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Vogue Williams is left horrified as her best friend Joanne McNally revealed she has booked herself in for a free hair transplant. 

Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, Palantir, and more than 20 other tech companies signed an open letter urging policymakers not to impose "premature restrictions" on open-weight AI models, warning that broad limits could "stifle competition or drive innovation overseas." CNBC reports: They wrote that open-weight models strengthen competition and ensure that the benefits of the technology are "broadly shared rather than concentrated in a few hands." "Relying solely on closed models is not inherently safe: they can be breached, misused, or fail in ways that outsiders cannot detect," the letter said. "And concentrating advanced AI capabilities behind a small number of closed models compounds that risk." Elon Musk, who runs an AI business under his rocket company SpaceX, also amplified the letter on social media, writing that it has his "full support" in a post on X. SpaceX did not officially sign the letter. Greg Brockman, OpenAI's president, said Thursday that the company believes in broad access, and that he has not been involved in any conversations with the Trump administration about potentially banning Chinese open-weight models in the U.S. "I think that, that fundamentally, AI and AI usage is something that is actually very important to democratize," Brockman told reporters during a briefing in New York City. "And so, for me, at a sort of deep level, I think that having more models, more usage, that is a good thing." OpenAI CEO Sam Altman addressed the letter in a post on X on Friday, writing that he wants the U.S. to win with both open-weight and proprietary models, and that he is "glad to see this." [...] In the letter on Friday, the U.S. tech companies said that concerns about unlawful distillation should be addressed through "targeted legal and commercial frameworks" instead of with "sweeping restrictions on techniques that play an important role in AI innovation." "Our AI leadership will be judged not by one frontier AI model, but by whether the United States builds a strong, open ecosystem that diffuses into every sector," the letter said. "This is essential for creating opportunities for innovation and prosperity across the country." The letter follows a separate appeal signed by nearly 200 Silicon Valley companies, including Proton and Y Combinator, warning that restricting U.S. access to Chinese open-weight AI models could cripple the next generation of American startups. "American leadership requires two things: world-leading American open-weight models and continued access for U.S. builders to open models already available worldwide," the startup founders wrote. Instead of broad prohibitions, they argue the government should adopt targeted safeguards. Of course, these signees "have an obvious economic stake in seeing open AI models flourish," notes TechCrunch. "Companies like Nvidia, Microsoft Azure, and other infrastructure providers have a vested interest in pushing for commoditized models: If models are interchangeable, people will buy more GPUs, rent more cloud capacity, and build more applications."

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King Charles and Queen Camilla made a dramatic entrance at the OVO Hydro Arena in a TARDIS ahead of the Commonwealth Games' opening ceremony.

Can you guess who didn't sign on to the group letter?

Essex County Fire and Rescue service have provided an update after a huge fire in Rettendon.

Essex County Fire and Rescue service have provided an update after a huge fire in Rettendon.

The singer, 38, took to Instagram on Thursday to share a slew of sexy snaps in a lace corseted set.

Pixar told employees earlier this week that their last day is September 26. A majority of those impacted worked in arts, entertainment and recreation in California

Anthropic has released Opus 5, a new Claude model that it says comes close to its higher-end Fable 5 model at half the price while improving on Opus 4.8 in knowledge work, coding, and scientific research tasks. "At the same time, Anthropic says it has managed to make the model more resistant to being tricked," notes Engadget. Additionally, the company says Opus 5 "exhibits the lowest rates of deceptive behavior." From the report: One important distinction between Opus 5 and Mythos, which is currently only available to a limited number of vetted organizations through Anthropic's Project Glasswing initiative, is that the company has specifically avoided training the new model on cyber-related tasks. Due to more its powerful capabilities, Opus 5 is broadly better at those tasks than its predecessor, making it more useful for finding cybersecurity vulnerabilities, but the company says Opus 5 is "substantially behind" its flagship model at exploiting those vulnerabilities. [...] Anthropic says "Claude Opus 5's safeguards are designed to allow beneficial uses of the model in both cybersecurity and biology." The company has strengthened some of the model's cyber-related guardrails, but notes it did so along a "narrow range" of specific tasks. "Based on our testing, we expect the classifiers to intervene around 85 percent less often than they do for Fable 5," Anthropic said. With Opus 5, Anthropic also isn't including it in its recently announced 30-day data retention policy, which the company introduced alongside Fable and Mythos 5. As for pricing. Anthropic says API costs for Opus 5 will remain at $5 per one million input tokens and $25 per one million output tokens. Anthropic has also added an "effort" menu for Opus that users can tweak to tell the model whether they want it to be more thorough or fast and efficient to conserve tokens.

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Some images are etched into our collective memories, like the one of Lissie Harper so happy after marrying childhood sweetheart PC Andrew Harper, released after he was killed on duty.

As a Massachusetts courtroom grapples with one of America's most heartbreaking family tragedies, the father at the center of the case has quietly built a new life hundreds of miles away.

PlayStation, which is operated by Sony, confirmed users are likely to experience problems trying to sign in and manage their accounts, stream games and use the online store.

Drone footage has shown the extent of an industrial unit fire which has broke out in Rettendon, south Essex

Drone footage has shown the extent of an industrial unit fire which has broke out in Rettendon, south Essex

Gladman Developments is proposing the large-scale development that includes land for a primary school, a community centre, and sports pitches

During a recent family holiday in Portugal, the Duchess of Sussex shared a series of Instagram photographs that offered a glimpse inside her holiday suitcase.

Scientists in Germany revealed how the bacteria had evolved to cause the infection.

The swimmer, who has added his wife Holly's family surname to his own, made a splash in the 100m breaststroke heats. He recorded the quickest time of anybody in the heats.

Tricia Penrose has revealed she has bought the pub her character in Heartbeat used to work in, 33 years after the show first aired.