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

A pilot project, launched in 2025, allows OpenAI to use obscure Bodleian library material, including a collection of Tudor ballads, to train its models, as shown in documents seen by Cherwell.

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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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Stage Whispers: The Flyerer

‘Flyering’ consists simply of any act which gets a postcard-sized advert into the hands of an unwitting potential customer. However, this simple cross between...

Live review: Jeffrey Lewis

Earlier this year New York anti-folkster Jeffrey Lewis recorded a covers album based on the work of the British anarcho-punk band Crass. Incongruous as...

The fall of party power?

The University goes to the polls on Thursday, and students will decide the future of an organisation that has drawn equal amounts of applause...

Drama Review: The Duchess of Malfi

by Sam PritchardThe Duchess of Malfi is a play about unpleasant people. This is something that could quite easily be upstaged by the sheer...

The Gospel according to OUSU, chapter one…

The Student Union elections reach biblical proportions.

OUSU Election

These are the four candidates vying for the most important student position in Oxford. On Thursday of 6th Week, thousands from across the University...

Drama Review: Mindgame

by Sophie DuncanMost of us know the disappointment and irritation felt, when, approaching the final page of a mystery novel, the author produces a...

Tainted money

OXFORD University has accepted a scholarship endowment from a Japanese corporation that used prisoner-of-war slave labour during the Second World War.Student groups have attacked...

Album review: The Wombats, A guide to love, loss, and desperation

***What to make of The Wombats? Just another NME chart-topping, animal-loving band from up North? Just another bunch of floppy-haired indie kids sporting hoodies...

Lewis Iwu penalised for dirty campaign tactics in OUSU race

OUSU Presidential front-runner Lewis Iwu’s campaign actively attempted to seek out information in order to defame another candidate, the Returning Officer ruled on Wednesday.Iwu’s...

Glittering Prizes

by Sophie Duncan Dancing girls, confetti and pyrotechnics: Spamalot is the rising star of Big Theatre, dwarfed only by the all-singing, all-dancing, unassailable barricades...

Fine for Bailey after Iwu affiliation slur

Labour Club candidate Olivia Bailey was penalised on Wednesday for presenting a misleading statement about a rival candidate on her personal website.Dissatisfaction with the...

Quod

Quod is one of those places that just oozes sophistication. I remember coming up to Oxford a year a go and thinking that, thanks...

Bedbug invasion forces out finalists

Students at St Catherine’s have become victims of an infestation of blood-sucking bed bugs that allegedly appeared during the summer.The invasion of parasites has...

Drama Review: Mojo

by Ben LaffertyOxford theatre doesn’t do much for the lads. Softly spoken aesthetes of delicate temperament get their weekly doses of inner turmoil and...

Drama Review: Laughtracks

by Sarah DaviesDespite its title, Tom Costello’s newest play is anything but a laughing matter. Set in a dystopian not-too-distant future, the audience is...

Nose broken after unprovoked dancefloor assault

A Univ fresher’s nose was broken after a fight at the Old Fire Station night club last Wednesday night, allegedly with another student.The assault...

Student in drink- driving

An Exeter student was arrested by police and held in custody overnight after a car crash in St Clement’s Street last week.According to other...

Hidden Art: The Ashmolean’s Print Room

by Elle Graham-DixonA dusty A4 sheet of paper is the only indication that the Ashmolean even has a print room. Its doors spend most...

Keble kings retain crown again

Magdalen 3 - 18 Keble KEBLE re-asserted their authority in the world of college rugby after claiming their third successive Division One title on Tuesday....

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