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‘Scary’: how misinformation and AI hallucinations are infiltrating Australia’s parliament
A Guardian Australia investigation has found that Australia’s parliamentary inquiry system is being flooded with AI-generated submissions containing hallucinated content, including invented studies and fabricated research wrongly attributed to real academics. Some committee reports have cited submissions in which most sources appear to be AI “hallucinations” — plausible but false content generated by large language…
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New York Governor Kathy Hochul thinks AI should be ‘less evil’
New York Governor Kathy Hochul discussed a wide range of technology policy issues in an interview on The Verge’s Decoder podcast, touching on artificial intelligence regulation, data centre construction, gun control and online surveillance. The conversation comes during an election year in which tech policy has taken on outsized importance, with Hochul having taken firm…
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Putin meets his ally Chinese President Xi Jinping as they discuss Ukraine amid growing fears Russia is about to escalate war
Vladimir Putin met Chinese President Xi Jinping in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on Monday as part of a two-day Shanghai Co-operation Organisation (SCO) summit, with the two leaders touching on Ukraine amid mounting concern that Russia could be preparing to escalate the war. The Kremlin said Ukraine was not the central focus of the talks, but the…
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Badenoch appoints architect of Truss’s mini-Budget to replace Mel Stride as shadow chancellor
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has sacked shadow chancellor Sir Mel Stride and replaced him with Andrew Griffith, promoting him from shadow business secretary in what is being seen as a shift towards a bolder, more tax-cutting economic stance. The appointment is notable because Griffith was financial secretary to the Treasury under Liz Truss and helped…
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Burnham bounce is over, pollsters warn
Leading pollsters say the “Burnham bounce” – the surge in Labour support after Andy Burnham replaced Sir Keir Starmer as prime minister on 20 July – has already fizzled out, with the party making no further gains and even slipping behind Reform UK in some surveys. This matters because it undermines any suggestion that Labour…
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SEN CHUCK GRASSLEY: Republicans are making America safer by restoring law and order
Senator Chuck Grassley writes an opinion piece crediting Republican control of Congress and the confirmation of Trump-nominated judges and officials for a sharp fall in US violent crime, arguing this reverses what he calls soft-on-crime Democratic policies. He frames the drop as evidence that Republican-led legislation, border and law enforcement funding, and faster judicial confirmations…
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Braintree asylum tensions, Middlesbrough gang violence row, Fife data centre fury
Unease grows in Braintree over migrant gatherings and Middlesbrough’s mayor defends policing after gang violence, while Fife villagers fight a giant data centre. Elsewhere: Toby Samuel’s US Open breakthrough, Aaron Donald’s NFL return, and Batman filming hits Glasgow.
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‘Jesus was a radical’: Progressives invoke Christ to sell left-wing agenda on campaign trail
Three progressive Democratic Senate candidates – Florida’s Angie Nixon, Michigan’s Abdul El-Sayed and Texas’s James Talarico – are invoking Jesus Christ to frame their left-wing policies as morally rooted, echoing tactics long used by the Republican Party’s “Moral Majority” movement. The strategy comes as each faces Republican attacks branding them as socialist or extremist, suggesting…