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Microsoft AI Researchers Just Discovered Something That’s Going to Make Their Bosses Extremely Mad

Microsoft AI Researchers Just Discovered Something That’s Going to Make Their Bosses Extremely Mad

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech AI automation is typically exactly what it sounds like: automating tasks — many of which were previously carried out by humans — in an attempt to boost productivity and efficiency, often in a prelude to laying off workers wholesale. However, a new yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper conducted by a group of Microsoft researchers and spotted by IT Pro found that today’s top AI systems remain eyebrow-raisingly weak at real-world workplace tasks. In fact, they often screw them up badly: the team studied frontier models including OpenAI’s GPT 5.4, Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 and Google’s Gemini 3.1 Pro, and found that during complex assignments, those cutting edge bots corrupted an average of 25 percent of the content in documents. (Older models failed even more severely.) The researchers concluded that, overall, these “models are not ready for delegated workflows in the vast majority of domains” — which is a very striking finding from Microsoft in particular, which has made massive investments in …

‘Extremely positive and productive talks’: Trump praises Xi meeting

‘Extremely positive and productive talks’: Trump praises Xi meeting

Published by Sam Flores

Chinese President Xi Jinping warned his US counterpart Donald Trump that missteps on Taiwan could push their two countries into “conflict”, a stark opening salvo as they met in Beijing on Thursday for a two-day summit. The Chinese Foreign ministry said the comments came in a closed-door meeting that lasted more than two hours. It was followed by a friendlier, opulent banquet during which Trump and Xi stressed the importance of working together. Story by Carys Garland. Keywords for this article Source link

Binman says ‘do not’ put extremely common item in your bin

Binman says ‘do not’ put extremely common item in your bin

Published by Sam Flores

Binmen could leave your rubbish behind on collection day if they spot this (Image: Getty) A binman claims that people who try to hide an item commonly found in many UK homes in the bin on collection day could have their rubbish left on the kerbside. He explained all on social media in a recent post. There are several ways to properly dispose of an old carpet or rug, says Ashley, who goes by @Theno1.binman on TikTok. He said: “Carpets? You do not put them in the bin. They are too big. They are a bulky item, so you do not put carpets in any of your household bins.” Why can’t carpets go in the bin? Carpets cannot go in regular household bins because they are bulky, heavy, non-biodegradable, and difficult to process, which creates issues at landfills and recycling facilities. They are considered specialised waste, and putting them in domestic bins can lead to non-collection or fines. Most carpets are made of synthetic fibres like nylon or polypropylene. These do not break down in …

Very difficult and extremely cool: how to start doing pull-ups | Well actually

Very difficult and extremely cool: how to start doing pull-ups | Well actually

Published by Sam Flores

The pull-up has long been seen as an important fitness metric. From 1966 to 2013, public middle and high school students in the US were required to do pull-ups as part of the presidential fitness test (an evaluation Donald Trump has considered reinstating). US Marine Corps members were long required to perform pull-ups as part of their regular physical fitness test, and prospective UK Royal Marines must complete a minimum of three to four pull-ups before they are eligible to join. There is no definitive data on how many adults can perform a proper pull-up, but two things are clear: they are very difficult and look extremely cool. “When a new client comes to see me, the most common exercise they say they’d like to be able to do is the pull-up,” says Emily Schofield, a certified personal trainer at the training company Ultimate Performance. “Achieving that first proper rep is one of the most satisfying milestones you can reach in the gym, because it’s a genuine, hard-earned display of strength, coordination and control.” Do …

Carrie Johnson’s ‘extremely crucial’ role in ITV’s binge-worthy 4-part drama Believe Me revealed

Carrie Johnson’s ‘extremely crucial’ role in ITV’s binge-worthy 4-part drama Believe Me revealed

Published by Daniella Wilson

From Mr Bates vs The Post Office and Four Lives to I Fought the Law, British television really knows how to deliver gripping true-crime drama. And ITV’s latest series, Believe Me, is no exception. Told over four binge-worthy episodes, the new series recounts the real-life story of a group of women who fell victim to John Warboys, one of Britain’s most prolific sex offenders, and how they were failed by the system that was supposed to protect them. One of the women portrayed in the series is Carrie Johnson, formerly Carrie Symonds, who was spiked by taxi driver John Warboys in 2007 after a night out in Chelsea. © GettyCarrie Johnson worked in the press team of the conservative party Carrie later became one of the 14 women who testified against him at trial and played a key role in keeping him behind bars by using her experience and influence as a member of the Conservative Party press team. She later went on to marry former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson. WATCH: The Best New …

Anok Yai Says She Felt “Extremely Nervous” to Wear a Prosthetic Wig as Balenciaga’s Black Madonna

Anok Yai Says She Felt “Extremely Nervous” to Wear a Prosthetic Wig as Balenciaga’s Black Madonna

Published by Sam Flores

“This is the first Met where I’ve done something crazy that I don’t think anyone will do,” supermodel Anok Yai told Vanity Fair as she was getting ready for the Met Gala 2026. “No one’s going to show up in another prosthetic wig, right?” Although Bad Bunny and Heidi Klum both used prosthetics for their Met Gala looks, it was the first Monday in May regular Yai, prepping for her “lucky number seven” Met Gala, who donned the evening’s only silicone-based hair. The unorthodox updo included a nod to the Greek mythological character Medusa, complete with a knotted snake adorned on the back of Yai’s head. Inspired by Renaissance paintings, Balenciaga creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli reimagined Yai as the Black Madonna, a figure seen throughout religious art. “I’m always nervous,” the Sudanese American model says. “But this time, I’m, like, extremely nervous.” The custom Balenciaga couture, complete with black ruched detailing, an oversized hood, and black leather gloves, required 15 people working around the clock for a week to make. “The train is about five …

Ordinary People Fear AI, While the Tech Leaders Working to Create a Permanent Underclass Say They’re Extremely Psyched About It

Ordinary People Fear AI, While the Tech Leaders Working to Create a Permanent Underclass Say They’re Extremely Psyched About It

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Despite a massive campaign by some of the wealthiest companies in the world to push AI as the cure-all for society’s problems, regular working-class people remain resentful of the technology at best, and downright petrified at worst. At a contentious county commission meeting in Box Elder, Utah, for example, sheriff’s deputies held irate community members back after three county commissioners rammed through a hyperscale data center backed by Canadian billionaire Kevin O’Leary. A growing number of younger workers, fearing life in a market economy in which their labor is made obsolete, are actively sabotaging AI in the workplace. A not insignificant number of concerned citizens have started ripping AI surveillance cameras out of their mountings. Tech executives and AI experts, meanwhile, are stoked about the new technology. Corporate consultants no longer bite their tongues when they talk about devastating workplace austerity regimes, while tech executives like OpenAI’s Sam Altman brag that AI is upending the basic foundations of …

Rita Wilson: ‘I’m an extremely private person, and it’s served me well, but it doesn’t fit any more’

Rita Wilson: ‘I’m an extremely private person, and it’s served me well, but it doesn’t fit any more’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the inside track from Roisin O’Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This A few years ago, the actor and musician Rita Wilson said that she’d grown tired of playing “warm, kind, nurturing mothers and wives”. Movies tended to cast her as emotional cheerleaders, dealers of hard truths, or supportive BFFs – to her future real-life husband Tom Hanks in Sleepless in Seattle, or to Michelle Pfeiffer in The Story of Us, or to Meryl Streep in It’s Complicated. I get not wanting to be typecast, but as I find for myself while sat having coffee with her in the bright, airy restaurant of a Mayfair hotel, Wilson is just really good at this kind of thing. For today, it seems, I am Meryl Streep. “Are you a musician?” she asks me suddenly. Nothing serious, I tell her. Just a bit of piano. She leans forward animatedly: “You shouldn’t say that, OK? ‘Nothing serious.’ Those are …

There’s Something Extremely Shady About Trump’s Disastrous New NASA Budget

There’s Something Extremely Shady About Trump’s Disastrous New NASA Budget

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Months after Congress voted against the Trump administration’s brutal NASA budget proposal for fiscal year 2026, the White House has renewed its efforts to deal the space agency’s science directorate a devastating blow. Earlier this month, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released its proposed 2027 top-line request, which would eviscerate NASA’s science budget by a whopping 47 percent and slash the agency’s overall funding by 23 percent. The move highlighted the Trump administration’s persistent and staunchly anti-science agenda, once again drawing outraged reactions from space advocacy groups. Worse yet, as The Planetary Society chief of space policy Casey Dreier told Space.com, the latest document is incredibly vague, failing to identify which space science missions would land on the chopping block. It even refuses to list prior-year funding levels, a baffling departure from 60 years of institutional history. “There are two things: the astonishing lack of transparency and the abject refusal to acknowledge political reality,” …

John Lithgow reveals ‘extremely difficult thing to contemplate’ about joining Harry Potter reboot in series’ new documentary

John Lithgow reveals ‘extremely difficult thing to contemplate’ about joining Harry Potter reboot in series’ new documentary

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter John Lithgow has opened up about aging alongside his new Harry Potter co-stars. Lithgow, 80, is taking on the role of Albus Dumbledore in HBO’s forthcoming TV reboot of the famous film franchise. In the film’s new documentary, Finding Harry: The Craft Behind the Magic, Lithgow spoke about the realities of filming the role at his age. “I knew that while I did the first season of Harry Potter, I would be turning 80 years old,” he explained. “That meant that I would age to about 88 before it was all over. “This is an extremely difficult thing to contemplate,” he continued. “They’re gonna grow up in this. And I’m gonna grow older with them.” John Lithgow spoke about the Harry Potter reboot in the series’ new documentary (Getty Images) Arabella Stanton, Dominic McLaughlin and Alastair Stout will star in the …