Sewage pollution crackdown and lower bills in major water shake-up

A meteor has been seen soaring across the night’s sky in Suffolk. The footage was captured on a home security camera owned by Denise Hubert in Kesgrave, near Ipswich, at about 00:23 BST on Monday. At first she did not “know what to make” of the video the next morning, but she soon realised “it…

OpenAI is looking for a new Head of Preparedness who can help it anticipate the potential harms of its models and how they can be abused, in order to guide the company’s safety strategy. It comes at the end of a year that’s seen OpenAI hit with numerous accusations about ChatGPT’s impacts on users’ mental…

French AI startup Mistral launched its new Mistral 3 family of open-weight models on Tuesday, a launch that aims to prove it can lead in making AI publicly available and serve business clients better than Big Tech rivals. The 10-model release includes a large frontier model with multimodal and multilingual capabilities and nine smaller offline-capable,…

Delve, a Y Combinator-backed compliance startup accused of fabricating certifications for its customers, has disabled the “book a demo” feature on its website. The controversy, detailed last week in a Substack post by an anonymous whistleblower known as “DeepDelver,” has also apparently led Insight Partners to scrub an article explaining its $32 million investment in…

But if all sewage was stopped from entering Windermere, the number of days each year where the amount of the blue-green algae in it which exceeded World Health Organization limits would fall to zero, even when taking into account the lake’s projected temperature rise, the study found.