Sympathy Tower Tokyo attracted controversy for being partly written using AI. Does its author think the technology could write a better novel than a human? “I don’t feel particularly unhappy about my work being used to train AI,” says Japanese novelist Rie Qudan. “Even if it is copied, I feel […]
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If you’re hoping The Princess Diaries will be the kind of show her mother would make, think again. This reality show about being an influencer is at times dull, and at others, deeply sad There is something slightly sweet about the new ITV2 show The Princess Diaries. It is a […]
Brothers Bruce and Scott hadn’t spoken for 15 years when finally one made the call that would reunite them. How do people recover from decades-long rifts? “What happened?” Scott, 82, asked Bruce, 78, when his younger brother picked up the phone and called him after a 15-year estrangement. “I grew […]
They helped create the modern world but are dangerously overused. How can we harness them sustainably? In 1954, just a few years after the widespread introduction of antibiotics, doctors were already aware of the problem of resistance. Natural selection meant that using these new medicines gave an advantage to the […]
Trump’s summit failed to achieve a ceasefire, but the Russian president will be very happy with how events are unfolding Donald Trump portrays himself as a hard-nosed dealmaker. Yet in the run-up to Friday’s summit with Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska, his claim that the Russian leader held him in […]
Schools and parents tell of inexperienced and absent tutors, and slow refunds alongside repeated demands to pay for services never wanted or received In April 2024, Hannah, a teacher in a Kent primary school where she is in charge of music, thought she had successfully set up weekly drum lessons […]
As part of the hugely successful girlband, she had to contend with an eating disorder, racism and a hostile tabloid press. Now JADE the solo artist is conquering the charts with her unorthodox pop bangers and unfiltered attitude It’s customary for former girlband members to shun their manufactured roots the […]
They’re a supermarket freezer staple, but when the chips are down, whose are spuds you like and whose are potato no-nos? • The best air fryers, tried and tested for crisp and crunch I’m not sure I’ve ever bought a bag of oven chips. My mum bought them in the […]
Just-announced album already looks like it will make singer and partner Travis Kelce hysterically famous at a new level – and that may be precisely their plan Taylor Swift’s podcast interview with her American football player boyfriend, Travis Kelce, this week yielded plenty of tidbits for fans. Across two hours […]
Some people with AI partners expressed dismay at the new GPT-5 model You’ve met the love of your life, someone who understands you like no one else ever has. And then you wake one morning and they’re gone. Yanked out of your world, and the digital universe, by a system […]