OpenAI announces “pause” on a ChatGPT voice avatar after it drew comparisons Scarlett Johansson’s speaking style - and Hollywood actress called in the lawyers. Legal and policy challenges for AI Seoul Summit, with Eleanor Shearer, senior research fellow at London’s Common Wealth think tank. Infected blood scandal: police examine manslaughter charges.

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• Microplastics found in ‘every study testicle’
• New (but fading) chance to see Northern Lights
• Tech firms ‘failing on pre-election misinformation’
• Cob-erating theatre...tiny robot’s corn-sized surgery

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Publication of public inquiry’s verdict into ‘worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS’ that led to deaths of more than 3,000 people. UK summer alert for Asian hornets. Preserving breast tissue aids cancer research.

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• iDo...the robot ‘AI dating concierge’
• Odyssey for cross of polar explorer Shackleton
• Flavour science behind mac & cheese ice cream

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Evgeny Lebedev talks to stoicism expert Professor Bill Irvine, whose books detail the ancient wisdom of Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius for a new generation.

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