Mathematicians around the world are struggling to come to terms with a breakthrough that has challenged their understanding of their profession and its future. On 6 October, OpenAI released 722 manuscripts generated
Xiang Biao has become an unusual intellectual figure in China: an academic whose ideas have reached a mass audience. Although much of his career has unfolded abroad, the Chinese anthropologist has developed
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When The New York Times assigns five journalists, including a police reporter, a court reporter and a politics editor, to investigate a wedding rumor, it signals that the event is more than
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Europe’s Digital Independence Test: AI Power, US Controls and the Race for Technological Sovereignty
The global race for artificial intelligence dominance has entered a new phase as governments debate who controls the world’s most powerful technologies. A decision by the United States to restrict access to
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For eight years, Morocco has lived with a clock set closer to much of Europe than to its own traditional timetable. Now, after years of public debate and criticism, the North African
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Cuba is preparing for one of the most significant economic transformations in decades, but its leadership insists that the changes represent an evolution of socialism rather than a retreat from it. President
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Latin America is experiencing one of its most significant political shifts in decades, as a series of electoral victories by right-wing movements transforms the region’s political landscape and creates new opportunities for
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The arrival of Taliban representatives in Brussels this week unfolded against a strikingly different event taking place hundreds of kilometers away in Paris. While European officials met with envoys of Afghanistan’s ruling
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For years, the question remained unanswered: who would paint Angela Merkel’s official portrait? While generations of German chancellors had their place in the gallery of former leaders, the image of Germany’s first
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On the terrace of the German Chancellery, with the Reichstag visible in the background, five European leaders gathered for a meeting designed to project unity at a moment of growing uncertainty. But
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The German writer reflects on how the internet evolved from a space of experimentation into a system of depletion, while arguing that literature can still create new ways of thinking. When writer
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When Ashley Delgado was in high school in Cleveland, Ohio, she dreamed of becoming a doctor. She earned strong grades, excelled in science and Latin, and imagined a future where she could
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Public perceptions of the United States and President Donald Trump have deteriorated across much of the world, according to a new report released by the Pew Research Center, which found declining confidence
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While the Islamic State (IS) no longer controls territory across Iraq and Syria as it did at the height of its power, the group is adapting to a transformed security environment, exploiting
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For years, Giorgia Meloni built her political identity around being a leader close to ordinary Italians — direct, emotional, and unafraid of confrontation. Now, that image has shaped one of her sharpest
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At six o’clock in the morning on June 6, the waters around Albania’s Sazan Island were calm and blue as Eva Buzo’s motorboat entered the harbour. The Australian marathon swimmer with Albanian
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