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Christopher Street Day event cancelled after incident that left several people injured
A major incident has been declared in Berlin after reports that a car has crashed into a crowd of people, with several injuries.
The city’s Christopher Street Day Pride parade was called off by the organiser after the incident in the city’s Tiergarten park near the route of the parade on Saturday night.
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Gabriel Langton discharged from hospital after fall
England held their nerve to claim bronze in the women’s artistic gymnastics team final after a tense final rotation saw them edge Wales by less than a point in Glasgow. The defending champions finished with 154.300 points, just enough to snatch third place from Wales, while Australia delivered a dominant display to win gold ahead of Canada.
Australia set the tone from the opening rotation, with Kate McDonald posting the highest uneven bars score of the day at 14.200 as the silver medallists from Birmingham 2022 established an early lead they would never relinquish. England made a solid start on vault through Shantae-Eve Amankwaah, Ruby Stacey, Alia Leat and Abi Martin. However, the uneven bars proved costly. Amankwaah’s excellent 13.500 boosted England’s challenge, but Stacey fell during her routine and her score did not count, leaving England trailing Australia at the halfway stage.
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Mercedes have shared some more details around George Russell’s Qualifying stoppage at the Hungaroring, with a power unit change being carried out on the Briton’s car as a result.
Lewis Hamilton explained after Qualifying in Hungary how he was already preparing himself for a race of “damage limitation”, ahead of the stewards handing him a grid penalty.
Futurism reports:
[Some online publications] are now debating whether to cut Google off entirely, as the Wall Street Journal reports, illustrating an increasingly fraught relationship between the tech giant and the publishers that are creating content its AI models are regurgitating. According to the newspaper, prominent outlets including USA Today, Politico, the Economist, People, and Reuters are all reexamining their relationship with Google. Some are debating whether to continue to work with the tech giant at all... Even Reddit executives are reevaluating the company's $60 million-a-year contract that allows Google to train its AI models on user-submitted content on the platform. They've similarly watched as Google's AI features discourage users from navigating to Reddit...
Beyond pondering whether to cut Google off, other publishers have resorted to suing the company, accusing it of illegally rehashing their intellectual property via AI summaries.
It's an extremely undesirable position for publishers. By severing ties with the search giant, they could face even steeper declines in traffic. At the same time, there's seemingly little to gain from having Google's AIs crawl their content — and in the long term, it could guarantee their destruction.
Two interesting data points from the article:
"Last month, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince noticed that automated bot traffic had overtaken human traffic for the first time in the internet's history."
"USA Today has seen its traffic from US users drop by almost half over the last year."
[Some online publications] are now debating whether to cut Google off entirely, as the Wall Street Journal reports, illustrating an increasingly fraught relationship between the tech giant and the publishers that are creating content its AI models are regurgitating. According to the newspaper, prominent outlets including USA Today, Politico, the Economist, People, and Reuters are all reexamining their relationship with Google. Some are debating whether to continue to work with the tech giant at all... Even Reddit executives are reevaluating the company's $60 million-a-year contract that allows Google to train its AI models on user-submitted content on the platform. They've similarly watched as Google's AI features discourage users from navigating to Reddit...
Beyond pondering whether to cut Google off, other publishers have resorted to suing the company, accusing it of illegally rehashing their intellectual property via AI summaries.
It's an extremely undesirable position for publishers. By severing ties with the search giant, they could face even steeper declines in traffic. At the same time, there's seemingly little to gain from having Google's AIs crawl their content — and in the long term, it could guarantee their destruction.
Two interesting data points from the article:
"Last month, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince noticed that automated bot traffic had overtaken human traffic for the first time in the internet's history."
"USA Today has seen its traffic from US users drop by almost half over the last year."
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