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The Los Angeles native also worked with Carol Burnett, Tina Turner, Barbra Streisand , Diana Ross , Liza Minnelli , Ann-Margret and Bette Midler.

Congratulations on helping Larry Ellison's AI cloud boom. Now please pack your bags and go

Tourists were pushed into the sea by a wildfire after receiving no help from hotel staff or holiday organiser TUI on the island of Brac, according to holidaymakers.

Gary Lineker's son Harry and pregnant wife Annabelle enjoyed a baby shopping spree on Monday in London ahead of welcoming their first child together. 

Police and emergency services rushed to the scene - an unclassified road close to St Ewe, near St Austell - on Friday, September 11, around 10pm following reports of the collision.

Thanks to a gifting suite put on by Distinctive Assets, everyone gets to leave the ceremony a winner.

Previously Andon Labs handled the hardware and software integration for that AI-powered vending machine that went bankrupt after Wall Street Journal reporters "systematically manipulated the bot into giving away its entire inventory for free". Today they announced "we are opening up the platform we use to run our real-world autonomous businesses for anyone to run their organization on." Specifically they've released Pion, "an agent designed to run any company fully autonomously... Pion lets people hand a business over to persistent agents with access to the tools they need to operate it, including email, phone, banking, browser and secure computing environments." It's a research preview with a waitlist, "to make it possible to run many more real-world experiments across many more domains than we could ever run ourselves." But for their own latest experiment, Andon Labs' founders "signed a three-year lease on a retail space in SF," Business Insider reported in April, "and gave an AI agent named Luna a corporate credit card, internet access, and a mission to open a physical store." And five months later, SFGate reports that "this market has no one in it and nothing useful to sell." [T]he inventory is a hodgepodge of white elephant Christmas gifts. It's kinda like the kids section of an art museum's gift shop. Here's a wooden Connect Four set labeled "Four-In-A-Row Set Of Connections," presumably so as not to set off litigation alarms at Hasbro. Here are neatly arranged stacks of random paperback books, Chinese checker sets, mildly fancy soap dispensers, and a frustratingly spare selection of snacks and drinks... I grabbed an Olipop from the store fridge and then approached the counter to buy it from Luna. I wasn't allowed to buy the soda from [human clerk] Felix, even though that would have been both faster and normal. Instead, Felix instructed me to pick up a telephone receiver that was resting on a flexible sculpture of a wooden hand. "Hello?" "What are you looking to purchase today?" Luna asked. "I'm buying a classic root beer Olipop." "I'm sorry," Luna said, "we don't sell lollipops here." "No, Luna. It's an Olipop, not a lollipop. It's the soda." "Oh! My bad...." Luna processed my Olipop purchase through its system, had me tap to pay, and that was that. Again, it would have been easier to buy this from a human, and interacting with Luna was really just like ordering from an iPad kiosk, only more labor intensive... [T]here's a series of monitors set up inside of Andon Market that display all of the store's sales down to the exact dollar. Luna was given $100,000 to work with when this place opened. That number is now down to $60,000, its revenue lagging far behind the AI token cost to operate... Luna can't turn a profit, doesn't sell anything people want, and still needs human beings to rubber stamp any "decision" it makes. My science background ended somewhere around freshman year of college, but even I know when an experiment hasn't been set up to yield proper results. "Luna" is powered by Claude, the article points out, running a store in a good location for foot traffic, "but no one else was in the store when I first walked in on a sunny weekday afternoon." SFGate also reports that last month Luna had to fire one of its employees "for being late to work, abandoning their post once they got there, and charging snacks to the store's credit card." Human clerk Felix Carson admits "It's almost like I'm running the store, and then there's an AI that has a checklist," in an article in IEEE Spectrum: Luna, the AI manager, keeps track of deliveries and communicates with vendors, while Carson and his coworkers handle the physical work. When Luna tells Carson to check something in the back, he sometimes ignores it because he doesn't want to leave the sales floor unattended. Luna also repeatedly spots a built-in electrical cover in photos of the floor, mistakes it for a loose coaster, and asks Carson to remove it. Even so, Carson calls Luna a "decent manager," praising its flexibility when employees need time off. When Felix spoke to IEEE Spectrum, "he was about an hour into his shift. Two customers had come in. Neither bought anything, although both left with free pins and stickers."

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A prophecy by one of the most famous seers in history may have predicted the terrifying uprising of technology 500 years before AI was invented.

Models had taken to the catwalk for the COS fall-winter 2026 collection on Sunday when the chaos erupted.

The Communities Secretary celebrated the passing of the Employment Rights Act as she addressed the Trade Union Congress annual conference in Brighton.

Jessica Alba and her lookalike daughter Honor Warren stepped out in style for the US Open over the weekend.

Donald Trump is claiming that only he can ensure the safe use of AI in the United States because of his 'high IQ,' while issuing a stark warning over a 'sick conspiracy' about China .

Bodycam footage shows Ridwan Abdilahi, 23, brazenly ignoring the traffic light signal while riding a delivery bike in Bishopsgate, City of London, on September 8.

Dame Helen Mirren looked incredible in a red blazer and flirty black skirt as she lead the stars at the Toronto Film Festival on Monday.

Jessica Vlasac, 42, was arrested last Thursday and charged with felony aggravated child abuse resulting in the death of her three-month-old son. She has not yet entered a plea.

In a bold intervention, Nadia Whittome, the Labour MP for Nottingham East, called yesterday for a 'change in the law' to enable trans people to use single-sex spaces.

Explore Chigwell’s £15m, eight-bedroom mansion, Essex’s most expensive home, featuring a spa, cinema, tennis court, pool and private four-acre gardens.

Explore Chigwell’s £15m, eight-bedroom mansion, Essex’s most expensive home, featuring a spa, cinema, tennis court, pool and private four-acre gardens.

Melanie Sykes has shared an update after sharing her alopecia battle with her followers where she revealed losing 'two thirds of her hair'.

On Sunday, the 66-year-old television personality took to Instagram to share photos from the wedding, which she said was 'such a beautiful' celebration.