Andrew charged taxpayers for massage when envoy, claim ex-civil servants 50 minutes ago Sean CoughlanRoyal correspondent Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor charged taxpayers for massages and excessive travel costs while working as the UK's trade envoy, whistleblowing retired civil servants have claimed. One former civil servant, who worked in the UK's trade department …

Billions in SEND funding to make schools more inclusive, ministers say 4 hours ago Nathan StandleyEducation reporter The government says it will spend billions to make mainstream schools in England more inclusive for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). 6bn over three years going directly to schools, early …

When we met this weekend in the government headquarters in Kyiv, he said that far from losing, Ukraine would end the war victorious. He was firmly against paying the price for a ceasefire deal demanded by President Vladimir Putin, which is withdrawing from strategic ground that Russia has failed to …

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An 18-year-old who allegedly killed eight people in a mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, Canada, reportedly used OpenAI’s ChatGPT in ways that alarmed the company’s staff. Jesse Van Rootselaar’s chats describing gun violence were flagged by tools that monitor the company’s LLM for misuse and banned in June 2025. Staff …

The generative AI boom minted a startup a minute. But as the dust starts to settle, two once-hot business models are looking more like cautionary tales: LLM wrappers and AI aggregators. Darren Mowry, who leads Google’s global startup organization across Cloud, DeepMind, and Alphabet, says startups with these hooks have …

Microsoft announced a major gaming shakeup on Friday, with Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer departing the company, along with Xbox President Sarah Bond. Spencer will be replaced by former Instacart and Meta executive Asha Sharma. With Sharma’s most recent role as the president of Microsoft’s CoreAI product, these moves suggest …

Wikipedia editors have decided to remove all links to Archive. today, a web archiving service that they said has been linked to more than 695,000 times across the online encyclopedia. today — which also operates under several other domain names, including archive. ph — is perhaps most widely used to …

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman addressed concerns about AI’s environmental impact this week while speaking at an event hosted by The Indian Express. For one thing, Altman — who was in India for a major AI summit — said concerns about AI’s water usage are “totally fake,” though he acknowledged it …

'I cleaned toilets while studying at Cambridge' 5 hours ago Charlie Jones Jade Franks was working in a call centre when she was accepted to the University of Cambridge. She felt like her life was back on track. Growing up, she was ambitious and academic. She had been offered a …