44 h. ago Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease

Sam Altman and his husband have reportedly invested in a gene-editing startup which aims to eliminate hereditary diseases

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3 d. ago ‘I saw inmates eat glass and nails to try to get out’: The brutal reality of life inside Medomsley Detention Centre

From being greeted with a punch to having bones broken by the very people who were supposed to be keeping them safe, survivors have laid bare the reality of life inside Medomsley

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5 d. ago Sam Altman’s bet: Can OpenAI’s ambitions keep pace with industry’s soaring costs?

As investor jitters grow, the loss-making ChatGPT firm’s vast spending commitments test the limits of Silicon Valley optimismIt is the $1.4tn (£1.1tn) question. How can a loss-making startup such as OpenAI afford such a staggering spending commitment?Answer that positively and it will go a long way to easing investor concerns over bubble warnings in the artificial intelligence boom, from lofty tech company valuations to a mooted $3tn global spend on datacentres. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Investors’ ‘dumb transhumanist ideas’ setting back neurotech progress, say experts

Fascination of investors such as Elon Musk with uploading their brains to computers is hindering progress in curing disease, say scientistsIt has been an excellent year for neurotech, if you ignore the people funding it. In August, a tiny brain implant successfully decoded the inner speech of paralysis patients. In October, an eye restored sight to patients who had lost their vision.It would just be better, say experts, if the most famous investors in the space – tech magnates such as Elon Musk and OpenAI’s Sam Altman – were less interested in uploading their brains to computers or merging with AI. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago OpenAI CEO Sam Altman served legal papers during speech in dramatic on

The 40-year-old billionaire tech tycoon was speaking inside the Sydney Goldstein Theater in San Francisco on Monday when a lawyer stormed the stage.

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7 d. ago Sarah Ferguson 'still thinks Andrew is a good person' as true feelings on scandal emerge

Sarah Ferguson will soon find herself homeless after being booted out of Royal Lodge following fresh claims about her ex husband Prince Andrew, but she's still reportedly standing by him

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2 w. ago Delaware top lawyer warns of legal action if OpenAI fails to act in public interest

Sam Altman’s concessions to win approval from US officials expose his company to litigation and non-profit oversight

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2 w. ago Sex sells: What you need to know about Sam Altman’s dangerous venture into AI ‘erotica’

ChatGPT is set to relax its restrictions on sexual content this December. Will Rogers-Coltman investigates why people are concerned

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2 w. ago AI psychosis is a growing danger. ChatGPT is moving in the wrong direction | Amandeep Jutla

OpenAI’s CEO has announced loosening the platform’s safety restrictions. He seems not to understand how humans are wiredOn 14 October 2025, the CEO of OpenAI made an extraordinary announcement.“We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive,” it says, “to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues.”Amandeep Jutla MD is an associate research scientist in the division of child and adolescent psychiatry at Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Lily Allen and David Harbour 'put their New York townhouse on sale for $8m' two days after her album outing his sordid extra

Lily Allen and her ex-husband David Harbour have reportedly put their New York townhouse on the market for an eye-watering $8 million, after the singer laid bare the actor's infidelity.

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2 w. ago Coleen Nolan reveals truth behind 'terrible divorce' from ex

Coleen Nolan has spoken out following reports that she and her ex-husband Ray Fensome found themselves in a bitter divorce; however, this was not the case at all

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3 w. ago Victoria Beckham's olive branch to estranged son Brooklyn as he shares new video

Spice Girls icon Victoria Beckham and her husband David have been in a reported feud with their eldest son Brooklyn and Nicola Peltz

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3 w. ago Leading conservationists just decided that genetically engineering wild animals is OK – sometimes. They’re right | Helen Pilcher

Humans have been selectively breeding animals for millennia. If we can help species survive by tweaking their DNA in a lab, I say bring it onDo you think we should genetically modify wildlife? What if we could make seabirds resistant to the flu that has been exterminating them en masse, just by tweaking their DNA a smidgen? Or make fish that can shrug off pollution, or coral that can survive warming waters? Engineer in the sorts of change that could occur naturally, given enough time, if only the wildlife would stop dying already.Thanks to newly emerging methods, such as Crispr, these feats are within reach. Recently, conservationists met at the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) 2025 World Conservation Congress where they debated GM wildlife and voted on a proposed moratorium that would stymie their release into the wild. Ahead of the meeting, a group of more than 90 NGOs issued a press release urging the IUCN to “say no to engineered wild species.” But humans ...

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3 w. ago OpenAI's CEO defends decision for AI erotica on ChatGPT as 'we're not world's moral police'

OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman has defended a decision to allow the world's most popular chatbot, ChatGPT, to serve explicit content

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3 w. ago Manchester synagogue killer raped me, says Muslim convert wife who reveals family tragedies behind conversion to Islam

Jihad al-Shamie reportedly told Elizabeth Davis ‘you have to fulfil your husband’s needs’ and that her children were ‘too Westernised’

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4 w. ago Victoria Beckham hit with huge blow after Netflix rating revealed

Ratings figures are now in for Victoria Beckham's Netflix documentary and reports have already compared them to her husband David's docuseries which aired in 2023

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4 w. ago Baby diagnosed ‘completely out of the blue’ with rare cancer in genetic screening

The study will help inform the Government’s long-term ambition to offer genomic sequencing to all newborns

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