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RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: Dina Asher-Smith handed a baton to Amy Hunt at 9.52pm and around 31 seconds later, Britain's newest sprint hero had a third gold medal.

The Royal Osteoporosis Society (ROS), whose president is Queen Camilla, has written to the statistics watchdog to complain that Labour is using bogus figures.

Less than a year ago he was the #1 richest man in the world. 10 weeks ago he was #2. But yesterday Larry Ellison dropped to #8, Forbes reports, falling behind Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Ellison's net worth is now estimated at just $192.6 billion — after a $104 billion decline: Shares of Oracle plunged roughly 54% between hitting a high of just over $250 on June 1 to a low of $114.50 on July 28, though the stock rebounded slightly to $150.52 as of Friday. A decline followed Oracle telling investors it expected to raise $40 billion through debt and equity financing, with capital expenditures surging 162% to $55.7 billion and spending expected to top $95 billion by fiscal 2027. Jacob Bourne, an analyst at eMarketer, told Reuters there are broader concerns about how Oracle would fund its capital spending to match its revenue projections, and Bank of America analysts separately flagged in a note cautioning that more than 50% of Oracle's remaining performance obligation comes from OpenAI. Melius Research analysts wrote last month that Oracle's spending plans may not hold if OpenAI or Anthropic demands more computing capacity. S&P Global also downgraded Oracle's credit rating in July, arguing the firm's "rapidly expanding" AI infrastructure business could pay off, but may be too expensive and could weaken Oracle's financial position in the meantime. $443 billion. That's how much Oracle's market valuation has dropped since peaking at $877.1 billion in September, hitting $433.5 billion as of Friday... Oracle, once viewed as a potential winner of the booming AI infrastructure buildout, has since raised concerns among investors who appear to view the firm as taking on too much financial risk to fund its projects. Wall Street has cautioned that mega-cap tech firms may be taking on too much spending to match growing demand for AI products, with firms like Amazon expecting to spend more than $200 billion. Oracle's backlog has exploded to $638 billion, but more than half is reportedly associated with OpenAI, and some analysts have cautioned that most of those funds may not be guaranteed.

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The NFL star, 36, had a life-changing offseason, marrying pop sensation Taylor Swift in a star-studded celebration at Madison Square Garden in New York City on July 3.

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI IN BIRMINGHAM: The 33-year-old, clearly unfit after recent difficulties with a calf issue, effectively jogged the 800m to bring an end to her hugely underwhelming campaign.

In 2001, defying lingering allegations of child molestation, Michael Jackson decided to make a fly-on-the-wall-style documentary.

Gomez has broken her silence two days after she and her mother were accused of fraud in a lawsuit filed by investors in her mental health company, Wondermind.

Rhian Sugden was sure to set pulses racing as she slipped into a busty red bodysuit for a sexy Instagram snap on Saturday.

Ewan McGregor has told how starring opposite his eldest daughter helped to heal their relationship following his divorce from her mother.

The singer, 41, looked incredible in a satin bustier and suspenders as she took to the stage at the 2026 Oyafestivalen at Toyenparken on Saturday night.

Police have closed the A120 at Galleys Corner, Braintree after reports of a crash.

"An engineering director at Google said four years ago that AI would deliver a four-day work week by 2025," remembers the BBC. And earlier this year OpenAI "formally urged companies to start testing out a four-day work week (with no change in pay), claiming that AI will soon be able to speed up so much human labour that the corporate world should prepare itself." However, a former OpenAI technical employee who left the company last year told the BBC the firm never actually trialled the four-day work week it suggested others should try while they were there. Instead, the person described what was often a gruelling work culture marked by frequent "crisis meetings", working on weekends, and "super cut-throat" performance reviews that would see colleagues suddenly let go... [T]he former OpenAI employee said they would put in at least 70 hours a week, much more than they did in previous tech jobs... Other companies have also pushed the idea that AI will effectively reduce the number of hours people need to work, for better or worse. [At OpenAI and Anthropic] sprints can stretch on for many weeks and top 90 hours of work in a seven-day period, tech workers that the BBC spoke to for this story said... At Meta, workers said they have been abruptly pushed onto teams this year doing AI work being treated as urgent... The hours on such teams at Meta are often long, with staff working into the night, on weekends, and feeling they are "on call" during the hours they are not working, according to descriptions of the work from the current and former employees... Some new research suggests that AI tools are making people's workloads even more burdensome. A study out of UC Berkeley followed hundreds of workers at a US tech company for eight months as they used AI. It found the employees "worked at a faster pace, took on a broader scope of tasks, and extended work into more hours of the day"... The UC Berkeley research found that the workload of tech employees was expanded in part because of the need to constantly check the output of AI tools. In the article Neil Thompson, an innovation scholar at MIT, pointed out a problem with estimates that AI will ease the workload on humans. "People assume that 20% less work means four-day weeks. But new work emerges." The BBC also points out helpfully that "there are no limits in the U.S. on how many hours a person over the age of 16 can work." (While in the UK and Europe, "laws limit a working week to 48 hours, including overtime.") Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader hadleyburg for sharing the article.

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After leaving the BBC in 2025 after re-posting a video which juxtaposed a rat with the headline 'Zionism explained in less than 2 mins', Gary Lineker has breezed ahead without looking back.

Where were you when the balloon went up on Friday? I had finished an outdoor supper in Herefordshire, a dry breeze stirring the treetops, when my mobile telephone emitted an insistent.

Blood is seeping from the dead man's skull. He lies face down on the baking runway, and it pools beneath him like a halo.

Marvel chief Kevin Feige unveiled the new set of actors on Friday at the Disney fan convention D23, according to a report in Variety.

It's been presented as an act of last-ditch diplomacy, an extemporised circling of the wagons in response to the dangerous chaos engulfing the Middle East.

Dramatic doorbell footage shows mother-of-two Rose-Anne Vinten sprinting through the garden of their 'forever home', which they bought just five months ago.

From his humble Love Island roots, Chris Williamson has undergone a hugely successful reinvention to become what he is today: an international wellness guru.

According to royal expert Richard Fitzwilliams, the Prince of Wales should perhaps now be looking to take on 'more responsibilities'.