First Thing: US goes to polls in vote that will define the last years of Trump’s presidency
Democrats are hoping to seize control in the capitol and rein in the president’s power. Plus, a peacock that loves admiring itself in the mirror a lit...
Americans head to the polls for elections that could define Trump's closing chapter
The midterms will shape Congress for the last years of his presidency, writes Sarah Smith, but they are also a test of what politics may look like wit...
Anthropic warns that it’s very close to RSI capability, aka self-building AI
RSI is the point at which AI grows so good at training itself that it spawns a dramatic acceleration of AI capabilities. To the AI doomers, RSI repres...
This woman defied lethal cancer. Can mRNA vaccines make that possible for others?
Researchers have been chasing the dream of a cancer vaccine for decades. Some recent successes with mRNA technology are garnering excitement from pati...
Is America really that polarized? The answer might be a surprise
The U.S. has become more politically polarized, but research shows people overestimate their differences and there is 'messy middle' majority of Ameri...
5 isekais para quem gostou de That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime
Em That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, um funcionário de escritório morre esfaqueado e renasce como uma gosma em outro mundo, onde absorve habili...
42AI comes out of stealth with $62.5M and a world model that can ‘predict human behavior’
Here's a question straight out of sci-fi: What if AI could predict what you were going to do before you decided to, even in a completely new situation...
Investigators search for cause in Florida plane crash that killed all nine onboard
A private plane headed to the Bahamas from Texas crashed in Palm Beach county and exploded on impact SundayInvestigators are searching for the cause o...
Minns warns expected RBA rate rise will see ‘shops close that don’t reopen’ as pressure mounts on PM
Frustration grows over the economy with one Labor MP saying voter anger is already high ahead of Reserve Bank of Australia decisionGet our daily polit...
Your writing was flagged as AI. What does that actually mean?
As editors turn to imperfect AI detection tools to weed out machine-generated submissions, writers who say they were falsely accused of using AI are l...
Charges dropped against man arrested in mass shooting at Ohio festival that wounded 12
Eljay Crisp-Carr, 20, spent five months behind bars before prosecutors asked to dismiss chargesOhio prosecutors on Friday dropped charges against a ma...
Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz warns that the AI boom is ‘a great opportunity to go deceive people’
The cautionary Theranos tale takes on a new significance in the AI era, when companies that have never turned a profit are raising capital at trillion...
Vivek Ramaswamy discontinues attack ad that prompted wave of revulsion
Candidate for Ohio governor confirms campaign no longer airing ad that smeared rival and was defended by TrumpVivek Ramaswamy, the Republican nominee ...
New Zelda and GTA represent a games industry that no longer exists
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the biggest game releases of the year, fo...
Hong Kong’s leader apologises for residential fire that killed 168 people
Blaze last year was deadliest housing fire globally since 1980 and some ex-residents and victims’ families say they still need justiceHong Kong’s lead...
The ‘breathing space budget’ – breathing space for the government, that is | John Crace
John Healey aced the morning-after media round because his Martin Lewis measures left nothing to challenge him on Maybe it had been one of the greates...
Erin Foster Details Real-Life Proposal That Inspired Nobody Wants This
This article contains spoilers for Nobody Wants This season three.
It’s safe to say everybody would want a proposal like this.
Erin Foster just reve...
John Healey faces questions over budget leak that moved bank share prices
Treasury select committee asks FCA to investigate whether tax surcharge leak led to ‘improper release of inside information’John Healey is facing pres...
Defence backed claim that social media footage of public servants could invite bullying
Official’s controversial September request for Senate hearing footage to not be shared on social media has been heavily criticisedGet our daily politi...
Albania imposes $6,000 fine for demonstrators present at a protest that turns violent
The fine – six times the average monthly salary – will apply to people present at violent protests, even if they don’t personally commit violent actsA...
