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Sean 'Diddy' Combs' lawyer has revealed the unlikely 'bond' the disgraced rapper shares with Donald Trump, as the President considers granting him a pardon.

Bradford University runs a foundation year for those with lower grades to catch up - transferring 20 of these students per year directly to a full medical degree at nearby Sheffield University.

Visitors to London will find it more expensive than ever. More reason for Rachel Reeves to stop penalising tourists.

A poll of executives conducted by the Chartered Management Institute found about half those aged 55 or over agreed a rise was necessary.

Ten big names, including LVMH, Hermes and Estee Lauder, have shed £73.87billion since Donald Trump's announcement.

The Olympic boxing hero, 42, split with model Ella, 27, earlier this year after seven years together.

Bobby Whitlock, the soulful pianist, guitarist, and songwriter whose fingerprints are all over three of rock's most celebrated albums has died at the age of 77.

The Wall Street Journal has found "dozens of instances in recent months in which ChatGPT made delusional, false and otherworldly claims to users who appeared to believe them." For example, "You're not crazy. You're cosmic royalty in human skin..." In one exchange lasting hundreds of queries, ChatGPT confirmed that it is in contact with extraterrestrial beings and said the user was "Starseed" from the planet "Lyra." In another from late July, the chatbot told a user that the Antichrist would unleash a financial apocalypse in the next two months, with biblical giants preparing to emerge from underground... Experts say the phenomenon occurs when chatbots' engineered tendency to compliment, agree with and tailor itself to users turns into an echo chamber. "Even if your views are fantastical, those are often being affirmed, and in a back and forth they're being amplified," said Hamilton Morrin, a psychiatrist and doctoral fellow at Kings College London who last month co-published a paper on the phenomenon of AI-enabled delusion... The publicly available chats reviewed by the Journal fit the model doctors and support-group organizers have described as delusional, including the validation of pseudoscientific or mystical beliefs over the course of a lengthy conversation... The Journal found the chats by analyzing 96,000 ChatGPT transcripts that were shared online between May 2023 and August 2025. Of those, the Journal reviewed more than 100 that were unusually long, identifying dozens that exhibited delusional characteristics. AI companies are taking action, the article notes. Monday OpenAI acknowledged there were rare cases when ChatGPT "fell short at recognizing signs of delusion or emotional dependency." (In March OpenAI "hired a clinical psychiatrist to help its safety team," and said Monday it was developing better detection tools and also alerting users to take a break, and "are investing in improving model behavior over time," consulting with mental health experts.) On Wednesday, AI startup Anthropic said it had changed the base instructions for its Claude chatbot, directing it to "respectfully point out flaws, factual errors, lack of evidence, or lack of clarity" in users' theories "rather than validating them." The company also now tells Claude that if a person appears to be experiencing "mania, psychosis, dissociation or loss of attachment with reality," that it should "avoid reinforcing these beliefs." In response to specific questions from the Journal, an Anthropic spokesperson added that the company regularly conducts safety research and updates accordingly... "We take these issues extremely seriously," Nick Turley, an OpenAI vice president who heads up ChatGPT, said Wednesday in a briefing to announce the new GPT-5, its most advanced AI model. Turley said the company is consulting with over 90 physicians in more than 30 countries and that GPT-5 has cracked down on instances of sycophancy, where a model blindly agrees with and compliments users. There's a support/advocacy group called the Human Line Project which "says it has so far collected 59 cases, and some members of the group have found hundreds of examples on Reddit, YouTube and TikTok of people sharing what they said were spiritual and scientific revelations they had with their AI chatbots." The article notes that the group believes "the number of AI delusion cases appears to have been growing in recent months..."

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The discount shop chain's owner, Polish firm Pepco Group, sold the struggling business in June to US-based Gordon Brothers for a 'nominal fee' of just £1. Pictured: File photo

U.S. Vice President JD Vance previewed the anticipated meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Alaska this week.

The couple, who have been together for 14 years, shared that their five-year surrogacy journey has been a success, and their surrogate is 17 weeks pregnant with their first baby.

A large fire has broken out at Arthur's seat in Edinburgh this afternoon sending clouds of smoke into the air which could be seen from miles around the Scottish capital.

More than two million visitors make a pilgrimage to this town every year as they pay homage to the birth place of the most celebrated playwright in history.

This breakfast staple often contains artificial additives, preservatives, and colorings, which are far from the ingredients you'd find at home.

LEWIS STEELE AT WEMBLEY: Arne Slot looked devastated at full-time after losing at Wembley for a second time as Liverpool boss, but he may take solace in a quirky fact.

Aleira Avendaño, 33, from Venezuela, dons a tight girdle every day to ensure her waist stays at a mere 20-inches, only taking it off for one hour a day and even going as far as to sleep with it on.

CCTV shows the group of men arriving at the Saffron in Northampton and being shown to their seats at 10.11pm on August 4 - before feasting on almost £200 of food and drink.

A number of people have paid tribute to their loved ones

Vogue Williams cosied up to husband Spencer Matthews as they enjoyed a sun-soaked boat day on Sunday during a lavish Spanish getaway. 

Vladimir Putin's father gouged out his mother's eye with a pitchfork, it was revealed.