In mid-2023, an experiment within OpenAI’s “RLSlow” research project produced results that changed the way its researchers viewed the trajectory of artificial intelligence. Jakub Pachocki, OpenAI’s chief scientist, recalls that he and
When 55-year-old contractor Gyanchand Saw stepped out of his car on a sweltering May morning in Gaya, Bihar, he complained of the heat before collapsing. Despite desperate efforts by his son and
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Police in Greater Noida on Sunday arrested the mother-in-law of a 28-year-old woman who was set ablaze allegedly over a dowry demand of ₹36 lakh, even as the victim’s husband was shot
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Last week I described a new class of revolutionaries taking power in the United States. The aim of revolution, I argued, is not so much the creation of a new order but the perpetual
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Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is preparing sweeping reforms to the asylum appeals process in a bid to speed up deportations, reduce Britain’s reliance on migrant hotels, and head off mounting public
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“…there is such a thing as suicide.” ~ Aldous Huxley (Texts and Pretexts) There is a picture (featured) of Ranil Wickremesinghe and Maithripala Sirisena seated side by side inside the Colombo Fort
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Senior journalist S. Venkat Narayan, President of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of South Asia (FCC), has described the arrest of former Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe as “ridiculous” and emphasized that it
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Close on the heels of the arrest of former President Ranil Wickremesinghe, Public Security Minister Ananda Wijepala thundered in Parliament that everyone was equal before the law. Whether the suspects were former
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Egypt has granted permanent residency to several senior figures from Palestinian factions who were forced to leave Syria following the takeover of Damascus by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) last year. Among those
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by Durga Velayudham “We stand for organised terror—this should be frankly admitted. Terror is an absolute necessity during times of revolution.” Lenin’s words, coldly rational yet disturbingly candid, encapsulate a recurring paradox
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United Nations human rights experts have renewed their call for Indonesia to stop forced evictions linked to the Mandalika tourism megaproject, citing militarisation in the area and serious harm to the Indigenous
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