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Meta is deleting Facebook and Instagram profiles of AI characters the company created over a year ago after users rediscovered some of the profiles and engaged them in conversations, screenshots of which went viral.

The company had first introduced these AI-powered profiles in September 2023 but killed off most of …

Tonight the Palace; tomorrow the planet. Whatever Luke Littler goes on to achieve in the fields of darts, celebrity or world peace, nothing will ever quite match the crystalline beauty of this moment. Champion of the world for the first time, the culmination and fulfilment of a dream that has …

Nigel Farage has hailed Elon Musk as a “hero” and said he was “very pleased he’s backing our party”, but he called reports that the tech mogul was preparing to donate $100m (£80m) to Reform UK “somewhat overexaggerated”.

Speaking at Reform’s East Midlands conference on Friday night, the party leader …

Keir Starmer has at last

managed a family holiday

A speech on Monday detailing what …

Thank you for addressing this existential threat to our world (

The Guardian view on arms control: essential to prevent the total devastation of nuclear war, 27 December

Prof Geoffrey Hinton, the “godfather of artificial intelligence”, states that he struggles to find examples of “more intelligent thing[s] being controlled by … less intelligent thing[s]”; the mother-baby relationship is the only example he can cite (

‘Godfather of AI’ shortens odds of the technology wiping out humanity …

Elon Musk has “politicised” the rape of young girls in the UK in an attempt to attack Keir Starmer, a former health worker who exposed a major paedophile ring has told the Guardian.

Sara Rowbotham, who gathered evidence that led to the imprisonment of nine men in Rochdale, said the …

As Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard stepped to the baseline for the start of his contest against Frances Tiafoe in the sleepy suburbs of Brisbane on Thursday afternoon, his very first shot of the match drew dramatic, startled gasps from the full Pat Rafter Arena crowd. Although Mpetshi Perricard usually does not …

The brief lull in the National Hunt season between the busy Christmas schedule and the start of the trials for the big spring festivals gives some of the sport’s older hands a chance to chase a valuable prize in the Unibet Veterans’ Series Handicap Chase Final at Sandown, and while …

Dungeness, on the Kent coast, has long championed pioneering architecture, welcoming the

distinctive black and yellow home