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A ‘merciless’ novel about memory and mortality

Emma Cline’s ‘gut-twisting’ new novel about a former executive’s journey to Zurich for medically assisted suicide.
Switzy by Emma Cline

Top AI pioneers reaffirm Anthropic researcher’s human extinction warning

Author Paul Christiano said he now sees “meaningful risk” of “catastrophic and irreversible loss of control in the very near term.”
‘Godfather of AI’ Geoffrey Hinton.
Pontus Lundahl/TT News Agency/Reuters

Fertile ground

Flagship’s lead writer Tom Chivers says goodbye after four years.
Bags of fertilizer.
Bhawika Chhabra/Reuters

AI researchers say industry is ‘gambling with our lives’

An Anthropic researcher quit, warning the AI industry has not internalized the “civilizational stakes” of rushing towards superintelligence.
Anthropic CEO and co-founder Dario Amodei.
Yves Herman/Reuters

Singapore boosts PM’s pay to $2.8 million

Singapore’s first prime minister argued in 1955 that low pay meant top candidates rarely joined politics and faced temptation when they did.
Thailand’s PM Anutin Charnvirakul and Singapore’s PM Lawrence Wong shake hands during a press conference in Bangkok.
Valeria Mongelli/Reuters

OpenAI agents find proof to $1 million Millennium Prize Problem

OpenAI announced the proof to one of math’s great outstanding questions — although not without drama.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters

Strange new worlds

Celebrating 60 years of the iconic science fiction TV show Star Trek.

AI upends China’s graduate job market

An estimated 12.7 million graduates will join the workforce this year, the largest cohort yet, far outpacing demand.

US push for Russia-Ukraine talks yields little hope

Trump administration envoys who traveled to Kyiv and Moscow over the weekend hailed “substantive” talks.

Russian hybrid tactics of sabotage and cyberattacks stoke fear

Russia’s foreign minister accused Germany of “declar[ing] war” after Berlin said the Kremlin was behind an attempted airport drone attack.

OpenAI’s new Astra model has private thoughts

Existing frontier AI models use “chain of thought” reasoning: They write ideas down, in English, in a “scratchpad” to keep track. CoT boosts “interpretability”.

US President Donald Trump imposes 100% tariff on drones

Chinese drone firm DJI alone accounts for more than 70% of the global market.

Experts warn of threats of AI bioterrorism

Information used by AI to make a vaccine can also “create a bioweapon,” one Google DeepMind researcher told the FT.

Berlin blames Russia for attempted drone attack

Three explosive-laden drones were found around a Leipzig airport last month.

India deletes 130 million voters from electoral rolls

Opposition figures said that the change was politically motivated.

Apple CEO Tim Cook steps down

Since he replaced the late Steve Jobs, Apple has shipped 3.1 billion iPhones and its stock price has risen 2,275%.

Global bond yields hit highest levels in decades

Renewed conflict in the Gulf pushed oil prices up, and the US Federal Reserve chair made hawkish noises last week.

Saudi Arabia’s LIV Golf tournament faces bankruptcy

The Saudi Public Investment Fund founded LIV in 2022, attracting several top players with high wages, but said this year it would stop funding.
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