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Every now and then, researchers at the biggest tech companies drop a bombshell. There was the time Google said its latest quantum chip indicated multiple universes exist. Or when Anthropic gave its AI agent Claudius a snack vending machine to run and it went amok, calling security on people and insisting it was human.   This week, it was OpenAI’s turn to raise our collective eyebrows. OpenAI released on Monday some research that explained how it’s stopping AI models from “scheming.” It’s a practice in which an “AI behaves one way on the surface while hiding its true goals,” OpenAI defined…

Given how few first-person videogames make a successful transition to the big screen, it’s surprising how easy Genki Kawamura‘s “Exit 8” makes it look. But perhaps the key to not losing much in translation is not having much to lose in the first place. The concept of popular walking game “The Exit 8,” from developers Kotake Create, is so spartan as to be practically monastic. You are lost in a labyrinthine, overlit, Japanese metro tunnel, and the only way to find your way out of its Escher-like infinity-loop construction is to spot its “anomalies” — tiny, deliberate deviations from the previously…

A selection of the week’s best photos from across the African continent and beyond:OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT / AFP / GETTY IMAGESOn Saturday in Lagos, Nigeria, 23-year-old gaming fan Toni Olaguniu dresses up as Mother Miranda from the Resident Evil at Comic Con….OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT / AFP / GETTY IMAGESAlso at the event is 24-year-old Toby Adekunle, in character as Ekko from the League of Legends video game…EMMANUEL ADEGBOYE / EPAComic Con brings together super-fans of comic books, animation, films, gaming and more in various cities around the world each year.APTNTERESA SUAREZ / EPAThe nest day in Paris, France, these women…

Nat WrightHealth ProducerGetty ImagesThe Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) stands accused of failing victims and compounding their trauma.Sanctions for doctors guilty of sexual misconduct in the UK are too lenient in around a quarter of cases, a review suggests.The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) stands accused of failing victims and compounding their trauma. The criticism is based on the outcomes of 46 cases with offences including harassment, rape, and assaults of patients, colleagues and children. Some medics were handed suspensions instead of following General Medical Council advice to strike them off the medical register. The MPTS says it recognises the…

Suranjana TewariAsia Business Correspondent andOsmond ChiaBusiness reporterGetty ImagesA much-awaited deal over TikTok may be close, with US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping set to discuss terms on Friday. Top officials from both sides struck a “framework” agreement this week, which reports suggest could see TikTok’s US operations sold to a group of American firms. If the deal goes through, it would be what one expert called a “rare breakthrough” in US-China trade negotiations – and one which settles an issue that has made headlines for years.Experts have been telling the BBC what a final deal might…

Maiduguri, Nigeria – Four months after authorities evacuated 22,000 people and dismantled its water supply, the Muna displaced persons camp in Maiduguri is a shell of what it once was. But Maryam Suleiman, a 50-year-old widow, has refused to leave.Suleiman and her 12 children still sleep beneath leaking roofs of the camp in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno State, even as the structures crumble around them.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list“They gave us options to stay or return home,” the mother tells Al Jazeera, standing in what remains of the site that housed her family for a decade. “But they’re…

Donald Trump has claimed his administration has reached a deal with China to keep TikTok operating in the US, amid uncertainty over what shape the final agreement will take, with suggestions from the Chinese side that Beijing would retain control of the algorithm that powers the site’s video feed.“We have a deal on TikTok … We have a group of very big companies that want to buy it,” Trump said on Tuesday, without providing further details.The deal, which was negotiated in Madrid between US treasury secretary Scott Bessent and Chinese vice premier He Lifeng, reportedly see the social media platform…

The UK government borrowed more than expected last month, official figures show, adding to pressure on the Treasury in the run-up to the autumn budget.Figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed public sector net borrowing – the difference between public spending and income – rose to £18bn in August, £3.5bn more than in the same month a year earlier.The reading was above City predictions for a deficit of £12.75bn and forecasts from the Office for Budget Responsibility of £12.5bn.The chancellor, Rachel Reeves, is widely expected to present a package of tax rises in her 26 November budget to…

“What was Kanye West thinking?” has remained a prevailing question since the Grammy award-winning rapper-producer pulled the rip cord on his spectacular descent into rightwing nihilism more than a decade ago. In Whose Name?, a cinéma vérité take on the tortured musical genius (who goes by just Ye now), offers fans and long-term observers a new artifact to pore over in search of answers – and reason to be disappointed all over again.That’s not a knock on the 104-minute opus, an outcropping of more than 3,000 hours of footage – some of it never before seen, some of it a…

245 West African Container Terminal, a subsidiary of APM Terminals Nigeria, has renovated and handed over a 10-room Teachers’ Quarters to its host community of Ogu in Ogu/Bolo Local Government Area of Rivers State. The renovated facility, which was officially commissioned and handed over on Wednesday, is part of the company’s ongoing commitment to support education and community development in the Niger Delta region. According to a statement released by the terminal operator, the project is a continuation of its long-standing social responsibility programme in Rivers State. The company explained that the Teachers’ Quarters was originally built in 2012 as…