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The victims include two 20-year-old twins, their 55-year-old father and their 51-year-old mum.

"Benchmarking firm Artificial Analysis found that only five of the top 15 AI models are open source," reports the Washington Post, "and all were developed by Chinese AI companies...." "Now some American executives, investors and academics are endorsing a plan to make U.S. open-source AI more competitive." A new campaign called the ATOM Project, for American Truly Open Models, aims to create a U.S.-based AI lab dedicated to creating software that developers can freely access and modify. Its blueprint calls for access to serious computing power, with upward of 10,000 of the cutting-edge GPU chips used to power corporate AI development. The initiative, which launched Monday, has gathered signatures of support from more than a dozen industry figures. They include veteran tech investor Bill Gurley; Clement Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face, a repository for open-source AI models and datasets; Stanford professor and AI investor Chris Manning; chipmaker Nvidia's director of applied research, Oleksii Kuchaiev; Jason Kwon, chief strategy officer for OpenAI; and Dylan Patel, CEO and founder of research firm SemiAnalysis... The lack of progress in open-source AI underscores the case for initiatives like ATOM: The U.S. has not produced a major new open-source AI release since Meta's launch of its Llama 4 model in April, which disappointed some AI experts... "A lot of it is a coordination problem," said ATOM's creator, Nathan Lambert, a senior research scientist at the nonprofit Allen Institute for AI who is launching the project in a personal capacity... Lambert said the idea was to develop much more powerful open-source AI models than existing U.S. efforts such as Bloom, an AI language model from Hugging Face, Pythia from EleutherAI, and others. Those groups were willing to take on more legal risk in the name of scientific progress but suffered from underfunding, said Lambert, who has worked at Google's DeepMind AI lab, Facebook AI Research and Hugging Face. The other problem? The hefty cost of top-performing AI. Lambert estimates that getting access to 10,000 state-of-the-art GPUs will cost at least $100 million. But the funding must be found if American efforts are to stay competitive, he said. The initiative's web page is seeking signatures, but also asks visitors to the site to "consider how your expertise or resources might contribute to building the infrastructure America needs."

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Two weeks ago Lucy Bronze and Ona Batlle (pictured) were flying into each other with tackles as the Lionesses beat Spain in the Euros.

Emmerdale star Isabel Hodgins has announced she and husband Adam Whitehead are expecting their first child, just three months after tying the knot.

Thorne Island, in Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, has gone on the market for a staggering £3m - but lukewarm holidaymakers say of the private retreat: 'You'd have to pay me to live there'.

After saving for years, Alaina Scheildel was ecstatic to get on the property ladder. But just a few months after moving in she made a deeply unsettling discovery.

Luigi Di Sarno, 52, died on Thursday after eating a broccoli and sausage sandwich.

The couple, who were on the same series as Nikki Grahame and Pete Bennett , got engaged just four months after the show ended and married in 2009.

They haven't built a spacecraft for travelling to our nearest star system. But "Engineers have designed a spacecraft that could take up to 2,400 people on a one-way trip to Alpha Centauri," reports LiveScience: The craft, called Chrysalis, could make the 25 trillion mile (40 trillion kilometer) journey in around 400 years, the engineers say in their project brief, meaning many of its potential passengers would only know life on the craft. Chrysalis is designed to house several generations of people until it enters the star system, where it could shuttle them to the surface of the planet Proxima Centuri b — an Earth-size exoplanet that is thought to be potentially habitable. The project won first place in the Project Hyperion Design Competition, a challenge that requires teams to design hypothetical multigenerational ships for interstellar travel. Before boarding the ship, the Chrysalis project would require initial generations of ship inhabitants to live in and adapt to an isolated environment in Antarctica for 70 to 80 years to ensure psychological wellbeing. The ship could theoretically be constructed in 20 to 25 years and retains gravity through constant rotation. The vessel, which would measure 36 miles (58 km) in length, would be constructed like a Russian nesting doll, with several layers encompassing each other around a central core. The layers include communal spaces, farms, gardens, homes, warehouses and other shared facilities, each powered by nuclear fusion reactors.... This plan is purely hypothetical, as some of the required technology, like commercial nuclear fusion reactors, don't yet exist. Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot for submitting the article — and for sharing this observation... "My first thought was that someone read Arthur C. Clarke's book, Rendezvous with Rama and used it as a model design!"

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Katherine Mielniczuk, 26, tragically died from opioid intoxication on Christmas Eve in 2023.

The Love Island star, 30, who won the ITV2 dating show with ex Davide Sanclimenti in 2022, has since enjoyed stints on the US version of The Traitors, Celebrity Big Brother.

People are encouraged to bring the entire family and a blanket

From 1911 to 1929, dozens of women across Nagyrev and the Tiszazug region turned to homemade arsenic poison to get rid of husbands, parents, lovers, and even children.

Rita Ora is reportedly embroiled in a bitter dispute with her neighbours over plans to build a state-of-the-art gym in the garden of her £7.5million Grade II-listed North London home. 

The couple are currently enjoying a yacht holiday with children Romeo, Cruz and Harper, while their eldest son Brooklyn and his wife Nicola Peltz miss out on the fun.

"General Motors claimed a new world record for EV driving on a single charge," reports the Verge, "after a Chevy Silverado EV traveled 1,059.2 miles without recharging its battery." The potentially record-breaking run took place over seven days on public roads near GM's Milford Proving Ground and Detroit's Belle Isle "using smart driving techniques" that included limiting the speed to 20-25 mph. The truck was a 2026 Chevy Silverado EV Work Truck with an EPA-estimated range of 493 miles. But by making a number of adjustments, GM's engineers were able to far surpass the vehicle's estimated range... First of all, the test was conducted in the summer for "optimum ambient temperature for battery efficiency," GM says. They also lowered the windshield wiper blades to reduce drag, inflated the tires to the highest acceptable pressure for lower rolling resistance, removed the spare tire to lighten the load, and optimized the wheel alignment. A tonneau cover was added to the truck bed for smoother airflow, and climate control was turned off for the duration of the test. GM isn't seeking the Guinness World Records, the article adds, with a GM spokesperson calling it "a passion project led and executed by GM engineers." (The test "started out as casual conversation among a group of GM engineers in late 2024," GM says, but "quickly turned into a challenge: How far could the Work Truck go if we optimized absolutely everything?") After the test, reports Motor Trend, "The dead truck was hauled back to Milford, its battery was topped up, and the energy used to power a Stratasys F370 3D printer, which spent 6.5 hours printing an ABS plastic trophy to commemorate the auspicious event."

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After an extensive stint working together on the channel, Good Morning Britain's health editor Dr Hilary Jones has lifted the lid on Richard's true colours.

Plenty of memories will have been made at these venues

This summer, the charming town has attracted celebs from much further afield with a string of high-profile US figures descending upon the region.

An internal report leaked to the BBC found the body took several years to react to the malfunction.