Norway signs £10bn deal for anti-submarine warships built in UK

Norway has agreed a £10bn deal for anti-submarine warships that will be built in the UK, as the two countries plan joint operations in northern Europe to deal with increased Russian activity.The Ministry of Defence (MoD) said the agreement to build Type 26 frigates was the UK’s biggest ever warship export deal by value, and Norway’s biggest defence procurement deal.It said that overall it would provide a £10bn boost to the UK economy and support 4,000 jobs across the UK “well into the 2030s”.The Type 26 frigates will be built at the BAE Systems shipyards in Glasgow, which are already constructing eight of the warships for the Royal Navy.“This £10bn deal is what our plan for change is about,” said the UK prime minister, Keir Starmer

First the great migration, now the big hold: why workers are staying put

The tide has turned. The great migration – when the shift to remote work prompted people to quit their jobs in droves – is officially over. Now comes the big hold.According to a new survey from consulting firm Robert Half, 73% of respondents – workers at companies – said they plan to stay in their current roles through 2025. They gave reasons like having “positive company culture” and “feeling professionally fulfilled” or “being well compensated” at their current job

Doctors develop AI stethoscope that can detect major heart conditions in 15 seconds

Doctors have successfully developed an artificial intelligence-led stethoscope that can detect three heart conditions in 15 seconds.Invented in 1816, the traditional stethoscope – used to listen to sounds within the body – has been a vital part of every medic’s toolkit for more than two centuries.Now a team have designed a hi-tech upgrade with AI capabilities that can diagnose heart failure, heart valve disease and abnormal heart rhythms almost instantly.The new stethoscope developed by researchers at Imperial College London and Imperial College healthcare NHS trust can analyse tiny differences in heartbeat and blood flow undetectable to the human ear, and take a rapid ECG at the same time.Details of the breakthrough, which could boost early diagnosis of the three conditions, were presented to thousands of doctors at the European Society of Cardiology annual congress in Madrid, the world’s largest heart conference

ChatGPT encouraged Adam Raine’s suicidal thoughts. His family’s lawyer says OpenAI knew it was broken

Adam Raine was just 16 when he started using ChatGPT for help with his homework. While his initial prompts to the AI chatbot were about subjects like geometry and chemistry – questions like: “What does it mean in geometry if it says Ry=1” – in just a matter of months he began asking about more personal topics.“Why is it that I have no happiness, I feel loneliness, perpetual boredom anxiety and loss yet I don’t feel depression, I feel no emotion regarding sadness,” he asked ChatGPT in the fall of 2024.Instead of urging Raine to seek mental health help, ChatGPT asked the teen whether he wanted to explore his feelings more, explaining the idea of emotional numbness to him. That was the start of a dark turn in Raine’s conversations with the chatbot, according to a new lawsuit filed by his family against OpenAI and chief executive Sam Altman

Invincibles sweep Rockets aside for treble of men’s Hundred titles

We have seen this one before. For the third year in a row Oval Invincibles rocked up to Lord’s, batted first and ended up with the trophy. As the Hundred signed off on its opening chapter – next year will bring new owners, rebranding and potentially an extreme makeover of squads – this was a fitting result, the Invincibles men having been the standout side for much of it.Will Jacks and Nathan Sowter, both of whom played in the Invincibles’ first match in 2021, were the ones responsible this time, with Trent Rockets falling to a 26-run defeat. Jacks provided the hits in the first half, finishing with 72 off 41 balls as the Invincibles put up 168, and Sowter ruined the chase quickly

Lando Norris will ‘give it everything’ in F1 title race after Dutch GP hopes dashed

Lando Norris has said he will “chill out and just go for it” in an effort to bridge the gap to his McLaren teammate, Oscar Piastri, after the British driver was forced to retire from the Dutch Grand Prix and the Australian took a 34-point lead in the world championship.Norris was just nine points behind Piastri going into the 15th round of the season at Zandvoort but an oil leak cost him dear. With seven laps to go when he was in second place and just over one second behind Piastri, Norris was left helpless as his car ground to a halt by the side of the track.Nine meetings remain this season and Piastri has enough of a lead that catching him will take a herculean effort from Norris, which the British driver acknowledged.“It’s only made it harder for me and put me under more pressure but it’s almost a big enough gap now that I can just chill out about it and just go for it,” he said