Month: July 2026

Central Command says attacks were designed to ‘continue degrading Iranian military capabilities’ The US military said it had launched a seventh consecutive night of strikes on Iran on Friday night as fighting escalated over the strait of Hormuz. US Central Command, in a post on X, said the strikes, which ...

AI agents have made inroads in businesses and government. Now they’re hitting the pageant stage. Samantha Smitte, 37, who worked at IBM for a decade, spent about $150 on AI agents to train for the Miss New York USA pageant next week, she told Semafor. They run practice interviews with ...

Frontier AI labs don’t want to be known for helping teens commit harm against themselves or others. “The principle here is to avoid the mistakes that were made before us,” Lauren Jonas, OpenAI’s head of youth well-being, told Semafor. “AI is not social media,” she said, arguing that teens primarily ...

The AI world is going nuts over the Kimi K3 AI model, the latest open-weight offering from Chinese startup Moonshot. While the new model is a big deal, the concern is somewhat misguided. For instance, Nvidia’s stock (and American markets broadly) took a hit over fears that China is closing ...

Reed’s view Over the last decade, experts in artificial intelligence learned a “bitter lesson”: Their own knowledge was getting in the way of progress. “The actual contents of minds are tremendously, irredeemably complex,” computer scientist Richard Sutton wrote in 2019. The most successful AI breakthroughs involved humans getting out of ...

Gulf states, already among the world’s biggest spenders on defense, have been rearming rapidly since March as they seek to deter future attacks. This week, the US approved a $2 billion Saudi order for weapons guidance systems, launchers, warheads, and other equipment, as well as a $484 million package of ...

Guardian readers tackle a thorny topic and share their stories of dating a friend’s ex – or a friend dating their ex Life is full of big, messy questions. How should we spend our finite time on Earth? What is the nature of good and evil? And, thorniest of all: ...

Meta touts safety features – but for women, the dangers of these recording devices are obvious Imagine if every time you left the house, you couldn’t be sure that the stranger you met at a bar – or even the person walking by you in the street – wasn’t secretly ...

The broadcaster’s tournament coverage was a mix of flat and fizz. It could also have been a long farewell with World Cup rights up for grabs Goodbye, then, to Fox, to its band of upbeat Brits and grown men dressed in suits and sneakers. Goodbye to constant cutaways to Gianni ...

Dying is difficult, a nurse told me. It might have been even more appalling had Dad not been clear about his wishes. Yet most of us remain deeply reluctant to outline how we want the end to go My father spent the last 12 days of his life unconscious, unresponsive, ...