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US-Israel war on Iran live updates: Netanyahu says war will take ‘some time’; IDF issues evacuation warnings in Lebanon

Israeli PM adds that it will not be an ‘endless war’; Israeli military lists dozens of locations in Lebanon that could be targeted – follow the latest

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have targeted a US air base in Bahrain, the Islamic republic’s elite force said in a statement carried on Tuesday by the official Irna news agency.

“The IRGC announced that ... its naval forces carried out a large-scale drone and missile attack at dawn on the US air base in the Sheikh Isa area of Bahrain,” Irna posted on Telegram, using the acronym for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

U.S. forces have destroyed Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps command and control facilities, Iranian air defense capabilities, missile and drone launch sites, and military airfields during sustained operations. We will continue to take decisive action against imminent threats posed by the Iranian regime.

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© Photograph: Fadel Itani/AFP/Getty Images

© Photograph: Fadel Itani/AFP/Getty Images

© Photograph: Fadel Itani/AFP/Getty Images

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Cheating machine or powerful assistant? The AI anxieties of a trainee teacher

I was a newcomer, negotiating all of usual classroom difficulties for the first time. Throwing AI into the mix felt like downing a coffee in the middle of a panic attack

Two years ago, at the age of 39, I began training to be a school teacher. I wanted to teach English – to help young people become stronger readers, writers and thinkers, with a deeper connection to literature. After 15 years of working as a freelance writer and as a novelist, I felt confident that I had something to offer. But the further I progressed in my training, the more uncertain I felt. One particular question taunted me for my lack of an answer. What to do about artificial intelligence?

The immediate dilemma: what does it mean for English instruction that all pupils now have access to free online chatbots that can produce fluid, fairly complex prose on demand? This question sits atop a teetering pile of timeless pedagogical quandaries: What are we actually trying to do in school? How should we go about doing it? How do we know if we’ve succeeded? I was a newcomer, negotiating all of this for the first time. Throwing AI into the mix felt like downing a coffee in the middle of a panic attack.

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© Illustration: Jack Purling/The Guardian

© Illustration: Jack Purling/The Guardian

© Illustration: Jack Purling/The Guardian

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‘Pray We Make It Through the Night’: Iran’s Capital Under Siege

Many residents of Tehran managed to get out of town when the U.S. and Israel attack began, but others who could not described living under bombardment.

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People are standing behind a yellow line after a police station on Niloufar street was hit by US-Israel attacks and damaged the next door buildings in Tehran on Monday.
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Seven Takeaways From the Clintons’ Epstein Depositions

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was defiant. Former President Bill Clinton spoke of President Trump’s ties to Epstein. A Republican raised a conspiracy theory.

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Hillary Clinton speaking to reporters after her closed-door deposition before the House Oversight Committee, as part of its investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, in Chappaqua, N.Y.
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OpenAI Amends A.I. Deal With the Pentagon

The new pact includes additional protections to prevent the use of the company’s technology for mass surveillance of Americans.

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“It’s critical to protect the civil liberties of Americans, and there was so much focus on this, that we wanted to make this point especially clear,” OpenAI’s chief executive, Sam Altman, center, wrote on social media.
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