Inside Anthropic, two words have reportedly circulated in corridors and private chats: “crunch time” and “endgame”. The first refers to the year or two that some employees believe remain before it becomes
The already volatile strategic triangle linking China, India and Pakistan has acquired another layer of complexity after Pakistan, Turkey and Saudi Arabia signed a new defensive alliance in Mecca. The agreement, which
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Donald Trump is presenting the latest difficulties in his dealings with Iran as part of a process that will eventually resolve itself. But the signals emerging from Tehran and Israel point to
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Daniel McKinnon knows better than most that artificial intelligence can change a career. For years, the 40-year-old engineer worked for Meta developing AI systems, initially helping improve speech recognition for the company’s
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A global debate over how to protect children from the risks of social media is gathering pace, but Japan is resisting the blanket age bans being adopted elsewhere. Instead, the country is
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Can a political system be undermined by its own success? That is the argument advanced by proponents of post-liberalism, a broad and internally divided school of thought that has gained increasing attention
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The gradual repair of ties between China and India has opened diplomatic and economic channels that were largely closed after the deadly 2020 border clashes. Yet improved government-to-government relations have not translated
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The race to become the next secretary general of the United Nations has entered its decisive phase at a moment when the organisation faces some of the most difficult challenges in its
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The annual appearance of a senior Chinese Communist Party official at the seaside resort of Beidaihe has once again drawn attention to the inner workings of China’s leadership, but this year’s timing
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For Mahabir Pun, the challenge of connecting Nepal’s remote mountain communities is deeply personal. Long before he entered government as Nepal’s first minister for science, technology and innovation, he was a teacher
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An extensive investigation by the Lebanese human rights organisation Legal Agenda, conducted alongside international monitors Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, argues that the killing of Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil was not
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