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
by Nil The Impossible Factory constructs a powerful and at times troubling mythology of technological genius centred on Kelly Johnson and the Skunk Works enterprise. Rather than a conventional biography, the book
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At this year’s Google I/O conference, the conversation around artificial intelligence moved beyond chatbots and productivity software into something far more consequential: the possibility that AI systems could eventually function as scientists
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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps used a procurement network operating out of the United Arab Emirates to obtain sensitive Chinese satellite communication equipment linked to its military drone programme, according to leaked
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“If a monk, after taking on a monk’s training and way of life, without first renouncing the training and revealing his weakness, has sexual intercourse, even with a female animal, he is
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A catastrophic gas explosion at a coal mine in northern China has left at least 90 people dead and dozens more injured, marking the country’s worst mining disaster in nearly two decades.
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China’s top economic planning agency has publicly denied accusations that Beijing is pressuring domestic technology firms to reject foreign investment, pushing back against growing international concern that the country is erecting new
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Singapore is positioning itself to capture the next wave of growth from China’s expanding economy, with Senior Minister Lee Hsien Loong declaring that Chinese investment and technological transformation are opening new opportunities
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Editorial The disappearance of 42 ancient paintings from Sri Lanka’s National Art Gallery is not a bureaucratic accounting error. It is a cultural alarm bell ringing in a country that already seems
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Armenia is rapidly emerging as one of the most strategically significant states on Europe’s periphery, according to analysis associated with The Soufan Center. Positioned between Iran, Türkiye, and the broader South Caucasus,
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The Islamic State Mozambique Province, assessed in recent analysis associated with The Soufan Center, has re-emerged as a strategically significant yet often overlooked node in the wider Islamic State ecosystem. Operating in
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