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After a selloff fueled by fears AI could upend the outsourcing model
Indian IT professionals worried about 72-hour workweeks might soon face the opposite concern, as Bengaluru-based outsourcing giant Infosys has partnered with Anthropic to bring agentic AI to telecommunications companies and other regulated industries.…
As part of their 2026 Spring Festival Gala, the China Media Group showcased a synchronized martial arts demonstration featuring humanoid robots performing alongside young performers, with the robots showing off acrobatic moves. (SLYT)
Move comes after Gordon Brown’s claim that files show sex offender used airport in Essex to ‘fly in girls’
Police are assessing information about private flights to and from Stansted airport following the publication of files relating to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
It comes after the former prime minister Gordon Brown claimed the documents showed in “graphic detail” how Epstein was able to use the Essex-based hub to “fly in girls from Latvia, Lithuania and Russia”.
In an article for the New Statesman, Brown wrote that the Epstein files showed the financier’s jet making 90 flights to or from UK airports, including 15 after his 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from a child.
He said Epstein “boasted” about how cheap the airport charges were in Stansted compared with Paris.
Brown said Stansted airport was where “women were transferred from one Epstein plane to another”, adding that “women arriving on private planes into Britain would not need British visas”.
He said it seemed as though authorities “never knew what was happening”, referring to evidence uncovered by the BBC which showed “incomplete flight logs, with unnamed passengers simply labelled as ‘female’”.
On Tuesday, an Essex police spokesperson said: “We are assessing the information that has emerged in relation to private flights into and out of Stansted Airport following the publication of the US DoJ (Department of Justice) Epstein files.”
A Stansted airport spokesperson said: “All private aircraft at London Stansted operate through independent Fixed Base Operators, which handle all aspects of private and corporate aviation in line with regulatory requirements.
“All immigration and customs checks for passengers arriving on private aircraft are carried out directly by Border Force.
“They use entirely independent terminals not operated by London Stansted and no private jet passengers enter the main airport terminal.
“The airport does not manage or have any visibility of passenger arrangements on privately operated aircraft.”
In December, a BBC investigation found 87 flights linked to Epstein had arrived at or departed from UK airports between the early 1990s and 2018.
The statement from Essex police comes after the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) said a national group had been set up to support UK police forces that are “assessing allegations” following the publication of the Epstein files, which can be accessed via whenyouareready.co.uk
A spokesperson for the NPCC said: “A national coordination group has been set up to support a small number of forces assessing allegations that have emerged following the publication of the US DoJ Epstein files.
“We continue to work collaboratively to assess the details being made public to allow us to understand any potential impact arising from the millions of documents that have been published.
“We continue to support our partners and contribute in any way we can to help secure justice for victims and survivors, and urge anyone who needs support to visit whenyouareready.co.uk.”
Three boats targeted in eastern Pacific and Caribbean as Trump continues pursuit of alleged ‘narco-terrorists’
US military officials have said American forces launched assaults on three alleged drug-smuggling boats, killing 11 in one of the deadliest days of the Trump administration’s months-long campaign against alleged traffickers.
The military action on Monday brought the number of fatalities caused by US strikes to 145 since September, when Donald Trump called on American armed forces to attack people deemed “narco-terrorists” on small vessels. There have been 42 known strikes in notorious drug-trafficking routes such as the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean, according to the Associated Press reported.
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London-based photographer Peter Li considers the cathedrals, basilicas, and historic spaces he captures to be “living vessels of light, symmetry, and time.” Soaring ceilings, gilded filigree, and saintly stained glass windows both reflect religious traditions and create a sanctuary for such practices. Whether in the luminous Gothic style or awe-inspiring Baroque, these spaces are also often architectural marvels, which Li documents through an almost portrait-like approach.
Many of his panoromas span 180 degrees and offer a symmetric, reflective view of the space through a meticulous stitching process. This perspective accentuates the dramatic, all-consuming effect of standing beneath ascendant rib vaults and majestic columns.
More recently, though, Li has begun to capture these spaces more directly, as if he’s just wandered in by chance. The two photos of York Minster reflect this shift and showcase a cathedral hazy with incense during Holy Week. Having wanted to capture this particular site for seven years, Li was able to secure early access and visit at 6 a.m., before any guests were allowed in. He adds:
The intention no longer centres on expanding what the eye can see, but on heightening the atmosphere of these interiors while remaining faithful to their original architecture. Alongside the expansive vertoramas, I’ve introduced compositions that sit closer to natural human vision. In these works, colour and light are pushed further, not to manipulate the structure, but to intensify its presence. The balance between realism and fantasy has become more deliberate and restrained.
Although Li has typically focused on sites in the U.K., recent years have brought him to Paris, Madrid, and Prague. He hopes to develop more long-term relationships that allow him to return and capture a space under various conditions.
Find prints in his shop, and explore more of his work on Instagram.
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Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman expects "human-level performance on most, if not all professional tasks" from AI, and believes most work involving "sitting down at a computer" -- accounting, legal, marketing, project management -- will be fully automated within the next year or 18 months. He pointed to exponential growth in computational power and predicted that creating a new AI model will soon be as easy as "creating a podcast or writing a blog."
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