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ChatGPT can now access up to date information
By Antoinette Radford BBC News OpenAI, the Microsoft-backed creator of ChatGPT, has confirmed the chatbot can now browse the internet to provide users with current information. The artificial intelligence-powered system was previously trained using data up to September 2021. The move means some premium users will be able to ask the chatbot questions about current…
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Trump and Biden woo striking workers in preview of 2024
By Natalie Sherman in Wayne & Sarah Smith in Detroit, Michigan BBC News Donald Trump is heading to Michigan to woo striking car-workers, a day after President Joe Biden turned up on the picket line in the Midwestern state – an early skirmish in the battle for the blue-collar vote ahead of next year’s White…
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Meta announces AI chatbots with “personality”
By James Clayton North America technology reporter Meta has announced a series of new chatbots to be used in its Messenger service. The chatbots will have “personality” and specialise in certain subjects, like holidays or cooking advice. It is the latest salvo in a chatbot arms race between tech companies desperate to produce more accurate…
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‘It’s good to be home,’ after 371 days in space
Astronaut Frank Rubio and his fellow cosmonauts, Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin, landed safely in Kazakhstan this Wednesday after more than a year aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Their mission was scheduled to last six months, but a leak in their capsule forced them to wait for a replacement spacecraft.
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Nagorno-Karabakh: Armenians rush to help ‘brothers and sisters’
By Sarah Rainsford in Goris & Kornidzor, Armenia BBC News Every hour, the number of people fleeing Nagorno-Karabakh climbs even further. The official count of refugees is now close to half the population of the enclave. The scenes at the border suggest the region is being emptied of ethnic Armenians. As they come, the aid…
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Cassidy Hutchinson: Five things we learned from latest Trump aide book
By Madeline Halpert BBC News Cassidy Hutchinson is the former White House aide who MSNBC said “gave some of the most compelling, damning and explosive testimony” to the 6 January committee investigating the attack on the US Capitol in 2021. She was the top aide to Mark Meadows, then-president Donald Trump’s White House chief of…
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Iraq fire: Eyewitnesses tell of wedding hall blaze horror
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Ethar Shalaby BBC Arabic More than 100 people have been killed and many more injured in a blaze at a wedding celebration in Qaraqosh in northern Iraq. Eyewitnesses have described to the BBC scenes of horror…
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Bob Menendez: US senator pleads not guilty as FBI probes Egypt ties
By Chloe Kim BBC News US Senator Bob Menendez and his wife have pleaded not guilty to bribery charges as the FBI opens a counterintelligence probe into the senator’s ties with Egyptian officials. The New Jersey senator is accused of accepting gold bars and hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes. Prosecutors allege he used…
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What does spending more than a year in space do to the human body?
Nasa astronaut Frank Rubio has just returned from a record-breaking 371 days in space onboard the ISS, but the trip may have altered his muscles, brain and even the bacteria living in his gut. With a few handshakes, a brief photoshoot and a wave, Nasa astronaut Frank Rubio bid farewell to the American-football-field-sized collection of…
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NFL’s Travis Kelce breaks silence on ‘amazing’ Taylor Swift
National Football League star Travis Kelce has praised his rumoured love interest, Taylor Swift, for her internet-breaking appearance at his game last Sunday. “Shout out to Taylor for showing up,” Kelce said on the podcast he shares with his brother. “That was pretty ballsy. I sure as hell enjoyed the weekend.” Swift looked on from…