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A new analysis by Lloyds, using data from Halifax, revealed the most and least expensive market towns, with one in Essex among the priciest.

The Maldon Smoke and Fire Festival is heading to Promenade Park next month.

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Only three months ago she described herself as 'battered and bruised' by the backlash to her trip into space on Jeff Bezos's rocket but reassured fans that she would 'keep looking to the light'.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Anthropic revoked OpenAI's API access to its models on Tuesday, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell WIRED. OpenAI was informed that its access was cut off due to violating the terms of service. "Claude Code has become the go-to choice for coders everywhere, and so it was no surprise to learn OpenAI's own technical staff were also using our coding tools ahead of the launch of GPT-5," Anthropic spokesperson Christopher Nulty said in a statement to WIRED. "Unfortunately, this is a direct violation of our terms of service." According to Anthropic's commercial terms of service, customers are barred from using the service to "build a competing product or service, including to train competing AI models" or "reverse engineer or duplicate" the services. This change in OpenAI's access to Claude comes as the ChatGPT-maker is reportedly preparing to release a new AI model, GPT-5, which is rumored to be better at coding. OpenAI was plugging Claude into its own internal tools using special developer access (APIs), instead of using the regular chat interface, according to sources. This allowed the company to run tests to evaluate Claude's capabilities in things like coding and creative writing against its own AI models, and check how Claude responded to safety-related prompts involving categories like CSAM, self-harm, and defamation, the sources say. The results help OpenAI compare its own models' behavior under similar conditions and make adjustments as needed. "It's industry standard to evaluate other AI systems to benchmark progress and improve safety. While we respect Anthropic's decision to cut off our API access, it's disappointing considering our API remains available to them," OpenAI's chief communications officer Hannah Wong said in a statement to WIRED. Nulty says that Anthropic will "continue to ensure OpenAI has API access for the purposes of benchmarking and safety evaluations as is standard practice across the industry."

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Stevie Nicks announced on Friday that she was canceling all of her concerts scheduled for August and September.

Jeannie Seely, the country music singer best known for her hit song Don't Touch Me, has died at 85.

Who is the most significant powerbroker behind the world's most famous man? The DailyMail+ Power List of Trump world figures reveals the American people's answer.

Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from Electrek: Peak Energy shipped out its first sodium-ion battery energy storage system, and the New York-based company says it's achieved a first in three ways: the US's first grid-scale sodium-ion battery storage system; the largest sodium-ion phosphate pyrophosphate (NFPP) battery system in the world; and the first megawatt-hour scale battery to run entirely on passive cooling -- no fans, pumps, or vents. That's significant because removing moving parts and ditching active cooling systems eliminates fire risk. According to the Electric Power Research Institute, 89% of battery fires in the US trace back to thermal management issues. Peak's design doesn't have those issues because it doesn't have those systems. Instead, the 3.5 MWh system uses a patent-pending passive cooling architecture that's simpler, more reliable, and cheaper to run and maintain. The company says its technology slashes auxiliary power needs by up to 90%, saves about $1 million annually per gigawatt hour of storage, and cuts battery degradation by 33% over a 20-year lifespan. [...] Peak is working with nine utility and independent power producer (IPP) customers on a shared pilot this summer. That deployment unlocks nearly 1 GWh of future commercial contracts now under negotiation. The company plans to ship hundreds of megawatt hours of its new system over the next two years, and it's building its first US cell factory, which is set to start production in 2026.

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It is a great option for when summer turns a bit chilly

It had emerged this Thursday that he succumbed to acute myocardial infarction, which is commonly referred to as a heart attack.

Gabriel Olds has been accused of raping multiple women. One of his accusers told the court she was a virgin.

Retail analyst Richard Hyman says he has never come across Christmas items being displayed so early into the year.

He said if they didn't, the US would deploy 'every tool in our arsenal' to protect families from 'continued abusive drug prices'.

Majd Alshaghnobi suffered severe facial injuries and a shattered leg while searching for food with two friends last year.

Aurora Innovation has expanded its autonomous trucking operations with nighttime driverless runs between Dallas and Houston and a new Phoenix terminal. "Efficiency, uptime, and reliability are important for our customers, and Aurora is showing we can deliver," said Chris Urmson, co-founder and CEO of Aurora, in a press release. "Just three months after launch, we're running driverless operations day and night and we've expanded our terminal network to Phoenix. Our rapid progress is beginning to unlock the full value of self-driving trucks for our customers, which has the potential to transform the trillion-dollar trucking industry." FreightWaves reports: The expansion allows for continuous utilization, shortening delivery times and serving as part of its path to autonomous trucking profitability. Aurora notes that the unlocking of nighttime autonomous operations can also improve road safety. It cited a 2021 Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration report on large truck and bus crashes that noted a disproportionate 37% of fatal crashes involving large trucks occurred at night. This comes despite trucks traveling fewer miles during those hours. Aurora's SAE L4 autonomous driving system, called the Aurora Driver, can detect objects in the dark more than 450 meters away via its proprietary, long-range FirstLight Lidar. The lidar can identify pedestrians, vehicles, and debris up to 11 seconds sooner than a traditional driver, according to the company. In addition to the fleet and operations expansion, the new terminal in Phoenix, which opened in June, is part of an infrastructure-light approach. Aurora notes this design will closely resemble how the company plans to integrate with future customer endpoints, optimized for speed to market. This expansion of the more than 15-hour Fort Worth to Phoenix route opens up opportunities to showcase the autonomous truck's ability to cut transit time in half compared to a single driver, who is limited to the 11-hour hours-of-service limitation. Aurora is piloting the autonomous trucking Phoenix lane with two customers, Hirschbach and Werner.

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British families say they were told that the release of those still in the hands of the group would 'play no part' in the UK's plans to recognise statehood.

Grace Lewis, 22, defected from Sir Keir Starmer's party on Friday to join the new political grouping - which at present is only a 600,000-person-strong mailing list.

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: AstraZeneca already sells 40 per cent of its drugs to America and, following President Donald Trump 's tariff threat, is ramping up research and production there.

The Tory grandee, who held the role between 2012 and 2018, spoke out as the Government has faced stiff opposition from its own MPs against welfare reforms.