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Virgin Atlantic is using ChatGPT Work to help its teams understand the airline’s complex customer journey and deliver better experiences faster. From competitive research to product planning and analytics, ChatGPT Work gives employees new ways to bring information together and move from insight to action.For an airline, the customer journey extends beyond just booking a flight. It includes browsing, purchasing, checking in, traveling, the onboard experience, and sharing feedback afterward. Each stage produces valuable information, often held across different systems and reporting tools. Virgin Atlantic is using ChatGPT to connect those signals and help teams decide where to focus.Turning weeks…

OpenAI on Monday unveiled a new cybersecurity-focused model called GPT‑5.6‑Cyber that it said is focused on vulnerability research, penetration testing, and incident response. “Built on GPT‑5.6 Sol, it is trained to improve capabilities on several specialized cybersecurity tasks (e.g., finding zero-day vulnerabilities and developing exploit chains) and to reduce refusals for certain higher-risk, dual-use cyber tasks,” OpenAI said. The artificial intelligence (AI) company said it’s making GPT 5.6 Cyber available through Daybreak Red, a new tier that provides access to its purpose-trained cybersecurity models to other firms for authorized vulnerability research, exploit validation, and security testing. GPT-5.6-Cyber, a more cyber-permissive…

Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms has signed a 191-megawatt data center lease with an unnamed frontier AI lab that it expects to generate about $9.1 billion of gross contract revenue over a 20-year base term.Construction cash must arrive much sooner: the first 96 MW is expected to become available in December 2027, when initial rent is expected to commence, and the remaining 95 MW is due in June 2028. The plan still treats Bitcoin sales as a source of construction equity before rent begins.Riot projects $2.1 billion to $2.3 billion of capital spending for the build and assumes that 80% to…

Like a collage made of layered sheets of colored cellophane, a vibrant new image layers observations of a famous star-forming nebula from NASA space telescopes. The resulting cosmic “craft” reveals new details about the star formation region known as 30 Doradus, or the Tarantula Nebula. Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small neighbor galaxy to the Milky Way about 160,000 light-years from Earth, the Tarantula has thousands of young stars embedded in a vibrant honeycomb-like structure of gas and dust. Like a collage made of layered sheets of colored cellophane, a vibrant new image layers observations of a famous…

As Corpus Christi teetered on the edge of a water supply disaster earlier this year, community organizers circulated a petition to dramatically increase the price of water for the region’s large industrial users during drought. They gathered almost 13,000 signatures, more than enough to put their proposal—called the Fair Water Amendment—on the ballot in November. But the City Attorney’s office has recommended that City Council members block the effort using an obscure legal maneuver enacted by Texas’ Republican-led Legislature in 2023.  On Tuesday, council members will decide whether to take that step. It will be their last opportunity to intervene…

The UK’s offshore energy regulator, the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA), has revealed that 56 North Sea wells returned to production last year, with more cost-efficient well interventions helping operators deliver 16 million barrels of oil (boe) from shut-in wells on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS). Illustration; Source: North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) The NSTA’s ‘2026 Wells Insight Report’ has outlined that the total well stock on the UK Continental Shelf stood at 2,298 wells, 7% down on the previous year, with 1,439 operating, 558 shut-in and 301 plugged, while North Sea operators produced an extra 16 million barrels of oil…

On July 16, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke at a summit bringing together representatives from more than 60 countries to discuss political terrorism. Like the Islamic State and al Qaeda, Rubio said, “Antifa militants and their comrades” now posed a “transnational threat,” and global powers should use the same tools used to fight jihadist groups to stop them. A key part of this strategy, he said, would be keeping these groups from using the global financial system. This is not the first time that the Trump administration has used financial counterterrorism mechanisms for political purposes. More than a…

People aged 70 and over won’t have to retake their driving tests under new government rules, as has been claimed on social media.Posts on Facebook have been making the assertion that new Prime Minister Andy Burnham is proposing to make over-70s pass another driving test to continue driving on UK roads.One post, which has been liked over 1,800 times, says: “What have I and my fellow pensioners done to upset our new Prime Minister… Today he is talking of all drivers over 70 taking a new driving test.”But this is not a genuine policy being brought forward by Mr Burnham.…

Press corps traveling with Trump provide additional flight details following reports that president hid in catering truck to switch planesWe’re also chasing new reports that Donald Trump left Turkey last month on a secret military flight to Britain amid an Iranian assassination threat – despite the White House saying he was aboard the old Air Force One – and that he briefly hid in an airport catering truck to move from one aircraft to another.ABC News reporter Michelle Stoddart, who traveled with the president and senior officials from Ankara in July, noted today that before the press corps departed the…

France has banned unsolicited telemarketing phone calls, in what a consumer group is hailing as a “small revolution” for the sales industry.From Tuesday, unsolicited calls are prohibited for businesses in all sectors – but there are some exceptions.Calls will only be permitted if they relate to a contract a person has already entered into or the company has obtained prior consent to be contacted for marketing. “It cannot be stressed enough that peace and quiet is a right, and it is time to stop exposing consumers to unwanted solicitations,” consumer advocacy group Que Choisir Ensemble, said in a statement.”This observation…