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David Dimbleby stiffened in his chair in the BBC studio and announced: 'The British people have spoken: we're out.' 

Jessica Alba 's personal life has been back in the spotlight after she confirmed her split from her husband Cash Warren this month and declared she was 'embarking on a new chapter of growth.'

Star Wars star Mark Hamill, science fiction author William Gibson, XKCD cartoonist Randall Munroe, and The Onion have joined millions of others bringing Bluesky's user count to 30 million, reports CNET. In fact Bluesky has added over 14 million users in the last three months, and for a few days in early November was adding over one million users a day. "That rate equals about 12 new users per second. The 30 million user mark compares to 9 million users in September." But meanwhile Meta's social media site Threads — launched 19 months ago — "now has 320 million monthly active users," reports TechCrunch, "up from 300 million last month. The app had 275 million monthly active users in [early] November." That's a 16% grow rate in just three months. In comparison, Bluesky is experiencing a slowdown in growth, with an increase of less than 10% month-over-month in December 2024, following a remarkable 189% growth in November, according to analytics firm Similarweb. Bluesky now has a total of 26.44 million users. Additionally, Zuckerberg noted that Threads is adding more than 1 million daily signups [while presenting fourth-quarter earnings on Wednesday].

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The EastEnders actress, 60, best known for her role as Heather Trott, recently spoke about her financial worries, making this opportunity particularly meaningful.

The crash caused a major road to be shut for hours

Linda Nolan was laid to rest in a glittery pink coffin as her loved ones gathered to say goodbye at her funeral at St. Paul's Church in Blackpool on Saturday.

Gladiators star Jet has opened up on the 'endless' jealous rows that triggered her shock split from her wife.

Top artisanal cheeses are now so valuable they're the target of criminal gangs and are being priced out of restaurants. Tom Parker Bowles weighs up their worth

Six years ago, the Royal Mint created one million special edition Brexit 50p coins. However, the coins never saw the light of day due to a manufacturing error and were instead approved to be destroyed.

Patients with debilitating gout are being failed by the NHS because of outdated practices which mean they are prescribed only a third of the medication they need, experts claim.

Many can identify with the immense relief that accompanies downsizing later in life.

It had become a crowded and competitive field. But last week, Suella Braverman snatched the award for the most cringe-making attempt to ingratiate herself with Donald Trump.

Coming across a romantic couple that looks like they could be siblings isn't all that unusual, and there is actually solid science to explain why this happens. Can you guess which pairs are couples or siblings?

James Lawrence doesn't hold back when he describes some of the things he's put his 48-year-old body through over the years. And it's not for the squeamish.

Tommy was taking part in a race from Dorset to Cumbria in 1942 when he was completely blown off course in a storm and ended up in Nazi-occupied Holland,

In horrifying footage he builds the huge gun and aims its barrel into carriages of the Elizabeth Line train at Whitechapel station.

Nearly three years ago a team of Chinese AI engineers working for DeepSeek's parent company unveiled an earlier AI supercomputer that the Washington Post says was constructed from 10,000 A100 GPUs purchased from Nvidia. Roughly six months later "Washington had banned Nvidia from selling any more A100s to China," the article notes. Remember that number as you read this. 10,000 A100 GPUs... DeepSeek's new chatbot caused a panic in Silicon Valley and on Wall Street this week, erasing $1 trillion from the stock market. That impact stemmed in large part from the company's claim that it had trained one of its recent models on a minuscule $5.6 million in computing costs and with only 2,000 or so of Nvidia's less-advanced H800 chips. Nvidia saw its soaring value crater by $589 billion Monday as DeepSeek rocketed to the top of download charts, prompting President Donald Trump to call for U.S. industry to be "laser focused" on competing... But a closer look at DeepSeek reveals that its parent company deployed a large and sophisticated chip set in its supercomputer, leading experts to assess the total cost of the project as much higher than the relatively paltry sum that U.S. markets reacted to this week... Lennart Heim, an AI expert at Rand, said DeepSeek's evident access to [the earlier] supercomputer would have made it easier for the company to develop a more efficient model, requiring fewer chips. That earlier project "suggests that DeepSeek had a major boost..." according to the article, "with technology comparable to that of the leading U.S. AI companies." And while DeepSeek claims it only spent $5.6 million to train one of its advanced models, "its parent company has said that building the earlier supercomputer had cost 1 billion yuan, or $139 million.") Yet the article also cites the latest insights Friday from chip investment company SemiAnalysis, summarizing their finding that DeepSeek "has spent more than half a billion dollars on GPUs, with total capital expenditures of almost $1.3 billion." The article notes Thursday remarks by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman that DeepSeek's energy-efficiency claims were "wildly overstated... This is a model at a capability level that we had quite some time ago." And Palmer Luckey called DeepSeek "legitimately impressive" on X but called the $5.6 million training cost figure "bogus" and said the Silicon Valley meltdown was "hysteria." Even with these higher total costs in mind, experts say, U.S. companies are right to be concerned about DeepSeek upending the market. "We know two things for sure: DeepSeek is pricing their services very competitively, and second, the performance of their models is comparable to leading competitors," said Kai-Shen Huang, an AI expert at the Research Institute for Democracy, Society and Emerging Technology, a Taipei-based think tank. "I think DeepSeek's pricing strategy has the potential to disrupt the market globally...." China's broader AI policy push has helped create an environment conducive for a company like DeepSeek to rise. Beijing announced an ambitious AI blueprint in 2017, with a goal to become a global AI leader by 2030 and promises of funding for universities and private enterprise. Local governments across the nation followed with their own programs to support AI.

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The Last Leg host Adam Hills was forced to apologise after actor Brian Cox cursed out Donald Trump during the live broadcast of the Channel 4 talk show.

SIMON JONES: Marcus Rashford has said his goodbyes to teammates at Manchester United on Saturday as he heads towards his move to Aston Villa.

The professional dancer, 35, who is currently on tour with the BBC show, is said to be 'devastated' by the way her dance partner Wynne Evans has been dropped.