44 minutes ago Thom Yorke and Julianne Moore join thousands of creatives in AI warning

Statement comes as tech firms try to use creative professionals’ work to train AI modelsAbba’s Björn Ulvaeus, the actor Julianne Moore, the Radiohead singer Thom Yorke are among 10,500 signatories of a statement from the creative industries warning artificial intelligence companies that unlicensed use of their work is a “major, unjust threat” to artists’ livelihoods.The statement comes amid legal battles between creative professionals and tech firms over the use of their work to train AI models such as ChatGPT and claims that using their intellectual property without permission is a breach of copyright. Continue reading...

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74 minutes ago ‘I can do the same job as a man’: Ukraine’s first frontline female commander on war, grief – and her hope for the future

Yulia Mykytenko leads a platoon of men in a reconnaissance and attack unit – and has already lost her husband, father and many friends in the devastating war. In her memoir, she writes that she was always destined for combatThe sound of birdsong is so loud outside Yulia Mykytenko’s current home, an abandoned house somewhere in the Donbas region of Ukraine, that I can hear it through my laptop. We’re speaking on Zoom, Mykytenko visible briefly – young, wearing black, her dark bobbed hair with blue-dyed streaks in it – before she turns the camera off because her signal isn’t great. She has some outside space and, she says with a laugh, a local sheep sometimes comes to visit her dog. Mykytenko, a lieutenant in the Ukrainian army, also feeds the street cats, pets abandoned by residents who ...

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2 hours ago Americans don’t want to see a Trump movie but elsewhere it’s a different story

Controversial drama The Apprentice has bombed stateside but it’s attracting bigger audiences in other parts of the worldI’ll be the first to admit that I did not want to watch The Apprentice, the new film chronicling Donald Trump’s ascendancy through 1970s and 80s New York. Like most people in my liberal social circle, my reaction to the movie’s existence was essentially: why? Why watch two hours of a de-handsomed (though still recognizable) Sebastian Stan as the young real estate mogul, and Jeremy Strong as his mentor Roy Cohn, go through events I already know – if not in exact detail, than certainly in spirit – in the life of a man I actively wish I knew less about?And yet I found the film, written by Vanity Fair’s Trump chronicler Gabriel Sherman and directed by Iranian Danish film-m...

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2 hours ago Liam Payne and girlfriend Kate Cassidy adopted a dog just weeks before his death and hoped to build 'nice and loving family'

Liam Payne and his girlfriend Kate Cassidy adopted a rescue dog just weeks before his tragic death, with the One Direction star hoping the pooch might form part of a "loving family"

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3 hours ago Owner needed plastic surgery after Cane Corso turned on her during dog attack

Police warn pet owners after another attack between an XL Bully and Cane Corso took place the next day

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3 hours ago Deaf girl, 6, to trick or treat for first time thanks to heartwarming neighbourhood gesture

Ada Hawkes, now aged six, was diagnosed as being profoundly deaf at just 18-months-old and has never been able to trick or treat, but that's all changed thanks to her heartwarming neighbours

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3 hours ago Check your change for rare £2 coin with unique 'ancient' design that could be worth £54

The Ancient Greek myth-themed £2 coin first circulated in 2000 - and just one of them could get you a nice chunk of chain.

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3 hours ago One of the rarest species of whale in the world sees population increase

Conservationists called on shipping and fishing industries to do more to bring the animals back from the brink of extinction

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3 hours ago Man saves pregnant girlfriend's life after realising her 'snoring' was a heart attack

Magnus Kviske, from Sweden, was frightened for his partner's life after she suddenly suffered a heart attack in their bedroom. He said he was 'like a machine with only one goal. Keeping Maja alive'

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