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Is AI Actually Going to Kill Us All?

VON Brian Barrett, Leah Feiger, Will Knight

This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we dig into a former Anthropic researcher’s AI doomsday warning, the latest upgrades from Apple’s event, and the census report that claimed Trump won the 2020 election.

Foreign Policy by Likes: The Millions We Have Paid

VON Eitay Mack

Closing the embassy in Dublin cost about $407,000 (€356,841), while opening embassies in Moldova, Zambia, and Fiji cost at least $1.5 million (NIS 4.6 million) • On top of that came an annual lease of more than a quarter of a million dollars and another $330,000 (NIS 1 million) for training and projects in Fiji

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Live from ICM 2026: What Is Math For in the Age of AI?

VON Janna Levin, Steven Strogatz

In this special live recording from the International Congress of Mathematicians in Philadelphia, July 2026, the central question discussed was what do mathematicians really value about doing mathematics in the first place?

Künstliche Intelligenz oder künstliche Intelligenz?

VON Cristóvão Feil

Bevor der Urmensch schrieb, nutzte er nur sein Gedächtnis, um sich der Natur, seinen Artgenossen und den Herausforderungen des Lebens zu stellen. Das Schreiben kam und wir begannen, Erinnerungen und Autoren zu speichern.

Untersuchung der Links von Al-Sahnawi-Plattformen zu Propagandanetzwerken der israelischen Regierung

VON "Legal Agenda" website

Die Beweislage deutet auf etwas hin, das über „Geschäfte“ oder „illegale Kontakte“ mit der israelischen Regierung hinausgeht und erfordert eine Untersuchung der Verantwortung der drei Plattformen für ihren Beitrag zu dem politischen und medialen Umfeld, das die Fortsetzung von Handlungen schützt, die im Libanon internationale Verbrechen darstellen, einschließlich der Reproduktion und Ausweitung der Propaganda der …

As mathematicians grapple with AI, divisions are multiplying

VON Simon Allison

Mathematics has long been considered – not least by mathematicians – to be the foundation of human knowledge. Now large language models are getting better at solving some puzzles. Mathematicians must decide if, and how, they will work with this new technology.

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AI at the (Federal Security) Service

VON Egor Feoktistov

The Russian state security service — FSB — has been trying to implement AI in its anti-opposition operations for at least two years. IStories investigated how the development of the Pauk (“Spider”) system went — and why it was stopped (at least for now)

Anthropic Staffers Again Sound the Alarm on AI Catastrophe

VON Satchel Walton

On Tuesday, experienced AI researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from the AI firm Anthropic—saying that both that company and OpenAI, his previous employer, were “gambling with our lives” by developing models that could improve themselves at a rapid clip until they reach “superintelligence.

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Our Technological Wager

VON Simon Torracinta

The AI investment boom is a gamble of epic proportions. Yet on both sides of the wager, it seems, the house wins.

Schools are catching on to Big Tech’s playbook

VON Lauren Feiner

It's the hot new thing in tech, and it's where all the jobs are. Students who don't learn to use it fall behind. And to help them catch up in time, its creators are graciously providing the resources and curriculum for learning it, often pro bono.