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
At 10:50 a.m., a large convoy of vehicles sped through the main gate of the Government Palace’s courtyard under heavy security. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio stepped out of one of
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The return of Chinese President Xi Jinping to India marks a potentially important moment in the painstaking effort by the two countries to repair relations after years of military tension along the
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More than a century ago, Franz Kafka imagined an America where politics resembled a travelling circus. In his unfinished novel America, written between 1912 and 1914, the young emigrant Karl Roßmann encounters
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The story begins with a murder. On 10 September 2025, Charlie Kirk was shot from 180 metres away in front of 3,000 students on a university campus in Utah. A single high-velocity
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Pakistan is home to a diverse mosaic of religious communities, including Christians, Hindus, Sikhs, Kalash, Bahai, Buddhists, and Zoroastrians, all of whom coexist alongside the Muslim majority. From the very inception of
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Pakistan marked National Minorities Day on August 11 with renewed official commitments to equality, religious freedom and protection for non-Muslim citizens. One announcement was especially significant: the government said the National Commission
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The United States and China rarely appear to have much common ground on artificial intelligence. Yet one proposal emerging from the growing debate over AI-enabled biological risks offers something unusual: a safeguard
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Benjamin Netanyahu has spent years at the centre of Israel’s most bitter political divisions. Now, weeks before the country’s parliamentary election on 27 October, the Israeli prime minister faces a renewed challenge
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Fifty years after Mao Zedong died, China has changed almost beyond recognition, yet one of his most enduring ideas remains firmly embedded in the political machinery of the Communist Party. China is
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump held an extensive telephone conversation on Tuesday focused on resolving the Ukraine crisis and exploring prospects for restoring economic and commercial relations
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In mid-2023, an experiment within OpenAI’s “RLSlow” research project produced results that changed the way its researchers viewed the trajectory of artificial intelligence. Jakub Pachocki, OpenAI’s chief scientist, recalls that he and
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European countries are increasingly confronting the history and continuing consequences of the transatlantic slave trade, yet formal apologies and meaningful reparations remain rare as governments draw a legal line between acknowledging the
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Eight months after the United States began its oil blockade of Cuba, the island is increasingly marked by scenes of stark economic contrast. In Havana, solar panels illuminate businesses during blackouts, electric
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Singapore must never allow prejudice against any community to become accepted or normalised, Prime Minister Lawrence Wong said as he addressed a wave of anti-Indian comments that emerged online following the devastating
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Brazil’s presidential election has entered a volatile new phase, with a widening confrontation inside the Supreme Federal Court colliding with an increasingly tight contest between President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and
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