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The Prime Minister was left in no doubt at the anger at seeing his gamble backfire after voters deserted Labour for the Greens and Reform in Gorton and Denton.

A Queensland family's beach stroll turned into a once-in-a-lifetime discovery.

Jeffry Hill, a Napa Valley wine mogul, has admitted to using knockoff grapes and substituting 'bulk grape juice' to produce his upscale wines in a multimillion-dollar scheme.

A disciplinary probe found Ms Adams had been found guilty of inappropriate behaviour allegedly swearing at a colleague, throwing a pen at another and berated an intern's professional ability.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: OpenAI has fired an employee following an investigation into their activity on prediction market platforms including Polymarket, WIRED has learned. OpenAI CEO of Applications, Fidji Simo, disclosed the termination in an internal message to employees earlier this year. The employee, she said, "used confidential OpenAI information in connection with external prediction markets (e.g. Polymarket)." "Our policies prohibit employees from using confidential OpenAI information for personal gain, including in prediction markets," says spokesperson Kayla Wood. OpenAI has not revealed the name of the employee or the specifics of their trades. Evidence suggests that this was not an isolated event. Polymarket runs on the Polygon blockchain network, so its trading ledger is pseudonymous but traceable. According to an analysis by the financial data platform Unusual Whales, there have been clusters of activities, which the service flagged as suspicious, around OpenAI-themed events since March 2023. Unusual Whales flagged 77 positions in 60 wallet addresses as suspected insider trades, looking at the age of the account, trading history, and significance of investment, among other factors. Suspicious trades hinged on the release dates of products like Sora, GPT-5, and the ChatGPT Browser, as well as CEO Sam Altman's employment status. In November 2023, two days after Altman was dramatically ousted from the company, a new wallet placed a significant bet that he would return, netting over $16,000 in profits. The account never placed another bet. The behavior fits into patterns typical of insider trades. "The tell is the clustering. In the 40 hours before OpenAI launched its browser, 13 brand-new wallets with zero trading history appeared on the site for the first time to collectively bet $309,486 on the right outcome," says Unusual Whales CEO Matt Saincome. "When you see that many fresh wallets making the same bet at the same time, it raises a real question about whether the secret is getting out." [...] Though this is the first confirmed case of a large technology company firing an employee over trades in prediction markets, it's almost certainly not the last. Opportunities for tech sector employees to make trades on markets abound. "The data tells me this is happening all over the place," Saincome says.

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Enemy searchlights raked the sky and shells exploded around us: the cockpit was filled with blinding light, so I could see nothing ahead and was forced to fly on instruments.

The plane crash landed on a busy avenue during a spell of bad weather in the city of El Alto, near Bolivia's capital La Paz.

Darius Khan, 32, spent almost £10,000 on prototype consoles and games left at Sega's former UK headquarters - then found himself being raided by police.

Bars of Dairy Milk worth £1.75 and After Eights costing £3.50 are encased in Perspex security boxes.

The band issued a statement on Friday after Let Down was used in a clip from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement which was shared to X.

One of London's most historic dining spots is set to reopen next month after it was forced to close its doors in the early days of Covid.  

Early tests of the immunotherapy, which harnesses the body's immune system to fight cancer, saw the disease lessen in nearly half of men.

But, happily, Edo's ex-fiancee does not appear to hold grudges and has remained remarkably close to Beatrice's husband.

Researchers at Cortical Labs used living human neurons grown on a chip to learn how to play Doom in about a week. "While its performance is not up to par with humans, experts say it brings biological computers a step closer to useful real-world applications, like controlling robot arms," reports New Scientist. From the report: In 2021, the Australian company Cortical Labs used its neuron-powered computer chips to play Pong. The chips consisted of clumps of more than 800,000 living brain cells grown on top of microelectrode arrays that can both send and receive electrical signals. Researchers had to carefully train the chips to control the paddles on either side of the screen. Now, Cortical Labs has developed an interface that makes it easier to program these chips using the popular programming language Python. An independent developer, Sean Cole, then used Python to teach the chips to play Doom, which he did in around a week. "Unlike the Pong work that we did a few years ago, which represented years of painstaking scientific effort, this demonstration has been done in a matter of days by someone who previously had relatively little expertise working directly with biology," says Brett Kagan of Cortical Labs. "It's this accessibility and this flexibility that makes it truly exciting." The neuronal computer chip, which used about a quarter as many neurons as the Pong demonstration, played Doom better than a randomly firing player, but far below the performance of the best human players. However, it learnt much faster than traditional, silicon-based machine learning systems and should be able to improve its performance with newer learning algorithms, says Kagan. However, it's not useful to compare the chips with human brains, he says. "Yes, it's alive, and yes, it's biological, but really what it is being used as is a material that can process information in very special ways that we can't recreate in silicon." Cortical Labs posted a YouTube video showing its CL1 biological computer running Doom. There's also source code available on GitHub, with additional details in a README file.

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They say the camera never lies. But you could be forgiven for thinking that the photograph which has just surfaced of Stephen Hawkin was the product of AI trickery.

Davidson, 54, yelled the N-word at black actors Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo during the BAFTAs at the Royal Festival Hall in London last Sunday.

The regime, which toppled the Western-backed government five years ago, requested dialogue after Kabul and Kandahar were bombed in what Pakistan declared as 'open war'.

Quentin Griffiths, 58, who died on February 9, was being investigated by the Thai police over an alleged £500,000 fraud at the company he ran with his ex-wife, Ploy Kringsinthanakun, 43.

Sedaka's family confirmed the 'rock and roll legend' had passed in a statement to TMZ .

Amid warnings that Britain is 'sleepwalking into sectarian politics', plumber Hannah Spencer cruised to victory for the Greens in the seat of Gorton and Denton.