Sri Lanka to slash military by a third to cut costs

Sri Lanka will slash its army by a third to 135,000 personnel by next year and to 100,000 by 2030, the state minister of defence said, as the country tries to cut costs in the face of its worst economic crisis in over seven decades. The size of Lanka’s…

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Banning ChatGPT in schools will be hard, so teachers should treat ChatGPT like a calculator: assume students are using it unless they are physically supervised (Kevin Roose/New York Times)

Kevin Roose / New York Times:
Banning ChatGPT in schools will be hard, so teachers should treat ChatGPT like a calculator: assume students are using it unless they are physically supervised  —  OpenAI’s new chat bot is raising fears o…

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Politics daily briefing: January 13

All the latest political developments in the UK, as Sir Keir Starmer prepares to urge Rishi Sunak to stand up to the “Brexit purity cult” of Eurosceptics on the Tory benches to find a solution to the Northern Ireland Protocol issues.

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