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Oxford partnership allows OpenAI to use rare Bodleian texts to train ChatGPT

A pilot scheme, launched in 2025, allows OpenAI to use materials from the Bodleian Library to train its models, documents obtained by The Guardian and seen by Cherwell show.

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Oxford falls to lowest ever spot in The Times UK University Guide 2027

The University of Oxford has placed fifth in The Times’s 2027 UK university rankings, falling from joint fourth with the University of Cambridge last year. This marks Oxford’s lowest ranking in the guide’s 33 year history and only the second time the University has not been in the top three.

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Protest held outside Town Hall over sale of Council-owned building to St Peter’s

A protest took place today outside Oxford Town Hall against Oxford City Council’s plan to sell 11 New Road to St Peter’s College, which would convert most of the building into student housing.

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Oxford Reform Society registers for Michaelmas

The University of Oxford has a Reform UK society for the first time, after...

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OUSU to review Target Schools

Discussions will take place atOUSU council this Friday to review the number of schools invited to Open Days and Regional Events through the Target...

Perfection in a cup

The best thing about the Café Metropole is the chairs. They are wicker, made out of real straw and have armrests which slope into...

Ethical investment protests continue

OUSU Social Justice Committeeorganised a walk around Oxfordon Wednesday afternoon to raise awareness about investment issues. Organisersestimated that between 50 and 100 people joined...

Are you getting enough

Professor Jim Horne of Loughborough University recently addressed the Oxford University Scientific Society with the question: "Why Sleep?" A room full of bright, talented...

St Anne’s bans football socials

St Anne’s football teamhas been banned from holding any team socials after an incident involving twomembers of the team and the College’s deputy dean. On...

The lot of the linguist

For many, Michaelmas term signals a return to a lifestyle we know so well that to describe it again would see innumerable clichés rehashed...

Ugly rumours of Blair Rockumentary

Channel 4 has revealed details of a documentary that will chronicle Tony Blair’s time as the singer in a student band he fronted while...

The other Oxford

I work at St Hilda’s College library and a lot of what I do involves making sure that the library runs efficiently. That’s not...

Bops burnt out at LMH

A student dressed as an Egyptian mummy was set alight at an LMH Halloween bopon Saturday night. Teddy Hall postgraduate student Hamish Stewart was...

Soc Shots

It is hard to ignore, now, that the sunshine of last summer is all but gone, replaced by those gloomy dark clouds that can...

England’s asset is continuity against an unsettled Pakistan

Michael Vaughan’s men have arrived in Pakistan for the first leg of their subcontinental tour, relying on their established backbone in the pursuit of...

OUCA and OULC in bitter battle over Labour Club Presidents’ Galloway letter

The Oxford University Conservative Association has made a formal complaint to the proctorsabout an open letter from the Oxford University Labour Club to Respect...

Festival time has come

From bizarre experimental noodlings to next summer’s blockbusters, the beauty of the film festival is that it overthrows the idea that the two can...

Netball Blues run Birmingham to a standstill

Oxford’s netballers secured their second consecutive win of the season with another impressive performance.an outstanding defensive effort saw Birmingham’s attackers flounder in a quagmire...

Green Councillors concerned at Cowley student numbers

An Oxford councillor has claimed that studentsin rented accommodation are pricing out local families from the Cowley Roadarea. Sid Phelps, Green Partycouncillor for St...

Screen

Thames bfi London Film Festivaldirs various19 October - 3 NovemberFairly bad behaviour abounded at this year’s London Film Festival, one of the finest in...

Lax girls smash Cardiff

The second quarter, however, saw the Blues settling down in attack and creating some good scoring opportunities, and at half-time they led 6-1. With...

BBC comedy visionary awarded Murdoch professorship

Comedy writer Armando Iannucci hasbeen appointed as the next news International Visiting Professor of BroadcastMedia. Iannuchi, who wrote and directed I’m Alan Partridge with...

It’ll break your heart

The Beat That My Heart Skippeddir Jacques Audiardout nowA film that shows the transition of a man from sleazy debt collector to passionate classical...

Corpus/Somerville win relegation battle with Exeter

Corpus/Somerville kept themselves in top flight rugby for at least another week with a 35-8 win over Exeter in a high quality relegation dogfight....

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