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President Trump's sights appeared to be back on Cuba as he reiterated his goal of 'taking over' the Caribbean country while speaking in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Dannielynn, 19, was spotted at the prestigious horse race at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, with her dad, Larry Birkhead, on Saturday afternoon.

Footage shows the moment a violent knifeman hacks at a 77-year-old man who is understood to have been stabbed inside the black Mercedes in Glasgow.

"Running a Big Tech company during Silicon Valley's AI mania may not necessarily require fewer workers or cost less," writes the Washington Post: Amazon, Google and Meta together have roughly the same number of employees now as they did during an industry-wide hiring binge in 2022, company disclosures show. Growing costs for technical workers and related expenses have often outpaced sales recently. The tech giants' big AI bet hasn't yet paid for itself. That means AI might be killing jobs not through its labor-saving wizardry but by increasing spending so much that CEOs are pressured to find savings, giving them cover to consciously uncouple from their workforces. Marc Andreessen, a prominent start-up investor and a Meta board director, put it bluntly on a recent podcast. Big company layoffs are a fix for overstaffing and changing economic conditions, he said, but AI provides a convenient scapegoat. "Now they all have the silver bullet excuse: 'Ah, it's AI,'" he said... "Almost every company that does layoffs is blaming AI, whether or not it really is about AI," Sam Altman, CEO of ChatGPT owner OpenAI, said at a March conference when he listed explanations for AI's unpopularity in the United States. "Recent history suggests Big Tech companies might not be moving toward a future with fewer workers," the article concludes, "but recalibrating to spend the same, or more, on different people and projects." So in the end, "AI might soon reduce hiring," the article acknowledges, "But the reluctance or inability of the largest tech firms to cut too deeply so far could also show that the path to making a workforce AI-ready — whatever that means — isn't a predictable straight line charting declining headcount."

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Video footage recorded by a horrified onlooker showed a woman, believed to be British, lunging across the middle aisle in an attempt to hit the other passenger.

Career criminal Steven Wilson (pictured) successfully sued the Ministry of Justice after being attacked with a knife by a fellow prisoner and stabbed 16 times as he worked in a prison kitchen.

She's one of the favourites to become the new host of Strictly Come Dancing but Alex Jones (pictured) already has a seismic job on her hands - renovating her country mansion.

A growing number of experts are calling for AI chatbot addiction to be recognised as a mental illness, as the number of supposed cases climbs.

The singer, 35, who was raised in nearby Framlingham and is a life long supporter, witnessed his team beat Queens Park Rangers 3-0.

Slashdot reader joshuark writes: Scientific American reports that a ChatGPT AI has proved a conjecture with a method no human had developed. A 23-year-old student Liam Price just cracked a 60-year-old problem that world-class mathematicians have tried and failed to solve. The new solution that Price got in response to a single prompt to GPT-5.4 Pro was posted on www.erdosproblems.com, a website devoted to the Erds problems. The question Price solved — or prompted ChatGPT to solve—concerns special sets of whole numbers, where no number in the set can be evenly divided by any other... Price sent it to his occasional collaborator Kevin Barreto, a second-year undergraduate in mathematics at the University of Cambridge. The duo had jump-started the AI-for-Erds craze late last year by prompting a free version of ChatGPT with open problems chosen at random from the Erds problems website. Reviewing Price's message, Barreto realized what they had was special, and experts whom he notified quickly took notice.

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Attendees have been told to leave prop swords, fake guns, and even water pistols at home to prevent a 'catastrophic' accident at the Whitby Goth Weekend, taking place from May 1-3.

He agreed with predictions that the UK could see inflation rise above six per cent and warned that even when the Strait of Hormuz was opened 'I don't want anybody to think it will all return to normal'.

JONATHAN MCEVOY IN MIAMI: The world champion, previously without a win this season and 47 points off Antonelli coming into the 19-lap dash, was in command throughout.

Gunfire reportedly rang out outside Chris Brown's Los Angeles mansion on Friday, sparking a dramatic police response.

The Celebrity Traitors series two cast was officially revealed on Saturday morning as the BBC dropped the first teaser trailer.

Donald Trump made the confession during a speech on Friday to a famous retirement community in Florida.

Last Saturday someone dressed as Jesus "was among the dozens of people in costumes and masks seen on a video forcing open the door of a Scientology building on Hollywood Boulevard," reports the Los Angeles Times, "after a tug-of-war with a security guard." The footage posted on TikTok and Instagram shows the group sprinting up and down stairs and clashing with black-shirted security guards, giggling and gasping to catch their breath while church members scream at them to leave. On their way out — as security guards approach armed with fire extinguishers — one of the sprinters stops and dances to celebrate their successful escape, a move reminiscent of a taunt from the video game Fortnite. For weeks, groups of people have barged into two of the church's Hollywood properties, racing through hallways and tussling with security guards, trying to see how far they can get before they are forced to leave by church staff... Church officials say the incidents are not a game and have accused the speed runners of "hate crimes." After dozens on Saturday stormed the Ivar Avenue building that houses an exhibit dedicated to the church's founder, science fiction author L. Ron Hubbard, the external door handles were removed from all three of Scientology's properties on Hollywood Boulevard by Sunday morning. Guards could be seen blocking the doorway to one building on Monday afternoon... No arrests have been made. A report from the Associated Press cites a joke left on one of the videos: that if runners reach the top of the building, they'll find Tom Cruise. One commenter on a recent TikTok video of a speedrun asked why people are doing this, and another user simply replied, "because it's fun." The 18-year-old who started the trend told the Hollywood Reporter his original video has been viewed over 100 million times. "From there on out, I pretty much knew that Scientology was like a free gateway to a lot of views." Vulture notes that "there's even a Roblox re-creation of the trend, made using the 'maps; drawn from actual videos"

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One Thursday night in April 2016, a young Lib Dem election candidate slipped on his finest grey suit and travelled to north London to meet voters at a 'hustings'. That candidate's name was Zack Polanski.

In a recent interview on LGBTQ+ podcast It Started With A Kiss , the mother-of-three, 38, who has dated both men and women, branded herself a 'five star lesbian'.