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"Google is beginning to replace news headlines in its search results with ones that are AI-generated," reports the Verge: After doing something similar in its Google Discover news feed, it's starting to mess with headlines in the traditional "10 blue links," too. We've found multiple examples where Google replaced headlines we wrote with ones we did not, sometimes changing their meaning in the process. For example, Google reduced our headline "I used the 'cheat on everything' AI tool and it didn't help me cheat on anything" to just five words: "'Cheat on everything' AI tool." It almost sounds like we're endorsing a product we do not recommend at all. What we are seeing is a "small" and "narrow" experiment, one that's not yet approved for a fuller launch, Google spokespeople Jennifer Kutz, Mallory De Leon, and Ned Adriance tell The Verge. They would not say how "small" that experiment actually is. Over the past few months, multiple Verge staffers have seen examples of headlines that we never wrote appear in Google Search results — headlines that do not follow our editorial style, and without any indication that Google replaced the words we chose. And Google says it's tweaking how other websites show up in search, too, not just news. The good news, for now, is that these changed headlines seem to be few and far between, and they're not yet the kind of tripe we've seen in Google Discover. (For example, Google Discover told me this week that the PlayStation Portal was getting a 1080p streaming mode, when it actually got a higher bitrate mode instead.) Compared to that and other lying Google Discover headlines like "US reverses foreign drone ban" — on a story reporting the opposite — the nonsense headlines we're seeing in Google Search are downright tame. The article points out that Google "originally told us its AI headlines in Google Discover were an experiment too. A month later, it told us those AI headlines are now a feature..." "Google confirmed that the test uses generative AI, but claimed that 'if we were to actually launch something based on this experiment, it would not be using a generative model and we would not be creating headlines with gen AI'..."

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Saturday Night Live UK has been branded a 'hit and miss' by critics as it took aim at Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and the Beckhams in its 'savage' debut this weekend.

Chappell Roan has apologised to Jude Law's daughter as she insisted she did not ask any security guard to approach her hours after her team were accused of leaving the young fan in tears.

NASA said a meteor flew over Texas on Saturday afternoon. Sherrie James, who lives northwest of Houston, had what she believed to be a meteorite crash through her roof.

Drivers should still expect at least half-an-hour delays

She's one of the best-selling music artists of all time, with 80 million album sales to her name and the likes of FKA Twigs, Cynthia Erivo and Nicki Minaj citing her as their inspiration. 

Steve Reed insisted the government is 'perfectly capable' of defending the country, following signs Tehran can fire ballistic missiles much further than previously believed.

Britons have fallen out of love with leasehold flats. Many owners are selling at losses and countless horror stories are making would-be buyers steer well clear.

CNBC reports: Amazon has acquired Rivr, a Swiss robotics company developing machines for "doorstep delivery," the company confirmed Thursday... It announced the deal in a notice sent to third-party delivery contractors... "We believe this technology, when working alongside your [delivery associates], has the potential to further improve safety outcomes and the overall customer experience, particularly in the last steps of the delivery process...." In its notice to delivery service partner owners, Amazon said Rivr's technology, which includes a four-legged robot on wheels, will allow it to research and test how the devices can be integrated into delivery operations, including "helping [delivery associates] carry packages from delivery vehicles to customer doorsteps."

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Amber Stebbings was charged with murder following the death of Gary Grant at Sparrow's Nest Gardens in Lowestoft.

Sunderland and Newcastle fans clashed in nasty scenes ahead of the Tyne-Wear derby on Sunday morning.

A SUNNY June day on a riverside road in central London, and an electric moped - driven by the actor Idris Elba - is caught on camera doing 28mph.

It's been quite the journey for him since he was on The X Factor

Discussions between Morgan McSweeney and Mandelson were apparently on a mobile phone that has been stolen.

Ieuan Williams' parents were only told about the blunder three weeks after he had braces fitted to his teeth at the Royal Gwent Hospital, in Newport, south Wales.

Jacqueline Wadsley, now 52, became friends with Mr Martin - who shot dead a teenage burglar at his remote farmhouse in 1999 - while he was drinking in her pub after his release from prison in 2003.

Graphic videos show commanders beating and electrocuting their own troops, denying them food, forcing them to crawl through mud and making them fight to the death.

Auction House said that while the property needed a 'scheme of refurbishment', it had been priced accordingly.

Mark Jeffs was driving his 26ft motorboat 'without due care and caution' when he approached a group of open water swimmers training for a cross-Channel swim on October 12 last year.

Pete Wicks kissed Olivia Attwood at the same bar he was previously spotted smooching her rival Maura Higgins.