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Dr Samir Shah batted away the suggestion that the broadcaster was giving a 'disproportionate' amount of coverage to Nigel Farage's party.

Netherlands based Nebius Group to deliver capacity from facility in New Jersey

As the AI frenzy shows no signs of letting up, Microsoft has signed an agreement that could be worth up to $19.4 billion with Netherlands-based Nebius Group – formerly known as Yandex N.V. – in exchange for access to its GPU infrastructure over five years.…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: X enthusiast and Reddit shareholder Sam Altman had an epiphany on Monday: Bots have made it impossible to determine whether social media posts are really written by humans, he posted. The realization came while reading (and sharing) some posts from the r/Claudecode subreddit, which were praising OpenAI Codex. OpenAI launched the software programming service that takes on Anthropic's Claude Code in May. Lately, that subreddit has been so filled with posts from self-proclaimed Code users announcing that they moved to Codex that one Reddit user even joked: "Is it possible to switch to codex without posting a topic on Reddit?" This left Altman wondering how many of those posts were from real humans. "I have had the strangest experience reading this: I assume it's all fake/bots, even though in this case I know codex growth is really strong and the trend here is real," he confessed on X. He then live-analyzed his reasoning. "I think there are a bunch of things going on: real people have picked up quirks of LLM-speak, the Extremely Online crowd drifts together in very correlated ways, the hype cycle has a very 'it's so over/we're so back' extremism, optimization pressure from social platforms on juicing engagement and the related way that creator monetization works, other companies have astroturfed us so i'm extra sensitive to it, and a bunch more (including probably some bots)." [...] Altman also throws a dig at the incentives when social media sites and creators rely on engagement to make money. Fair enough. But then Altman confesses that one of the reasons he thinks the pro-OpenAI posts in this subreddit might be bots is because OpenAI has also been "astroturfed." That typically involves posts by people or bots paid for by the competitor, or paid by some third-degree contractor, giving the competitor plausible deniability. [...] Altman surmises, "The net effect is somehow AI twitter/AI Reddit feels very fake in a way it really didn't a year or two ago." If that's true, who's fault is it? GPT has led models to become so good at writing, that LLMs have become a plague not just to social media sites (which have always had a bot problem) but to schools, journalism, and the courts.

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Outerwear can be an investment, but once you've found a coat that fits your style, you'll wear it for years to come.

Pensioner Jenny Field, 76, must sell her home to cover a £113,000 legal bill after losing a five-year boundary dispute with next-door neighbour Pauline Clark, 64, over a 1ft strip of land in Poole.

Police responded to a report that a British man had been stabbed in Erzsébetváros, the party district of the Hungarian capital, at 4:13 a.m. yesterday morning.

Margaret Davies, 80, was knocked to the ground and stepped on, suffering massive chest injuries. The former international horse trials competitor, died in hospital just over two weeks later.

Emirates has quietly introduced a change to who gets to enjoy its ultra-luxurious First Class cabin - and it's bad news for parents with young children.

The legendary jacket potato seller, AKA Ben Newman, took to social media on Saturday to reveal that Dutch airline KLM refused to let him board his flight to Croatia with his dialysis machine.

Residents of the city of one million Palestinians have been expecting an onslaught for weeks, since the Israeli government devised a plan to deal Hamas a fatal blow.

UK supermarket Waitrose is launching a total of 267 new products, including a mulled pink wine, for the upcoming festive period.

Joined by the Princess of Wales, who was a surprise addition to the schedule, Prince William visited the national federation of the Women's Institute (WI) in Sunningdale, Ascot yesterday.

The former TOWIE star, 35, was seen sharing a smooch with the photographer as they wrapped their arms around each other while in the sea.

Italian journalist Federica Polidoro's chat with Ayo Edebiri, Julia Roberts and Andrew Garfield about their movie After The Hunt on Italy's ArtsLife Tv went viral.

This is the heart-stopping moment a driver crashes their car at speed into an unfinished bridge before sending the vehicle flying into the air.

Nicholas Walker, 53, quit Robsons Estate Agents in Herfs, over the desk position row, which saw his boss raging 'he could not believe a 'f***ing 53-year-old man' was 'making a fuss' over a table.

First, server products go end of life, now datacenter gets the chop, and larger customers will pay more

Atlassian is discontinuing its datacenter products, including Jira, Confluence and Bamboo, in favor of Atlassian Cloud. There is a partial exception for Bitbucket, a source code repository manager, which will have a license option covering both cloud and datacenter.…

It has been shortlisted as one of the top 40 in the UK

Traffic is building for four miles

A COLLISION on the A120 is causing traffic delays near Stansted Airport.