Sainsbury’s recalls two own-brand hummus varieties over E coli fears

Sainsbury’s has recalled two varieties of its own-brand hummus over fears they may contain a deadly strain of E coli, advising customers who have bought the products not to eat them.The affected items are 315g containers of JS Classic Houmous, with a use-by date of 13 September, and 200g tubs of JS Lemon & Coriander Houmous with a use-by date of 14 September.The Food Standards Agency said the affected batches could contain shiga toxin-producing E coli (Stec), and that the items had been recalled as a precaution.Point of sale notices will be displayed in all stores selling the products until 3 October, explaining to customers why they have been recalled and what to do if they have already bought them.Sainsbury’s apologised to customers for any inconvenience and advised them not to eat the affected products

AstraZeneca pauses £200m investment in Cambridge research site

The drugmaker AstraZeneca has paused a planned £200m expansion of its Cambridge research site, completing a depressing week for the UK pharmaceutical industry.The decision by the UK’s largest company means none of its much-trumpeted £650m investment package in the UK – which was originally announced in March 2024 – is proceeding.The now stalled £200m Cambridge project had been expected to create 1,000 jobs. In January, AstraZeneca scrapped plans to invest £450m in its vaccine manufacturing facility in Speke, Merseyside, citing a cut in government support, after months of negotiations.An AstraZeneca spokesperson said on Friday: “We constantly reassess the investment needs of our company and can confirm our expansion in Cambridge is paused

AI content needs to be labelled to protect us | Letters

Marcus Beard’s article on artificial intelligence slopaganda (No, that wasn’t Angela Rayner dancing and rapping: you’ll need to understand AI slopaganda, 9 September) highlights a growing problem – what happens when we no longer know what is true? What will the erosion of trust do to our society?The rise of deepfakes is increasing at an ever faster rate due to the ease at which anyone can create realistic images, audio and even video. Generative AI models have now become so sophisticated that a recent survey showed that less than 1% of respondents could correctly identify the best deepfake images and videos.This content is being used to manipulate, defraud, abuse and mislead people. Fraud using AI cost the US $12.3bn in 2023 and Deloitte predicts that could reach $40bn by 2027

ChatGPT may start alerting authorities about youngsters considering suicide, says CEO

The company behind ChatGPT could start calling the authorities when young users talk seriously about suicide, its co-founder has said.Sam Altman raised fears that as many as 1,500 people a week could be discussing taking their own lives with the chatbot before doing so.The chief executive of San Francisco-based OpenAI, which operates the chatbot with an estimated 700 million global users, said the decision to train the system so the authorities were alerted in such emergencies was not yet final. But he said it was “very reasonable for us to say in cases of, young people talking about suicide, seriously, where we cannot get in touch with the parents, we do call authorities”.Altman highlighted the possible change in an interview with the podcaster Tucker Carlson on Wednesday, which came after OpenAI and Altman were sued by the family of Adam Raine, a 16-year-old from California who killed himself after what his family’s lawyer called “months of encouragement from ChatGPT”

Scandinavia holds off Rahiebb as No 3 jockey Tom Marquand takes St Leger

Aidan O’Brien’s pre-eminence in European racing over the last 20 years has been so unrelenting that it can sometimes be taken for granted, but even by Ballydoyle’s standards, the 2025 season is turning into an extraordinary campaign that could match, or even surpass, the record-breaking 2017 when he saddled 28 Group One winners worldwide.Scandinavia was O’Brien’s 16th winner at the highest level in the St Leger here on Saturday, while Delacroix – like Scandinavia, a 2-1 favourite – took the total to 17 a couple of hours later, showing an exceptional turn of foot to win the Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown under Christophe Soumillon.There is such strength in depth in O’Brien’s stable this year that Lambourn, the Derby winner, turned out to be the weakest link in his three-strong team for the Leger, as he faded into fourth after setting a strong gallop. But Lambourn and Sean Levey had, by that point, teed it up perfectly for Scandinavia and Tom Marquand to strike for home two furlongs out, and the proven stamina of the winner of the two-mile Goodwood Cup allowed him to tough it out through the final quarter as Rahiebb and Scandinavia’s stable companion, Stay True, tried and failed to close him down.Marquand was called up for the ride on Scandinavia as O’Brien grappled with a mini-crisis in his team of jockeys, after a season-ending leg injury for Ryan Moore and a 10-day suspension for Wayne Lordan, who rode Lambourn to his Derby success

Hatton warms up for Ryder Cup by surging into contention at PGA Championship

Thoughts have inevitably turned towards how Tyrrell Hatton may celebrate victory here. Not only was the Englishman denied proper euphoria when claiming the PGA Championship in 2020 – those were Covid times – but he started this week depicting himself waking up in a pool of his own vomit after qualifying for Europe’s Ryder Cup team.Hatton forms part of the European contingent who will fly to New York for a scouting mission as soon as this tournament ends. He may have a trophy for hand luggage and further partying in mind.His 64 was the standout round of day three on the West Course