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Getty ImagesThere are increasing reports of people suffering “AI psychosis”, Microsoft’s head of artificial intelligence (AI), Mustafa Suleyman, has warned.In a series of posts on X, he wrote that “seemingly conscious AI” – AI tools which give the appearance of being sentient – are keeping him “awake at night” and said they have societal impact even though the technology is not conscious in any human definition of the term.”There’s zero evidence of AI consciousness today. But if people just perceive it as conscious, they will believe that perception as reality,” he wrote.Related to this is the rise of a new…

Israel’s military and prime minister deny starvation in Gaza, but mounting famine-related deaths contradict this.

It’s almost time for a whole new generation of wizards and witches to be welcomed into Hogwarts. “Harry Potter,” the beloved fantasy book series from author J.K. Rowling that was turned into a blockbuster film franchise, is coming to HBO as a new TV series. Each of the seven books in the series, “Sorcerer’s Stone,” “Chamber of Secrets,” “Prisoner of Azkaban,” “Goblet of Fire,” “Order of the Phoenix,” “Half-Blood Prince” and “Deathly Hallows,” will each be adapted into one season of TV. In May, the trio of lead roles had finally been unveiled: Dominic McLaughlin will play the role of…

133 The ongoing recapitalisation of Nigeria’s insurance industry received a major push on Tuesday as the National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) pledged to work more closely together to strengthen reforms across the financial services sector. In a statement released by NAICOM, the Commissioner for Insurance, Mr Olusegun Omosehin, led a delegation on a courtesy visit to the Director-General of SEC, Mr Emomotimi Agama, at the Commission’s headquarters in Abuja. The visit followed NAICOM’s recent circular to insurance operators, where the regulator announced its readiness to collaborate with relevant government agencies including SEC, the Corporate…

Katy PrickettBBC News, CambridgeshireFamily handoutsAnne Martinez (left) and Karen Starling died the year after undergoing double lung transplants at the hospitalA hospital trust has paid a “six-figure settlement package” in the case of nine patients following an outbreak of a bacterial infection linked to its water supply.Three patients died and two of these cases were as a result of complications connected to the outbreak at Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, according to lawyers.Lung transplant patients Karen Starling, 54, of Ipswich, died in February 2020, and Anne Martinez, of Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, died in December 2020.Eilish Midlane, the hospital’s chief executive, said:…

Aug 19, 2025, 05:27 PM ETATLANTA — Rory McIlroy didn’t leave Augusta National as the Masters champion without one last purchase from the gift shop.He said there were 1,100 pin flags remaining in the Masters Shop.”And we took all 1,100,” McIlroy said Tuesday ahead of the Tour Championship, the end of a PGA Tour season that has been his most memorable to date all because of one Sunday in April.”It’s been a lot,” he said of the flags he has signed. “But I’ll never get sick of signing them. I’ve waited 17 years to sign that flag in the middle,…

If you are in Cologne this week, you will find the place overtaken by cheerful nerds, as Gamescom, the world’s biggest gaming event, descends upon the city once again. (I first went in 2009 – before that it used to be held in Leipzig, a city home to a famous absinthe bar; perhaps this is why my memories of it are somewhat hazy.) Over 300,000 people are expected to visit the Koelnmesse to play upcoming games and enjoy each other’s company, to the extent that it’s possible to enjoy anyone’s company in a giant crowded convention hall with woefully insufficient…

A lawyer for Jimmy Lai has argued that it is not wrong to support freedom of expression, as he began his final argument in the prominent Hong Kong democracy activist and newspaper founder’s landmark national security trial.The barrister Robert Pang is representing Lai in his fight against charges of colluding with foreign forces to endanger national security and conspiring with others to issue seditious publications. Lai, 77, faces up to life in prison if convicted under a national security law imposed by Beijing after anti-government protests in 2019.“It is not wrong to support freedom of expression. It is not wrong…

Uganda said it has not reached any agreement with the US to take in undocumented immigrants, contradicting reports that the east African country had struck a deal with the Trump administration to do so.Henry Oryem Okello, Uganda’s state minister for foreign affairs, told Reuters the country does not have the capability to take in immigrants. It comes as the US has deported migrants convicted of crimes in the US to non-native countries including South Sudan and Eswatini.“To the best of my knowledge we have not reached such an agreement. We do not have the facilities and infrastructure to accommodate such…

Connor Lewis, a pupil from Curro Hermanus, has built an app that calculates the exact wattage of solar panels needed to charge an electric vehicle. At EV Now’s EVs on Display showcase in Hermanus, a glossy lineup that included a Tesla and a Powerade-blue electric G-Wagon drew plenty of stares. But the most impressive piece of engineering came from a 17-year-old who, in two hours, built an app that could help South Africans figure out exactly how to power their electric cars through solar energy. The event itself was organised as an electric vehicle showcase – a chance for the…