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When I was campaigning in the run-up to the Gorton and Denton by-election in February, it became blatantly obvious to me that dark and sinister forces were at work.

Sienna Miller's sister Savannah, 47, welcomed her fourth child as she shared a sweet snap of her baby boy after a 'complicated' fertility journey.

"AI went from being very terrible to seemingly genuinely quite good at a professional level in a very short space of time..." says the Verge's AI reporter. But AI systems "are still truly, truly terrible at some areas of math... even the days of the week." If you look at academic math papers, a lot of the time you won't see numbers... So they're still terrible, but they're now also very good at this other part. As to why, at some point you reach a critical mass of what these systems can do. We saw it with writing, we've seen it with programming. They're very good at forging connections between different areas, applying old methods in new ways, those kinds of things. It appears that the newer models they're training have apparently reached that level where it clicks, and now it can do math... There are areas now where it seems to be producing work that is on par with good mathematicians, alongside other parts where yeah, it can't count. All caught up in that is whether it's going to rewrite employment structures or funding structures... One would hope [math researchers] would branch out into all of these new exciting areas or pose new questions. But AI won't do that, and that's the concern. And then that would leave the field quite sterile, and it will have all of these things that have been done, and maybe nothing left to pursue... [A] lot are scared that it's closing off the field. So by definition, those breakthroughs that lead to something surprising and new that you can say, "Oh, this works here," may not be happening anymore... There were some bleak responses from graduate students I saw in essays posted online. Where's their place in this as future researchers? Do they have a place in this? Is it as glorified AI proof checkers? That will be quite an unsatisfying career, I imagine. Or maybe not, I don't know. We will see. I think anything used properly will be a net boon. They also had an interesting response when asked if AI democratizes access to high-level mathematical proofs: A lot of the mathematicians I spoke to were almost quite weary of this, actually. They love the idea, in theory, of democratizing access. They're also quite fed up with AI-generated or -assisted papers that are flooding every publication imaginable, as well as the pre-print servers that they use in these fields. Some of those I spoke to said things like, "Oh, I got three emails this week alone with people being like, 'Hey, is this legit?'" Because they thought they'd solved something with ChatGPT or with Claude, and they also don't have the mathematical skills to check whether they've actually solved something. On the flip side, there are parts where they said, "Well, we've got a talented undergrad who's done something that a talented undergrad would probably have never managed, and here they are doing grad-level work and they've produced a paper that is legit." And in the bigger scheme of things, a few I spoke to said, "Well yeah, a lot of these are in the ivory tower. Having access to this kind of thing globally could really boost access to the kind of things here." On the flip side, the cost. These things cost a lot to run.

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Emergency services scrambled to the scene after the youngster plunged to the ground from a property in Spotland Tops, Rochdale, on Saturday afternoon.

The comedian, 53, is reportedly in talks with BBC bosses to front a reboot of Top Gear.

George Glover died on August 20 following the attack in Leicester which left him with life-threatening injuries three days earlier.

Molly-Mae Hague reportedly waited to put her engagement ring back on after reconciling with fiancé Tommy Fury as she wanted to see if he'd really changed following their shock split.

Ridley Scott has shared a rare insight into his family life as he told how he kept 'absolute communication' with is children during their childhood despite is very busy schedule.

Policy researcher Emily Medhurst competed on Friday's episode, and rather than go for a classic topic such as books or TV, she opted to answer questions on Transport for London moquettes.

Jamil Wali exchanged more than 200 emails with the 'vulnerable' schoolgirl, some of which were sent as late as 11pm, telling her 'I am always here' and 'I got your back.'

The actor passed away Wednesday in Los Angeles from heart failure combined with complications from a rare neurological disorder called Marchiafava-Bignami.

The 28-year-old actress wore a plunging Wonder Woman outfit that served as an echo of Lynda Carter's classic 1970s turn as the superheroine.

The actress, 39, has revealed she got death threats after setting up a crowdfunding page for her wedding to Danny Cipriani.

The heartbreak ballad is featured on Urban's latest album Flow State, which was released five months after he and Kidman finalized their divorce.

Remember that rush rescue mission for NASA's $500M space telescope? It failed, reports CNN, and the LINK satellite won't be able to boost the telescope's orbit. NASA says its decades-old Swift telescope will now continue losing altitude, until it reaches Earth's atmosphere later this year and burns up. CNN reports: Just weeks after LINK lifted off on July 3, it started to spin out of control. [Satellite designer] Katalyst was able to regain control of the satellite, but the company acknowledged that the issue cost it time, which would delay LINK's rendezvous with Swift by about a month. However, that postponement — at least initially — did not seem to be a deterrent to the mission. Now, NASA and Katalyst have announced that LINK's mission will not capture and boost Swift to a higher orbit "due to ongoing attitude control issues," according to statements Wednesday. "NASA should be willing to move quickly and take smart risks when the potential return is worth it, and that is exactly what we did with this mission," NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said in a statement. "This is not the outcome we were working toward, but it does not change why this mission was worth attempting. The team moved with extraordinary speed to give Swift a chance to carry out more science while advancing capabilities America will need for satellite servicing in the future...." The mission team is forging ahead with its plan for LINK to rendezvous with Swift — but as a demonstration rather than a rescue. "We are going to learn everything we can from LINK's rendezvous attempt and put those lessons to work on the missions that follow," Isaacman said... Swift wasn't designed to be serviced in space, which means that insights from the demonstration could be used for future missions... "We have already learned a tremendous amount," [said Ghonhee Lee, CEO of Katalyst Space Technologies], "and now our job is to turn those lessons into something durable — building a repeatable playbook to inform future rendezvous and proximity operations and satellite servicing."

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Rob is set to make a permanent return to the soap this autumn, and bosses are hinting that despite it being 20 years since his debut, he 'hasn't grown up too much.'

In an exclusive interview with the Daily Mail, Vogel said she pressured South Carolina law enforcement in to investigate Hayden's death and raised serious questions about Brian Hickerson's account.

At least five people are said to have been injured and others are reportedly trapped inside the building.

Sarah Parker defied instructions from the aircraft's pilot by leaving her seat and using the bathroom during takeoff from Birmingham Airport.

Strictly Come Dancing is bringing back celebrities meeting their professional dance partner for the first time on the dancefloor.