In an interview with BBC Newsnight’s Paddy O’Connell, Slavoj Žižek discusses his new book, Signs from the Future, examining Donald Trump’s political legacy, the decline of the liberal international order and the
A Catholic chaplain at the University of Oxford has been asked to step down after an internal safeguarding investigation upheld a complaint of professional misconduct made by a student. Father Damian Howard,
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The nation that leads the clean energy economy will be the nation that leads the global economy…Barack Obama The International Day of Clean Energy, observed on 26 January pursuant to General Assembly
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Why Creativity Matters In today’s educational system, grades alone no longer determine a student’s success. Critical thinking, problem-solving, and the ability to innovate have become equally important, and at the heart of
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A legal battle between Elon Musk and the leaders of OpenAI has erupted into one of the most consequential corporate disputes in the history of artificial intelligence, with potentially seismic implications for
More A new academic study has found that artificial intelligence systems can reproduce subjective and biased views about places, after ChatGPT judged Cambridge to be harder-working and happier than its historic rival Oxford.
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For two decades, the first instinct of anyone experiencing new medical symptoms was to “Google it,” a practice so widespread it earned the nickname “Dr. Google.” But that era is rapidly fading
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Public health authorities in Guinea-Bissau announced the suspension of a controversial US-funded hepatitis B vaccine study, intensifying a broader debate over control and oversight of clinical research conducted in Africa. During a
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Nearly two years after Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella predicted that AI would replace knowledge work, the transformation has been surprisingly slow. Foundation models have made enormous strides in reasoning, planning, and research,
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Defense technology firm Anduril revealed plans Thursday to expand its Southern California footprint with a major new campus in Long Beach, the coastal city where founder Palmer Luckey grew up. The company
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Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis expressed surprise at OpenAI’s decision to introduce ads into its AI chatbot, suggesting the move may be premature and could damage user trust. Speaking to Axios at
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Elon Musk is one of the most polarising and influential figures of our time, a man whose name has become synonymous with audacious ambition, relentless engineering, and a vision of humanity that
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Elon Musk’s Grok AI tool produced an estimated three million sexualised images on X in just 11 days, sparking international outrage and prompting the platform to disable the feature in some countries.
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Sri Lanka has taken a landmark step into the world of advanced science and technology with the inauguration of its first quantum computer, marking what academics describe as the dawn of the
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Scientists have observed a supermassive black hole that appears to have reactivated after a nearly 100 million-year hiatus, unleashing powerful jets of plasma once again and reshaping its surrounding cosmic environment. The
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei delivered a blistering critique of the U.S. administration and leading chipmakers at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Tuesday, denouncing the decision to approve the sale of
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