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EU Urged To Protect Grassroots AI Research or Risk Losing Out To US
It adds: “Europe cannot afford to lose AI sovereignty. Eliminating open-source R&D will leave the European scientific community and economy critically dependent on a handful of foreign and proprietary firms for essential AI infrastructure.” The largest AI efforts, by companies such as OpenAI and Google, are heavily controlled by their creators. It is impossible to download the model behind ChatGPT, for instance, and the paid-for access that OpenAI provides to customers comes with a number of restrictions, legal and technical, on how it can be used. By contrast, open-source AI efforts involve creating an AI model and then releasing it for anyone to use, improve or adapt as they see fit.
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Greedy retailers urged not to raise fuel price again amid oil giants cutting output
GREEDY retailers have been urged to resist raising the price of fuel again despite pressure from oil producers cutting output.
Drivers were warned of a jump of up to 5p a litre after Saudi Arabia, Iraq and others decided to slash supplies to drive up wholesale costs.
Campaigners have argued that supermarkets are already raking it in[/caption]
Supermarkets and filling stations were told not to use Opec’s move to cut one million barrels a day as a smokescreen to raise pump prices.
Campaigners said they were already raking it in by not passing on fuel price falls.
Petrol is 20p cheaper than in November, saving £11 for a basic 55-litre family car. Diesel has fallen 27.5p, saving £15 a tank.
Yet diesel, despite being 3.5p cheaper wholesale, is still 16p costlier than petrol at the pump.
The RAC’s Simon Williams said: “Despite the oil price increasing by $5 in a day to $85 on the back of news of a production cut, there’s no justification for major retailers to raise pump prices.
“We should be seeing diesel advertised at around 150p rather than the current 162.5p mark.”
The AA’s Luke Bosdet said: “If the fuel retailers think the oil price hike provides a smokescreen to hide what they’re doing with diesel pump prices, they’re seriously mistaken.
“The road fuel trade needs to stop fleecing drivers and small businesses that buy diesel at pump prices.”
Howard Cox, of campaigners FairFuelUK, said the world was being held to ransom by Opec.
He said: “With unchecked pump pricing still reigning supreme and Opec’s decision, drivers can expect prices to rise again.
“The Government must introduce PumpWatch to track prices.”
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MANCHESTER UNITED legend Paul Parker believes that Donny van de Beek has to quit the club to save his stuttering career.
Meanwhile, Erik ten Hag has told a hostile Anfield to “bring it on” ahead of United’s huge Premier League encounter against Liverpool.
Off the pitch, the Qatari billionaire Sheikh Hamad bin Jaber Al Thani has revealed that he does NOT support the £5billion takeover bid son Sheikh Jassim has offered.
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Now supermarkets run out of turnips — a day after Minister urged people to eat them instead of tomatoes
SUPERMARKETS have now run out of turnips — a day after people were urged to eat them instead of tomatoes.
Stores yesterday suggested shoppers switch to swedes instead.
There was a rush on root veg after food supply minister Therese Coffey suggested turnips as a solution to the shortages of salad crops.
All the major supermarkets apart from Sainsbury’s and Waitrose have rationed tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce and peppers in a bid to prevent panic buying.
Earlier this week Lidl stopped mum Lisa Fearns, 49, from buying 100 cucumbers for her detox business at a Merseyside store.
Meanwhile growers have warned supplies of leeks could run out before St David’s Day next week. Harvests have been hit by a lack of rainfall and extremely cold weather.
The Leek Growers Association said leeks were in short supply as farmers “are facing their most difficult season ever”.
Despite empty shelves at many stores Sir Robert Goodwill, Tory chairman of the environment, food and rural affairs committee, insisted yesterday: “There’s loads of good produce — there’s good UK-grown parsnips, leeks.”
He did however admit: “Turnips are great, but you can’t eat them every single meal.”
Growers fear shortages will last until next month as it will take that long for crops to grow in the UK with planting only starting in earnest next week.
Retailers blame disrupted harvests in Spain, Morocco and North Africa for the current shortages. Most salad crops sold in our supermarkets during the colder months are imported from those regions.