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Adam Thomas has recalled the moment a gun was pointed at his head on a bus when he was a teenager, saying he initially believed the weapon was fake. The Waterloo Road actor, now 38, described the ordeal during an episode of the At Home With The Thomas Bros podcast, which he presents with his brothers Ryan and Scott. Adam said he was aged about 14 or 15 and sitting at the back of a double-decker bus when a group of boys boarded. “I got a gun pulled to my head on a bus,” he said. “I was sat at…

Google has unveiled WeatherNext 3, an artificial intelligence weather model it says can deliver more accurate, detailed and frequent forecasts than both rival AI systems and established government forecasting tools. Developed by scientists at Google DeepMind and Google Research, the model is expected to feed weather information shown through Google Search, Google Maps and Gemini. It will also be made available to users and researchers through Google’s cloud platforms. WeatherNext 3 was ranked the most accurate model in tests carried out using Operational WeatherBench, a comparison platform developed by the weather technology company Brightband. The assessment examined measures including temperature,…

Stanford’s top-ranked, unbeaten women’s soccer team is to retire jersey No. 19 in honour of former captain Katie Meyer, in the first such ceremony in the programme’s history. The tribute will take place before Thursday evening’s match against USC at Stanford’s Cagan Stadium. Meyer’s parents, Steve and Gina, are due to receive a framed No. 19 jersey during the pre-match ceremony. Stanford head coach Paul Ratcliffe said Meyer had made a lasting impression as a competitor, leader and team-mate, describing the retirement as a way to preserve her legacy for future generations of players. Meyer wore No. 19 for Stanford…

US jobless claims rose to 206,000 in the week ending August 29, but the increase did little to alter the picture of a labour market where lay-offs remain historically uncommon. The latest figure from the US Labor Department was up from a revised 204,000 the previous week. The four-week average, which helps smooth out weekly fluctuations, increased by 1,500 to 207,250. Initial claims are closely watched as an indicator of redundancies and the wider direction of employment. They have generally remained between 200,000 and 230,000 a week over the past year, a range considered unusually low by historical standards. Continuing…

The US federal government is preparing to use artificial intelligence to interview some job applicants, beginning with candidates for its new Tech Force programme, officials said. The trial is expected to begin within days and will not initially apply across every federal agency. It will instead focus on the initiative, which recruits technology specialists from the private sector for temporary government roles lasting up to two years. Applicants to the Tech Force pool will be assessed using CodeSignal, a recruitment platform that provides automated technical screening and virtual interviews. Under the pilot, AI agents will ask candidates a standard set…

Meghan Markle has paid tribute to her “friend and mentor” Gloria Steinem, sharing a previously unseen photograph of the feminist icon with Prince Archie following her death at the age of 92. The Duchess of Sussex posted three images on Instagram in memory of Steinem, who died peacefully at her home in New York City on Wednesday, September 2, surrounded by people who loved her. Her foundation did not disclose a cause of death. ([abcnews.com](https://abcnews.com/US/feminist-icon-journalist-gloria-steinem-dies/story?id=82183161&utm_source=openai)) One of the photographs showed Steinem reaching towards Archie, now seven, during a visit to Meghan and Prince Harry’s California home. The child’s face was…

The San Francisco 49ers and Los Angeles Rams will make NFL history next week when they travel to Melbourne for the league’s first regular-season game in Australia. The NFC West rivals will meet at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Friday, September 11, with kick-off scheduled for 10.35am local time. The journey will be the longest ever undertaken by two NFL teams for a game. The Rams are expected to cover about 7,937 miles from Los Angeles, while the 49ers’ trip from Santa Clara will be slightly shorter at approximately 7,872 miles. The Melbourne fixture is the first of a record…

Daniel Lubetzky has spoken about the four qualities he believes are essential to building a successful business as he appeared on CBS Mornings to discuss his new podcast, Build or Break. The KIND Snacks founder and Shark Tank judge said the series would explore the setbacks, failures and turning points behind the success of entrepreneurs and other prominent figures. Lubetzky identifies the four skills as curiosity, compassion, creativity and courage. He has described them as the foundations of a “builder’s mindset” – an approach aimed at solving problems rather than deepening divisions. Daniel Lubetzky’s new podcast Build or Break The…

A Claude outage is affecting users attempting to send requests to several of Anthropic’s AI models, with some prompts failing to complete or returning error messages. The disruption began at about 9.41am Eastern Time on 3 September and includes the company’s Mythos, Fable and Opus model ranges. Anthropic has confirmed that the incident is affecting both current and earlier versions of the services. Claude outage affects multiple models Anthropic’s status updates initially identified elevated errors involving Claude Mythos 5.1, Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Opus 5. The company later expanded the list of affected systems to include Mythos and Fable…

Rain chances are set to rise across Arizona as moisture drawn north from Hurricane Marie reaches the state, bringing the prospect of scattered thunderstorms, flash flooding, strong winds and dust through the coming days. The hurricane is expected to remain offshore in the Pacific, but its position south-west of Baja California is helping to strengthen the monsoon flow into Arizona. The National Weather Service said tropical moisture would move into the region from Thursday night into Friday, with the greatest impact likely across foothills and higher ground east of Phoenix. ([marine.weather.gov](https://marine.weather.gov/product.php?format=txt&glossary=1&issuedby=PSR&product=AFD&site=BOX&version=2&utm_source=openai)) Marie was classed as a Category 2 hurricane on…