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“I can give it tasks and just walk away.”“It captures details I would have otherwise forgotten.”“There’s so much low-hanging fruit.”“The important thing is to maintain a reserve of skepticism.” A burst of experimentation followed ChatGPT’s release to the public in late 2022. Now many people are integrating the newest models and custom systems into what they do all day: their work.Chefs are using A.I. to invent recipes; doctors are using it to read M.R.I. and CT scans; scientists are unlocking discoveries. It’s helping workers with their day-to-day tasks: writing code, summarizing emails, creating ideas, generating curricula — even as it…

Israel is running two Gaza campaigns: one for military control of the strip; another for narrative control of how the world understands what happens there.In theory, Palestinian journalists and social media influencers documenting starvation, mass killing and other Israeli war crimes in Gaza are protected civilians under international law.But those paper protections have meant little on the ground in Gaza, by far the most dangerous place in the world to be a reporter, where more than 180 Palestinian journalists were killed in 22 months of war, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.Even though it is illegal to target journalists,…

EasyJet has suspended one of its captains after he was reportedly seen roaming a luxury hotel drunk and naked.The unnamed pilot was witnessed walking through common areas of a five-star resort in Cape Verde without any clothes on in the early hours of the morning on 5 August, after an extended drinking session in a bar, according to the Sun.He was due to operate a return flight to Gatwick more than 36 hours later, but was grounded after the budget airline received complaints about the incident and a replacement pilot found.An EasyJet spokesman told the BBC the pilot now faces…

Imagine running a business for over a century without knowing what’s in your warehouse. That’s essentially what many African countries are doing with their mineral wealth. Governments across the continent still have very little knowledge of what lies beneath their soil. Between the 18th and 20th centuries, European colonial powers exploited African mineral wealth for their industrialisation. Post-independence, many African nations nationalised their mining sectors. International pressure led to privatisation in the 1980s. This weakened the motivation and capacity of governments to develop long-term strategies. They have more incentive to export minerals for foreign exchange in the short term. As…

This is the moment that a man was reunited with the match steward who saved his life after he suffered a cardiac arrest at a football match.David Ince, 67, from Haverhill in Suffolk, had heart problems during the Cambridge United v Rotherham United match in October.Play stopped while steward Paul Harrison administered cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and helped to save his life. The season ticket holder was taken to Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge where he recovered.In the video, Mr Ince returns to the Cledara Abbey Stadium and recalls events with Mr Harrison.”Without CPR, I wouldn’t be here today,” said Mr Ince.This…

Barcelona’s domination of Real Madrid last season resulted in Los Blancos bringing an end to Carlo Ancelotti’s second tenure – even though he had delivered a league and European double a year previous.Rumours rumbled for most of the season, after a low-key start at home and abroad, that former Real midfielder Xabi Alonso would be making the switch from Bayer Leverkusen to replace Ancelotti.With their La Liga and UEFA Champions League defence over, the Madrid-based club wasted little time in announcing Alonso, conveniently at a time when Brazil cranked up their interest in Ancelotti.All seemed well for a dignified departure…

Ana FaguyBBC News, Washington DCWatch: Trump announces deployment of National Guard to Washington DCPresident Donald Trump said he was deploying the National Guard to Washington DC and taking control of the city’s police force as he pledged to crack down on crime and homelessness in the city.Trump declared a “public safety emergency” on Monday, deploying 800 National Guard troops who will bolster hundreds of federal law enforcement officers who were deployed over the weekend.”It’s becoming a situation of complete and total lawlessness,” he told reporters at the White House. The city’s Mayor Muriel Bowser has rejected the president’s claims about…

Jon Lee Anderson is “not done with Afghanistan”, despite having reported on it for more than 40 years, through invasions, occupations, the rise and fall of the Taliban and two great power retreats.“I always want to go back,” said the New Yorker staff writer. “It gets into your skin. Afghanistan is an incredible place, an incredible society. It’s always like time travel to me, and I knew people there that are larger than life. They stay with you … I may return shortly.”Now 68, Anderson reported from Afghanistan in the 1980s, as Soviet forces lost a 10-year war, and returned…

Latest scorecard from the first Twenty20 international between Australia and South Africa in Darwin.

OpenAI’s GPT-5 model was meant to be a world-changing upgrade to its wildly popular and precocious chatbot. But for some users, last Thursday’s release felt more like a wrenching downgrade, with the new ChatGPT presenting a diluted personality and making surprisingly dumb mistakes.On Friday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took to X to say the company would keep the previous model, GPT-4o, running for Plus users. A new feature designed to seamlessly switch between models depending on the complexity of the query had broken on Thursday, Altman said, “and the result was GPT-5 seemed way dumber.” He promised to implement fixes…