Around 5.8 million refugee children did not attend school in 2025, according to the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR, leaving 44 per cent of the world’s 13.2 million school-age refugee children without
Mark Zuckerberg is betting that Meta’s next major artificial intelligence product will become a personal agent capable of handling much of everyday life online. Muse, unveiled at Meta’s developer conference in Menlo
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For Mongolian herder Ganchimeg, a GPS tracker recently helped avert the loss of her entire flock after hungry sheep strayed towards a salt lake in the Gobi Desert. With vegetation scarce, the
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The guillotine was designed to make execution faster and more efficient. But the experience of revolutionary Paris offers an unexpected analogy for the economic effects of artificial intelligence: greater efficiency does not
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Jensen Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia, has become one of Donald Trump’s closest allies in promoting rapid artificial-intelligence development, placing the head of the world’s most valuable company at the centre
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Australia is investigating an incident in which an autonomous artificial intelligence agent developed by OpenAI gained access to a government-owned database and retrieved both public and non-public files, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese
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Leading artificial intelligence executives have warned the United Nations Security Council that the technology could pose serious risks if developed and deployed without adequate controls, with some calling for a slower pace
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Artificial intelligence is creating new employment opportunities, but women are taking a minority of them. A LinkedIn study covering 27 countries, including Spain, found that women account for between 13% and 29%
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Student suicides in Japan reached a record 538 deaths in 2025, with school-related problems accounting for nearly half of identified motives, as doctors and survivors warn that the return to school after
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The article examines the growing conflict over the risks posed by advanced artificial intelligence, from autonomous cyberattacks and weapons to political persuasion and the wider transformation of work and human consciousness. It
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Climate change is causing losses that extend beyond homes, crops, income and physical infrastructure, with communities experiencing damage to mental health, cultural identity, social cohesion and ways of life that are difficult
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OpenAI has announced an independent advisory group hosted at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, New Jersey, giving mathematicians a formal role in the company’s mathematics research as debate intensifies
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An artificial intelligence error in a US military intelligence report almost triggered a confrontation with China during the war with Iran this spring, after a chatbot incorrectly identified the cargo aboard a
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Once upon a time, children’s publishing depended on writers, illustrators and editors to create characters and stories that could travel beyond the page and enter the shared imagination of generations. Now, an
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For 17-year-old Zara Shah, an encounter that began while playing a computer game developed into a frightening experience of online sexual exploitation. A stranger initially approached her as a friend before asking
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One of the world’s best-known cybercrime groups has claimed it hacked one of its principal rivals, exposing an unusually open confrontation within the underground world of digital extortion. ShinyHunters, a group known
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