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TikTok creator Sydney Towle, who shared cancer journey, dies aged 26
The creator documented her battle with rare bile duct cancer, inspiring more than a million followers online
Sydney Towle, a TikTok creator who shared her battle with stage 4 cholangiocarcinoma, or bile duct cancer, with over a million online followers, has died at age 26, her family announced on Thursday.
Towle gained fame for her posts about her life as a spirited young woman who encouraged her TikTok followers to rethink how a cancer patient might look and live.
Continue reading...The American left is making strides. But can they win in November? | Ben Davis
The left is increasingly winning within the Democratic party. But it still needs to prove that it can build general-election coalitions capable of beating Republicans
The ideological struggle within the Democratic party continued on Tuesday night with primaries in Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Virginia and Washington. The results showed an increasingly intense conflict within the party, with high Democratic primary turnout and bruising ideological battles up and down the ballot.
The Democratic electorate is shifting, becoming more progressive and more willing to challenge party leadership, but not as quickly or uniformly as many assumed.
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Norfolk police arrest two men after officers injured during unrest over asylum plans
Homes of people believed to be asylum seekers attacked during two nights of violence in Thetford
Two men have been arrested after police were injured as they intervened to protect men believed to be asylum seekers from angry mobs trying to break into their homes.
The arrests followed two nights of unrest in Thetford, Norfolk, involving more than 100 people protesting against plans to house asylum seekers in former military barracks near the market town.
Continue reading...Covent Garden victims stabbed in the back with pair of scissors, court hears
Stella Gollovena, 47, has been charged with four counts of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm
A woman has appeared in court accused of stabbing four men in the back with a pair of scissors in one of London’s busiest tourist districts.
Stella Gollovena, 47, is accused of attacking Patrick De Barr, Thomas Harding, Adrian Lovett and Mantas Jankus during the attack in Covent Garden on Wednesday lunchtime.
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Le Court wins stage six of Tour after mechanical failure
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TikTok creator Sydney Towle, who shared cancer journey, dies aged 26
The creator documented her battle with rare bile duct cancer, inspiring more than a million followers online
Sydney Towle, a TikTok creator who shared her battle with stage 4 cholangiocarcinoma, or bile duct cancer, with over a million online followers, has died at age 26, her family announced on Thursday.
Towle gained fame for her posts about her life as a spirited young woman who encouraged her TikTok followers to rethink how a cancer patient might look and live.
Continue reading...Senate eyes deal to leave for recess as agenda items pile up
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TikTok star Sydney Towle, who shared her cancer journey online, dies aged 26
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Tour de France Femmes: Reusser stays ahead as Le Court savours stage win
Mauritian rider outsprints Kerbaol and Pieterse
‘Winning a stage in a Tour de France is very special’
Marlen Reusser retained the overall lead in the Tour de France Femmes from rival Demi Vollering after another broiling stage through central France saw Kim Le Court take the second Tour stage win of her career in Tournon-sur-Rhone.
The Mauritian rider Le Court recovered from a mechanical problem earlier in the stage on the climb of the Col de Lalouvesc to join the day’s breakaway group and outsprint Cédrine Kerbaol of France, and Queen of the Mountains classification leader, Puck Pieterse.
Continue reading...Inside Google DeepMind's Reshuffle After CEO Demis Hassabis Steps Aside
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Demis Hassabis, the founder and CEO of Google’s artificial intelligence division DeepMind, is stepping aside to a more advisory role, Google announced on Wednesday. Hassabis will become DeepMind’s chair, and take a new role as chief scientist at Google parent Alphabet.
The move comes alongside a broader restructuring of Google DeepMind, according to multiple people familiar with the changes, as Google attempts to catch up to industry leaders OpenAI and Anthropic.
In a note to staff, Hassabis said he believed that artificial general intelligence (AGI) is “close at hand” and said he had decided to switch roles “so that I have the time and space to focus on the big picture and help influence what is to come to the best of my ability.”
Although the news shocked the AI industry, some DeepMind employees suggested it made sense. Hassabis had spent less time on Gemini, Google’s struggling frontier AI model, in recent months, according to two people with knowledge of his focus, and was spending more time on questions of safety and what the arrival of AGI would mean for society.
Other changes are accompanying his move. Lila Ibrahim, DeepMind’s Chief AI Readiness Officer, will now report to James Manyika, a senior Google executive, according to four people with knowledge of the personnel changes. Some of the teams that previously reported to her, including some safety teams, will now report to Kent Walker, Google’s president of global affairs, one of these people said, though two others warned that no decision has yet been finalized.
One DeepMind employee told TIME they were worried that if teams focused on safety, responsibility and ethics were moved from DeepMind into Google, they may lose their influence.
"To be clear, in terms of frontier AI safety, this transition changes absolutely nothing," a Google spokesperson said in a statement to TIME.
Comms, legal and marketing teams from DeepMind will merge with those within Google, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. Shane Legg, a DeepMind cofounder and its chief AGI scientist, will continue reporting to Hassabis, along with a wider team, according to the same person.
Hassabis’ departure comes at a time when Gemini has faced repeated delays, and fallen behind models from OpenAI and Anthropic at the frontier. Google is also losing top talent at a rapid pace. On Wednesday its longtime chief scientist Jeff Dean announced he was leaving with several colleagues to launch a startup. John Jumper, a scientist who shared a Nobel Prize with Hassabis for AI protein structure prediction, left DeepMind earlier this year to join Anthropic, among other high-profile departures.
Koray Kavukcuoglu, DeepMind’s chief technology officer, will replace Hassabis at the helm of DeepMind, though in a senior vice president position rather than as CEO, Google boss Sundar Pichai wrote in a memo on Wednesday.
Kavukcuoglu had been taking responsibility for the development of Gemini long before Wednesday’s news. In company briefings, Kavukcuoglu would lead Gemini discussions, and Hassabis had been absent from many day-to-day meetings about Gemini, attending only for the most significant ones, one DeepMind employee tells TIME. Meanwhile, Hassabis was regularly present for meetings about post-AGI readiness, safety, and AI governance, the person said, and was spending more of his time working with governments, including attending the recent G7 summit.
"Koray’s philosophy has always been clear: advancing the frontier of AI and building it responsibly are the exact same mission," a Google spokesperson said in a statement. "Frontier model safety has lived directly within the Gemini team from the very beginning, under Koray’s leadership. His teams collaborate closely with the safety and policy teams across Google and Google DeepMind, and that will continue."
Semafor earlier reported that Hassabis had been shifting day-to-day responsibility for Gemini and Google’s consumer AI strategy to Kavukcuoglu for at least a year. Hassabis was not pushed to change roles, the outlet reported, but had struggled to gain satisfaction from a role more focused on business than his main passion, science.
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The Guardian view on Italy’s new far-right party: the rise of a rogue general | Editorial
The early success of Roberto Vannacci’s National Future sends an ominous signal as extreme politics become normalised
When a serving Italian general published a far-right tract in 2023 entitled The World Turned Upside Down, a disciplinary inquiry swiftly followed. Roberto Vannacci’s text was a sustained exercise in bile and bigotry, attacking among other things the “normalisation” of homosexuality, and questioning whether a high-profile black volleyball star could really be considered Italian. The controversy sent the book into the bestseller charts, and its author was suspended for bringing the army into disrepute.
A year out from Italy’s next general election, Mr Vannacci is a problem not for the military but for the country’s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni. Now a member of the European parliament, in February he exploited his notoriety to found National Future, a political party which argues that Ms Meloni’s coalition government has sold out its far-right supporters through not being extreme enough. The “true right”, according to the former paratrooper – who once served as a military attache in Moscow – should be pro-Putin and anti-Ukraine, anti-EU, and committed to restoring the “cultural homogeneity” of Italy through the expulsion of immigrants and their descendants.
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