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A political lobbying firm secretly paying journalists for articles favourable to its clients is facing calls to reveal full details of the payments, after the practice was denounced as a dangerous “attack on democracy”. MPs, senior lobbyists and transparency campaigners all condemned the behaviour of CT Group, the firm co-founded by the campaign strategist Lynton […]

OpenAI has revealed that an autonomous AI agent powered by its technology went rogue during a test, accessed the open web and hacked a prominent startup by itself in an “unprecedented incident”. The company behind ChatGPT said the startup Hugging Face had detected and contained the agent – an AI tool designed to carry out […]

A “modern leather” table lamp, listed online at Walmart, shot up from $24.99 to $39. The price of an air fryer on a retail site called Newegg went from $84.99 to $149.99. An electric ice-cream maker was listed at just $17.99 at Amazon and Best Buy. Then it became unavailable at Best Buy, and more […]

Shabana Mahmood and Ed Miliband are walking along Downing Street and enter No 10 together. The past few weeks have been rife with speculation that one or the other will become chancellor. The wait to find out which will be appointed chancellor goes on. But reporting in recent days appear to suggest Mahmood to the […]

Key events 43 mins. Wales attempt to shrug off that horrendous start to the half via a lineout and towering kick into the Bok 22 from Edwards. Fassi makes a mess of it with a knock-on, which ends a penalty advantage from the lineout. The ball is sent to touch on the South Africa 5m […]

Key events Bogeys for both Robert MacIntyre and Alex Fitzpatrick at the last. The former the result of a skied iron from the tee, the latter a drive yanked over some fences down the left. They sign for 69 and 67 respectively, and will start Moving Day at -4. A diminuendo end, but they’re both […]

Sadiq Khan given seat in Lords, as Starmer creates 26 new peers days before he leaves No 10 Pippa Crerar Pippa Crerar is the Guardian’s political editor. Sadiq Khan has been given a peerage by Keir Starmer just days before the prime minister stands down, potentially opening the door to one of Labour’s most high […]

Blanche says he will ‘follow the law’ when pushed about federal agents at polling sites When asked by Klobuchar whether he would ensure that federal agents are not deployed to polling sites during the November midterm elections, Blanche simply said that he would “commit to following the law”. A reminder that the US constitution defers […]

Key events 29th over: India 161-4 (Washington 9, Axar 0) A good over from Jacks, one from it. Though India remain strong favourites, England have given themselves a sniff. What more can anyone ask for? Share 28th over: India 160-4 (Washington 8, Axar 0) Axar Patel is the new batter, so England have two left-handers […]

Key events 22m ago UK joins €90bn EU loan to cover Ukraine’s defence 1h ago Leaders arrive for Ukraine talks in Paris 1h ago EU condemns IOC’s decision to allow Russian to compete at Olympics 2h ago Nato condemns Russia’s ‘malicious cyber activities’ and says its activity poses threat to security 3h ago Zelenskyy arrives […]