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As crew members lined the corridor and sang about Simon, 65, to the tune of The Greatest Showman, the America's Got Talent judge clapped along.

Pope Leo XIV declined to authorize an AI avatar that would have provided virtual papal audiences to Catholics worldwide. The first American pontiff rejected the proposal during an interview with papal biographer Elise Allen. "Someone recently asked authorization to create an artificial me so that anybody could sign onto this website and have a personal audience with 'the Pope,'" he said. "This artificial intelligence Pope would give them answers to their questions, and I said, 'I'm not going to authorize that.'" The Pope expressed broader concerns about AI's societal impact. He warned that automation could leave only a few people able to live meaningful lives while others merely survive. These concerns influenced his papal name choice, taking inspiration from Pope Leo XIII, who authored Rerum novarum addressing workers' rights during the Industrial Revolution. Leo XIV maintained he isn't opposed to technological innovation but believes links between faith, humanity, and science must be preserved.

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Ex-parliamentary candidate Jeremy Newmark spoke out over a movement known as Operation Raise The Colours - to gasps from Hertfordshire councillors.

Donald Trump used a rambling speech at the UN to brand climate change 'the greatest con job ever'.

Tried by two-thirds of firms, ignored by most devs, and productivity barely moved

Software development was one of the first areas to adopt generative AI, but the promised revolution has so far delivered only modest productivity gains, and Bain says only a full rethink of the software lifecycle will shift the dial.…

Mace Richards, 62, who appeared in the BBC soap in 2019, died less than five hours after he was rushed to St Mary's Hospital in London on June 1 this year.

David Michael James Brudenell-Bruce, 72, was driving at 26mph on a 20mph road last December, a short hearing at Lavender Hill Magistrates' Court, which he did not attend, heard.

LAWRENCE BOOTH: Dickie Bird, who has died at the age of 92, broke the old rule that a sporting official should never be noticed.

Nearly a quarter of workers aged 18-34 fear they'll lose their jobs to AI within two years, according to a Deutsche Bank survey of 10,000 people across the US and major European economies. The survey, conducted from June through August, found 24% of younger respondents scored their concern at 8 or above on a 10-point scale, compared to just 10% among workers 55 and older. Workers anticipate growing AI risk over time. 22% expressed high concern over a five-year horizon versus 18% for the two-year timeframe, the bank wrote in a report, reviewed by Slashdot. Americans show greater concern than Europeans across all time periods, scoring roughly five percentage points higher. The survey also revealed major differences in AI adoption patterns. The US leads workplace adoption at 56%, while Spain shows the highest home adoption at 68% over three months. Germany and the UK demonstrate contrasting behaviors -- both countries report similar home usage above 50%, but workplace adoption differs significantly at 41% for Germany versus 5% for the UK. Training gaps persist across regions. Only one in four European respondents has received AI training at work compared to nearly one in three Americans, though 52% of Europeans and 54% of Americans want employer-led AI training.

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He fled the country after the death and has not returned to the UK

The Gavin and Stacey star, 59, has been showing off her slimmed-down figure after revealing in May that she and David had separated after 26 years of marriage.

The Duchess of York's spokesman sensationally claimed that a 'chilling' call from the sex offender financier is why she was fawning over him in leaked correspondence from 2011.

Bungalows in some of the UK's most up-and-coming areas have hit the market, including a lavish £1m seven-bedroom home in rural Kent, and a modern £1.35m property with a 'vast' open-plan kitchen.

The e-mail from Labour lawyers to Keir Starmer's most senior adviser is damning.

Love Island winner Dani Dyer has been forced to pull out of BBC's Strictly Come Dancing before she even performed a live routine

Abstract of a paper on pre-print server Arxiv: Elites disproportionately influence policymaking, yet little is known about their fairness and efficiency preferences -- key determinants of support for redistributive policies. We investigate these preferences in an incentivized lab experiment with a group of future elites -- Ivy League MBA students. We find that MBA students implement substantially more unequal earnings distributions than the average American, regardless of whether inequality stems from luck or merit. Their redistributive choices are also highly responsive to efficiency costs, with an effect that is an order of magnitude larger than that found in representative U.S. samples. Analyzing fairness ideals, we find that MBA students are less likely to be strict meritocrats than the broader population. These findings provide novel insights into how elites' redistributive preferences may shape high levels of inequality in the U.S.

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Hazel Jones said her daughter, Milan, a brand new pupil at Mossbourne Fobbing Academy in Corringham, Essex, was left 'terrified' of going back to school after being put in isolation.

Toyosi Adeneye, 30, from Canada, who was in a medically-induced coma in July, laid bare her harrowing experience exclusively with the Daily Mail.

Or maybe 3 strikes, you're out?

SolarWinds on Tuesday released a hotfix - again - for a critical, 9.8-severity flaw in its Web Help Desk IT ticketing software that could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to run commands on a host machine. …

Extra security is now patrolling the woodlands after reports of antisocial behaviour