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Susan Boyle has dropped yet another hint that she is gearing up to announce a brand new project with her latest post - after showing off a glamorous new look and teasing the start of a 'new era'.

Global markets tumbling. Chaos in the streets. A complete loss of confidence religion. This is the previously unthinkable, near-future that the White House is contemplating.

Alana Moscrop died in hospital five days after last Thursday's crash on the A59 in Gisburn, Lancashire.

A former police officer says he was 'curious' after pleading guilty to handling gigabytes of child abuse material on five separate occasions.

Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.8 with stronger performance and better handling of uncertain or flawed data, including a greater tendency to flag issues rather than make unsupported claims. The update also introduces a "Dynamic Workflows" research preview for coordinating complex tasks across many subagents. TechCrunch reports: Opus 4.8 comes with the expected best-in-class benchmark results, but there's also particular attention to how the model manages bad or uncertain data. In the launch post, Anthropic's early testers found that the new model is "more likely to flag uncertainties about its work and less likely to make unsupported claims." Echoing this point, a testimonial from Bridgewater associates said the biggest difference in the upgrade was "Opus 4.8's tendency to proactively flag issues with the inputs and outputs of an analysis, something other models routinely missed and left to the users to catch." Together with the new model, Anthropic launched a feature called Dynamic Workflows, which will be available in research preview. The system is designed to help larger models like Opus manage complex tasks across hundreds of parallel subagents. "Claude Code alongside Opus 4.8 can now carry out codebase-scale migrations across hundreds of thousands of lines of code from kickoff to merge, with the existing test suite as its bar," the post explains. As for Mythos, Anthropic's most advanced model, the company hinted it could be made publicly available in the not too distant future. "We're making swift progress on developing these safeguards and expect to be able to bring Mythos-class models to all our customers in the coming weeks," the company wrote.

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Tracy Shaw has revealed she has completed her 'first day of chemotherapy' on Thursday after being diagnosed with breast cancer. 

Lawmakers push DoD to tighten smartphone controls after adversaries exploited commercial tracking data

More countries have enacted travel bans on residents from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Uganda and South Sudan, which have been ravaged by an ongoing Ebola outbreak.

Having landed her first acting role as a baby, Panettiere had a childhood unlike any other as she worked both on the set while attending school.

Ring doorbell footage from earlier this week showed the roof of the property in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, bursting into flames.

The newlyweds, who signed a prenup, can't wait to have a new addition to their family. Exclusive new images shared with Daily Mail show them glowing.

The politician, 55, who served as the First Minister of Scotland and Leader of the Scottish National Party from 2014 to 2023, suffered a miscarriage back in 2010.

The man broke out of the van as it had stopped on the A1(M) motorway and ran off on Thursday morning, police said.

The US and Iran have 'reached a deal' to extend the ceasefire and open new negotiations on Tehran's nuclear programme. 

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: In an era where Silicon Valley's conservatism is both expressed openly and becoming more intense by the day, it's strange to think that tech was once seen as a hive of liberalism. The right-wing nature of today's tech industry means that its products tend to also be seen as serving right-wing interests, either in their actual operation (like X's openly and unrepentantly right-wing chatbot Grok) or by the simple fact that their existence serves to enrich a small group of very powerful, very conservative people. But does it have to be this way? Can LLMs and AI agents find a place in the toolkit of progressive activist groups? The conviction that they can is the idea behind a new app called Outcry, which provides a chatbot designed specifically as a "private, on-device AI mentor for activists, organizers and movement builders." (There's also a web version, although it obviously lacks the privacy benefits of being entirely offline.) It's the brainchild of Occupy Wall Street co-creator Micah White, who recently wrote a blog post about the thinking behind the project. [...] Outcry's other distinguishing feature is that its dataset is entirely offline -- it's included with the download. According to the readme, the entire dataset is downloaded to your device at first launch, and stored in your library's Application Support directory. So, how effectively does Outcry serve as a guide for collective action? "I'd say that its information is pretty high-level and general, not least because its offline nature prevents it from accessing specific details not contained in its database," writes Gizmodo's Tom Hawking. He continued: "This app has the potential to be a really valuable resource, especially for people who are just beginning to become involved with activism and genuinely don't know where to begin -- and getting over that first step can be hard."

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Dozens of families have been forced to flee their homes amid fears that nearby disused coal mines are collapsing.

The Duke of Sussex was the president of African Parks for six years until being elevated to the governing board of directors two years ago.

The 61-year-old acting legend - who was directed by Rinsch, 50, in 2013 action flick 47 Ronin - wrote a letter on May 1 which was submitted this week by Rinsch's legal team ahead of sentencing.

Claude Lemieux, a four-time Stanley Cup champion and one of the most notorious players in hockey history, has died at the age of 60.

Annie Wonderlich, 43, from Los Angeles, purchased the $54,000 (£40,275.90) home in Washington State in February 2026 and plans to transform the façade so it resembles a cottage.