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Bodhana Sivanandan secured the title at the 46th Chess Olympiad in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, after she won eight points across 11 games.

Andy Burnham has suggested he will introduce a new 'death tax' that can raise billions to fund an NHS-style social care system. But is it a good idea? Have your say in the Morning Mail poll.

To be fair to Andy Burnham, no one can say they don't know what he stands for anymore. Appearing on the BBC, the Prime Minister made the boldest commitment of his premiership

Alan Shearer's daughter Chloe has married rugby star Micky Young in a countryside wedding in North Yorkshire. 

Hope Again screams Labour's 2026 conference slogan. This is political code for 'thank heavens we're shot of Starmer and Reeves'.

Why is this country so utterly hopeless at carrying off large new projects within a reasonable timescale?

The singer, 34, bared it all as she arrived at the coveted awards show wearing a tiny black top and a matching long skirt.

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The 44-year-old former Manchester City, QPR and Newcastle midfielder was caught with the contraband following a search carried out by anti-corruption officers.

Striking footage shows the animal dive into the water to pursue a smaller fish during a surfing class at Fistral Beach in Newquay on Tuesday last week.

Two giant pandas from China arrived to Atlanta earlier today, following US President Donald Trump's meeting with Xi Jinping, President of the People's Republic of China last week. 

The 28-year-old fashion and swimwear model, who dated the son of Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber from May 2018 to March 2020, remembered him as 'an angel in this life.'

The 56-year-old planned extensive additions to the six-bedroom Georgian manor house including adding a heritage-style showroom to house his extensive car collection.

The Amandaland actress, 48, has replaced Dawn French as the star of Marks & Spencer's big budget Christmas campaign, according to reports.

Some six in ten who died in pregnancy, birth or the postnatal period between 2022 and 2024 could have been saved with better care - an all-time high since records began in 2009.

It comes amid concerns that young people preparing mass casualty attacks are escaping with relatively minor charges because they are not considered to have an ideology.

AlloyDB for PostgreSQL adds AI capabilities like high-performance vector search to your live database, simplifying AI development.

Donald Trump has warned the five men arrested over a foiled terror attack at RAF Fairford were 'looking to do big damage' as counter-terrorism police probe a potential link to Iran.

I was on the beach with my family on a summer evening when I first realised quite how extensive my hair loss was.

A new Brookings Institution study notes the "strikingly physical" economic footprint of AI's buildout, from specialized chips and electricity to purpose-built data centers. (Two-thirds of a data center's costs are IT equipment, with one-third going to real estate and its associated power infrastructure.) "At an average of 3.63 percent of GDP per year, the projected buildout would be larger relative to the economy than the major U.S. canal, railroad, electrification, highway, and telecommunications investment booms." This is pushing up prices for workers, electricity, and even commercial real estate (as well as consumer products that use chips), notes the Wall Street Journal, and reducing the construction on new houses and apartment buildings. And in addition, the paper points out, projections for this buildout "would double the electricity consumption of the entire U.S. residential sector." The calculations come from Columbia Business School finance/real estate professor Stijn van Nieuwerburgh — and Reuters explains their significance: Just as the rail and telecoms expansions led to notable bubbles and busts, Van Nieuwerburgh wrote that the extent of the buildout, the still-untested revenue streams, and the intricate financing structure emerging around AI mean it could be primed for a fall. "This is freaking complicated," he said in a briefing with reporters of the arrangements emerging between AI firms, major tech hyperscalers, banks, private credit lenders, real estate firms, and a host of other players involved in building what he conservatively estimated at 183 gigawatts worth of new data-center capacity over the next seven years, compared with about 57 gigawatts currently installed.... The investment underway already has outstripped what the major players can fund from their own cash flows. The shift to outside financing has increased leverage, redistributed risks across the economy, and made the venture dependent on revenue streams that have yet to be proven, Van Nieuwerburgh noted in the paper, which will be presented on Friday... "These developments do not imply that financial distress is imminent. Strong growth in AI applications, high utilization, and continued improvements in model capability could support the projected infrastructure and generate stable cash flows," he wrote. "But the combination of uncertain demand, rapid technological change, execution bottlenecks, and high leverage creates meaningful downside risk if expectations are revised." As an example, he wrote that the AI industry will need to be earning about $3.7 trillion in annual revenue by 2032 to achieve the expected return on the investment, and "given current estimates of annual combined revenues of OpenAI and Anthropic of around $100 billion, revenues would need to grow at roughly 80% per year." The paper suggests policies that "improve measurement and transparency" for financing.

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