Lance, 66, St Ives Occupation Retired; previously a nurse, then a university lecturer Voting record If his vote counted, he’d vote Labour. Being in a heavily Conservative area, he votes Lib Dem Amuse bouche Plays in a country rock folk band called Re:Formation Jon, 63, Penzance Occupation Self-employed highway engineer Voting record Since living in Cornwall,…
The Japanese investment group SoftBank is reportedly in talks to invest up to $25bn (£20bn) in OpenAI in a deal that would make it the biggest financial backer of the startup behind ChatGPT. The lender is considering putting a sum of between $15bn and $25bn into the San Francisco-based company, according to the Financial Times….
A group of First Nations in Canada is turning to the courts in the hope of securing billions of dollars in compensation, after accusing the government of failing to engage in “meaningful negotiations” for money owed under a 175-year-old treaty. “The governments’ refusal to come to grips with their treaty obligations has continued 175 years…
The woman at the veg shop is admiring my new ivory padded shoulder bag. Perhaps admiring is the wrong word. “So, is this, like, a thing now?” she says. “Apparently,” I say. I am old enough to remember declarations of the man bag’s arrival stretching back to the 70s and 80s. While its perennial reintroduction…
The NBA’s most surprising teams so far Which team has shocked the league so far? The For The Hoops crew make their picks for most surprising team here! The NBA is racing toward the All-Star break, as the fight for playoff spots tightens. That’s felt most acutely in the Western Conference. With the Golden State…
A chubby baby dinosaur waddles down a pink carpeted aisle, narrowly avoiding an army of Care Bears tramping in the other direction. Nearby, a sales rep shows off a collection of insect-breeding habitats, just as Pikachu scampers around the corner, bumping into her neat display. Across the hall, inventors show off their fiendish new board…