Claude is becoming increasingly capable and commercially valuable, while Anthropic is fighting Washington over autonomous weapons and surveillance. The company wants America to lead AI, but not at any price.
Claude is becoming increasingly capable and commercially valuable, while Anthropic is fighting Washington over autonomous weapons and surveillance. The company wants America to lead AI, but not at any price.
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Gonzalo Suárez is being presented anew as a pioneering figure in Spanish literature and cinema, with Javier Cercas arguing that the writer and filmmaker was the country’s first truly postmodern author. The
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Quebec’s separatist Parti Quebecois (PQ) is leading polls ahead of the province’s October 5 election, putting the party on course for a possible return to power after more than a decade in
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US voters will decide control of Congress and 36 state governorships on November 3, in elections that will determine the balance of power for the final two years of President Donald Trump’s
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Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić has resigned from office ahead of parliamentary elections on October 25, a move that allows him to contest the vote as the leading candidate of his Serbian Progressive
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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva holds a five-percentage-point lead over far-right opposition candidate Flavio Bolsonaro six days before the first round of the presidential election, according to a Quaest voting-intention
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Trump evidently decided on his own to direct the Navy to build new battleships based on his having watched the black-and-white television series Victory at Sea when he was young.
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by Durga The most revealing sentence in Lindy Li’s Unburdened may be the one that sounds least like political analysis: “Why did I do it? You want the unvarnished truth…? It was
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by Luxman Anthony Scaramucci’s most revealing confession may also be the sentence that prevents All the Wrong Moves from becoming a conventional anti-Trump polemic: “I bought into Donald Trump. That doesn’t reflect
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Sri Lanka’s archaeology chief says the nearly 300-year-old casket formerly used for the Sacred Tooth Relic should be preserved as an archaeological heritage artifact, regardless of the monetary value of its gold.
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Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court, once a powerful institution of political compromise and public trust, may be drawn increasingly into the country’s growing political polarisation. A possible AfD ban would put its authority
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An internal investigation into an alleged large-scale fuel fraud at Sri Lanka’s Norochcholai Lakvijaya coal power plant has found that diesel worth more than Rs160 million issued for the facility was not
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A 2025 study found that 41 per cent of respondents across 10 European countries agreed that there is a group “trying to replace the native-born population with immigrants”, with 17.5 per cent
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Elections across France, Italy, Spain, Poland and other major European countries are set to test whether surging nationalist and populist movements can turn growing support into lasting political power, as mainstream parties
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Stabilisation is retrospective; it builds firewalls around past failures, manages liquidity ratios and enforces structural austerity to ensure that a nation can barely service its liabilities. Transformation, by contrast, is prospective. It
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