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Former cabinet minister and Labour Party deputy leader Lord Tom Watson has become a senior vice president at US tech firm Palantir.Announcing his appointment on X, Lord Watson said Palantir was “the most interesting company on the planet, doing work of real consequence”.He said the company had “challenges” and that while some criticism was “propaganda” there were “legitimate questions about large technology companies and sovereign control”.Green MP Sian Berry said: “This is yet another example of the corrosive revolving door between politics and big business lobbying that has no place in public life.” She added: “Palantir, with its work for…

Artificial intelligence (AI) has stirred up more controversy than most things in the past five years. Ever since the introduction of accessible generative AI in 2022, institutions, universities, students, scholars, activists, cognitive specialists, public policymakers and members of the public have all been divided over the ethics of its use. As of the beginning of this month, even the founders of AI companies have taken the same stance. Dario Amodei, chief executive of Anthropic, released an essay calling on AI companies to slow the development of their most advanced models, as the safeguards currently in place are unable to keep…

Pam Brown from Durham was an NHS patient who underwent a mastectomy in 2022 at Spire Hospital in Washington, where one of the outsourced private clinics was based. As with Denise and Jo, Pam does not know who carried out her operation. Bhatti was the consultant overseeing the care of all three women.As far as Pam knows, her mastectomy was necessary. But the scars left behind – both physical and psychological – have deeply affected her.We have shown photographs of Pam’s scarring to Liz O’Riordan, a former breast cancer surgeon. She describes them as “awful” and says she has never…

A ninth woman has been found dead in South Africa’s Ekurhuleni municipality in about two months, intensifying concerns over violence against women and prompting renewed scrutiny of the government’s response to the country’s femicide crisis.The latest victim was found on Thursday morning in Dawn Park, a residential area of Boksburg, east of Johannesburg. The woman is believed to be in her thirties and was found half-naked and wrapped in a sheet. Police are investigating the deaths but have not established that all nine cases are connected.“We are still investigating whether we are dealing with one perpetrator or a group of…

The UK Youth Parliament is at risk of being axed within months, BBC News has learned, as the government is not committing to funding it any longer.The parliament was launched in 2000 to boost interest in politics among young people and has more than 300 elected members aged between 11 and 18.Once a year, the young politicians are allowed to hold debates in the House of Commons chamber, on a day when MPs are not sitting.Some MPs and young people say axing it would be a blow for youth democracy, while others say it is not providing value for money.The…

Three people have been killed in a shooting at a high school in Banga in the southern Philippines, and eight injured. Two of the victims were 14-year-old students, Banga mayor Albert Palencia told the BBC. The gunman, 16, is among the dead, he said, while four of those injured are in a critical condition. The incident happened on Friday afternoon at Banga National High School in South Cotabato, in Mindanao province.The Department of Education said in a statement that it was “deeply concerned by the reported shooting incident”.This is the third deadly school shooting in the Philippines since June this…

This “crisis of disbelief”, as Michta put it, is not evenly spread. The further east you go, the closer you get to the Russian border, the more alert a nation’s people are to the threat, and the more psychologically prepared.Sweden hasn’t had a war in 200 years. It has pursued a policy of neutrality for centuries. But after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, it abandoned that and has made itself, in a very short space of time, one of the most psychologically prepared countries in Europe.”Russia is self-evidently dangerous”, Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Christersson told The Economist magazine…

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Over the past 18 months, tens of millions of Russians have been forced to install a new app on their phones – a violet-blue button designed for messaging and payments, called Max.Authorities have touted it as a patriotic alternative to Telegram and WhatsApp; Russian glitterati have promoted it in rap videos and comic routines. This summer, it became the country’s most-used messaging app.It is a product of VKontakte, the Russian social media company, which is deeply entangled with the Russian state. The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, reportedly owns an indirect stake in Max.Max is Russia’s version of a “super-app,” combining…

The chancellor is to warn the European Union (EU) not to lock the UK out of its scheme to protect industries from unfair Chinese competition.John Healey will push for closer UK-EU partnerships on tech, defence, and manufacturing at a meeting of EU finance ministers in Dublin on Friday.But he will call on the EU to design its “Made in Europe” programme in a way that deepens ties with the UK “rather than erecting new barriers”, Treasury sources told the BBC.Officials said Healey will tell European finance ministers it is important to “learn lessons” after talks collapsed last year for Britain…