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Move over Brighton, this northern city is ready to snatch England’s queer crown

London may have the largest LGBT+ community and Brighton tends to get more attention, but in Manchester Rory Buccheri discovers a history that goes back beyond the clubs of Canal Street and a passion for an inclusive future

The Independent UK

The hardest part of creating conscious AI might be convincing ourselves it’s real

As far back as 1980, the American philosopher John Searle distinguished between strong and weak AI. Weak AIs are merely useful machines or programs that help us solve problems, whereas strong AIs would have genuine intelligence. A strong AI would be conscious.

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Move over, Alan Turing: meet the working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn’t see in the movies

The Oxbridge-educated boffin is feted as the codebreaking genius who helped Britain win the war. But should a little-known Post Office engineer named Tommy Flowers be seen as the real father of computing?

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‘A resistance to AI’: The author inviting readers to contribute to a mass memoir

Richard Beard says he’s got ‘better at telling the truth’ by arranging his life story on a grid – and invites others to do the same

The Guardian - UK

Breaking the Code review – tribute to Alan Turing given a fascinating update

Hugh Whitemore’s 1986 play about the criminalised mathematician is revised, with a new epilogue by Neil Bartlett, to reflect his 2013 pardoning

The Guardian - UK

AI has passed the aesthetic Turing Test − and it’s changing our relationship with art

Pick up an August 2025 issue of Vogue and you’ll come across an advertisement for the brand Guess featuring a stunning model. Yet tucked away in small print is a startling admission: She isn’t real. She was generated entirely by AI.

The Conversation

Australian novel attracts controversy over fictionalised depiction of gay codebreaker Alan Turing

Nick Croydon, the CEO of QBD Books, has faced criticism for his thriller The Turing Protocol

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‘Shut it down and start again’: staff disquiet as Alan Turing Institute faces identity crisis

Whistleblower warns UK’s top AI research body in danger of collapse due to threats over funding and new direction

The Guardian - UK

50 Popular Quotes About AI

50+ interesting quotes on AI by Google, IBM, Tim Cook, Andrew Ng, Alan Turing and more. Many are happening now!

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Rare papers of Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing fetch record sum at UK auction

A treasure trove of World War II codebreaker Alan Turing’s scientific papers has sold for more than three times their expected sale price after being saved from the shredder.

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Codebreaker Alan Turing’s scientific papers sell for ‘record’ £465,000

The archive of papers included a signed copy of Turing’s 1939 PhD dissertation Systems Of Logic Based On Ordinals.

Evening Standard

Wartime codebreaker Alan Turing’s scientific papers sell for £465,000 at auction

Cache of Turing’s work was almost shredded after being discovered in a house clearance in London last year

The Guardian - UK

Alan Turing's seminal papers, almost destroyed by a shredder, head to auction

The trove of papers from pioneering computer scientist Alan Turing was discovered in a loft.

LiveScience

AI models might be drawn to ‘spiritual bliss’. Then again, they might just talk like hippies

When multibillion-dollar AI developer Anthropic released the latest versions of its Claude chatbot last week, a surprising word turned up several times in the accompanying “system card”: spiritual.

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The Independent UK

Queer icons throughout history to celebrate this Pride Month

Here are 7 LGBT+ icons throughout history that you should know about.

The Independent UK

Lost Alan Turing papers, rediscovered in loft, to go under the hammer

The archive includes the World War II codebreaker’s personal copy of his PhD

The Guardian - UK

Alan Turing papers saved from shredder could fetch £150,000

Documents including signed copy of 1938 PhD dissertation to be auctioned after they were nearly thrown out

LiveScience

What is the Turing test? How the rise of generative AI may have broken the famous imitation game.

Is the Turing test still relevant in today's AI landscape? The advent of large language models has challenged its importance.

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The Guardian - UK

Today’s AI can crack second world war Enigma code ‘in short order’, experts say

Crowning achievement of Alan Turing’s codebreakers is now ‘straightforward’, according to computer scientists

TechRadar

Don't miss these 5 movies leaving Max soon, all with over 85% on Rotten Tomatoes

These five movies have very limited time left on Max. I know I'm going to miss these, especially this previous Oscar-winner.

TechRadar

ChatGPT crosses a new AI threshold by beating the Turing test

GPT-4.5 passed the Turing Test by convincing people it was human.

LiveScience

GPT-4.5 is the first AI model to pass an authentic Turing test, scientists say

GPT-4.5 has successfully convinced people it’s human 73% of the time in an authentic configuration of the original Turing test.

The Independent UK

Secret notebooks written by Alan Turing during WWII saved for the nation

The British mathematician is credited with breaking the Nazis’ Enigma code

The Independent UK

Rare Alan Turing wartime papers saved for the nation after export bar

The documents relating to the Delilah project are valued at nearly £400,000.

The Conversation

ChatGPT just passed the Turing test. But that doesn’t mean AI is now as smart as humans

There have been several headlines over the past week about an AI chatbot officially passing the Turing test.

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