Benefits

It’s 10 pm on a Wednesday night and I’m standing in Blessed, a south London takeaway joint, half-listening to a fellow customer talking earnestly about Jesus. I’m nodding along, trying to pay attention as reggae reverberates around the…

Turning to a friend or coworker can make tricky problems easier to tackle. Now it looks like having AI chatbots team up with each other can make them more effective.I’ve been playing this week with AutoGen, an open source software framework…

One of the new ad formats Google announced today will allow brands to link short-form videos they made—or ones they hired creators to film—to their advertisements in Google’s search engine. AI-generated text summaries of the clips will be…

Keir Starmer promised Brits that a better future lies ahead as he set out his first steps to rebuild the country after 14 years of Tory rule. The Labour leader admitted there would be “no quick fixes” but said he was offering a “down…

Keir Starmer has rejected Gordon Brown's plea to scrap the two-child benefit limit. Speaking at a Q&A after a speech in Essex, the Labour leader said he could not commit to scrapping the Tory policy despite people in his own party…

Gordon Brown has called for the controversial two-child benefit limit to be axed as he demanded an urgent review of austerity-era policies. The ex-Labour PM also challenged the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt to announce a multi-billion pound…

Today OpenAI announced GPT-4o, a new AI model that will be available to free and paid users alike. Among its many upgrades—faster response times, enhanced memory capabilities, better parsing of images—is a conversational voice that tries…

Would it be too disruptive if protests staged sit-ins or chained themselves to the doors of AI developers, one member of the Discord asked. “Probably not. We do what we have to, in the end, for a future with humanity, while we still…

A pensioner was forced into £3,000 debt after the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) cut his Universal Credit payment to just £1.88 a month.Daniel Walsh, 74, who had a joint Universal Credit claim with his wife Esperanza, 48, told the…

At the same time, I understood almost immediately why Haskell was—and still is—considered a language more admired than used. Even one of its most basic concepts, that of the “monad,” has spawned a cottage industry of explainers, analogies,…