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Challenger to market leader OpenAI says it wants to ‘meet users where they are’ and become part of users’ everyday life

Met Office says storms may cause travel disruption and flooding, leading to difficult driving conditions

More than a thousand supporters at a pro-Palestine encampment in California face arrest by police, a day after it was attacked by pro-Israel counter-protesters

Donald Trump claimed President Joe Biden is “determined to create the conditions” of a 7 October style attack in the US during an anti-migrant rally speech in Wisconsin. Mr Trump claimed America is heading for its own “October 7 style ...

Israel has reopened the only crossing on Gaza’s northern border for the first time since 7 October, to allow urgent aid through. The IDF confirmed the Erez Crossing had opened on Wednesday (1 May), with 30 trucks delivering food and medical supplie ...

Vice President Kamala Harris hit out at Republican “extremists” who “don’t know or who don’t care how a woman’s body works” during a powerful speech on US abortion restrictions. Ms harris claimed former president Do ...

Large fire and billowing smoke engulfs buildings in the latest attack on the port city

 

Bigoted attacks from the right became a new normal. It’s been a sorry spectacle, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

Global forecast contrasts with downbeat assessment for a British economy constrained by high interest rates, price rises and staff shortages

Swinney has won backing of several senior cabinet members and SNP’s Westminster leader, Stephen Flynn

There was a hilarious theme-park element to flying the budget airline, which gave us more than just cheap flights and a bizarre booking system

Big economies such as the US must change fiscal policy as the realities of debt and inflation bite

Jeff Daniels rages as a crooked real-estate mogul staring into the abyss of bankruptcy in this lavish take on Tom Wolfe’s novel. It’s just a shame the swearing can’t compete with the real deal

Father of Khaled Arouq, 16, joins calls to reform Palestinian Authority as IDF raids in West Bank leave rising death toll

A senior Hamas official told AFP the group was looking to end the war but had reservations about the ceasefire plan

Party predicted to lose about half of the 1,000 seats it is defending in contest that could shape Rishi Sunak’s future

Shanidar Z found in cave where Neanderthals repeatedly returned to ritually bury their dead

Student journalists at campuses across the country are getting a pressure-filled, and dangerous, lesson in their chosen profession during a chaotic springtime of protests