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Emma Cline’s ‘gut-twisting’ new novel about a former executive’s journey to Zurich for medically assisted suicide.
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.”
Pontus Lundahl/TT News Agency/Reuters
Fertile ground
Flagship’s lead writer Tom Chivers says goodbye after four years.
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.
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.
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.
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.