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The choreographer, 82, was axed from the Strictly judging panel after four years in 2008 and was replaced by Alesha Dixon.

A New York Times analysis found Google's AI Overviews now answer questions correctly about 90% of the time, which might sound impressive until you realize that roughly 1 in 10 answers is wrong. "[F]or Google, that means hundreds of thousands of lies going out every minute of the day," reports Ars Technica. From the report: The Times conducted this analysis with the help of a startup called Oumi, which itself is deeply involved in developing AI models. The company used AI tools to probe AI Overviews with the SimpleQA evaluation, a common test to rank the factuality of generative models like Gemini. Released by OpenAI in 2024, SimpleQA is essentially a list of more than 4,000 questions with verifiable answers that can be fed into an AI. Oumi began running its test last year when Gemini 2.5 was still the company's best model. At the time, the benchmark showed an 85 percent accuracy rate. When the test was rerun following the Gemini 3 update, AI Overviews answered 91 percent of the questions correctly. If you extrapolate this miss rate out to all Google searches, AI Overviews is generating tens of millions of incorrect answers per day. The report includes several examples of where AI Overviews went wrong. When asked for the date on which Bob Marley's former home became a museum, AI Overviews cited three pages, two of which didn't discuss the date at all. The final one, Wikipedia, listed two contradictory years, and AI Overviews confidently chose the wrong one. The benchmark also prompts models to produce the date on which Yo Yo Ma was inducted into the classical music hall of fame. While AI Overviews cited the organization's website that listed Ma's induction, it claimed there's no such thing as the Classical Music Hall of Fame. "This study has serious holes," said Google spokesperson Ned Adriance. "It doesn't reflect what people are actually searching on Google." The search giant likes to use a test called SimpleQA Verified, which uses a smaller set of questions that have been more thoroughly vetted.

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Experts say the £20million scheme will widen participation in cutting-edge trials and accelerate the search for new treatments for the disease.

Isaac Edison Albrow Stringer was found dead at the prestigious boarding school's Godolphin House in Windsor on the morning of February 27.

From a gun into the front door of a councilor who supports plan

Datacenter protests have taken an ugly turn in the US, with gunshots fired at the home of an Indianapolis councilor who recently lent his support to plans for a server farm in the area.…

Meryl Streep and Anna Wintour are Vogue's May cover stars, joining forces in a photo shoot by Annie Leibovitz and interview by Greta Gerwig.

Donald Trump is threatening to end Iran's civilization tonight, but how he does it, whether its with nuclear bombs, limited strikes against infrastructure or ground troops, is still up in the air.

The former Duke of York, 66, transitioned from Norfolk's Wood Farm, where he had been staying while his permanent home was made ready, to nearby Marsh Farm.

Anthropic says its annualized revenue run rate has surpassed $30 billion and disclosed plans to secure roughly 3.5 gigawatts of next-generation Google TPU compute starting in 2027. Broadcom will supply the key chips and networking gear for the effort, the company announced. The Register reports: News of the two deals emerged today in a Broadcom regulatory filing that opens with two items of news. One is a "Long Term Agreement for Broadcom to develop and supply custom Tensor Processing Units ("TPUs") for Google's future generations of TPUs." Google and Broadcom have collaborated to produce custom TPUs. Broadcom CEO Hock Tan recently shared his opinion that hyperscalers don't have the skill to create custom accelerators and predicted Broadcom's chip business will therefore win over $100 billion of revenue from AI chips in 2027 alone. Working on next-gen TPUs for Google will presumably help to make that prediction a reality. So will the second part of Broadcom's announcement: a "Supply Assurance Agreement for Broadcom to supply networking and other components to be used in Google's next-generation AI racks through up to 2031." Broadcom's filing also revealed one user of Google's next-gen TPU will be Anthropic, which starting in 2027, "will access through Broadcom approximately 3.5 gigawatts as part of the multiple gigawatts of next generation TPU-based AI compute capacity committed by Anthropic."

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Bots are now firmly in the toolbox, helping crooks scale old scams

Crims are taking advantage of AI to sharpen old scams. The FBI reported Monday that cybercrime losses hit a record $20.87 billion in 2025, with help from bots.…

The cars' occupants escaped with minor injuries

The most eligible royal British bachelors you've never heard of include a DJ with a 'bad boy reputation' and a 'super private' Prince Harry lookalike.

The Sherwood Palm Hotel in Torquay - once dubbed 'Britain's worst' - is under investigation after two fires broke out at the site in just three days. The latest blaze occurred on Easter Sunday.

It was Jade Goody's bid to grasp what joy remained in the final days of her life.

Spring Parks, 59, was arrested on February 1 after she unknowingly brought four kilograms of methamphetamine into South Korea.

200 orgs and 5,000 devices compromised so far in Vlad's latest intelligence grab, Microsoft reckons

The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued a fresh warning about Russia's ongoing targeting of routers to steal passwords and other secrets.…

The 43-year-old has been in custody since March 10 when he appeared at Liverpool Magistrates' Court charged with assault occasioning grievous bodily harm with intent.

Bosses say it will offer significant benefits to health and wellbeing