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The recent slew of developments around Bharat Innovation 2026, a number of UK universities establishing campuses in India and examination paper leaks have put the spotlight on higher education again, attracting significant public attention. But our ability to understand this system has not kept pace. We are still trying to make sense of a large elephant while blindfolded. For most, understanding the system begins on Google, with rankings and expert opinion, and ends with ChatGPT, or one wanders through social media and news headlines, and occasionally through scattered reports. These hardly tell what’s beneath the surface. It’s not just about…

Albanese says he will put concerns about AI to TrumpSarah Basford CanalesThe intergenerational report also said Australia was well positioned to benefit from AI but its impact on many industries – such as the labour market – were too early to forecast. double quotation markThe economic and social implications of AI are expected to be profound but the specific impacts will depend on the evolution of the technology, how deeply and broadly AI is adopted, and how it will be used. Australia is a leading destination globally for datacentre investment and has seen a near doubling of capital expenditure in…

Next month’s budget will be made more difficult by Donald Trump’s war with Iran, one of Andy Burnham’s cabinet ministers has said, while adding she did not expect the prime minister’s previous disparaging comments about the US president to be an issue.Burnham is expected to meet Trump early next week at the UN general assembly summit in New York, the pair having previously spoken twice by phone since Burnham entered No 10.As Greater Manchester mayor, Burnham said Trump would not be welcome in the city, saying also that UK politicians who indulged him “should be ashamed”.Asked about the comments, Bridget…

Donald Trump’s latest executive order is expected to establish a board responsible for approving National Institutes of Health grant funding, marking another attempt by the Trump administration to censor topics that do not align with the president’s agenda.The executive order, reported by outlets including the Washington Post and Politico, was discussed in a meeting on Friday where senior administration officials accused the NIH of funding “woke” initiatives that went against Trump’s political priorities.Russell Vought, the director of the White House’s office of management and budget (OMB), and other administration officials proposed an executive order that would create an external committee…

Oxfam’s Second Hand September campaign encourages people to avoid buying new clothes for 30 days and choose preloved pieces instead. From £28 Prada skirts to £5 wedding dresses, we asked people to share their favourite fashion finds and the stories behind them.‘It arrived crumpled like a tissue’Nisha in her pink-and-red Prada skirt. Photograph: Nisha DaneilI bought this pink-and-red Prada pleated silk jacquard skirt in 2022 for £28 on eBay and it arrived crumpled like a tissue. But for just under £32, including postage to my then London address, I didn’t complain. It took about three hours and as many rounds…

Qatar’s Prime Minister tells Bloomberg, the Gulf won’t be the same as before the war, unless there’s a security framework ensuring no one is a threat to each other. Speaking at the Qatar Economic Forum in New York, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani says the region needs to have good relations.Published On 20 Sep 202620 Sep 2026Share Qatar PM urges Gulf security framework with Iran on social mediashare-nodesSharegoogleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

This week, I moderated a panel on world models at the All In conference (no relation to the podcast), and it gave me a chance to dig into one of the most mysterious corners of the AI world. The big players in the space are Yann LeCun’s AMI Labs and Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs — and while both have accumulated a lot of buzz and funding, they also rank pretty low on the trying-to-make-money scale. At their core, world models are about automating spatial intelligence, so the field could head in lots of exciting and lucrative directions, from robotics to…

Berlin correspondent Jess Parker explains why German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has vowed to stay on despite exit polls in two local elections suggesting damaging defeats for his centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party.

Big Brother Naija Season 11 housemates Yusuf Muhammed-Awal, Isabella “Bells” Imoh and Chimsom Chuka have been evicted from the “Show Ya Sef” house. The trio were evicted during Sunday’s live show on Day 56 of the reality television competition, hosted by Ebuka Obi-Uchendu. In the BBNaija voting results, Tram led with 7.56%, followed by Chimsom Chuka at 6.90%, Yusuf at 6.77%, and Bells at 6.57%. Yusuf, Bells, and Chimsom Chuka were evicted, while Tram escaped. Week 8 Their exits came after they were among 11 housemates placed up for possible eviction following Barry’s emergence as Head of House earlier in…

The sister of Pakistan’s imprisoned former prime minister, Imran Khan, has been arrested ahead of next week’s protests held in his support, his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party has said.Aleema Khanum was detained in the eastern city of Lahore on Sunday afternoon, PTI officials said, calling it an “illegal detention”. Her son is demanding her return.The order for Khanum’s arrest, which came from Lahore’s deputy commissioner, alleged that she was mobilising Imran Khan’s supporters “through social media and public meetings”. It added that she will be detained for 30 days.Khanum is a vocal critic of her brother’s detention, regularly speaking to…