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• Rape victims in England and Wales to be protected from ‘serial liar’ trope in legal shake-up

  02-12-2025 23:30
  Exclusive: New laws will also curb questioning and aim to stop complainants being discredited over previous reportsRape victims will no longer be depicted as serial liars in courtrooms in England and Wales as part of the biggest shake-up “in a generation”, the Guardian can reveal.New measures will stop the “profound injustice” of victims being questioned, sometimes without warning, about past rapes that they have reported to the police, said David Lammy, the justice secre
  
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• December's Pixel update is here and it smashes dozens of bugs - Android Authority

  02-12-2025 22:43 via news.google.com
  December's Pixel update is here and it smashes dozens of bugs  Android AuthorityStay organized and express yourself with Android 16’s new updates  The KeywordPixel December 2025 update fixes 33 issues: Battery limit, UI, more  9to5GoogleGoogle quietly restores a lost Pixel unlocking convenience with latest Android 16 update  Android AuthorityGoogle rolling out new Android 16 QPR2 for Pixel devices - GSMArena.com news  GSMArena.com
  
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• Trump calls Somali immigrants ‘garbage’ as US reportedly targets Minnesota community

  02-12-2025 22:20
  US president’s xenophobic rant comes amid reports of ramped-up deportation efforts in Ilhan Omar’s districtDonald Trump on Tuesday called Somali immigrants “garbage” and said they should be sent back home in a rant that came as the administration is reportedly increasing immigration enforcement against undocumented Somalis in Minnesota.In a xenophobic rant during a cabinet meeting, Trump went off on Somalis and Ilhan Omar, the congressional representative who is from Soma
  
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• Families on rooftops, homes buried by mud: Asia floods show water is overtaking wind as main threat

  02-12-2025 20:19
  Much improved response systems are struggling to cope with ever more powerful and destructive stormsDeath toll from Indonesia floods passes 700 as 1 million evacuatedFamilies stranded on their rooftops. Homes buried by fast-flowing mud. Jagged brown craters scarring lush green hillsides.The scenes are the result of a series of cyclones and storms in a heavy monsoon season that have struck Asia with torrential rains, gutting essential infrastructure and reshaping landscapes. The violent weather h
  
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• Ella Baron on Rachel Reeves’s fiscal rules – cartoon

  02-12-2025 19:41
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• The Guardian view on Labour’s plan to cut jury trials: it's wrong to remove a pillar of British justice | Editorial

  02-12-2025 19:38
  Instead of rebuilding a cash-starved system, ministers propose removing protections. The country needs investment, not the hollowing out of justiceCan Labour save a failing system by hollowing out its safeguards? David Lammy, the justice secretary, thinks so. Under his proposals, jury trials in England and Wales will be effectively halved. Currently, defendants charged with “either-way” offences have the right to choose whether to be tried by magistrates or a jury. But Mr Lammy wants
  
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• The Guardian view on policing: the lesson of Sarah Everard’s murder is that a culture of impunity must be stamped out | Editorial

  02-12-2025 19:35
  The Angiolini inquiry and a new report on Hillsborough make the need for new laws and higher standards in police forces brutally clear The abduction, rape and murder of Sarah Everard by a serving police officer in 2021 caused an outpouring of grief, fear and rage. The reaction was compounded when it emerged that Wayne Couzens, who is serving a whole-life term in prison, had previously committed sexual offences that the police had ignored.In her latest report on these events, Lady Angiolini frame
  
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• Production of French-German fighter jet threatened by rivalries, chief executive says

  02-12-2025 19:31
  Relations between French company Dassault and the German unit of Airbus are reportedly ‘very strained’The leaders of France and Germany have a “strong willingness” to build a new fighter jet together despite bitter internal rivalries, according to the chief executive of engine manufacturer Safran.A row over who should lead between French aerospace company Dassault and the German unit of Airbus has threatened to break apart the countries’ efforts to make a next-gener
  
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• Won’t somebody please think of Britain’s poor £2m homeowners? Oh, wait – everyone already is | Jonathan Liew

  02-12-2025 18:37
  Contrast the furious reaction to Rachel Reeves’s ‘mansion tax’ to the response offered to those living with real housing injustice: indifferenceThe new “mansion tax” announced by Rachel Reeves in last week’s budget is estimated to affect around 165,000 property owners, and on current trends the British media is forecast to have interviewed every single one of them by the end of the year. How else to explain the chorus of squeals we’ve been exposed to fro
  
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• Lack of apology for schoolboy ‘banter’ speaks volumes about Nigel Farage | Letters

  02-12-2025 18:36
  When a public figure responds with denial instead of a ‘sorry’, we should heed what that tells us, Anthony Richards. Plus letters from other readers on how being bullied at school affected them their whole lifePeter Ettedgui’s account of the antisemitic taunts he endured as a teenager (Don’t believe Nigel Farage’s denials. He targeted me for being Jewish – and it hurt, 25 November) reminded me of a simple truth about bullying: the bullied remember far more cle
  
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• Missing the boat on The African Queen | Letters

  02-12-2025 18:35
  Readers are shocked that a list of the best films set on water did not include the John Huston classic with Humphrey Bogart and Katharine HepburnHow could your reviewer rank the 20 best films set on boats or ships (You’re gonna need a bigger boat: the 20 best films set on water – ranked!, 27 November) but miss out John Huston’s 1951 epic The African Queen? With Humphrey Bogart (who won the best actor Oscar) and Katharine Hepburn, brilliant character actors like Robert Morley an
  
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• Liberal arts and critical thinking | Letters

  02-12-2025 18:35
  Readers respond to a letter that argued we should stop worshipping the liberal arts, and that they should become more market-oriented Jianyang Geng seems to assume that the liberal arts claim a monopoly on critical thinking (Letters, 25 November). Well, we don’t – and never have. What those of us in liberal arts do try to encourage are ways of thinking that cross boundaries: bringing together ideas and methods from wherever they’re useful, whether that’s the sciences, the
  
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• Fiscal headroom is a matter of guesswork | Brief letters

  02-12-2025 18:35
  Economic obsession | Two-child benefit divide | Paddington stare | No Place | Word of the yearYour editorial (The Guardian view on OBR v the Treasury: ministers have embraced the theatre of errors, 1 December) correctly flags the huge uncertainty in trying to come up with a five-year forecast of the difference between taxes and spending. Although markets like big fiscal headroom numbers, they seem to ignore the wise words of Bertrand Russell, who defined mathematics as “the subject in whic
  
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• Paul Costelloe obituary

  02-12-2025 18:25
  Irish fashion designer whose linen dresses were a staple of Princess Diana’s wardrobePaul Costelloe had a very Irish career. He learned and practised fashion internationally as a migrant in Paris, Milan and New York, and designed for such British institutions as Diana, Princess of Wales, and British Airways at its 1990s zenith.But he was rooted in the island of Ireland’s terroir, appreciating its fibres, wool and, especially, linen, by fingertip feel as much as eye. Fashion only redi
  
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• Mark Dolan makes brutal Rachel Reeves prediction - and lifts lid on GB News exit

  02-12-2025 18:00 via express.co.uk
  EXCLUSIVE: The TV presenter said Britain is experiencing the 'most dishonest administration in living history'.
  
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• Is love addiction real – and what does it look like?

  02-12-2025 18:00
  Experts still debate whether ‘love addiction’ appropriately describes destructive romantic fixationElizabeth Gilbert was using people like drugs: a point she emphasizes throughout her memoir All the Way to the River, released in September.In the book, Gilbert describes falling in love with her friend Rayya Elias. Elias’s terminal cancer diagnosis compelled Gilbert to reveal her feelings, despite being married at the time. She admits to enabling Elias, a self-described “ex
  
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• New ban hitting wood burners announced as fireplace rules made more strict

  02-12-2025 17:41 via express.co.uk
  A new ban on wood burners is on the table with stricter rules for fireplace use also in the pipeline.
  
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• Chaos in UK town as residents spend FOURTH day without water and schools forced to close

  02-12-2025 17:32 via express.co.uk
  EXCLUSIVE: Pressure is rising on the chief executive of South East Water as residents endured their fourth day without water.
  
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• Millions of O2, Vodafone, EE and Three customers could get £104 compensation

  02-12-2025 17:29 via express.co.uk
  The collective lawsuit alleges that millions of mobile phone users were overcharged for their handsets.
  
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• The art of tablescaping | Jess Cartner-Morley

  02-12-2025 17:00
  Laying a table well is one of the best ways to make guests feel relaxed and cosy. Queen of tablescaping Laura Jackson’s advice? Forget the stiff old rules and have fun with itA feast is not just about food. Just to sit at a table surrounded by the faces of your people: nothing beats it. A feast is about togetherness, whether there are two people at the table, or 16. The primal joy of good food taps into something even more fundamental than hunger; if food is a love language, a feast is a b
  
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• Metroid Prime 4: Beyond review – Samus Aran is suited up for action again. Was it worth the 18-year wait?

  02-12-2025 16:56
  Nintendo Switch/Switch 2 (version tested); Retro Studios/Nintendo
  The bounty hunter – Nintendo’s most badass and most neglected hero – returns in an atmospheric throwback sci-fi adventure that’s entirely untroubled by the conventions of modern game designIn a frozen laboratory full of cryogenically suspended experimental life forms, metal boots disturb the frost. A lone bounty hunter in a familiar orange exosuit points her blaster ahead. Making my way towards the facility
  
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• Fury in UK town to host 600 asylum seekers as council splashes £450k ‘on Winnie the Pooh'

  02-12-2025 16:56 via express.co.uk
  Residents have said the money would be better spent on their safety.
  
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• ‘A doll to me and a trumptet to Jimmie’: six-year-old girl’s letter to Santa in 1883

  02-12-2025 16:39
  Janet’s wishlist, which ran in Leeds Mercury, and letter from Hampshire girl in 1898 unearthed in newspaper archivesThe toys on the Christmas wishlist may have evolved in more than 140 years but children, it seems, do not change. That, at least, is the suggestion of a newly uncovered letter to Father Christmas dating from 1883, believed to be one of the earliest known such messages in the UK.The letter, addressed to “DeAR SAnTA CLAus”, was written by a six-year-old girl called
  
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• Ukraine live: ‘Now, more than ever, there is chance to end war,’ says Zelenskyy as Witkoff due to meet Putin - The Guardian

  02-12-2025 16:17 via news.google.com
  Ukraine live: ‘Now, more than ever, there is chance to end war,’ says Zelenskyy as Witkoff due to meet Putin  The GuardianIreland to give €125m to Ukraine as Zelensky visits Dublin  BBCLive: Bilateral meeting between Taoiseach, Zelensky under way  RTE.ieVolodymyr Zelenskiy’s historic visit to Ireland aims to help secure Ukraine’s future  The Irish TimesZelenskyy to make first official visit to Ireland - as 'productive' Ukraine-
  
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• ‘Another bitter injustice’ say Hillsborough families as report finds ‘fundamental failures’ by police - BBC

  02-12-2025 16:09 via news.google.com
  ‘Another bitter injustice’ say Hillsborough families as report finds ‘fundamental failures’ by police  BBCTwelve police officers would have faced gross misconduct cases over Hillsborough, report says  BBCHillsborough latest: Victims' families and MPs call for ex-police officer named in report to lose knighthood  Sky NewsHillsborough disaster investigation finds that 12 police officers would have faced gross misconduct  The Independe
  
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• Andrew won't get any money back after Royal Lodge move - BBC

  02-12-2025 16:08 via news.google.com
  Andrew won't get any money back after Royal Lodge move  BBCView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Russia-Ukraine war live: Zelensky says 'now more than ever there is chance to end war' - BBC

  02-12-2025 16:06 via news.google.com
  Russia-Ukraine war live: Zelensky says 'now more than ever there is chance to end war'  BBC‘Very optimistic’ Trump sends son-in-law to negotiate with Putin  The TimesUkraine war briefing: Witkoff shuttles into Moscow to hear Putin’s demands  The GuardianRussia-Ukraine war live: Trump’s envoy Witkoff to meet Putin  Al JazeeraUS envoy to meet Putin in Moscow - as NATO could consider 'pre-emptive strike'  Sky News
  
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• Review: Metroid Prime 4: Beyond - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition (Switch 2) - Samus Returns In Prime Form - Nintendo Life

  02-12-2025 16:00 via news.google.com
  Review: Metroid Prime 4: Beyond - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition (Switch 2) - Samus Returns In Prime Form  Nintendo LifeMetroid Prime 4: Beyond review - the series takes a Zelda-like spin, to mixed success  EurogamerMetroid Prime 4: Beyond Review - Prime, But Not Quite Prime Prime  GameSpotMetroid Prime 4 Leak Says Annoying NPCs Aren’t a Big Problem After All  VICESome Nintendo Gamers Can Pick Up Metroid Prime 4 for a Reduced Price  Military.com
  
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• OBR complained to Treasury before budget about leaks spreading ‘misconceptions’ - The Guardian

  02-12-2025 15:46 via news.google.com
  OBR complained to Treasury before budget about leaks spreading ‘misconceptions’  The GuardianView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• The little frozen in time UK town that’s even more of a magical fairytale in December

  02-12-2025 15:43 via express.co.uk
  This traditional market town boasts Anglian history and its own Christmas trail.
  
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• Bank of England sounds alarm as foreign hedge funds snap up UK debt – latest updates - The Telegraph

  02-12-2025 15:42 via news.google.com
  Bank of England sounds alarm as foreign hedge funds snap up UK debt – latest updates  The TelegraphBOE Warns of Rising Gilt Risk From Hedge Funds’ Basis Trades  Bloomberg.comMFA Supports Increased Central Clearing of Gilt Repos  Markets MediaHedge funds push back on Bank of England gilt repo reforms  MLexHedge Funds Warn BOE Repo Reforms Will Harm Appeal of Gilts  Bloomberg.com
  
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• Households urged to follow 30 minute laundry rule in December

  02-12-2025 15:41 via express.co.uk
  A natural item can help avoid a common problem when washing clothes.
  
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• Jury trials to be scrapped for cases where sentences are likely to be less than three years, says Lammy – UK politics live - The Guardian

  02-12-2025 15:40 via news.google.com
  Jury trials to be scrapped for cases where sentences are likely to be less than three years, says Lammy – UK politics live  The GuardianOBR head's resignation leaves potential landmines for Reeves  BBCOBR: We warned Treasury over Budget ‘misconceptions’  The TelegraphUK Politics: OBR says Reeves did not mislead public over Budget forecasts  Financial TimesHead of OBR resigns after Budget day publishing error  BBC
  
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• Man City XI vs Fulham: Predicted lineup and confirmed team news - London Evening Standard

  02-12-2025 15:21 via news.google.com
  Man City XI vs Fulham: Predicted lineup and confirmed team news  London Evening StandardPremier League predictions and best bets: Pep Guardiola under pressure? Man City to slip up at Fulham  Sky SportsFulham v Man City: Key stats and talking points  BBCFootball Bet Of The Day: Joe Casey has an 11-5 selection from the Premier League  Racing PostPre-Man City Press Conference  Fulham FC
  
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• The slow death of Pokrovsk

  02-12-2025 15:17
  An 18-month battle, now in its endgame, has left the strategically important Ukrainian city in ruinsRussia-Ukraine war – latest news updatesFor a time Pokrovsk was a haven, a wartime Ukrainian boom city because of its strategic position in the east, 30 miles (48km) from the front. But that was before the summer of 2024, when a rapid Russian advance engulfed the industrial centre in a shattering conflict, a duel only now reaching its endgame.The 18-month battle for Pokrovsk epitomises the c
  
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• Post Office issues warning to anyone sending parcels in December

  02-12-2025 15:15 via express.co.uk
  Households sending parcels for Christmas have been issued an urgent message.
  
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• Twelve police officers would have faced gross misconduct cases over Hillsborough, report says - BBC

  02-12-2025 15:11 via news.google.com
  Twelve police officers would have faced gross misconduct cases over Hillsborough, report says  BBCView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• A fallen sculpture and a desert storm: photos of the day – Tuesday

  02-12-2025 14:57
  The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world Continue reading...
  
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• UK and Europe’s hidden landfills at risk of leaking toxic waste into water supplies - The Guardian

  02-12-2025 14:56 via news.google.com
  UK and Europe’s hidden landfills at risk of leaking toxic waste into water supplies  The GuardianHundreds of old landfills left in limbo despite risk of leaking toxic waste into waterways  The JournalPotential leaks from thousands of landfills threaten Europe’s water and wildlife | ITV News  ITVX‘I kept smelling a horrible nasty smell’: the risks of England’s old dumping grounds  The GuardianEurope’s toxic landfill crisi
  
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• Employees urged to ask boss 3 things after Rachel Reeves horror Budget

  02-12-2025 14:23 via express.co.uk
  The Chancellor's measures will harm the prospects of the UK's workforce, an expert has suggested.
  
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• New Hillsborough probe's findings as police force speaks of 'deep regret and shame'

  02-12-2025 14:20 via express.co.uk
  Twelve officers have been identified as having a case to answer for gross misconduct in a report into the Hillsborough disaster and its aftermath.
  
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• Mohamed Salah's AFCON departure date revealed as Liverpool boss Arne Slot admits forward 'not happy' with sub role - Sky Sports

  02-12-2025 14:18 via news.google.com
  Mohamed Salah's AFCON departure date revealed as Liverpool boss Arne Slot admits forward 'not happy' with sub role  Sky SportsSalah a top professional after being dropped - Slot  BBCMohamed Salah was unhappy at being dropped, admits Arne Slot  The TelegraphLiverpool changes provide blueprint for AFCON and life after Mo Salah  This Is AnfieldArne Slot confirms Mohamed Salah's AFCON release date  Liverpool FC
  
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• Massive bins update for Birmingham as council unveils masterplan for fortnightly collections - Birmingham Live

  02-12-2025 14:14 via news.google.com
  Massive bins update for Birmingham as council unveils masterplan for fortnightly collections  Birmingham LiveBin collections resume after agency staff picket  BBCBirmingham bin workers receive full pay despite time off during strikes  The TelegraphAgency staff covering for striking bin workers vote to go on strike  Sky NewsFresh Birmingham agency bin worker bullying revealed as staff publicly ranked by driving mistakes at work  Unite the Union
  
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• William Saliba, Leandro Trossard and Gabriel - Arsenal injury news and return dates vs Brentford - Football London

  02-12-2025 13:54 via news.google.com
  William Saliba, Leandro Trossard and Gabriel - Arsenal injury news and return dates vs Brentford  Football LondonArteta's update on Saliba, Trossard and Havertz | Press conference | News  Arsenal.comHavertz, Saliba, Trossard – Arteta issues fitness update ahead of Brentford clash  Arseblog NewsArteta reveals Saliba injury latest in three-man Arsenal update  London Evening StandardSaliba, Gabriel, Trossard – Arsenal injury latest and return date
  
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• School closed after death of teenage girl in minibus crash | ITV News - ITVX

  02-12-2025 13:52 via news.google.com
  School closed after death of teenage girl in minibus crash | ITV News  ITVXGirl's death in minibus crash 'truly devastating'  BBCTeenage girl dies after minibus crash in North Yorkshire  The GuardianTadcaster: Appeal for witnesses and dashcam footage following tragic fatal collision  North Yorkshire PoliceTeenage girl dies in minibus crash  The Telegraph
  
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• Jury trials scrapped for crimes with sentences of less than three years - BBC

  02-12-2025 13:48 via news.google.com
  Jury trials scrapped for crimes with sentences of less than three years  BBCDeputy PM David Lammy set to announce jury trial reforms  BBCDeputy Prime Minister to Announce 'Swift and Fair Justice'  GOV.UKHalf of jury trials in England and Wales set to be heard by judge or magistrates instead  Financial TimesJury trials to be scrapped for cases where sentences are likely to be less than three years, says Lammy – UK politics live  The Guardian
  
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• UK snack brand Graze to be sold to Jamie Laing's Candy Kittens - BBC

  02-12-2025 13:37 via news.google.com
  UK snack brand Graze to be sold to Jamie Laing's Candy Kittens  BBCJamie Laing's Candy Kittens to acquire UK snack brand Graze  BBCUnilever sells Graze to Katjes International  UnileverUnilever sells Graze to Made in Chelsea star Jamie Laing’s Candy Kittens  The TimesCandy Kittens: ‘We want to be the Unilever of challenger brands’  City AM
  
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• ‘The biggest decision yet’: Jared Kaplan on allowing AI to train itself

  02-12-2025 13:37
  Anthropic’s chief scientist says AI autonomy could spark a beneficial ‘intelligence explosion’ – or be the moment humans lose controlHumanity will have to decide by 2030 whether to take the “ultimate risk” of letting artificial intelligence systems train themselves to become more powerful, one of the world’s leading AI scientists has said.Jared Kaplan, the chief scientist and co-owner of the $180bn (£135bn) US startup Anthropic, said a choice was l
  
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• Reeves speech did not mislead on challenges facing UK ahead of Budget, says OBR official - BBC

  02-12-2025 13:33 via news.google.com
  Reeves speech did not mislead on challenges facing UK ahead of Budget, says OBR official  BBCView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Reeves did not mislead on challenges facing UK ahead of Budget, says OBR official - BBC

  02-12-2025 13:33 via news.google.com
  Reeves did not mislead on challenges facing UK ahead of Budget, says OBR official  BBCView Full coverage on Google News
  
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