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Ingrid Seward, one of the most prominent and respected royal biographers, wrote about the Queen's sense of humour in her book My Mother And I.

Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said there are growing concerns that foreign criminals are using the border chaos to slip into Britain illegally.

The How Clean Is Your House star, 69, cut a sombre figure as she waited for a bus in north London, after it was revealed that Kim had died following a short illness.

The Frasier star, who is already dad to seven children, looked giddy as he strolled with Walsh, 46, who showed off her bump in a elegant draped dress.

France announced its own effort to build re-usable engines on the same day

Japanese automotive giant Honda has successfully launched and landed a small rocket.…

A body language expert is weighing in on Brad Pitt and Ines de Ramon's body language after they attended the F1 movie premiere Monday.

EXCLUSIVE: Locals living in the quintessentially British community of Burley, in the New Forest, have lashed out over the unauthorised development on the outskirts of the village.

Those in cars will be paying an extra £1 per journey

As modern medicine emerged during the Victorian period, so too did a new breed of killer - doctors who turned healing into harm.

Jack Thorne, writer of Netflix's Adolescence, has backed Esther Ghey's call for a ban on smartphones in schools and social media for under 16's.

The Daily Mail has revealed the most expensive postcodes in Britain, highlighting "prestige pockets" where house prices are higher than average.

The Daily Mail has revealed the most expensive postcodes in Britain, highlighting "prestige pockets" where house prices are higher than average.

A graphic designer said opening her own business in a bustling town high street has been a “blessing”.

The dog tag of a fallen World War Two soldier has been returned to his family 80 years after his death.

THE council has refused proposed plans for two new flats on land in Braintree.

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Former CNN reporter Jim Acosta has been slammed after making a vile joke about President Donald Trump's deceased ex-wife Ivana.

Quick reminder: The law that banned the app is called ‘Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act’

The Trump administration is set to again waive the 2024 law that requires the made-in-China social network TikTok to either sell its US operations to a local company or stop operating on US soil.…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Time Magazine: While AI could offer transformative benefits, without proper safeguards it could facilitate nuclear and biological threats and cause "potentially irreversible harms," a new report commissioned by California Governor Gavin Newsom has warned. "The opportunity to establish effective AI governance frameworks may not remain open indefinitely," says the report, which was published on June 17 (PDF). Citing new evidence that AI can help users source nuclear-grade uranium and is on the cusp of letting novices create biological threats, it notes that the cost for inaction at this current moment could be "extremely high." [...] "Foundation model capabilities have rapidly advanced since Governor Newsom vetoed SB 1047 last September," the report states. The industry has shifted from large language AI models that merely predict the next word in a stream of text toward systems trained to solve complex problems and that benefit from "inference scaling," which allows them more time to process information. These advances could accelerate scientific research, but also potentially amplify national security risks by making it easier for bad actors to conduct cyberattacks or acquire chemical and biological weapons. The report points to Anthropic's Claude 4 models, released just last month, which the company said might be capable of helping would-be terrorists create bioweapons or engineer a pandemic. Similarly, OpenAI's o3 model reportedly outperformed 94% of virologists on a key evaluation. In recent months, new evidence has emerged showing AI's ability to strategically lie, appearing aligned with its creators' goals during training but displaying other objectives once deployed, and exploit loopholes to achieve its goals, the report says. While "currently benign, these developments represent concrete empirical evidence for behaviors that could present significant challenges to measuring loss of control risks and possibly foreshadow future harm," the report says. While Republicans have proposed a 10 year ban on all state AI regulation over concerns that a fragmented policy environment could hamper national competitiveness, the report argues that targeted regulation in California could actually "reduce compliance burdens on developers and avoid a patchwork approach" by providing a blueprint for other states, while keeping the public safer. It stops short of advocating for any specific policy, instead outlining the key principles the working group believes California should adopt when crafting future legislation. It "steers clear" of some of the more divisive provisions of SB 1047, like the requirement for a "kill switch" or shutdown mechanism to quickly halt certain AI systems in case of potential harm, says Scott Singer, a visiting scholar in the Technology and International Affairs Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and a lead-writer of the report. Instead, the approach centers around enhancing transparency, for example through legally protecting whistleblowers and establishing incident reporting systems, so that lawmakers and the public have better visibility into AI's progress. The goal is to "reap the benefits of innovation. Let's not set artificial barriers, but at the same time, as we go, let's think about what we're learning about how it is that the technology is behaving," says Cuellar, who co-led the report. The report emphasizes this visibility is crucial not only for public-facing AI applications, but for understanding how systems are tested and deployed inside AI companies, where concerning behaviors might first emerge. "The underlying approach here is one of 'trust but verify,'" Singer says, a concept borrowed from Cold War-era arms control treaties that would involve designing mechanisms to independently check compliance. That's a departure from existing efforts, which hinge on voluntary cooperation from companies, such as the deal between OpenAI and Center for AI Standards and Innovation (formerly the U.S. AI Safety Institute) to conduct pre-deployment tests. It's an approach that acknowledges the "substantial expertise inside industry," Singer says, but "also underscores the importance of methods of independently verifying safety claims."

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The Canadian Prime Minister said he understood why the US President wanted to return to Washington in order to focus on the Middle East conflict.