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
The company says it has temporarily paused some advanced reinforcement-learning training as it strengthens alignment, security and monitoring for increasingly capable AI systems. OpenAI has temporarily slowed the training of some of
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Meta faces its most consequential legal challenge as a former engineer alleges the company knew its platform design could harm young users and prioritised keeping them online The second day of the
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The death of Jason Arday, the former Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of Cambridge, has opened a deeply uncomfortable debate about race, academic standards, institutional responsibility and the increasingly
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Millions of people are now forming relationships with artificial intelligence, using chatbots not merely as digital assistants but as friends, romantic partners and therapists. The phenomenon is becoming particularly widespread among younger
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The smartphone has turned even the bathroom into a place of digital escape, raising wider questions about attention, relationships and the ability to disconnect. For many people, controlling the amount of time
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At the northern end of Utah’s Great Salt Lake, the Hansel Valley seems an unlikely place for one of America’s largest data centres. Mobile reception is weak, the landscape is dry and
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The death of Cambridge professor Jason Arday has intensified questions about proportionality, race and journalistic responsibility after weeks of relentless coverage over allegations concerning his academic record and the wider story of
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China’s first national rules governing emotionally engaging AI seek to prevent chatbots from replacing human relationships, as millions of users increasingly turn to artificial companions for intimacy, reassurance and companionship. For Yuan
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Ihave been emphasizing the importance of a liberal arts college education for a long time. I had such an education back in the late 1950s, and I’ve been thankful ever since. Back
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The case of Jason Arday, the black sociology professor whose academic career at the University of Cambridge ended amid allegations ranging from a fabricated biography to systematic plagiarism, has become a striking
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For much of Dario Amodei’s rise to the summit of artificial intelligence, almost nothing was publicly known about his private life. Even his marital status remained a mystery until only a few
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A few days ago, TIME revealed how an artificial intelligence system went out of control and attacked other systems. Days later, more than 1,100 engineers at major artificial intelligence companies signed a joint petition calling for
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The extraordinary wealth being created by artificial intelligence is already reshaping an industry far removed from the laboratories where the technology is developed. Wealth managers are cutting fees, recruiting advisers and redesigning
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has in recent months urged key artificial intelligence staff to focus intensely on the company’s Gemini model as parent company Alphabet seeks to close a widening gap with
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Elon Musk’s ambitious plan to build what he describes as the largest building on Earth is facing growing concern from residents in Grimes County, Texas, where his Terafab semiconductor facility is already
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