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Following England at the World Cup has already proved pricey and logistically challenging - not least as uncertainty over their knockout venues lingered until Saturday night.

In a letter explaining his decision to quit, boss Steve Clarke said: 'The most emotional part of this goodbye is for my players.'

Neal Lawson said it was time for Labour to end its 'Trumpian obsession with economic growth' and focus on making people happier.

The IOPC will announce that its inquiry into Hampshire Police will consider whether officers mistakenly treated the murder victim as a suspect because of anti-immigration protests.

Andy Burnham will today set out his Left-wing plan for a decade in power, as he plots a tax raid on middle-class Southerners.

Fatboy Slim says his ex wife Zoe Ball saved him from alcoholism when she threatened to leave him unless he got sober.

The Government is deciding whether to change the law so that children under 14 would no longer face arrest, charges or prosecution for any crime.

The infernal heat has ended, thank goodness, but for insomniacs like me, that doesn't mean a better night's sleep.

Demonstrators gathered outside Crowborough Training Camp, an old army barracks that is currently being used to house small boat migrants.

Swaggering aboard a steam train in his black gaucho hat, waistcoat and watch-chain, Alexander Armstrong looked like an extra in a Spaghetti Western - The Good, The Bad And The Pointless.

DANIEL MATTHEWS IN LOS ANGELES: Canada and South Africa stunk the place out. That was until the ball broke to Canada midfielder Stephen Eustaquio in stoppage time.

The New York Times alleges Microsoft actively encouraged OpenAI to steal its copyrighted work, reports Ars Technica, citing a new (and heavily redacted) court filing Thursday: NYT's motion comes after the [U.S.] Supreme Court sided with Cox Communications in a case where Sony tried and failed to claim that Cox was contributing to music piracy as an Internet service provider, which set a new standard for contributory infringement. Moving forward, plaintiffs will have to prove that parties intentionally acted to induce illegal conduct. Recognizing that the legal precedent has changed, the NYT now wants to amend its complaint to align its contributory infringement claim against Microsoft with that new standard... A Microsoft spokesperson told Ars that the company views the amended complaint as "a last-ditch effort by the plaintiff to save its claim from unfavorable precedent set in other recent rulings..." The updated complaint seeks to specify that [Microsoft's] supercomputer was tailor-made to help OpenAI infringe and allege that it was built for the explicit purpose of training AI on copyrighted works without permission. And as the NYT alleged, its articles were more heavily weighted by this system, as both firms hoped to train models on the highest-quality journalism possible, so that level of writing could be confidently mimicked in outputs. By building this "unusually complex" machine, Microsoft not only helped select the works that were infringed but also provided a means to seize copyrighted works without permission, the NYT alleged. "Microsoft specifically designed it for the purpose of using essentially the whole Internet — curated to disproportionately feature Times Works — to train the most capable LLM in history," the NYT alleged... Similarly as problematic for the NYT are hallucinations where Microsoft and OpenAI models falsely cite the NYT for content that they never published... "Users who ask a search engine what The Times has written on a subject should be provided with neither an unauthorized copy nor an inaccurate forgery of a Times article, but a link to the article itself," the NYT alleged... In a statement provided to Ars, OpenAI spokesperson Drew Pusateri reiterated the AI firm's often-repeated claims that AI training on copyrighted works is indisputably fair use... OpenAI has argued that "ChatGPT is not a substitute for a Times subscription," the NYT reported, partly because "they transformed the material for a different use." An OpenAI spokesperson told Ars Technica that OpenAI's models "empower innovation," while a New York Times spokesperson insisted that Microsoft "actively encouraged OpenAI to steal our copyrighted works... [O]ur core claims remain the same from the day we filed this lawsuit — that Microsoft and OpenAI stole millions of The Times's copyrighted works to compete with our products and illegally enrich themselves." The article speculates that the case's most extreme outcome "could require OpenAI and Microsoft to wipe models and start over. The NYT has also asked for permanent injunctive relief to prevent future infringement, as well as extensive damages..."

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Could a qualified doctor be appointed as Health Secretary for the first time in 100 years in Andy Burnham's future Cabinet?

Around 45 people will die every single day from heart disease linked to excess weight over the next decade if current trends continue, worrying research has revealed.

A survey of 3,000 adults shows 11 per cent think children's conduct falls under the remit of teachers, despite them spending most of their time at home.

Timir Ahmed Mohamed, 34, of Grange Park, Ealing, has been remanded and will appear in court on Monday morning.

Experts are warning of a 'ticking time bomb' for animal welfare as owners are increasingly turning to AI for advice.

Georgia Toffolo has bravely opened up to fans about her eight-month pregnancy struggle on Instagram.

In typical British fashion, humour was adopted as the coping mechanism for the blistering heatwave, with social media flooded with memes making light of the record-breaking temperatures.