Activists gathered outside the OpenAI offices on Monday during climate week in New York City

On Monday evening, protesters gathered outside the unmarked Manhattan offices of OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT, holding signs calling to “Eat the rich, save the planet”. Over the next two days, groups also picketed outside the offices of fellow tech giants Google and Amazon; other protesters, including clergy, were arrested while disrupting a closed-door AI health summit in the city. Tonight, protesters will target a Brooklyn gas power plant that was set to close – until it was purchased to power AI datacenters.

The protests come on the heels of an Anthropic employee quitting his job with a warning that intensified an already-growing AI panic: “The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.”

The Four Weddings and a Funeral actor answers your questions on being confused with James Nesbitt, his own Sliding Doors moment and a new perspective since turning 60

How often do you get asked to recite that WH Auden poem from Four Weddings and a Funeral, and can you do it from memory right now? mattyjj and simoit
Not for a long time. I could probably do the first couple of lines: Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone / Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone / Turn out the lights? And with muffled drums / Something, something … let the mourners come. There you go. Terrible!

In Steve Coogan’s Paul Calf’s Video Diary, your character praises Orson Welles’ The Trial for its “tremendous energy”, while Paul says he would “rather watch Dave Lee Travis playing Macbeth”. What’s your actual opinion of The Trial [by Franz Kafka]? AdrianH1
God, it’s a long time since I’ve read that. I read a lot of those books in my younger days, but probably, like a lot of people, even those who are graduates of English literature, I’d be hard pushed these days to tell you what it was about, other than the persecution of some minor character.

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The programme feels a little safe but the 15-year-old Japanese violinist impresses in her debut recording of works by Wieniawski, Chopin, Godowsky and Sibelius

When 13-year-old Himari Yoshimura took to the stage with the Berlin Philharmonic in March 2025, she became the youngest Asian soloist to appear with the orchestra in a subscription concert. A subsequent contract with Decca made her the label’s youngest-ever female signing. Her debut album features that Berlin performance of Wieniawski’s Violin Concerto No 1, alongside studio recordings of music by Chopin, Godowsky and Sibelius.

What is immediately apparent is the technical security of her playing, combined with an easy lyricism across the instrument’s full range. The fearsome double stopping in the Wieniawski is impressive, with some supple dynamic phrasing in the upper register. Occasionally a leap to a high note comes up a hair’s breadth short, something absent from the studio recordings, but this is nevertheless a significant performance. She’s not entirely helped by Sebastian Weigle’s smooth but staid accompaniments. It’s not the greatest concerto and needs a lighter touch to give it some lift (compare Michael Rabin and Adrian Boult).

From spoof monarch to porn tycoon, the actor narrator goes to town on the larger-than-life characters in this Booker-nominated satire

In the 2003 novel Yellow Dog, Xan Meo is set upon by two men in a pub who cosh him over the head: “Like the statue of a fallen tyrant, he crashed sideways into the damp paving, and lay still.” Meo is a writer and actor whose late father was a dangerous gangster; the attack is in revenge for Meo naming an old associate of his father in print. Meo survives, though the injury leaves him with an altered personality. Where he was previously a conscientious husband and father, now he is a chip off the old block.

While Meo languishes in hospital, King Henry IX – who is struggling to conceal his boredom with the job – is informed that images of his 15-year-old daughter in the bath are in circulation. And Clint Smoker, star reporter and gossip peddler at the tabloid newspaper the Morning Lark, gets an unexpected tipoff.

A golden retriever and a game of guess the pasta were unusual to see in a Women’s Champions League show – but I understand how they arrived there

Disclaimer: I have made a lot of bad TV programmes. I have done quite a few below-average radio shows. Podcasts, there are millions of them – some might say too many – and I’ve done my fair share that won’t go down in history. In between those, I’ve hopefully done some pretty good ones – it’s not for me to say.

I have had good ideas and the odd great one that didn’t make it to air (attention the full-size unreferenced post-Keys and Gray elephant in the Soccer AM studio). I’ve had more awful ones. I’ve hosted shows where I’ve had almost complete editorial control, and ones where I could have been replaced by a performing monkey.

'Sterk, energiek en fit' is wat de troebele natuurwijn snippende Theatrien Bellenveld zegt tegen hartsvriendin Annemieke Stoutje, die na zes weken zichzelf zoeken in Thailand yogameesteres van tantrische snit is geworden, zich nu shakri shukra noemt, alleen nog doeken draagt en klingeklangelend en tingetangelend van de kettingen, kralen, oorbellen van 5 meter en armbanden als een 'force' haar teenslipper weer op Nederlandse bodem heeft gezet en plots in Theatriens deuropening verschijnt met een troebele natuurwijn ("je ziet er beter uit dan ooit"). 'Sterk, energiek en fit' is ook wat de Amerikaanse president Donald J. Trump over de Chinese president Xi, die er beter uitziet dan ooit, zegt op Truth. Mevrouw Xi, trouwens, MOOI! Maar niet zo mooi als de mallemolen van Trumps vrije wereld waar we allemaal nog ruim twee jaar in mee mogen draaien. Wat een feest.

De Truthmaster en z'n crush

"Wat ziet die Chinees er toch sterk, energiek en fit uit"

BRUSSEL (ANP) - De EU-lidstaten hebben beperkende maatregelen opgelegd aan de Russische mediapersoonlijkheid Xenia Fedorova. Ze is volgens de EU betrokken bij aanhoudende hybride activiteiten van Rusland en manipulatie van informatie. Daarmee ondermijnt ze de democratie en stabiliteit in de EU, stellen de lidstaten.

Haar tegoeden worden nu bevroren. Het is daarnaast voor EU-burgers en -bedrijven verboden om haar geld of economische middelen ter beschikking te stellen.

Met de toevoeging van Fedorova aan de lijst waarvoor beperkende maatregelen gelden, staan nu 81 mensen en twintig bedrijven of instellingen.

Xenia Fedorova is voormalig leidinggevende bij Russia Today (RT) France. Vanuit die functie droeg ze bij aan "de uitvoering en verspreiding van de redactionele koers van RT France, waaronder pro-Russische narratieven in de context van de Russische aanvalsoorlog tegen Oekraïne", melden de lidstaten.

ROME (ANP/RTR) - Het Colosseum in Rome blijft ook vrijdag nog dicht voor bezoekers. De populairste toeristische attractie van Italië werd woensdag gesloten nadat een medewerker om het leven was gekomen tijdens werkzaamheden. Volgens het Italiaanse ministerie van Cultuur is er meer tijd nodig voor onderzoek en gesprekken met het personeel.

In het wereldberoemde Romeinse theater viel de 22-jarige medewerker Andrea Moretti meters naar beneden tijdens werkzaamheden aan de verlichting. Zijn dood "heeft ons diep bedroefd en geschokt", zei premier Giorgia Meloni woensdag. Alle bouw- en onderhoudswerkzaamheden zijn opgeschort.

Er waren al langer zorgen over de veiligheid. In november kwam een Roemeense medewerker om het leven nadat hij urenlang bedolven was geweest onder het puin van een deels ingestorte toren, vlakbij het Colosseum.

De grootste vakbond van het land, CGIL, eiste opheldering over de dood van Moretti. "Menselijkheid gaat voor op toeristen", zei de Romeinse vakbondsleider Natale Di Cola.