Israel accused of weaponising archaeology at ancient West Bank sites

Israel is planning large-scale land expropriations in historic, Palestinian areas of the West Bank.

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How AI is changing jobs in the Philippines' outsourcing industry

AI is reshaping the Philippines' outsourcing industry, raising questions over the future of the industry.

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BP profit highest since 2022 as Iran war pushes up oil price

Higher oil prices boost the energy giant's results while environmental groups accuse it of profiteering.

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Meta shares fall as frustration grows over AI spending plans

CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the firm intends to sell its AI tools to other companies for the first time.

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Sam Altman Announces That the Singularity Has Arrived

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared that the "singularity" has arrived shortly after his company's AI models went rogue and broke containment.

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#OnThisDay 1984: A group of men from Surrey had taken historical reenactment a step further, by turning lawn mowers into roman chariots. The ‘charimo’ was equivalent to four horses, and just like a ho...

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Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands

Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.

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Chipmaker CXMT becomes mainland China's most valuable listed firm

The company's shares soared by 470% in its market debut, as the AI boom drives chip demand.

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Harry Potter publisher to receive millions in Anthropic copyright settlement

Bloomsbury has 14,087 titles listed in agreement between AI startup and authors over use of their work

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OpenAI says its AI went rogue and launched 'unprecedented' cyber-attack

It is one of the first publicly disclosed cyber-attacks carried out by AI without direct human involvement.

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Thames Water returns to profit after raising bills

The UK's largest water company reported a post-tax profit for the 12 months to the end of March, but its net debt also swelled.

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Vatican excommunicates hundreds of thousands of SSPX followers

Around 600,000 followers of the Society of Saint Pius X, a Catholic sect, are affected.

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Ford rehires human engineers after AI fails to match quality checks

The car-maker found AI quality checks failed to match the skill of veteran technicians.

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Microsoft's claims over its quantum chip questioned in Nature article

The tech giant has consistently stood by its Majorana chip research despite scepticism from some experts in the field.

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Tech giant Oracle cuts 21,000 jobs as it embraces AI

The cuts are part of a wider trend among tech firms as they spend hundreds of billions of dollars on AI.

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Solstice

Helen and her cousin Malcolm are reluctantly thrown together again to combat a multi-dimensional conspiracy, involving love and drugs and quantum futures. As the solstice approaches, they must coop…

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Petition: Protect creators' rights: require AI firms to disclose training data

We ask the Government to introduce a statutory duty requiring AI developers to disclose the copyrighted works used to train generative AI in enough detail for creators to identify use of their work, e...

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In vitro neurons learn and exhibit sentience when embodied in a simulated game-world

The DishBrain system is the first real-time synthetic biological intelligence platform that demonstrates that biological neurons can adjust firing activity in a way that suggests the ability to learn ...

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BMW says humanoid robots are the future of car production

BMW is introducing humanoid robots to a car plant in Europe, building on similar projects in the US.

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Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing

By restoring some functions to intact brains from deceased donors, the startup Bexorg hopes to create a better drug development test bed for neurodegenerative diseases

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