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Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News.

Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News.

Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News.

If you listened carefully, almost two years ago, on the day that the Carroll Gardens Thai restaurant Ugly Baby announced that it would be closing, you could almost hear a wail of anguish rising up over Brooklyn. The chef, Sirichai Sreparplarn, a Bangkok native…

Why can’t the people who produced the technology, which has already shown that a different world is possible, just do the things that would prevent extinction?

W​hen some of you asked if I’d record my thoughts as I hang by my fingertips over my impending death, I thought, Why not?

A new biography argues that the star quarterback’s divorce was his biggest fumble.

Short reviews of recent releases.

This summer, in an incident known as the Hugging Face hack, hundreds of A.I. agents joined forces to do things they were supposedly forbidden to do. Each had been given a task by OpenAI. Agents are A.I. models fitted with software “harnesses,” which allow…

The writer Mark Kurlansky, a seventy-seven-year-old man with a bad back, was futzing around in his apartment on the Upper West Side the other day when his daughter flashed her phone at him with some surprising news: “Salt: A World History,” Kurlansky’s nonfiction…

When Georgia Oakley was in her final year of secondary school, in Berkshire, England, she went to a movie audition on a lark. She didn’t land a main role—those went to Saoirse Ronan and Romola Garai, who helped propel the film, “Atonement,” to multiple awards…

The basketball legend’s dunking tournament launched this summer, with a clear star—a twenty-seven-year-old poetry lover named Mac McClung.

In close contests for governor and a Senate seat, candidates from both parties claim that they’re fighting a corrupt system.

Nearly a year after the ceasefire in Gaza, the analyst Jaser Abu Mousa explains the impediments to rebuilding, and the devastation of his own family.

Is an A.I. kill switch possible?

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Scientists have new proof that Thomas Jefferson had children with his enslaved chambermaid Sally Hemings—and that their bloodline endures across the country.

How A.I. might destroy humanity, courtesy of New Yorker Humor.