The latest PISA assessment presents an unusually stark picture of educational performance. More than 760,000 15-year-old students across 91 participating countries and economies were assessed, producing evidence of broad declines in some
by Eric Sebastian Mallaby’s The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence is an ambitious, at times unsettling, attempt to narrate the making of a technological epoch through the
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The global stock market is being rattled by a growing wave of anxiety over artificial intelligence, as investors struggle to assess how deeply the technology could disrupt industries and reshape economic power.
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by Durga Caroline Wong’s The AI Cybersecurity Handbook offers a comprehensive, forward-looking exploration of how artificial intelligence is reshaping the cybersecurity landscape. Framed as both a diagnostic survey and a practical guide,
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On 1 April, four astronauts left Earth to circle the Moon for the first time in over 50 years, marking a historic moment in space exploration. Flags may wave, speeches may be
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For decades, bacteria have been waging microscopic battles against viruses, wielding molecular weapons that scientists barely understood—until now. Two groundbreaking studies published in Science reveal the vast, previously hidden diversity of bacterial
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A light source larger than a London double-decker bus is breaking records and redefining what is possible in computer chip manufacturing. Using extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light, the system can etch structures on
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All eyes were on the sky yesterday as NASA launched four astronauts on its Artemis II mission, a lunar flyby designed to test the agency’s hardware and procedures for returning humans to
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OpenAI has secured a record-breaking funding round that values the company at an astonishing $835 billion, marking the largest private investment deal in history and signaling surging global confidence in artificial intelligence.
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The technology giant Oracle has begun cutting thousands of jobs as part of a sweeping cost-reduction strategy tied to its massive investments in artificial intelligence and data centre infrastructure. The company, founded
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NASA is on the cusp of history once again. Fifty-four years after humans last traveled beyond low Earth orbit, the Artemis 2 mission is preparing to send astronauts past the Moon, this
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