David Pegg
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Investigations Correspondent @Guardian. WhatsApp/Signal: +44 7721 857348 Email: [email protected]
NEW: ‘An incredible loss for Palestine’: Israeli offensive takes deadly toll on journalists Together with our friends at @lemondefr @paper_trail_m, @972mag and others, and coordinated by the brilliant @FbdnStories, we've spent the past months reporting on Press House, a small…
This is really good, and I think almost certainly correct on overtourism being a big part of the problem. That said, I'd guess cost of living is the catalyst for this expressing itself now. In May the massive increase in rice prices was leading the news almost constantly.
Japan is experiencing the same kind of anti-immigrant backlash that America and Europe have experienced. But its leaders can act now to make sure things don't get too bad. noahpinion.blog/p/the-anti-imm…
New paper & surprising result. LLMs transmit traits to other models via hidden signals in data. Datasets consisting only of 3-digit numbers can transmit a love for owls, or evil tendencies. 🧵
Time from Kennedy speech to Moon landing - 8 years and 2 months. Time for DFT to legislate whether e-scooters are legal...
An advanced version of Gemini with Deep Think has officially achieved gold medal-level performance at the International Mathematical Olympiad. 🥇 It solved 5️⃣ out of 6️⃣ exceptionally difficult problems, involving algebra, combinatorics, geometry and number theory. Here’s how 🧵
A UK wealth tax sounds simple: "tax the super‑rich, fund public services" But it's not. Our 16,000 word deep‑dive shows revenues are fragile, it puts growth, investment and jobs at risk, and there's no revenue before 2029. Here’s the evidence:
"Beveridge’s work imagined the architecture of the welfare state. Today’s momentous task is that of fixing our economic fundamentals so that his creation might survive to the next generation."
The British people sense a “revolutionary” moment is at hand - this is what @LabourGrowth wants to do about it. By @MarkMcvitie, @Lola__McEvoy and @chriscurtis94 newstatesman.com/politics/uk-po…
Inertia is greater for countries that have moved to services and want to revive manufacturing,as it is generally easier to transition from labor-intensive to high-value,capital-intensive,and later R&D-driven than to do a return from services. nytimes.com/2025/07/20/us/…
Today, we at @OpenAI achieved a milestone that many considered years away: gold medal-level performance on the 2025 IMO with a general reasoning LLM—under the same time limits as humans, without tools. As remarkable as that sounds, it’s even more significant than the headline 🧵
1/N I’m excited to share that our latest @OpenAI experimental reasoning LLM has achieved a longstanding grand challenge in AI: gold medal-level performance on the world’s most prestigious math competition—the International Math Olympiad (IMO).
Today we launched a new product called ChatGPT Agent. Agent represents a new level of capability for AI systems and can accomplish some remarkable, complex tasks for you using its own computer. It combines the spirit of Deep Research and Operator, but is more powerful than that…
Courage.
An important editor's note from @abi_whist about threats we've received from the historian Laurence Westgaph. He demanded @liverpoolpost takes down its stories about him but instead they have removed the paywalls so everyone can read them. livpost.co.uk/cutthroats-and…
So ministers and Whitehall hid a scandal. They hid £7 billion (more than the annual prisons budget). They hid the court cases. They then fought to stop the press ever reporting on it... Impossible to govern the country but Whitehall will move heaven + earth to protect ITSELF
DeepSeek was not a Sputnik moment in AI This graph is the Sputnik moment in AI
This is absolutely nuts. 4,000 new homes a year for a city of 9 million people.
The govt says London needs to build 88,000 homes a year. The latest data from @MoliorLondon, published today, shows private housebuilding is running at 1/20th of that figure. (1/)