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This Former DeepMind Exec Thinks the AI Arms Race Could End in Disaster
Verity Harding, who led global public policy at Google DeepMind between 2016 and 2020, argues that the widespread framing of artificial intelligence as an “arms race” is not merely inaccurate but actively dangerous. In a newly curated essay anthology, Reframing the AI Arms Race, she and contributors including historian Lawrence Freedman and Japanese politician Taro…
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Nigel Farage throws down the gauntlet with shock Clacton by-election… and I believe he won’t just win, he’ll double his majority, says ANDREW PIERCE
This is a Daily Mail comment piece by consultant editor Andrew Pierce, presented largely as a video column, arguing that Nigel Farage has provoked a surprise by-election in his Clacton constituency and framing it as a high-stakes political gamble. Pierce contends that the Reform UK leader is casting himself as the victim of an “establishment…
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Millionaire trader-turned-campaigner Gary Stevenson’s wealth tax plan is ‘absolute populist claptrap’ and will ruin Britain, say experts
A new Channel 4 documentary, “How to Get Filthy Rich with Gary Stevenson”, has become the focus of a row over the millionaire trader-turned-campaigner’s proposal for a wealth tax, which critics in the programme brand “absolute populist claptrap” and “disastrous”. The debate matters because Stevenson is rumoured to have been approached by Andy Burnham’s team…
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ROBERT MAGINNIS: Trump’s Ankara remarks reveal a grand strategy hiding in plain sight
In an opinion piece for Fox News, former Pentagon strategist Robert Maginnis argues that remarks made by President Donald Trump alongside Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, on the eve of a NATO summit in Ankara, reveal a coherent American “grand strategy” rather than the freewheeling exchange most commentators perceived. Maginnis contends that such strategies rarely…
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Port of Dover faces ‘utter chaos’ under struggling EU entry system, MPs warn
MPs have warned that the Port of Dover faces “utter chaos and miles of tailbacks” as a result of the EU’s entry/exit system (EES), unless the technology is fixed or the checks suspended within a week. The chair of the home affairs select committee, Karen Bradley, has urged the UK government to apply “maximum pressure”…
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Trump trolls Netanyahu as he makes staggering offer to Islamic despot
Donald Trump is reported to be considering the sale of US-made F-35 stealth fighter jets to Turkey, a move that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has publicly opposed. Netanyahu warns that supplying the advanced aircraft to Ankara would “destroy” the balance of power and undermine peace and stability in the Middle East. The potential deal…
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Trump says Iran ceasefire is ‘over’ after Iranian attacks trigger massive US response
US President Donald Trump has declared that the tentative ceasefire with Iran is “over” following an overnight US bombing campaign launched in response to Iranian attacks on commercial shipping. Speaking to reporters at the NATO Summit in Ankara, Trump signalled a likely collapse of weeks of diplomacy, describing Iranian officials as “scum”, “liars” and “cheats”…
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Report to National Crime Agency of £5m Farage gift is ‘deeply serious’
Labour has condemned as “astonishing and deeply serious” the disclosure that a £5m gift to Nigel Farage from a cryptocurrency billionaire was reported to the National Crime Agency (NCA) by bankers who feared it might involve laundered money. The revelation intensifies pressure on the Reform UK leader over his financial affairs, coming just a day…
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Dem civil war hits primary debate stage in fiery battleground showdown: ‘What are you hiding?’
Moderate Democratic Representative Haley Stevens and progressive challenger Abdul El-Sayed clashed in a heated debate on Tuesday ahead of Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, in a contest framed as a proxy battle between the party’s centrist establishment and its left wing. The confrontation matters because the seat, being vacated by retiring Democratic Senator Gary Peters, is…
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It’s Nigel v Count Binface! Farage’s by-election gamble risks backfiring as NO major party will stand against him… because he faces another contest after sleaze probe
Nigel Farage called for a ‘people versus the establishment’ contest amid a flurry of questions about his finances and an undeclared £5million gift from a crypto-billionaire.