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The High Court of the Indian State of Madhya Pradesh has stopped live-streaming hearings to protect local lawyers from ridicule on social media.…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Today, OpenAI's Economic Research Team went a long way toward answering that question, on a population level, releasing a first-of-its-kind National Bureau of Economic Research working paper (in association with Harvard economist David Denning) detailing how people end up using ChatGPT across time and tasks. While other research has sought to estimate this kind of usage data using self-reported surveys, this is the first such paper with direct access to OpenAI's internal user data. As such, it gives us an unprecedented direct window into reliable usage stats for what is still the most popular application of LLMs by far. After digging through the dense 65-page paper, here are seven of the most interesting and/or surprising things we discovered about how people are using OpenAI today. Here are the seven most interesting and surprising findings from the study: 1. ChatGPT is now used by "nearly 10% of the world's adult population," up from 100 million users in early 2024 to over 700 million users in 2025. Daily traffic is about one-fifth of Google's at 2.6 billion GPT messages per day. 2. Long-term users' daily activity has plateaued since June 2025. Almost all recent growth comes from new sign-ups experimenting with ChatGPT, not from established users increasing their usage. 3. 46% of users are aged 18-25, making ChatGPT especially popular among the youngest adult cohort. Factoring in under-18 users (not counted in the study), the majority of ChatGPT users likely weren't alive in the 20th century. 4. At launch in 2022, ChatGPT was 80% male-dominated. By late 2025, the balance has shifted: 52.4% of users are now female. 5. In 2024, work vs. personal use was close to even. By mid-2025, 72% of usage is non-work related -- people are using ChatGPT more for personal, creative, and casual needs than for productivity. 6. 28% of all conversations involve writing assistance (emails, edits, translations). For work-related queries, that jumps to 42% overall, and 52% among business/management jobs. Furthermore, the report found that editing and critiquing text is more common than generating text from scratch. 7. 14.9% of work-related usage is dealt with "making decisions and solving problems." This shows people don't just use ChatGPT to do tasks -- they use it as an advisor or co-pilot to help weigh options and guide choices.

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Braun, 37, who played the role of Greg Hirsch on the acclaimed HBO hit, has entered a plea of not guilty to a DUI-Impairment charge in the August 29 incident.

Katharine's coffin was poignantly carried out of Kensington Palace for the final time this evening ahead of her funeral on Tuesday.

Peter Macdonald, 58, (right) was just 10 weeks old when his mother fled to London with him and his brother Trevor Schwartz (left), who was two-years-old, to escape their father.

Prince Andrew appeared pensive as he stared out the window of a car while driving around Windsor Castle - amid claims that he could be 'destroyed' by a cache of more than 100 secret emails.

Just a day after President Donald Trump told reporters he would 'see what happens' when asked if he would strike the country again, he launched a fresh military strike on another boat.

The victim, 15, was found with stab wounds after the deadly incident which took place on Monton Street, Moss Side, shortly after 4.30pm on Monday.

Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Vladimir Putin of trying to trick Donald Trump, and has called for allies to use force against Russia. 

A former top official has revealed that police put out a warning against a notorious paedophile network three days before Madeleine McCann disappeared. 

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Officials confirmed that alleged shooter Tyler Robinson is in a romantic relationship with his trans roommate, Lance Twiggs, and that it is being probed as a possible motive.

A UK exchange student based in Queensland has highlighted some of the Aussie words she'd never encountered before moving Down Under.

James Love, 55, helped steal the iconic image by acting as the getaway driver following the theft of the signed artwork from the Grove Gallery in Fitzrovia, central London on September 8 last year.

Eight people have been charged after Tommy Robinson's huge 'Unite the Kingdom' march which descended into chaos as violence broke out on the streets of the capital.

The FTC is investigating whether Ticketmaster is doing enough to prevent bots from illegally reselling tickets on its platform, with a decision on the matter coming within weeks, according to Bloomberg (paywalled). Reuters reports: The 2016 law prohibits the use of bots and other methods to bypass ticket purchase limits set by online sellers. As part of the probe, FTC investigators are assessing whether Ticketmaster has a financial incentive to allow resellers to circumvent its ticket limit rules, according to the report. A settlement is also possible, Bloomberg reported. If the FTC pursues a case and Live Nation loses, the company could face billions of dollars in penalties, as the law permits fines of up to $53,000 per violation.

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A 13-year-old girl has been arrested after allegedly throwing a trolley over a railing at a shopping centre and injuring a man below.

Amal Bose, 55, is now set to be sentenced after being found guilty of sexually assaulting five staff members working below him at Blackpool Victoria Hospital in Lancashire.

Millionaire heiress Constance Marten, 38, and Mark Gordon, 51, sparked a national manhunt after fleeing with their baby, camping in the freezing cold and causing the infant's death.