'Baffling but brilliant' post-apocalyptic novel The End of Everything wins Booker Prize Author M John Harrison has become the oldest ever winner of the Booker Prize, picking up the prestigious literary award for his post-apocalyptic novel The End of Everything. Harrison, 81, who has built a cult following over his 60-year career, was named the winner of the £50,000 prize at a ceremony in London on Monday. The End of Everything is set in the years after a mysterious catastrophe that caused British society as we know it to collapse. It has divided opinion among readers, and was described as bleak but brilliant and dreamlike and baffling by one critic. Dame Mary Beard, who chaired the Booker judges, said: It's a challenging read, but some of the best fiction is challenging.

'I don't think AI can be held back' Philippe Jaenada. 'I don't think AI can be held back' Philippe Jaenada. Philippe Jaenada told French radio that he used ChatGPT to'play with the reader', after the prize removed a different book from its longlist over allegations of AI use The winner of France's most prestigious literary prize has admitted using artificial intelligence while writing his novel, barely a day after collecting an award whose jury had thrown out another book over suspected AI use. Philippe Jaenada, who won the Prix Goncourt on Tuesday for (The Unknown Woman of the Quai de Javel), told France Inter radio on Wednesday that he had turned to AI "three times" while writing it. The first, he said, was to slip in a sentence written by ChatGPT in order to "play with the reader".

Geoffrey Hinton says within 10 years we should know if AI risks can be managed safely. Geoffrey Hinton says within 10 years we should know if AI risks can be managed safely. AI'godfather' Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off without AI One of the "godfathers of AI", Geoffrey Hinton, has said it could turn out that humans would have been better off never developing the technology as he warned it could trigger a large-scale incident this year or next, such as a temporary blackout of financial or power systems. The Nobel prize-winning computer scientist told the Guardian he is not a "doomer" about the technology that is underpinned by his groundbreaking research into artificial neural networks and believes AI has the potential to lead to a "wonderful future" but he said "it might be that we would have been better off never developing it". I'm willing to be selfish and choose humans' Hinton, 78, said that within a decade and possibly sooner, humanity will know whether it can manage the technology's risks and enable what he called "radical abundance" or whether "we fail to manage the risks and have a huge gap between rich and poor, huge cultural problems, massive unemployment, just society being torn apart".

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Raphael Memmesheimer has been successfully competing in the RoboCup@Home league winning the RoboCup@Home competition five times. He and his colleagues won the best paper award at RoboCup 2026 for their work "Efficient Image Annotation via Semi-Supervised Object Segmentation with Label Propagation" . We caught up with Raphael to find out more about this research, his history with RoboCup, and the challenges of the @Home competition. Could you start by telling us how you got involved with RoboCup@Home? I've actually been involved in the @Home league since I was a student, and my first time going to a World Cup for @Home was in 2013.

Dog that hunts invasive'sea vomit' honoured as animal of the year A working dog from the Scottish Highlands has been named animal of the year by a charity for hunting down an invasive marine creature called the carpet sea squirt. This organism, also nicknamed sea vomit, is particularly harmful to coastal wildlife and economies. Working at low tide with her owner, Dr Texa Sim, black labrador Sgiath has found hundreds of colonies of the sea squirt, which - if left uncontrolled - can smother and kill native species. Sgiath is thought to be the UK's first sea squirt-hunting dog. She's a natural says Dr Sim proudly.

Simbarashe Kundizeza says the story is entirely his own work. Simbarashe Kundizeza says the story is entirely his own work. The Zimbabwean writer Simbarashe Kundizeza has denied using AI to write a prize-winning short story after an article in the Atlantic said software had flagged it as almost completely AI-generated. Kundizeza's story The Blue Fighter was announced as the winner of the prestigious Caine prize for African writers on 6 October. Five days later, The Atlantic published an article by the author and journalist Vauhini Vara titled: "Yet Another Literary prize winner Seems to Be AI." Vara said that she had run the story through the AI-detection software Pangram, which itself uses AI, and it had deemed the story to be almost completely artificially generated.