Mark Zuckerberg was a driving force behind the pact US President Donald Trump signed with AI industry leaders, cementing the Meta chief executive’s central role in the political debate surrounding the technology. The leaders of OpenAI and Anthropic have gained notoriety for public proclamations of their products’ threat to humanity, ...
Month: October 2026
US midterms race on a knife’s edgeUS midterms race on a knife’s edge
The US political calendar is shifting from making legislation to the fight for November’s midterms, with a top Democrat telling Semafor the race for control of Congress is “50-50.” US President Donald Trump is set to kick off a month of campaigning, though GOP candidates in tough battles have distanced ...
Global bond rout gathers pace as debt fears growGlobal bond rout gathers pace as debt fears grow
A global bond selloff accelerated as concerns intensified over inflation and mounting piles of government debt worldwide. US 10-year Treasury yields reached their highest level since 2002 — following a similar move by 30-year Treasurys this week — helping drive bonds in Asia lower, too. Europe in particular appears vulnerable ...
From Robert Kraft to Netanyahu, Israel’s supporters keep helping its critics | Peter BeinartFrom Robert Kraft to Netanyahu, Israel’s supporters keep helping its critics | Peter Beinart
These men’s actions aren’t just morally loathsome; they’re politically stupid. Social science may explain the phenomenon Israel’s supporters keep proving its detractors right. Over the last couple of years, Americans from across the ideological spectrum – from Bernie Sanders to Tucker Carlson – have grown increasingly enraged by the way ...
Motive behind flydubai cockpit stabbing unknown as international investigation opensMotive behind flydubai cockpit stabbing unknown as international investigation opens
Benjamin Netanyahu says too early to tell who may have been behind plane incident as carrier halts all flights to Israel The motive, background and affiliation of the Omani co-pilot who stabbed his captain in an apparent attempt to crash an Israel-bound flight from Dubai remains unknown, as international teams ...
Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M BenderForget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender
The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals Amid a barrage of news stories warning about superintelligent machines rendering humanity extinct, a CNN story describing the opposite scenario – one in which the US military’s reliance ...
I went to America’s largest gathering of astrologers. It was a battle over how to read the starsI went to America’s largest gathering of astrologers. It was a battle over how to read the stars
Now a $15bn industry, astrology is more mainstream in the US than ever. But its practitioners are still debating: who gets to have authority on the celestial bodies? “The dwarf planets change everything,” said the woman with the smart haircut as she made a mind blown gesture with her fingertips, ...
Mahmoud Khalil is ready to talk about ICE detention – Stateside With Kai and CarterMahmoud Khalil is ready to talk about ICE detention – Stateside With Kai and Carter
After more than a year of legal limbo, Mahmoud Khalil is preparing to ask the US supreme court to hear his deportation case – and if they take it up, the outcome could have sweeping ramifications for political speech in the US. When Khalil was detained by ICE for his ...
20 fascinating facts about hair: why baldness is super-masculine – and a pubic bush could be a ‘cheating detector’20 fascinating facts about hair: why baldness is super-masculine – and a pubic bush could be a ‘cheating detector’
Judy Wearing has spent much of her life studying our follicles. She explains how our armpits betray our emotions, why some gentlemen really do prefer blondes and the reason we evolved to have eyebrows As a PhD student at Oxford studying mating behaviour, Judy Wearing was suddenly struck by a ...
US soccer’s youth system is expensive, chaotic and overdue for reformUS soccer’s youth system is expensive, chaotic and overdue for reform
World Cup setbacks have renewed concern over America’s costly, fragmented youth system. The real test is whether the urgency survives the next news cycle A few years ago, the idea that the US soccer community at large was neglecting youth soccer was met with silence or ridicule. At a May ...