Andy Burnham has called for the world to unite behind global standards to control the risks posed by artificial intelligence (AI).
The Prime Minister’s proposal has put Britain on a collision course with Donald Trump, who has vowed to reject any “globalist scheme” to rein in the technology.
In his first speech to the UN General Assembly (UNGA) as Prime Minister, Burnham said the world must “heed” warnings about the dangers of AI and announced that Britain would use its presidency of the G20 to drive an international effort to establish global standards.
The 90s video games that could fetch you up to £16,000
Some old video games could fetch staggering sums of money, new research by UK Debt Expert has found. It comes as physical copies are set to become ever rarer, with Sony to halt disc production for PlayStation games in 2028.
The top 3 most expensive
- 1 sealed 1st print Sandshrew US version 1998 WATA 9.4 was sold for £16,086.70 on eBay.
- 2, Nintendo Game Boy Original sealed was sold for £5,085.70 on eBay.
- 3Legend of Zelda, Ocarina of Time, Nintendo 64, graded 9.0A, sealed was sold for £4,586.70 on eBay.
Other games on the list
- Sega Genesis, sealed sold for £4,500.
- Nintendo Gameboy Advance, graded 9.0A+, sealed sold for £3,999.95.
- Nintendo 64, graded 9.2A++, sealed was sold for £3,000.
- , PlayStation 1, graded 8.0 CIB Excellent sold for £3,000.
- Sega Genisis, graded 9.6A+, sealed sold for £2,045.68.
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The expert view
As gaming continues to move towards digital, it’s worth taking a second look at old games and consoles as well as collectibles […] It’s worth getting these valuable items professionally assessed or graded […] to help understand if you’re holding onto something of value.
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Why Piers Morgan has vowed to sue over Diana book
Piers Morgan has threatened to sue Earl Spencer after claiming that there are “fabricated inaccuracies” in his controversial new book.
The claims made by Spencer
In Swan Song: Diana, My Sister, Spencer says he was “flabbergasted” that newspaper editors had been invited to Princess Diana’s funeral, adding that they could not attend because “they killed her” in his view.
- Earl Spencer says he personally called tabloid editors to tell them that they were uninvited from the funeral.
What else did he say?
Earl Spencer said of the newspaper editors he rang, “the only one who sounded surly, as opposed to merely confused or embarrassed, was Piers Morgan of , who snarled with annoyance before he hung up”.
He then claimed he assumed Morgan must be feeling “guilt” over publishing photographs of Diana wearing a leotard in a gym four years before.
Morgan’s response
- Morgan described the claims as “all bulls**t,” adding that the pictures of Diana were published in November 1993, but he started working at in 1995.
- He said Earl Spencer would hear “from my lawyers” and asked him to remove “the complete lie” from his book.
- He also speculated whether anything else in his book should be believed, as he got “such basic facts” so “incredibly defamatorially wrong.”
Earl Spencer apologises for ‘error’
A spokesperson for Earl Spencer said: “Earl Spencer’s account of his conversation with Piers Morgan is accurate…Mr Morgan was surly and annoyed when Earl Spencer called personally to tell him that he was not welcome at his sister’s funeral.”
“Mr Morgan has pointed out that he did not join the until October 1995,” the statement adds. “He wishes to clarify that his assumption was incorrect. Earl Spencer apologises to Mr Morgan for this error.”
Support for Reform falls to lowest level since 2024 election
New polling by YouGov has seen Reform UK record its worst result from the pollster in more than two years.
Tied with the Tories
YouGov’s weekly voting intention tracker shows Reform tied with the Conservatives on 21 per cent – the first time this has happened since March 2025.
Meanwhile, Labour continue to sustain a post-Starmer bounce, two points above their rivals on 23 per cent.
What about other parties?
The Green Party sits at 14 per cent, with Restore Britain at 4 per cent, the SNP at 3 per cent and Plaid Cymru at 1 per cent. Despite the poll being carried out during the Liberal Democrat’s annual conference, their support fell by one percentage point to 12 per cent.
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“We’ve all heard the warnings – which we must heed. I know how worried people are. So we have to rise to this moment,” he told world leaders yesterday.
The intervention came just days after Anthropic safety researcher Evan Hubinger warned that he believed there was a greater than 10 per cent chance AI could wipe out humanity within 10 years.
It also followed the resignation of his former colleague, Jacob Coxton, who claimed the company was not “acting responsibly” to address the risk of human extinction he believes AI could pose.
But only hours earlier, Trump had taken a radically different position, declaring that the US “totally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme” to control AI.
“We’re going to encourage it, not rein it in,” the US President said.
Trump also announced that he wants AI officially renamed “super intelligence”, arguing that the word “artificial” makes intelligence sound fake.
He said that, “from this point forward”, US government documents would use “SI” rather than “AI”, adding: “It’s super intelligence.”
Burnham’s concerns extend beyond the potential dangers of AI itself to how the technology can be used to manipulate people.
Despite their opposing views on AI, Trump lavished praise on the Prime Minister as the pair met for the first time.
The US President said relations between the US and the UK are “more up” now that Burnham is Prime Minister than when Sir Keir Starmer held the role.
The US President opened the meeting in the margins of UNGA by praising the Prime Minister’s “great election win” in the Makerfield by-election.
He continued: “That was a big one, and I think he’s going to be a great prime minister. I think he’s got a lot of assets on his side.
“And we talked about everything from Rolls-Royce to energy to immigration – we covered a lot.”
Elsewhere during their meeting, the US President criticised Britain’s handling of the Chagos Islands deal, which he described as a “very important piece of real estate, militarily and strategically” for both the UK and America.
Trump branded the agreement to hand sovereignty of the Indian Ocean islands to Mauritius as a “terrible deal”, and suggested that the Prime Minister was “going to be looking at it”.
After the meeting, Burnham told the BBC that he had told Trump he would “work hard” to find a resolution, adding: “We have got to find a resolution so work will continue.”
In a press conference with Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump criticised Burnham’s predecessor, Sir Keir Starmer, for his “tough” rhetoric about Ukraine.
“The rhetoric from your last prime minister was too tough,” Trump said. “He has to be a little bit careful.”
Trump also said that Vladimir Putin was “willing to meet” to discuss ending the war in Ukraine.