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I worked at OpenAI. Here’s how tech companies can prepare for a slowdown | Miles Brundage

By Miles Brundage

I understand the pressure on AI companies to rush forward. But employees are right to be concerned Last month, more than a thousand employees at frontier AI companies signed a letter asking the US government to find a way to “pace” AI development, citing the risk of the technology spiraling out of human control as it begins to build itself. They were right to be concerned: just days earlier, two AI models that OpenAI

Can’t beat them? Eat them! Ten of the tastiest garden weeds

By Jack Wallington

Edible weeds grow in abundance in our gardens, streets and parks. With a little know-how, you can harvest delicious, nutritious, free greens Did you know that free food grows in our gardens, streets and parks without being planted by us? Not only does this food hide in plain sight, we’re encouraged to remove it from our gardens and throw it away. I’m talking about edible weeds, otherwise known as wildflowers. You may

Strangers in their own land: Mexicans deported from Trump’s America find refuge in ‘Little LA’

By Oscar Lopez in Mexico City

With plentiful jobs and community support, one Mexico City neighbourhood has become a haven for those who have lived much of their lives in the US With its wide avenues lined with tall palm trees, its quaint cafes and old-school cantinas, as well as the mix of English and Spanish spoken on the street, the Tabacalera neighborhood in downtown Mexico City has a certain US feel – so much so that it is has become known as

Proposed London datacentre will have annual carbon footprint of 27,000 flights to New York

By Matthew Pearce

Exclusive: Planning documents show datacentre in North Ockendon would be incompatible with UK net zero targets A “hyperscale” datacentre in outer London would generate more than 1m tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, equivalent to the carbon footprint of 27,000 flights from London to New York, planning documents show. The East Havering Data Centre Campus (EHDCC) in North Ockendon would be one of the largest datacentres

Marc Dubin obituary

By Jack Holland

My friend Marc Dubin, who has died aged 70, was one of the leading English-language travel writers on Greece, Turkey and the eastern Mediterranean. For more than four decades he wrote and edited guidebooks for Rough Guides, Insight Guides, Berlitz, DK Eyewitness and Lonely Planet, combining meticulous scholarship with an infectious enthusiasm for the places he loved. In the late 1970s, Marc left his home in Californi

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Church services

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Week beginning Saturday, August 22nd, 2026

We would like to speak to people who have been homeless in England about what helped them off the streets

By Guardian community team

Was it a government initiative or help from a charity? Or perhaps the support of friends and/or family? Andy Burnham has called on local leaders to offer all rough sleepers in England a route off the streets by Christmas, as he pledges another £100m to end street homelessness. The prime minister has promised he will mount a Covid-style campaign to get everyone off the streets this winter, arguing that rough sleeping

Flash-floods damage homes and businesses

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'My whole living room was full of dirty water' says one resident, after heavy rain triggered floods.

'Dangerous predator' secretly filmed children

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Richard Pooley was found with more than 87,000 indecent images of children, a court hears.

What if hustle culture had existed in the grunge era … the Stephen Collins cartoon

By Stephen Collins

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Leaving Cert points calculator: How many CAO points are your results worth?

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First round college offers will be out on August 30th

'Tough day for Carlow and wider area', says bishop

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The Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin has said that today is a "very tough day for Carlow and the wider area".

Academic who accused Jason Arday of plagiarism suspended by Belgian university

By Chris Osuh, agencies

Nathan Cofnas says Ghent University will ‘almost certainly fire me’

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Buddhist monk attacked by masked e-bike rider

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The monk says he was punched and kick in the latest attack on him in Hebburn's Riverside Park.

Late Late Toy Show kicks off search for this year's stars

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The Late Late Toy Show team has started the search to find the next generation of youngsters to feature on this year's show.

Ebola outbreak: five big questions

By Kat Lay, Global health correspondent

On 23 August, it will be 100 days since the Bundibugyo strain was first reported. How did it became the DRC’s most deadly outbreak and what must be done to stop it becoming the world’s largest? Almost 100 days ago, Africa’s public health watchdog reported an outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. There have now been almost 5,000 cases and more than 2,000 deaths since 15 May, making this Ebola outb

Appeal, wait, go abroad, repeat: what can you do if you don’t get your first CAO choice?

By Peter McGuire

Students from the class of 2026 have more options than ever

You have your Leaving Cert results. Now what?

By Brian Mooney

Stay calm and ensure you are clear on how to interpret your grades as they relate to your college requirements

Culture Night Dublin’s literary highlights

By Martin Doyle

Books newsletter: tomorrow’s pages; Slow Horses; Paul Howard live; Jamie O’Connell memoir; Kevin Gildeas Brilliant Bookshop; Samuel Beckett’s Stirrings Still; Bobby Sands play; Elizabeth Wassell Montague; Project Children: The Legacy

‘She had this divine calling’: the incredible and transporting art of Minnie Evans

By Veronica Esposito

Just over 50 years after she was one of the first Black artists to have a solo show at the Whitney, the museum gathers some of her most remarkable paintings for a new exhibition Surprisingly, the term “outsider art” was coined fairly recently – in 1972, when the art historian Roger Cardinal made it the title of the book with which he introduced the idea to the English-speaking world. Since then, debates have raged as

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Alice Roberts: ‘By the time I’d finished Richard Dawkins I’d left faith behind’

By Alice Roberts

The TV presenter and author on the evolutionary biologists who inspired her, the genius of George Eliot – and fun with Frog and Toad My earliest reading memory The first books I remember were from The Village with Three Corners series Sheila K McCullagh. I loved the – literally – colourful characters, like Johnny Yellow Hat. I was reading with my Grandma, in her garden perhaps, sitting on a small patio, surrounded by

Women’s football shouldn’t have to copy a men’s game that isn’t working – just look at Ted Lasso | Karen Dobres

By Karen Dobres

The rapid professionalisation of woman’s football has brought money and status. But copying the structures and culture of the male game risks undermining what made it distinct Karen Dobres is the author of Pitch Invasion: My Story as a Woman on a Football Club Board The fourth season of the critically acclaimed football drama Ted Lasso has taken a surprising twist. The show’s writers have decided to have their hero c

From Showtime to Insurance Time: how the LA Lakers became a $12.5bn hedge fund play

By Aaron Timms

Bob Iger and Josh Kushner’s $12.5bn bid to buy the Lakers shows that NBA teams are no longer family dynasties, but quick flips for private equity sharks For years, the NBA was built on the alliance of patient money and marketing pizzazz, and no team captured that curious mixture better than the Los Angeles Lakers. Through Showtime in the 1980s and the dominance of the Shaq-Kobe years, the Lakers became the benchmark

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See the Light: Tracey Emin and Steve McQueen illuminate Durham gallery’s revival

By Mark Brown North of England correspondent

Art of international significance planned for £17m redevelopment of museum whose closure sparked uproar Works by Tracey Emin, Steve McQueen and Olafur Eliasson have gone on display at a new contemporary art gallery and museum in north-east England which aims to show works of international significance. The Light is a £17m redevelopment of a museum in Durham that closed 10 years ago to local uproar. Continue reading..

Uefa and Concacaf discuss joint Nations League in latest challenge to Fifa

By Exclusive by Matt Hughes

Biennial tournament could launch as early as 2028 Confederations are seeking to oust Gianni Infantino Uefa and Concacaf have begun talks about setting up a combined Nations League tournament featuring all 96 European and North and Central American and Caribbean countries, in another direct challenge to Fifa. The Guardian has learned that having come together to push for Gianni Infantino’s removal in the light of the