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Nikki Craven, 49, manager and owner at Rise Bakery in Dorset, shockingly revealed that an employee was restocking the shelves only minutes before the 'enormous smash'.

A young fast food worker could not believe her luck when a superstar pulled up to her drive through window.  

OpenAI is currently in "a tough negotiation" with Microsoft, the Financial Times reports, citing "one person close to OpenAI." On the road to building artificial general intelligence, OpenAI hopes to unlock new funding (and launch a future IPO), according to the article, which says both sides are at work "rewriting the terms of their multibillion-dollar partnership in a high-stakes negotiation...." Microsoft, meanwhile, wants to protect its access to OpenAI's cutting-edge AI models... [Microsoft] is a key holdout to the $260bn start-up's plans to undergo a corporate restructuring that moves the group further away from its roots as a non-profit with a mission to develop AI to "benefit humanity". A critical issue in the deliberations is how much equity in the restructured group Microsoft will receive in exchange for the more than $13bn it has invested in OpenAI to date. According to multiple people with knowledge of the negotiations, the pair are also revising the terms of a wider contract, first drafted when Microsoft first invested $1bn into OpenAI in 2019. The contract currently runs to 2030 and covers what access Microsoft has to OpenAI's intellectual property such as models and products, as well as a revenue share from product sales. Three people with direct knowledge of the talks said Microsoft is offering to give up some of its equity stake in OpenAI's new for-profit business in exchange for accessing new technology developed beyond the 2030 cut off... Industry insiders said a failure of OpenAI's new plan to make its business arm a public benefits corporation could prove a critical blow. That would hit OpenAI's ability to raise more cash, achieve a future float, and obtain the financial resources to take on Big Tech rivals such as Google. That has left OpenAI's future at the mercy of investors, such as Microsoft, who want to ensure they gain the benefit of its enormous growth, said Dorothy Lund, professor of law at Columbia Law School. Lund says OpenAI's need for investors' money means they "need to keep them happy." But there also appears to be tension from how OpenAI competes with Microsoft (like targeting its potential enterprise customers with AI products). And the article notes that OpenAI also turned to Oracle (and SoftBank) for its massive AI infrastructure project Stargate. One senior Microsoft employee complained that OpenAI "says to Microsoft, 'give us money and compute and stay out of the way: be happy to be on the ride with us'. So naturally this leads to tensions. To be honest, that is a bad partner attitude, it shows arrogance." The article's conclusion? Negotiating new deal is "critical to OpenAI's restructuring efforts and could dictate the future of a company..."

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EXCLUSIVE: Unlike their 'foot soldier' counterparts, these 'high level' drug bosses try to stay anonymous and live lives that - at first glance - seem utterly ordinary.

EXCLUSIVE: Three years on from the neighbourly row to end all rows, MailOnline revisited the 8-foot stretch of driveway in North London that split a community down the middle.

The Left-wing National Education Union (NEU) resolved on Saturday to campaign for trans teachers to continue to choose toilets according to 'gender identity'.

Brigette Pheloung, known as Acquired Style, gives fashion and beauty advice to her millions of followers on Instagram and TikTok.

Sigrid McCawley was not only Virginia Giuffre's lawyer but also a friend, who fought back tears in a 60 Minutes interview aired on Sunday night.

Affleck, 52, previously dated the Blonde actress, 37, for less than a year from March 2020 to January 2021.

"When Rust developers think of us C++ folks, they picture a cursed bloodline," writes professional game developer Mamadou Babaei (also a *nix enthusiast who contributes to the FreeBSD Ports collection). "To them, every line of C++ we write is like playing Russian Roulette — except all six chambers are loaded with undefined behavior." But you know what? We don't need a compiler nanny. No borrow checker. No lifetimes. No ownership models. No black magic. Not even Valgrind is required. Just raw pointers, raw determination, and a bit of questionable sanity. He's created a video on "how to hunt down memory leaks like you were born with a pointer in one hand and a debugger in the other." (It involves using a memory leak tracker — specifically, Visual Studio's _CrtDumpMemoryLeaks, which according to its documentation "dumps all the memory blocks in the debug heap when a memory leak has occurred," identifying the offending lines and pointers.) "If that sounds unreasonably dangerous — and incredibly fun... let's dive into the deep end of the heap." "The method is so easy, it renders Rust's memory model (lifetimes, ownership) and the borrow checker useless!" writes Slashdot reader NuLL3rr0r. Does anybody agree with him? Share your own experiences and reactions in the comments. And how do you feel about Rust's "borrow-checking compiler nanny"?

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The 60-year-old was still wrestling as recently last month, when he took part in his final match during Wrestlemania weekend in Las Vegas.

Donald Trump demanded that Ukraine come to the table and meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin this week.

The raiders struck the Design Exchange in west London on 20 October 2024, it is alleged.

Fans of classic '80s cinema were in for a surprise when one of its most iconic leading ladies stepped out for a rare appearance in Los Angeles on Thursday.

The This Morning presenter, 50, decided to lose weight after the death of her mother Maria - who had raised concerns over Alison's pre-diabetic diagnosis.

The King's niece, 43, beamed as she posed with other attendees at the event, which kicked off in Gloucestershire on Wednesday.

I have some sympathy with Meghan Markle (sorry, Sussex) after her recent revelation.

A United Airlines passenger was stunned to find out she was sitting next to an NFL rookie, as she called the recent draft pick 'the nicest young man.'

The Royal Hospital School (RHS) in Suffolk is running 90 minute sessions to help families talk to their sons about resisting dark messages from the web.