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The Machine Is Watching Back Artificial intelligence has spent years being described as a technology of the future. That description is becoming harder to defend. Frontier systems can now solve advanced scientific and mathematical problems, write substantial amounts of software, operate computers and complete increasingly long sequences of actions with limited human intervention. None of this prov...

Humanity’s Last Competitor For almost four billion years, life on Earth has been governed by a brutally simple process. Organisms vary, they compete, some reproduce more successfully than others, and the traits that help them survive spread. Eventually, creatures emerge that are almost unimaginably better adapted than their distant ancestors. Human beings became perhaps the ultimate beneficiaries...

The Machine Humanity Cannot Switch Off Artificial intelligence does not need to become conscious, evil or even particularly mysterious to become extraordinarily dangerous. Give increasingly capable systems access to laboratories, computer networks, weapons, financial infrastructure, scientific research and the machinery of government, and AI could magnify mistakes or malicious decisions on a scale...

The Terrifying AI Chain Reaction That Could Push the World Into Nuclear War World War Three may not begin with a dictator deliberately ordering an invasion, a nuclear commander turning a key or two armies knowingly crossing a border. It could begin with an algorithm seeing something that is not there, a military commander trusting it, an adversary interpreting the response as preparation for attac...

The Most Realistic Pathways to World War Three Right Now World War Three probably will not begin with a declaration of war. It may begin with one missile hitting the wrong ship, one drone killing soldiers inside NATO territory, one blockade around Taiwan, one attack on a Gulf oil installation or one commander making a decision that cannot be reversed. That distinction matters because several of th...

Why the World War Three Question Is No Longer Absurd The Middle East war has broken through another dangerous boundary. Iran-backed Houthi forces have attacked four cities inside Saudi Arabia with missiles and drones, fires have erupted at energy installations, more than 70 people have been wounded, and Tehran is simultaneously threatening tighter control over tanker movements around one of the mo...

When AI Stops Using Software and Starts Doing the Work Wall Street has reopened one of the most uncomfortable questions hanging over the artificial intelligence boom: what happens when increasingly capable AI systems stop merely helping people use software and begin doing the work that software companies charge people to perform? The launch of OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra has pushed that question back...

The AI That Works While You Sleep Meta has launched an artificial intelligence agent capable of doing something fundamentally different from the chatbots millions of people have become accustomed to using: it can actually take action. Muse can connect to everyday apps, send emails, manage calendars, arrange travel, interact with shopping services and potentially make payments on behalf of its user...

Iran Strikes Back Iran says it has launched missiles towards American targets in Jordan after US forces destroyed five Iranian crude oil tankers, opening another dangerous phase in the escalating confrontation between Washington and Tehran. The retaliation came after the United States targeted vessels it says were connected to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, pushing a conflict already ce...

America Strikes Iran’s Oil Lifeline The United States has destroyed five Iranian crude-oil tankers after Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps twice attempted to hit an American Navy warship with ballistic missiles, marking another major escalation in the widening confrontation between Washington and Tehran. U.S. Central Command said the American warship successfully evaded both attempted attac...

What Happened At Punta San José? Three Friends, A Remote Pacific Coastline, And The Question Of What Happened At Punta San José At Punta San José, the Pacific dominates almost everything. The coastline south of Ensenada is rugged and exposed, the kind of place travellers reach precisely because it feels removed from cities, schedules and crowds. For surfers moving down the Baja California peninsul...

Why Did Investors Believe Elizabeth Holmes And Theranos? A tiny vial sat at the centre of the Theranos promise. Instead of filling several tubes from a vein, a patient could supposedly offer a few drops from a fingertip and receive a broad range of laboratory results quickly, cheaply and with far less discomfort. It was an idea simple enough to explain in seconds and ambitious enough to suggest th...

The Door Closes on Britain in Jerusalem Israel has ordered the closure of Britain’s consulate in East Jerusalem in an extraordinary escalation of the diplomatic confrontation between the two countries. The move came after the UK announced sweeping action against Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, turning a long-running political disagreement into a direct confrontation between London a...

Kauai Goes Dark as Hurricane Lowell Strikes Hawaii Hurricane Lowell has battered Hawaii’s western islands with destructive winds, torrential rain and powerful waves, leaving Kauai facing a near-total electricity blackout. More than 30,000 customers — around 91% of those served by the island’s electricity cooperative — were without power on Tuesday morning as crews prepared to begin assessing the d...

Why the US-China AI Race Just Became Far More Hostile The United States has dramatically escalated its technological confrontation with China by accusing six China-based artificial intelligence companies of conducting systematic, industrial-scale campaigns to extract capabilities from America's most advanced AI models. The extraordinary joint warning from the NSA, FBI and CISA names DeepSeek,...

Why the US-China AI Race Just Became Far More Hostile The United States has dramatically escalated its technological confrontation with China by accusing six China-based artificial intelligence companies of conducting systematic, industrial-scale campaigns to extract capabilities from America's most advanced AI models. The extraordinary joint warning from the NSA, FBI and CISA names DeepSeek,...

Xi Tells New UK PM Andy Burnham Britain and China Have More in Common as Beijing Pushes for Closer Ties Chinese President Xi Jinping has made an early push for a stronger relationship with Andy Burnham, telling Britain's new Prime Minister that China and the UK have more common interests than disagreements. The message came during the leaders' first publicly acknowledged telephone conversa...

North Atlantic Tensions Rise After Trump Map Iceland has summoned the United States ambassador after President Donald Trump shared an extraordinary map depicting Iceland and several other sovereign countries and territories beneath the American flag. Reykjavík formally objected after the unexplained image appeared on Trump’s Truth Social account, turning what might otherwise have been dismissed as...

Apple Finally Folds Apple appears ready to do something it has resisted for years: make an iPhone that folds. Its first book-style foldable is expected to become one of the centrepieces of Apple’s next generation of premium hardware, potentially pushing the price of an iPhone beyond $2,500 and putting it into territory previously occupied by specialist foldables, laptops and high-end tablets. Ther...

Apple’s Foldable Gamble Apple is preparing for one of the most consequential iPhone launches in years, with its long-awaited first foldable smartphone expected to take centre stage at the company’s September 9 event. Industry forecasts suggest the device could command an average selling price above $2,500, placing it in an extraordinary new category even by Apple’s premium standards. The timing ma...

Flights Grounded Across Britain A technical failure inside Britain’s air traffic control system has disrupted flights across some of the country's largest airports, hitting departures from Heathrow, Gatwick, Manchester and Stansted and triggering delays across a much wider aviation network. The problem emerged on Tuesday afternoon, September 8, with NATS confirming that engineers were investig...

Suffering, Attachment, Mindfulness and the Search for Inner Freedom More than 2,000 years before smartphones, social media, instant gratification and the relentless pressure to achieve more, Buddhism was examining a surprisingly familiar problem: why can human beings have so much and still feel dissatisfied? Why does getting what we want so often fail to produce lasting happiness, and why can losi...

The Grid Sabotage Manhunt Ends German police have arrested a 48-year-old man suspected of carrying out a remarkable series of attacks against electricity infrastructure across three German states, ending a days-long manhunt that had pushed the security of the country’s power network back into the national spotlight. The arrest became more alarming when police said the suspect was carrying further...

The Faiths That Changed History Judaism, Christianity and Islam together have shaped governments, laws, wars, peace movements, philosophy, family life, morality, art and ideas of life after death for billions of people. Yet their story did not begin with three established religions suddenly appearing in succession. It reaches into an older world of Mesopotamian temples, Canaanite gods, tribal soci...

The Bible’s Most Motivational Verses Explained for Modern Life The Bible was written in worlds without smartphones, corporate offices, social media, mortgages or modern careers, yet some of its most powerful ideas seem almost unnervingly suited to life today. Fear of failure, uncertainty about the future, exhaustion, ambition, betrayal, anxiety and the feeling that life has gone off course are har...