13 h. ago Greek secondary school teachers to be trained in using AI in classroom

Some teachers and pupils voice concerns about pilot programme after government’s agreement with OpenAI Secondary school teachers in Greece are set to go through an intensive course in using artificial intelligence tools as the country assumes a frontline role in incorporating AI into its education system.Next week, staff in 20 schools will be trained in a specialised version of ChatGPT, custom-made for academic institutions, under a new agreement between the centre-right government and OpenAI. Continue reading...

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29 h. ago Keir Starmer insists it's 'important politicians stick to word' in Budget grilling

Keir Starmer has insisted it is 'important that politicians stick to their word' as he was grilled on possible taxes hitting working people at next week's Budget

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32 h. ago Lord Gove says Covid Inquiry's claims that 23,000 people died because ministers did 'too little, too late'

Lord Gove today questioned the Covid Inquiry's claims that 23,000 people died because lockdown came a week too late. He branded chair Baroness Hallett's conclusion a 'leap'

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33 h. ago Is Avatar’s main villain about to become a good guy? All the signs are pointing that way

Will Quaritch, the square-jawed representative of military-industrial destruction befriend the Na’vi in James Cameron’s forthcoming Avatar: Fire and Ash? And if so, what other unlikely character about-turns should we be prepared for?It’s almost possible to feel a little sorry for Colonel Miles Quaritch, the main villain of Avatar. Imagine: first you’re sent light years from Earth to hang out with 14ft blue space hippies, then you’re suddenly dead. Then you’re resurrected as one of the 14ft blue space hippies. And now, according to James Cameron, you might just be starting to realise that the giant tree-hugging freaks you’ve spent two films trying to erase are your kind of people after all.Speaking to Empire in an interview last week, Cameron revealed that the Quaritch we will meet in the forthcoming Avatar: Fire and Ash (although still played by Stephen Lang) is no longer the same person we first saw stomping through the rainforest in the original 2009 film. Yes, he’s a “recombinant...

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33 h. ago Security ramps up in town awaiting arrival of 600 lone male asylum seekers as residents are told they'll only get '48 hours' notice' before migrants move onto army base

Residents are in revolt over the plans for Crowborough Army Training Camp in East Sussex, with thousands of people turning out every week for noisy protests.

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41 h. ago A troubling question has been raised around human authors vs AI

More than half of the UK’s published novelists agree that it’s likely artificial intelligence will displace their work entirely, prompting fears of a two-tier market in the literary world where only the rich can afford author-penned books. What on earth does that mean? asks Annabel Nugent

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54 h. ago ChatGPT launches group chats so that you can invite it to speak to your friends

Tool could let multiple people decide where they will go to eat, creator OpenAI suggests

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58 h. ago Morrisons makes 1,700 paperboys and papergirls redundant after selling its home delivery operation

Around 25,000 households get their daily paper from Morrisons Daily, the delivery wing of the major supermarket chain. The body largely employed young people for less than eight hours a week.

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60 h. ago ‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI

Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accentStudents at the University of Staffordshire have said they feel “robbed of knowledge and enjoyment” after a course they hoped would launch their digital careers turned out to be taught in large part by AI.James and Owen were among 41 students who took a coding module at Staffordshire last year, hoping to change careers through a government-funded apprenticeship programme designed to help them become cybersecurity experts or software engineers. Continue reading...

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60 h. ago Advocacy groups urge parents to avoid AI toys this holiday season

Children’s and consumer advocacy groups are urging parents not to buy AI-powered toys during the holiday season

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61 h. ago Martin Lewis £92 document 'more important than a will' for UK households in change 'this week'

The Ministry of Justice this week confirmed a change to the document as experts advised people to 'act now'

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62 h. ago One Tech Tip: Do's and don'ts of using AI to help with schoolwork

The rise of ChatGPT and other AI systems has transformed education, changing how students learn and study

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3 d. ago Nvidia's earnings attest to its leadership in the AI race. By the numbers

Nvidia reported more eye-catching numbers for its fiscal third quarter Wednesday, with net income jumping 65% and revenue increasing 62% from a year earlier

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3 d. ago Cloudflare explains outage that took down much of the internet

ChatGPT, X and many other major websites were taken offline by one file

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3 d. ago ChatGPT maker boss Larry Summers QUITS over Jeffrey Epstein emails in major statement

Larry Summers quit his role at OpenAI after it emerged he had maintained a friendly relationship with Jeffrey Epstein even after the billionaire was convicted of child sex offences in 2008

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3 d. ago People over State Pension age with arthritis could be due up to £441 every month

More than half a million people receive either £73.90 or £110.40 each week through Attendance Allowance for arthritis-related conditions.

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4 d. ago AI tools are making ‘repeated factual errors’, major new research warns

‘Risky advice’, ‘inaccuracies’ and ‘misleading statements’ mean people should cross-reference results from generative AI tools, tests by experts suggest

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4 d. ago Cloudflare apologises after outage takes down websites including X, Spotify and ChatGPT

Many websites crippled by latest internet outage affecting users across the globe

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4 d. ago Cloudflare disruption has hit major sites. But it’s not the worst outage in recent years

The global outage has affected major websites including X, ChatGPT and Letterboxd

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4 d. ago The tiny sign that ChatGPT has been reading your calendar and email

ChatGPT reached 800 million weekly users by September 2025

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