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The discovery of barbastelle bats in Lincolnshire risks derailing a long-awaited relief road after the leader of the council refused to fork out an additional £4m for a bat tunnel.

Study that used actual input to OpenAI’s chatbot finds personal use surging

Users of individual accounts for OpenAI’s ChatGPT mostly use it for research and to help with writing, according to a new study into the kind of queries fed into the service.…

At first, the former Real Housewives of Cheshire star thought she was just clumsy or overtired. She had, after all, been surviving on only three hours' sleep a night.

Pedro Pascal has revealed his younger actress sister Lux is the 'first person to empower me' while currently facing existential issues around age. 

Charlie Kirk's widow, Erika, shared a heartwarming clip of the conservative activist telling their toddler about the first time he met the former pageant queen.

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It's a full-time position based at an immigration removals centre near Oxford housing up 560 foreign criminals and failed asylum seekers, all of them due to be kicked out of the country.

Seven-time Super Bowl champion quarterback Tom Brady is coming out of his retirement and will once again be playing football.

Busted star James Bourne was due to go on a UK tour with McFly this week but he has been forced to pull out due to health issues.

Busted star James Bourne was due to go on a UK tour with McFly this week but he has been forced to pull out due to health issues.

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One school saw almost half of applicants unsuccessful in securing a place there

The deal could propel him far past Elon Musk to the title of world's first trillionaire.

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