The Zeen

, by Mabe Fratti and Bill Orcutt. This experimental collaboration between a Guatemalan cellist and an American guitarist was conceived when Fratti, the cellist, praised Orcutt’s work publicly, prompting the latter to get in touch — the two worked on the album mostly in remote sessions. Between Orcutt’s electric guitar ...

With OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Sen. Bernie Sanders set to meet on the Hill Wednesday to discuss the senator’s plan to take half the equity of AI frontier labs to fund a US sovereign wealth fund, OpenAI has been preparing its own policy framework, according to people familiar with ...

David’s view “Every family has its own mythology,” Jill Biden wrote in her first memoir. Her second, released this week, digs through the East Wing’s rubble to rescue that mythology from the debacle of 2024. The former First Lady has some things in common right now with a Maine oyster ...

Yinka’s view For 25 years, the defining logic of China-Africa trade has been simple: Africa exports raw materials, China manufactures products, and Africa buys them back. In 2024, that arrangement led to a record $275 billion in trade. African countries imported $182 billion worth of Chinese goods while exporting just ...

Rwanda’s RSSB Tigers were crowned winners of this year’s Basketball Africa League Championship, capping off a record-setting season that looks set to buoy investor interest. Basketball, which for years has languished in football’s shadow, has gained a foothold on the continent since the NBA-backed BAL was founded in 2019. Matches ...

US and Iran exchange more strikes but Trump says he is not looking to escalate and there is no need for boots on the ground Middle East crisis – live updates Kuwait’s military said Iranian strikes that hit a terminal at its international airport killed at least one person and ...

Airstrikes in south of country kill nine people and wound another 150, most of them medical staff Middle East crisis – live updates Three hospitals in southern Lebanon have been attacked by Israel in under a week, wounding more than 150 people and killing nine, according to Lebanon’s ministry of ...

The secondary market for decades old, low-tech John Deere tractors has been booming for years as farmers have sought reliable tractors that they can actually fix without having to deal with John Deere’s repair monopoly. A Canadian company has seen that demand and came up with a radical thought: What ...

We start this week with Jason’s story about one of the wildest hacking stories in a while. Hackers simply asked Meta’s AI to change the email address on a target Instagram account, and the chatbot did so. Insane. After the break, Emanuel tells us about Amazon’s internal leaderboard for tracking ...

The moderators of the biohacking subreddit say that peptide and hormone replacement therapy companies have been surreptitiously spamming Reddit in an attempt to get their posts scraped by AI chatbots. The strategy is an effort to systematically manipulate the answers provided by chatbots by manipulating the underlying source material that ...