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
The long American century is over. Across the world, affiliations and institutions staked in blood and soil, faith-based (as opposed to empirically based) ways of knowing, and personalized, autocratic power are all
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The perennial endeavor to distinguish prose from poetry has occupied poets, philosophers, and scholars through the centuries, each attempting to hold in place two forms of expression that appear, at once, kindred
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A new genetic study of over one million people has found that many psychiatric disorders share common biological underpinnings, challenging traditional diagnostic categories, according to research published today in Nature. The analysis
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Despite years of international discussions and white papers on AI governance, there has been no globally agreed framework to manage the risks and benefits of AI. As reported in Nature, China is
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Cognitive fatigue, the mental exhaustion that can sap motivation, dull focus, and increase the likelihood of errors, affects billions of people worldwide. The phenomenon was famously highlighted in 1996 when chess grandmaster
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Meta Platforms Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg is intensifying his personal involvement in the company’s artificial intelligence efforts as Meta pivots toward a new, revenue-focused model codenamed Avocado, according to sources cited by
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Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek is said to have relied on Nvidia Corp. chips that are banned from sale in China to develop an upcoming AI model, according to a report by
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Unconventional AI, the new venture launched by former Databricks head of AI Naveen Rao, has confirmed a massive $475 million seed round at a valuation of $4.5 billion — one of the
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Scientists report they are nearing a turning point in drug development as AI-designed antibodies begin to show properties comparable to commercial medicines. The progress comes just one year after biologists first used
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Food prices are climbing across nearly every region of the world, and while climate extremes and weather-driven production disruptions are part of the story, a deeper structural issue is emerging. According to
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by Our Business Affairs Editor The recent collapse in IndiGo’s operations, marked by thousands of cancellations and severe nationwide disruptions, has reopened a deeper debate within India’s aviation sector—whether the turmoil at
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The development of aviation has opened up the world in a way that no other single invention has done before. – Charles Lindbergh In 1996, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 7
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Microsoft Corp.’s Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella this week became the latest tech leader to visit India, joining a growing procession of executives seeking to tap the country’s massive market and leverage
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Two Chinese men were taken into custody for allegedly smuggling Nvidia H100 and H200 chips to China, the U.S. Justice Department announced on Monday, Reuters reported. The arrests come as President Donald
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Scientists have detected the largest-known spinning structure ever observed in the universe — a colossal filament of galaxies, gas and dark matter twisting through space like a cosmic carousel. The team, using
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