Day: June 5, 2026

Anthropic called for a slowdown in global AI development, saying that its models were increasingly capable of autonomously designing and developing their own successors. Claude now writes 80% of Anthropic’s code, the firm said, and proposes research directions and solves open-ended problems. AI safety thinkers have long warned of “recursive ...

Chinese leader Xi Jinping will visit North Korea next week, aiming to court the pariah state’s dictator Kim Jong-un, who has been strengthening ties with Moscow while tightening his own grip on power. In the seven years since Xi’s last trip, Pyongyang has sent troops and weapons to Russia for ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy proposed face-to-face talks with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in a combative letter that comes as Kyiv strikes ever deeper into enemy territory and Moscow’s offensive stalls. Zelenskyy said the starting point for any negotiations would be “the front line today,” rejecting a prior proposal that would ...

The News Two telecom tower companies are committing more than $200 million to DR Congo, betting that rising data use and growing demand from the mining sector will transform one of Africa’s largest underdeveloped telecom markets. The investment comes as African internet data consumption is projected to quadruple over the ...

Senate Republicans passed their $70 billion funding bill for Trump’s immigration enforcement agencies shortly before the sun rose on Friday, with Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski the lone Republican in opposition. The 52-47 vote sent the bill to the House for consideration and ended a long, convoluted saga in the Senate ...

My father joined the program when I was eight months old and retired 46 years later. He would be encouraging journalists at CBS to speak out The end of the 60 Minutes broadcast as we know it has sickened millions of longtime viewers, colleagues, and all of us who are ...

In many countries, dating seems to be on the decline, with many young people either dating less, or finding it harder to have meaningful relationships. In 2024, one in five of South Korea’s 52 million citizens were living alone. In the third episode of our series, reporter Haeryun Kang is ...

With food and medicine already scarce, emergency services, bakeries and water supplies are increasingly being pushed to the brink Palestinians in Gaza already grappling with limited supplies of food and medicine face new threats to their day-to-day existence: shortages of engine oil, spare parts and gas. The knock-on effects are ...

Full of handcrafted care and the rootsy soul of her country origins, this gently elated song is a reminder of what fans love about Swift … and the film series Taylor Swift does not fear a challenge. She’s broken records then broken those records; taken Grammy snubs as a sign ...

Families have been left in despair after 39 pupils and seven teachers were kidnapped from classrooms in Oyo state, a part of the country previously considered relatively peaceful Sitting on a wooden bench under the tree near her home, Aduke Balogun’s gaze is fixed on the road. Her eyes are ...