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The president sat down at a ballroom in his Turnberry course in Scotland with the EU Commission president, complaining about 'one-sided' trade, windmills, and immigration.

"Search engines still require users to use critical thinking to interpret and contextualize the results," argues Aaron French, an assistant professor of information systems. But with the rise of generative AI tools like ChatGPT, "internet users aren't just outsourcing memory — they may be outsourcing thinking itself." Generative AI tools don't just retrieve information; they can create, analyze and summarize it. This represents a fundamental shift: Arguably, generative AI is the first technology that could replace human thinking and creativity. That raises a critical question: Is ChatGPT making us stupid...? [A]s many people increasingly delegate cognitive tasks to AI, I think it's worth considering what exactly we're gaining and what we are at risk of losing. "For many, it's replacing the need to sift through sources, compare viewpoints and wrestle with ambiguity," the article argues, positing that this "may be weakening their ability to think critically, solve complex problems and engage deeply with information." But in a section titled "AI and the Dunning-Kruger effect," he suggests "what matters isn't whether a person uses generative AI, but how. If used uncritically, ChatGPT can lead to intellectual complacency." His larger point seems to be that when used as an aid, AI "can become a powerful tool for stimulating curiosity, generating ideas, clarifying complex topics and provoking intellectual dialogue.... to augment human intelligence, not replace it. That means using ChatGPT to support inquiry, not to shortcut it. It means treating AI responses as the beginning of thought, not the end." He believes mass adoption of generative AI has "left internet users at a crossroads. One path leads to intellectual decline: a world where we let AI do the thinking for us. The other offers an opportunity: to expand our brainpower by working in tandem with AI, leveraging its power to enhance our own." So his article ends with a question — how will we use AI to make us smarter? Share your own thoughts and experiences in the comments. Do you think your AI use is making you smarter?

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Thankfully nobody has been injured

Three people were arrested for public order offences but no violence was reported.

Police have arrested a 41-year-old man after a disturbance on a 7am Easyjet flight from Luton to Glasgow.

Peaceful protests took place outside an Essex hotel this afternoon, police confirmed.

Peaceful protests took place outside an Essex hotel this afternoon, police confirmed.

New details about Kristin Cabot's college days emerge, as an insider describes their surprise after kiss cam scandal.

It has six bedrooms and is in the heart of the countryside

The Spanish royals came out to support their nation's football team - as they arrived for a very highly-anticipated UEFA final in Switzerland this evening.

Officers arrested a 37-year-old man at the scene on suspicion of murder and seized a knife.

The horrifying incident happened at Netley Marsh Steam and Craft Show (pictured, file photo) in the village of Netley Marsh, Hampshire, just before 11pm yesterday.

From the Adafruit blog: Greg Technology (aka Greg Sadetsky) on YouTube demonstrates a version of Chocolate Doom where opponent characters can be cut, copied, and pasted at will to add a bit more fun to the game. Obviously this means you can paste in your attackers multiple times. ("They're kind of not really happy if you do that..." Greg says at one point in the video. "But then, you can also cut them... like, vaccuum them out.") In response to a comment on YouTube, Sadetsky explained that "It stores a reference to the kind of monster (every monster has a unique type number). "So yeah, you could paste them across games!"

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Over the years a number of A-list stars have flaunted their jaw-dropping figures by baring all in sizzling photos, otherwise known as thirst traps. 

The furor around 'nepo babies' may only have exploded in the past five years, but the showbiz talent pool has always had an incestuous tinge.

It is so tiny, it doesn't even have a shop!

Prince William has been pictured taking his daughter Charlotte, 10, on a sweet father-daughter outing to cheer on the Lionesses at the Women's Euro final.

Back in 2004, Julia Roberts caused a stir when she named Aishwarya Rai 'the world's most beautiful woman'-a statement that cemented Rai's global status as more than just a film star.

Marvel's Fantastic Four: First Steps "raked in about $57 million at the domestic box office for its opening day, according to multiple outlets," reports Forbes. That haul makes it "the year's second-largest opening day so far and a win for Marvel and Disney about a year after they announced a reduction in film and TV show quantity to focus on quality." The roughly $57 million "Fantastic Four: First Steps" generated at the domestic box office Friday fell narrowly short of the opening day for "A Minecraft Movie" ($57.11 million) and just topped opening day for DC Comics rival "Superman" ($56.1 million), according to Variety. The film has netted about $106 million globally after securing $49.2 million overseas, setting itself up for an opening weekend of around $125 million, the same figure achieved by "Superman" earlier this month. Fantastic Four: First Steps is receiving praise from critics and fans alike, boasting an 88% on Rotten Tomatoes and a 7.6/10 on IMDb... With its opening weekend alone, "Fantastic Four: First Steps" out-earned the entire domestic run of "Fantastic Four" (2015), an adaptation of the heroes that flopped hard at the domestic box office ($56.1 million) and received poor ratings... Marvel's next movie is slated to release almost a full year from now, with Spider-Man: Brand New Day hitting theaters next summer before Avengers: Doomsday in December.

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Laying bare the reality of Britain's 'baby bust', staggering analysis shows only 5,000 out of 36,000 communities are having enough babies.