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Hakeem Walters, 29, Rokibul Islam, 31, and Muhammed Ahmed, 27, made their fortune while employed as administrators in Westfield Shopping Centre, Stratford.

Elon Musk's AI appears to be more ideological than competitors

Despite protest letters, concerns that it's biased and untrustworthy, model tweaks to appease its billionaire boss, and even a past incident where it called itself "MechaHitler," xAI's Grok is still being made available to government agencies for mere pennies.…

Cloudflare announced plans Thursday to launch NET Dollar, a U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin designed to enable autonomous AI agents to conduct instant financial transactions. The company says the stablecoin will support microtransactions and pay-per-use models as AI agents take over tasks like booking flights and ordering groceries. BrianFagioli comments: A U.S. dollar-backed cryptocurrency from Cloudflare feels unusual to me, and I'm still surprised by it. The decision shows just how much the Internet is shifting in response to artificial intelligence. CEO Matthew Prince said, "For decades, the business model of the Internet ran on ad platforms and bank transfers. The Internet's next business model will be powered by pay-per-use, fractional payments, and microtransactions -- "tools that shift incentives toward original, creative content that actually adds value." He added that by using its global network, Cloudflare aims to "help modernize the financial rails needed to move money at the speed of the Internet."

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The sister of one of four captives has revealed the horrifying conditions in which police found her disabled brother living in the basement of Donnie Birchfield Jr where both his pastor dad and mom lived.

The reissue features the same LP sleeve as the 1973 original, despite Nicks's unhappiness with being photographed alongside Buckingham in the nude.

An anonymous reader shares a report: OpenAI released a new benchmark on Thursday that tests how its AI models perform compared to human professionals across a wide range of industries and jobs. The test, GDPval, is an early attempt at understanding how close OpenAI's systems are to outperforming humans at economically valuable work -- a key part of the company's founding mission to develop artificial general intelligence or AGI. OpenAI says its found that its GPT-5 model and Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.1 "are already approaching the quality of work produced by industry experts." That's not to say that OpenAI's models are going to start replacing humans in their jobs immediately. Despite some CEOs' predictions that AI will take the jobs of humans in just a few years, OpenAI admits that GDPval today covers a very limited number of tasks people do in their real jobs. However, it is one of the latest ways the company is measuring AI's progress towards this milestone. GDPval is based on nine industries that contribute the most to America's gross domestic product, including domains such as healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and government. The benchmark tests an AI model's performance in 44 occupations among those industries, ranging from software engineers to nurses to journalists.

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It's time to rewrite the family tree, as scientists have revealed that our species is even older than we thought. In a new paper, experts claim Homo sapiens began to emerge over one million years ago.

She says 'pets get more dignity than humans' when it comes to death

Sir Keir Starmer made the move on Sunday 21 on the same day as Canada , Australia and Portugal, prompting a furious response from Israel which accused the countries of 'rewarding' Hamas terror.

Fewer than half of boys born in the US are now being circumcised, according to a report released by Johns Hopkins medical research.

Mike Graham returned to his car yesterday evening to discover the rear windscreen of his Maserati had been smashed while parked in a NCP car park with 24/7 security patrols.

When we try to predict the weather, we use ensembles of the initial conditions on the ground, in the oceans, and throughout the air to create a kind of probabilistic average forecast and then we take ensembles of models, which often have very different answers for extreme weather conditions like hurricanes and typhoons, to get a better sense of what might happen wherever and whenever we are concerned. …

Dicing, Slicing, And Augmenting Gartner’s AI Spending Forecast was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Dani Dyer was forced to pull out of the BBC Strictly Come Dancing 2025 series on Tuesday due to an injury

The idea of a mandatory identification system has long been advocated by Labour as a way to tackle illegal migration.

Despite AI models outperforming radiologists on benchmark tests since 2017, demand for human radiologists has reached record highs. American diagnostic radiology residency programs offered 1,208 positions this year, up 4% from 2024, while average salaries hit $520,000 -- 48% higher than 2015. Over 700 FDA-cleared radiology AI models exist, yet only 48% of radiologists use AI at all. Models trained on standardized datasets lose up to 20% points accuracy when deployed in different hospitals. Radiologists spend just 36% of their time interpreting images, with the majority devoted to patient communication, teaching, and administrative tasks that current AI cannot perform.

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Images of toddlers and home addresses leaked in reprehensible landmark attack

A cyber criminal crew has targeted Kido International, a preschool and daycare organization, leaking sensitive details about its pupils and their parents.…

Spencer Duarte, 29, was sentenced today to 15 months in prison following the theft in Ludgate Hill, London, on August 7 last year.

Armet Cortes and Willmer Guzman were part of a gang that operated in the North East and used 'silent' signs to communicate once they had identified a potential target.

Joshua Jahn, 29, the shooter who opened fire on an ICE van in Dallas and killed a migrant, repeatedly searched for footage of the Charlie Kirk assassination, FBI Director Kash Patel revealed.

Iconic buildings dominate the skyline around Four Seasons' central London outpost; there's the Shard, the Tower of London, the imposing buildings of Bank and of course, Tower Bridge itself.