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Oxford researchers seemingly found a 'semantic entropy cure' for AI hallucination episodes: "Getting answers from LLMs is cheap, but reliability is the biggest bottleneck."

Oxford researchers have seemingly found a solution for AI hallucinations. Semantic entropy can determine the difference in the meanings of the outputs generated, making it easier to identify false information presented as facts.

Windows Central

Best bell tents for your 2025 glamping adventure

Roomy and spacious, the luxury tents to make your break

Evening Standard

Japanese emperor to be finally reunited with his British love: The Thames Barrier

Emperor Naruhito forged a special fondness for Britain and even wrote about his experience on a great British pub crawl

The Independent UK

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Researchers hope to quash AI hallucination bugs that stem from words with more than one meaning

Semantic entropy is when we use words that have multiple meanings, thus leading to confusion. The researchers want to use this as a way to estimate the chance that an AI is hallucinating.

Tom’s Hardware

Meet emperor Naruhito and empress Masako: Japan's anglophile royal couple visit the UK

Emma Loffhagen takes a look at the island nation’s royal couple and their unlikely British connections

Evening Standard

Ralph Lauren goes with basic blue jeans for Team USA's opening Olympic ceremony uniforms

When Team USA walks with the world’s athletes during the Paris Olympics' opening ceremony, they’ll be doing so in snappy blue blazers and blue jeans from Ralph Lauren

The Independent UK

How’s this for a bombshell – the US must make AI its next Manhattan Project

A new essay on the rise of superintelligent machines pivots from being a warning to humanity to a rallying cry for an industrial complex to bolster American military defence

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Private equity firms have avoided taxation on over $1 trillion of income thanks to a loophole, new Oxford research reveals

Politicians have vowed to close the loophole for years, but fierce pushback lobbyists from the industry cracked those plans.

Fortune

Professor John Curtice — things you didn’t know about TV's most famous general election expert

All you need to know about Professor John Curtice, the eminent TV general election guru.

WhatToWatch

‘He made every sentence electric’: Martin Amis remembered by Tina Brown, his old friend and devoted editor

He called her Tiny. She called him Bruno. In this speech from today’s memorial service to the novelist, the legendary magazine editor celebrates her cocky, beguiling and witheringly funny star writer

The Guardian - UK

Oxford University students vote against hanging King Charles portrait in common room

Exclusive: Magdalen college also refused to publish a statement wishing the monarch good health

The Independent UK

50 Animals Going “Goblin Mode”, As Shared By This Dedicated Instagram Account

Pets and wildlife going 'goblin mode' make for some truly bizarre, unusual, and mischievous photos. The post 50 Animals Going “Goblin Mode”, As Shared By This Dedicated Instagram Account first appeared on Bored Panda.

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London university beats Oxford and Cambridge to be named second best in the world

Imperial College London soars up the university rankings

Evening Standard

St Mirren poised to complete Oisin Smyth transfer deal from Oxford

St Mirren are poised to complete a deal to sign Oxford United midfielder Oisin Smyth.

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How we met: ‘I couldn’t just go with the flow – so I told him I had romantic feelings’

Rasika, 29 and Varad, 27, met while working for an NGO in rural India. A health crisis brought them closer together and they now live together in Oxford, UK

The Independent UK

Globe-trotting archeologist who drew comparisons to Indiana Jones dies at age 94

Schuylar Jones, a globe-trotting American adventurer who went on to run an Oxford University museum, has died

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s not vital to spend five days a week in the office’: the bank boss who works from home

While big beasts on Wall Street rail against WFH, Mike Regnier of Santander UK says he wouldn’t have taken the job if he had had to commute all week

Space

Right again, Einstein! Scientists find where matter 'waterfalls' into black holes

Einstein was right! Scientists found the first-ever evidence of "plunging regions" of spacetime where matter inexorably falls into black holes, as predicted by general relativity.

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The Guardian - UK

CS Lewis should have tried self-reflection

Evening Standard

Bolton 0-2 Oxford United: Josh Murphy nets Wembley brace to secure promotion to Championship

Oxford joined Portsmouth and Derby in securing Championship football next season

The Guardian - UK

Oxford beat Bolton in League One playoff final thanks to Murphy double

Josh Murphy scored twice in 11 first-half minutes as Oxford beat Bolton 2-0 to return to the Championship

Evening Standard

How to watch Bolton vs Oxford: TV channel and live stream for League One play-off final today

A place in the Championship on the line

The Guardian - UK

Chris Williams obituary

Other lives: Historian who specialised in research on Welsh radical traditions and edited Richard Burton’s diaries

The Guardian - UK

Fixation on UK nuclear power may not help to solve climate crisis

Waste and cost among drawbacks, as researchers say renewables could power UK entirely

The Guardian - UK

Students stage pro-Palestine occupations at five more UK universities

The protesters in encampments at Oxford, Cambridge, Liverpool, Edinburgh and Soas are demanding institutions end ties to Israel

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