring.

Aged just seventeen, Chloe Chong is still at school and studying for her A-levels all whilst traveling the world solo to pursue her dream of becoming the best female F1 driver in the world.

Friends icon David Schwimmer has slammed Hollywood stars refusing to speak out against antisemitism.