Category: The Gaurdian

Despite Anthropic’s claims, Claude is no more likely to achieve sentience than a simulation of a weather system is likely to generate a real hurricane For centuries, humans have been fascinated by the prospect of creating artificial beings in our own image. Of developing synthetic minds and artificial bodies that ...

Afghanistan is seeing a resurgence in underage brides and mothers as desperate families sell their children in order to eat Sima* is 18, but has already given birth four times. Her youngest is a newborn, the eldest is four. Sitting with her children in their mud-brick room in Badghis province, ...

As a teenager I declined a painful operation to straighten my spinal curvature, and it was a decision I sometimes regretted. But through daily stretching and exercise, my relationship with my body was transformed I was 13 when a spinal surgeon gave me unsolicited career advice. “Scoliosis won’t ruin your ...

This tale of a 50-year-old assassin going rogue – and having to confess all to her best mate – is so much fun. The chemistry between its leads is a thing of beauty The bone-deep magnificence of Hannah Waddingham is such that she could, I suspect, talk most of us ...

US president says he will knock out all Iran’s power plants and bridges next week in bid to force Tehran to agree to a deal Middle East crisis – live updates Donald Trump has threatened to expand US strikes on Iran next week to target power plants and bridges if ...

Sixty years after its first staging, performance artist MPA is restaging the provocative piece in Los Angeles Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind, a traveling retrospective on view at Los Angeles’s The Broad museum, features black and white footage of Ono’s 1964 Carnegie Hall performance of Cut Piece projected on ...

⚽ Kick-off time: 2pm local/3pm EST/8pm BST/5am AEST⚽ Player guide | Golden Boot | Football Daily | Mail Scott France and Spain have only met once before at the World Cup. That was 20 years ago, back in the day when Les Bleus very much had La Roja’s number (the ...

Rapid scientific progress has given us the tools to stop time more convincingly than ever – but lurking behind these claims is the same fear of ageing Andrea holds a PhD in literature and works for a nonprofit in Dallas. She’s in her late 40s and tells me that the ...

The image of the national icon has been ever present through this World Cup, in banners and songs and memory. It adds a fresh layer to Wednesday’s semi-final Not two minutes after his side’s dramatic, extra-time quarter-final victory over Switzerland on Saturday, the Argentina head coach, Lionel Scaloni, was already ...

After the Guardian’s music critics chose their best of the half-year, we asked you for your picks – from Brian Jackson and Arlo Parks to Maya Hawke, Flea and more • The best albums of 2026 so far• ‘I saw it seven times in the cinema’: readers’ favourite films of ...