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AI maths breakthroughs prompt backlash over OpenAI’s research approach
OpenAI and other AI laboratories have announced major breakthroughs on long-standing mathematical problems, including solving one of the famous Millennium Prize problems, achievements that would normally be celebrated. However, the company’s handling of these announcements has sparked considerable backlash from the mathematics community, with researchers accusing OpenAI of moving forward with insufficient regard for established…
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Mark Thompson will lead CNN under the new Skydance ownership
CNN chief executive Mark Thompson will stay in charge when Paramount completes its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, expected on Tuesday. His continued leadership matters because the merger brings CNN and CBS News under the same ownership, raising questions about editorial independence. In a staff memo, Thompson said he believes the combined company…
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Fossils of 45-million-year-old mammal unearthed at California building site
Construction workers in Oceanside, Southern California, discovered fossil bones approximately 45 million years old whilst excavating a construction site on 31 August. The discovery is significant as it provides a rare glimpse into prehistoric North American mammals and reflects the region’s important palaeontological heritage. Palaeontologist Joseph El Adli believes the bones belong to either a…
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Flydubai Co-Pilot Attempt to Seize Control Mid-Flight Results in Crew Intervention; Multi-National Inquiry Launched
Further details have emerged about the Omani co-pilot’s background following the 30 September incident. Australian authorities are now investigating his links to Australia, where he held a student visa from 2014, studying between 2015 and 2017 before it was cancelled in 2019. Counter-terrorism officials are examining whether he was radicalised during his time in Australia.…
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Antigone reworking explores the human cost of Creon’s rigid laws
Nina Segal’s reworking of Sophocles’ *Antigone* explores how King Creon’s refusal to question his laws affects everyone in Thebes. In Jeff James’s production, a spreading ring of black, tar-like liquid marks the boundary between those accepted and rejected by the king, then stains those caught up in its consequences. The production mixes the Greek tragedy…
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Six jailed for Dale Martin murder; billionaire Reuben heads to Monaco
Six have been convicted of stabbing 21-year-old Dale Martin to death. Billionaire property investor David Reuben is among wealthy Britons relocating abroad under Labour’s government.
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Flydubai hijacker called for women to be ‘stomped on’ in religious rants while studying at British university
A 29-year-old Omani co-pilot, Hamam al-Hammami, attempted to seize control of a Flydubai aircraft bound for Tel Aviv on Wednesday, attacking and severely wounding captain Smit Machchhar with the onboard crash axe. Passengers and crew wrestled control of the plane away from him as it plummeted 14,000 feet in 29 seconds. The UAE prosecutor has…
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Tom McCarthy’s film revisits an early bipartisan debate on climate risks
Tom McCarthy’s film *A Statement* recreates a 1980 Florida conference on the environmental effects of carbon dioxide emissions. Based largely on the meeting’s transcripts and adapted from Nathaniel Rich’s *Losing Earth*, the film shows politicians, scientists, academics and environmentalists trying to agree on a response to climate risks. Its subject matters today because it recalls…