Trump said Paramount’s sale to David and Larry Ellison was ‘greatest thing that’s happened in a long time’ for free press

IN MARCH 2025, two things happened. The Guardian published “A Machine-Shaped Hand”: a 1,200-word text generated by ChatGPT from the prompt “write a metafictional literary short story about AI and grief,” which OpenAI’s founder, Sam Altman, effused was “the first time [he had] been really struck” by AI writing. And my colleagues and I in the School of Humanities at Coventry University (UK) were placed at risk of redundancy as part of a restructure generated by the administrative prompt to do something, anything, to salvage our collapsing finances. An email assured us that the cuts would help deliver a more “sustainable” model of education, which was not the first time we’d been struck by the administration’s idiocy. Other noteworthy instances included the proposal that we stop assigning essays since LLMs rendered good writing skills moot, and the suggestion, in response to staff concerns about spiraling workloads, to outsource lecture-writing to ChatGPT. Coventry’s announcement was but one of 46 in the last year: according to the “UKHE [UK Higher Education] Shrinking” project, 99 UK universities and 40 arts and humanities departments have undergone restructures and redundancies since 2020. The latter have been primarily concentrated in institutions that cater to students from underrepresented backgrounds, where enrollment numbers have fallen sharply since the early 2010s thanks to broader policy changes aimed at turning UKHE into a competitive marketplace, the siphoning of working-class kids into vocational courses, and a political and media discourse that casts arts degrees as a waste of time, particularly for the less wealthy. The collapse of the institutions where young people learn to make and critique art stands to greatly benefit companies like OpenAI, which, in the absence of human artists and critics, can both make the stuff and tell us it’s good. As such, it seems noteworthy that efforts to promote generative AI’s creative potential have accelerated in line with program closures, cuts to arts funding, and a more general public skepticism toward the value of arts education. From this perspective, OpenAI’s story, the literary devices it uses to tell it, and the story the company has told about it offer important insights into the shape of the crisis at hand.

Top Trump officials like Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio have all moved into taxpayer-subsidized military homes over the past couple of months.

A GoFundMe has raised over $26,000 for a Wrightsville firefighter who lost his right hand after a man attacked him with a samurai sword.

Carlos Jimenez, a 24-year-old U.S. citizen, was on his way to work at a food bank when he was shot by ICE officers in what a DHS spokesperson calls "defensive shots"

Well, well, if it isn't the consequences of their actions.

Garland's incompetence gave the Supreme Court the chance to set Trump free

Oxfam Ireland is calling on the Government to increase taxes on wealthier households.

For 32 years, the National Retail Federation (NRF) — the lobbying group representing major retailers in the United States — has produced the "National Retail Security Survey." The survey, widely cited by media outlets, attempts to estimate the total retail "shrink" in the industry by collecting data from major retailers.

Radical English director who clashed with the BBC over his ‘horrifying’ film about nuclear war, was forced to look abroad to continue working

Multiple law enforcement officers have been indicted in a yearlong conspiracy to traffic drugs across the state in exchange for money.

This Halloween, Kim Kelly digs into the history of medical graverobbing and desecration-for-profit—a long-buried symptom of the heedlessness and abject cruelty of centuries past. Right? Surely nothing so grotesque and monstrous could still be taking place in our enlightened contemporary era.

Kevin Roberts denounced the “venomous coalition” that has criticized the former Fox News host.

A helicopter airlifted him to hospital, with a rescue doctor calling his survival "a miracle."

Newly released video raises new questions about the arrest of a progressive Tennessee man for posting a Trump meme in a Facebook group

Spiders are famous aesthetes. Many craft radially symmetric webs, first extruding long silken spokes and then spinning spiraling strands to snag prey. In the mornings, the intricately laid silk sparkles with dew drops. Your average, generic spiderweb spun by the most run-of-the-mill, Joe-Eightpack spider will still probably be one of the more beautiful structures constructed…

In 2022, the tech critic and privacy advocate Cory Doctorow coined the term enshittification to describe what's happened on the Internet to a lot of the most widely used platforms: Google, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, Spotify. He writes: "First, platforms are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die." That could serve as a model for Trumpism too.

A new ICE proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.

GUELPH — Police in Guelph are investigating the theft of a trailer loaded with $80,000 worth of whipped cream.

The BBC confirmed on Tuesday that its 'Doctor Who' co-production deal with Disney had vaporized. What went wrong on the series starring Ncuti Gatwa?