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Mark and Louise O'Connor and their son Evan (pictured) were brutally attacked in their stone cottage near the village of Tallanstown in County Louth, Ireland, on Monday morning.

The normally unflappable Charlotte Vincent, 46, was left in a stir when she was contacted out of the blue on Facebook by her father - who she thought had died 40 years before.

OpenAI unveiled Instant Checkout, a new ChatGPT feature that lets users buy stuff directly through its chatbot. Currently, the feature supports single-item purchases directly from Etsy sellers, but support for more than one million Shopify merchants is coming soon. It's also only available to U.S. ChatGPT Plus, Pro and Free users at this time. CNBC reports: OpenAI will take a fee from transactions that are completed through ChatGPT, which means Instant Checkout could become an important new revenue stream for the startup. OpenAI is not yet profitable, and is burning through cash as it works to scale up its computing infrastructure. The company declined to share specific details about how large the fees are since they are determined through confidential contracts with Etsy and Shopify. Instant Checkout is free to users and will not affect their prices, OpenAI said. "Our vision for ChatGPT -- and a lot of the technology we create, but especially ChatGPT -- is that it's not just providing you information, it is also helping you get things done in the real world," Michelle Fradin, OpenAI's product lead for ChatGPT commerce, told CNBC in an interview. The company plans to introduce multi-item carts and expand the regional availability of Instant Checkout moving forward. [...] Instant Checkout is powered by OpenAI's Agentic Commerce Protocol, which is the underlying technology that allows users to complete a transaction directly with a merchant through ChatGPT. OpenAI built the framework in partnership with the fintech company Stripe, which powers ChatGPT subscriptions. OpenAI initially decided to use Agentic Commerce Protocol for e-commerce, but Fradin said the company thinks it could be used to facilitate other types of purchases or payments as well. OpenAI is open-sourcing the framework to help merchants build integrations more quickly, and so that developers can explore different use cases, she said.

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Caring Mormon churchgoers thought Thomas Jacob Sanford, the man who opened fire at a church in Grand Blanc, Michigan, was a car crash victim, according to a survivor.

Pete Bennett was crowned winner of the legendary reality show back in 2006, in a series that also featured the late Nikki Grahame, Imogen Thomas and Grace Adams-Short as housemates.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's son, Yair, came out to defend his father against attacks levied at him by Tucker Carlson over the weekend in an expletive-laden rant.

Shocking footage captured in the newly opened Club 3000 in Leeds shows women yanking each others hair and a man seemingly attempting to punch a female in the face during the mass brawl.

Ozzy Osbourne 's producer Andrew Watt recalled their final moments together as he admitted the Black Sabbath star's sudden death still shocks him.

On December 29, 2022, I got a text. 'Hi mum I'm texting you off a friends phone I've smashed mine, can you WhatsApp my new number x.' But I wasn't a mother. Not yet.

Raise legitimate concerns about mass immigration and you're racist. This has been the mantra of the political establishment in this country for decades.

They say third time's the charm, but not for Nicole Kidman. The star is on her own again following her shock separation from her husband of almost 20 years , Keith Urban

His avant-garde designs are favoured by the likes of Kate Moss , Madonna and Dame Joanna Lumley.

Marissa Laimou, 30, was tragically found dead by a housekeeper at the wealthy family's Knightsbridge townhouse on September 11.

When I was still a teenager, growing up near Bradford in the 1990s, I defied my family by refusing an arranged marriage - to my own cousin.

Each year, Oktoberfest draws more than six million tourists decked out in traditional lederhosen and dirndl dresses to Munich for the world's largest beer festival.

You'd be hard pressed to find a tourist in the French capital who hasn't spent some time posing in front of the iconic construction, hoping to get the perfect angle.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CBS News: A pair of e-commerce entrepreneurs who bought a number of well-known retail brands -- including RadioShack, Modell's Sporting Goods and Pier 1 Imports -- out of bankruptcy are accused of running a Ponzi scheme. The Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday accused Alex Mehr and Tai Lopez, founders of the Miami-based Retail Ecommerce Ventures (REV), of defrauding investors out of approximately $112 million. Through their holding company, Mehr and Lopez acquired distressed brick-and-mortar companies in order to turn them into successful, online-only brands. Dress Barn and Linens 'n Things were also among their acquisitions. [...] The SEC's suit alleges that between 2020 and 2022, Mehr and Lopez, "made material misrepresentations" to hundreds of investors about the bankrupt retailers they had acquired. For example, to entice individuals to invest in their acquisitions, they said their portfolio companies were "on fire" and that "cash flow is strong." They also told prospective backers that money raised for a company would only be invested in that specific firm. That proved not to be the case, according to the SEC's lawsuit, which was filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. "Contrary to these representations, while some of the REV Retailer Brands generated revenue, none generated any profits," the suit states. "Consequently, in order to pay interest, dividends and maturing note payments, Defendants resorted to using a combination of loans from outside lenders, merchant cash advances, money raised from new and existing investors, and transfers from other portfolio companies to cover obligations." The SEC alleges that at least $5.9 million of returns paid to investors were actually Ponzi-like payments funded by other investors, as opposed to companies' profits. Additionally, the federal regulatory agency claims that Mehr and Lopez allocated $16 million worth of investments for their own use, according to the filing.

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The Greater Manchester mayor offered his backing to Sir Keir despite having previously fuelled speculation he was poised to mount a Labour leadership challenge.

An extraordinary photo captured the moment the man, wearing reflective blue tinted sunglasses, a blazer and a tie, was escorted by two agents.

A top surgeon has revealed the one simple sleep habit every woman should start before getting pregnant - and why your bedtime position matters more than you think.