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Elon Musk’s estranged daughter admits she doesn’t know how many siblings she has

Elon Musk’s estranged daughter admits she doesn’t know how many siblings she has

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Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Elon Musk’s estranged daughter Vivian Jenna Wilson confessed even she isn’t sure how many children her father has. In a new interview with Teen Vogue, Wilson — the Tesla CEO’s 20-year-old daughter, and who is transgender — was asked about her relationship with her siblings. “I will say I do not actually know how many siblings I have, if you include half-siblings,” she told the outlet. “That’s just a fun fact.” Ms Wilson is just one of the reported 14 children Mr Musk has welcomed in the last 20 years with four different women. Her mother, Justine Wilson, was married to the billionaire SpaceX founder for eight years from 2000. The two have six children together, including Vivian. Mr Musk also has four children …

Shirley Ballas stalker Kyle Shaw admits charge at Liverpool Crown Court | Ents & Arts News

Shirley Ballas stalker Kyle Shaw admits charge at Liverpool Crown Court | Ents & Arts News

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A 37-year-old man has pleaded guilty to stalking Strictly Come Dancing judge Shirley Ballas over the course of six years. Kyle Shaw admitted stalking the 64-year-old dancer and TV star between 31 August 2017 and 29 November 2023. According to the charge, he caused Ballas “serious alarm or distress, which had a substantial adverse effect on her usual day-to-day activities”. Image: Shaw at court earlier this month. Pic: PA The court heard he made continued attempts to contact Ballas, including posting an image of her house on social media. He also tried to contact family, friends and colleagues, monitored her online and TV presence and made arrangements to go to her book tour. Ballas was so concerned, the court was told, that she increased her security measures, moved her mother to a different address and altered social and work arrangements. Shaw, from Whetstone Lane in Birkenhead, was bailed at Liverpool Crown Court ahead of sentencing on 1 April. He also admitted possessing cannabis. Read more from Sky News:BBC apologises over WestwoodRoberta Flack dies Judge Gary …

Sam Altman admits OpenAI was ‘on the wrong side of history’ in open source debate

Sam Altman admits OpenAI was ‘on the wrong side of history’ in open source debate

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, made a striking admission on Friday that his company has been “on the wrong side of history” regarding open source AI, signaling a potential seismic shift in strategy as competition from China intensifies and efficient open models gain traction. The candid acknowledgment came during a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” session, just days after Chinese AI firm DeepSeek rattled global markets with its open source R1 model that claims comparable performance to OpenAI’s systems at a fraction of the cost. “Yes, we are discussing [releasing model weights],” Altman wrote. “I personally think we have been on the wrong side of history here and need to figure out a different open source strategy.” He noted that not everyone at OpenAI shares his view and it isn’t the company’s current highest priority. The statement represents a remarkable departure from OpenAI’s increasingly proprietary approach in recent years, which has drawn criticism from some AI researchers …

OpenAI Admits It Needs Vastly More Money Than It Thought

OpenAI Admits It Needs Vastly More Money Than It Thought

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Of course it does. Fund and Games The former entirely-nonprofit-company known as OpenAI says it needs a boatload of more cash as it plans to transform its corporate structure to prioritize making money. In an announcement Friday, the ChatGPT maker argued that by creating a for-profit corporation to control its commercial enterprises, it can make the dough it needs to keep up with other leading AI developers. “The hundreds of billions of dollars that major companies are now investing into AI development show what it will really take for OpenAI to continue pursuing the mission,” OpenAI’s board of directors wrote in a blog post. “We once again need to raise more capital than we’d imagined,” they continued. “Investors want to back us but, at this scale of capital, need conventional equity and less structural bespokeness.” Altruism Truant The announcement confirms reports in September from the Financial Times and others that OpenAI was finally moving to drop its original nonprofit status that it was founded with. At the time, OpenAI denied the reports and upheld the nonprofit …

Jeremy Clarkson admits he was ‘wrong’ about his new pub business

Jeremy Clarkson admits he was ‘wrong’ about his new pub business

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Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Jeremy Clarkson has admitted he was “wrong” about his new pub after being warned over how difficult it is to make money in the hospitality industry at the moment. The former Top Gear and Grand Tour host opened The Farmer’s Dog in August, paying less than £1m for the property formerly known as The Windmill, in Asthall, near Burford in Oxfordshire. The popular reception for the pub echoes the success of Clarkson’s Diddly Squat farm shop, which attracts tourists from across the country due to its prominence in his Amazon series Clarkson’s Farm. However, in an article for The Times, the 64-year-old shared some of the honest experiences he has had just a few months after opening the venue. Clarkson claims that despite being …

With Utter Self-Seriousness, Maker of Oreos Admits It’s Using AI To Create New Flavors, Even Though Machines Cannot Taste

With Utter Self-Seriousness, Maker of Oreos Admits It’s Using AI To Create New Flavors, Even Though Machines Cannot Taste

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I have no mouth and I must eat. Flavor Discovery The company behind Oreo cookies has, by its own admission, been quietly creating new flavors using machine learning. As the Wall Street Journal reports, Mondelez — the processed food behemoth that manufactures Oreos, Chips Ahoy, Clif Bars, and other popular snacks — has developed a new AI tool to dream up new flavors for its brands. Used in more than 70 of the company’s products, the company says the machine learning tool is different from generative AI tools like ChatGPT and more akin to the drug discovery algorithms used by pharmaceutical companies to find and test new medications rapidly. Thus far the tool, created with the help of the software consultant Fourkind, has created products like the “Gluten Free Golden Oreo” and updated Chips Ahoy’s classic recipe, per the WSJ. Mondelez’s research and development AI was, it seems, trained to optimize certain sensory factors. The tool was told to dial up scent characteristics like “burnt,” “egg-flavored,” and “oily,” as well as flavor factors like “buttery,” “in-mouth saltiness,” …

Prison officer admits ‘inappropriate relationship’ with Zara Aleena’s killer | UK News

Prison officer admits ‘inappropriate relationship’ with Zara Aleena’s killer | UK News

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A prison workshop instructor has pleaded guilty to engaging in an “inappropriate relationship” with Zara Aleena’s murderer. Hayley Jones, 33, appeared at Woolwich Crown Court, where she admitted misconduct in a public office between 6 March and 7 April 2023 while she was working at Belmarsh prison. The charge states her “inappropriate relationship” with Jordan McSweeney “amounted to an abuse of the public’s trust”. McSweeney, 31, is serving a life sentence for the murder of 35-year-old law graduate Ms Aleena, who was killed as she walked home from a night out in Ilford, east London. Image: Jordan McSweeney is serving a life sentence for the murder of Zara Aleena. Pic: Met Police He was jailed for a minimum term of 38 years in December 2022 after admitting to the sexual assault and murder of Ms Aleena in the early hours of 26 June 2022, nine days after he was released from prison for a previous offence. But he won a Court of Appeal bid in November 2023 to reduce the minimum term of his life …

The Inbetweeners star Emily Atack admits she ‘didn’t know if she was beautiful or ugly’ after public’s brutal comments

The Inbetweeners star Emily Atack admits she ‘didn’t know if she was beautiful or ugly’ after public’s brutal comments

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Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Emily Atack didn’t know whether she was “beautiful or ugly” after constant comments on her appearance left her feeling “confused” and depressed. The 34-year-old actor starred as Charlotte “Big Jugs” Hinchcliffe in The Inbetweeners from 2008 to 2010. Atack is now starring as Sarah Stratton in the forthcoming adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s book Rivals. Her character lures a Tory MP out of his marriage and then proceeds to cheat on him constantly. Throughout the 2010s, she graced the cover of many men’s magazines including FHM and Loaded. However, the success came with both praise and backlash, she told The Guardian. ”The word I always land on is ‘confused’. When it came to press and headlines, I was either ‘flaunting my ample assets’, or they’d …

NASA Admits “Tension in the Room” as It Told Boeing Starliner Couldn’t Return Astronauts to Earth

NASA Admits “Tension in the Room” as It Told Boeing Starliner Couldn’t Return Astronauts to Earth

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Is this the understatement of the year? Difference of Opinion Amid the ongoing Starliner breakdown fiasco, NASA has admitted that there’s been a bit of “tension” between its officials and their counterparts at Boeing. As highlighted by Space.com, the head of the agency’s commercial crew program said during a press briefing earlier this week that the decision to bring the ailing Boeing capsule back to Earth sans its stranded crew was not met with enthusiasm from the embattled aerospace contractor. According to commercial crew director Steve Stich, Boeing doesn’t necessarily agree with NASA’s assessment that the issues with Starliner’s thrusters and docking modules with the International Space Station make it too unsafe to bring astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams back to Earth when the craft returns this week. “Boeing believed in the model that they had created to predict thruster degradation for the rest of the flight,” Stich said during the briefing. “The NASA team looked at the model and saw some limitation. It really had to do with, do we have confidence in the …

Walsall: Local company admits it is behind ‘serious’ chemical spill as around 100 fish die in canal | UK News

Walsall: Local company admits it is behind ‘serious’ chemical spill as around 100 fish die in canal | UK News

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A local company has said it is responsible for a spillage of toxic chemicals after around 100 fish died in a West Midlands canal that is being tested for sodium cyanide and other substances. Anochrome Ltd, a supplier of specialist surface coatings and other services, said in a statement on Wednesday a “chemical incident occurred” at its site in Walsall early on Monday and “regrettably, as a result, some of the released chemicals entered a canal in Walsall. It said it had immediately contacted the Environment Agency and Severn Trent Water and senior managers were working on site with “all relevant agencies” to minimise and contain the spill. Walsall Council said the Environment Agency told it about a spillage that went directly into the canal in Pleck, West Midlands, on Monday. A major incident was declared, involving police, the fire service, the Canal and Rivers Trust and Severn Trent Water. There is potentially a “serious risk to health” if people or their pets are exposed to the chemical by touching the water, the council said. …