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The Observer
ChatGPT update a big step forward, says OpenAI
The buzz this week around the launch of GPT-5, the new version of OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot, echoed past releases of new iPhone models and Windows software.
1 min |
August 10, 2025
The Observer
Jim Meyer
Mentor for young journalists in Africa, who 'walked into newsrooms a stranger, and walked out a friend'
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August 10, 2025
The Observer
ChatGPT update a big step forward, says OpenAI
The buzz this week around the launch of GPT-5, the new version of OpenAl’s ChatGPT chatbot, echoed past releases of new iPhone models and Windows software.
1 min |
August 10, 2025
The Observer
Not without Ukraine
Trump is right to pursue peace, but not like this
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August 10, 2025
The Observer
World remains divided as plastics push elephants closer to extinction
A UN treaty to ban single-use products is facing resistance from nations including the US, India and Russia
4 min |
August 10, 2025
The Observer
'It's not enough': anger at payout to mother wrongfully jailed for her children's deaths
Award amounts to less than £1m after DNA breakthrough ends 20 years in prison
3 min |
August 10, 2025
The Observer
North Koreans once risked their lives to tune in. Now silence reigns
For decades, people have dared to listen to uncensored foreign radio in a country where that is illegal ... until US cuts and politics in Seoul snatched the chance away from them.
4 min |
August 10, 2025
The Observer
Tesla could end up like Ford: losing its pole position as dull corporate rivals race ahead
US stock market outperformance relies on the “Magnificent 7”: Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet (Google, Android), Meta, Nvidia and Tesla. Over the last decade, these stocks typically returned at least 500%. Without them, stock market rises would have been less than 2% a year after inflation.
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August 10, 2025
The Observer
UK team works with French to break up Channel gangs
Officers from the National Crime Agency working with French police have arrested more than 300 suspected people smugglers and broken up 52 networks in five years, the unit has told The Observer.
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August 10, 2025
The Observer
Europe left out in the cold as Trump plans to offer Putin deal on Ukraine
This week's summit in Alaska is fuelling concerns the US president will offer sweeping concessions to the Russian leader and sideline Kyiv
3 min |
August 10, 2025
The Observer
Tom Fletcher
Heading up the UN's humanitarian affairs is not a role for the faint-hearted
4 min |
August 10, 2025
The Observer
'We thought: it can't be the Salt Path couple - they'd have told us they were homeless'
When fellow walkers the Parsons found they were in Raynor Winn's book, they were baffled. Details of their encounter didn't add up
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August 10, 2025
The Observer
Robots don't need us to write great fiction. Let's leave them to it
People are concerned that books being produced by AI will result in a glut of “AI slop” on the market. I say: give slop a chance. It can’t be any worse than some human writers.
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August 10, 2025
The Observer
Netanyahu's government divided over plans for military takeover of Gaza
Hamas has been decimated and most buildings destroyed. The Israeli military and hostage families fear another assault on the Palestinians will cause more civilian deaths and achieve nothing
5 min |
August 10, 2025
The Observer
Memo to Keir: the three things to remember before you give the speech of a lifetime
As the prime minister prepares to address a restive party at this year's Labour conference, here's a note that might help
4 min |
August 10, 2025
The Observer
Defence budgets bend for Trump
As defence spending booms, there is growing debate about what counts as a “dual-use” technology.
1 min |
August 10, 2025
The Observer
Norway's wealth fund ordered to review investments in Israel
A global campaign to disinvest from Israel may soon win its biggest convert. Norway's sovereign wealth fund was ordered last week to consider selling its investments in Israel, which are worth some $2.1bn, after the prime minister expressed concern about possible entanglements in Gaza.
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August 10, 2025
The Observer
Investors clash with lawyers over dam disaster class action
Events at law firm seeking compensation for Brazil claimants highlight secret backers and question success of October's case.
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August 10, 2025
The Observer
It's our life's work to make this region safe for our children
Sharone Lifschitz's 83-year-old father, Oded, was taken hostage by Hamas and died in captivity in Gaza. Her mother, Yocheved, 86, was released in October 2023.
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August 10, 2025
The Observer
From defence to hiking, OS is still mapping out the future of Britain
Ordnance Survey, the UK's mapping agency, originated in 1747 as a military project by the Crown, mapping the bogs of the Scottish Lowlands to track down elusive Jacobite rebels. These days, the government-owned OS still underpins the defence of the realm by providing data for the Ministry of Defence on everything from UK coastlines to its 4 million km warren of underground pipes and cables.
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August 10, 2025
The Observer
If you tire of your manor, JD, my Airbnb is all yours
As someone renting my Somerset cottage on Airbnb this summer, I was heartbroken not to get called up by JD Vance.
1 min |
August 10, 2025
The Observer
I'm following the 'red Welsh way', not Keir Starmer, says first minister
Eluned Morgan tells Rachel Sylvester that she won't be chasing Reform - or including the PM's photo on her election leaflets
4 min |
August 10, 2025
The Observer
Chancellor Reeves could learn from the message of banking's demise in new play
Make It Happen satirises the RBS collapse of 2008. It's too close to real life for comfort, writes Ian Fraser
3 min |
August 10, 2025
The Observer
Question: who is marking your GCSE? Answer: an AI examiner
Traditional exams may soon become a thing of the past as bots help assess pupils' achievement in education revolution
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August 10, 2025
The Observer
What is a person worth?
Last week Tesla gave Elon Musk shares worth £22.3bn. That would pay for 100 doctors for 1,560 years.
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August 10, 2025
The Observer
When love is not enough: the mothers left grieving by our knife crime crisis
The number of teenage boys being killed on our streets has more than doubled in a decade. Francisco Garcia spoke to some of the bereaved parents trying to make sense of it all
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August 10, 2025
The Observer
Pat down the golden retrievers: Cotswolds put on high alert for Vance family visit
With helicopters whirring and police quizzing residents, the vice-president's visit is stirring up rural life, writes Vanessa Thorpe
3 min |
August 10, 2025
The Observer
From Unbound to unmoored: the painful death of a publishing dream
In 2011, three disrupters set out to challenge the literary establishment by signing authors others had spurned. Then the money ran out. Rachael Healy reports
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August 10, 2025
The Observer
Amazon said I 'violated' policy but I'm innocent
I relocated to England from New Zealand on 16 May to take up a teaching position in September.
1 min |
August 10, 2025
The Observer
As hundreds committed the offence of putting ink to cardboard, police moved in
Nurses, doctors, retired people and architects among more than 400 protesters arrested as terrorism suspects.
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