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The iPhones 18 Pro

Every year since 2007, Apple has debuted a new flagship iPhone. Other than the just plain “iPhone” original, they all have numbers of some sort in their name. If you make a list of them in order, it’s a bit of a marketing curiosity that the only one of the

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How, Exactly, Could A.I. Kill Us?

Q. & A. Employees of A.I. companies are increasingly sounding the alarm. What should we make of their warnings? September 16, 2026 Dario Amodei, the C.E.O. of Anthropic.Source photograph from Getty Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our twice-weekly News & Politics

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This Is Really Bad

OpinionGuest Essay Credit... Listen · 21:33 min Sept. 11, 2026 Leer en español The biggest vibe shift in artificial intelligence since the release of ChatGPT is currently underway. Researchers in Silicon Valley — and around the world — are beginning to recognize that A.I. may no longer be entirely within

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The American Age Is Over

Sign up for our newsletter about national security here. The American age that followed World War II was bound to end eventually. What’s shocking is how suddenly that moment has arrived. In the past six months, America’s power—long exemplified by the world’s best warfighting equipment and most highly trained military

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Thoughts and Observations on Apple’s ‘Surprise and Shine’ Event; the Announcements of the iPhones 18 Pro, AirPods 5, Apple Watches Series 12 and Ultra 4, and the iPhone Duo; and the Dawn of the Ternus, John Ternus Era at Apple

The Keynote I loved the keynote’s “You want a great opening scene?” opening, which ran through a series of genre-inspired hook-you-from-the-first-shot pretend movie openings. Apple started with a title card that said “The following was shot on iPhone”, but the whole keynote — including the fun fake-movie openings — was

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iOS 27 Features: The Ultimate Mega Guide

When iOS 27 first came out back in June, we started working on a series of in-depth feature guides and how tos that go through all of the updates in Apple's new software. Our ultimate guide aggregates all of our ‌iOS 27‌ coverage, and it is useful for iPhone and

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How Sweden lost its soul – and stopped being Sweden | Martin Gelin

Last year, a baby named Emanuel was born in Sweden. Before his first birthday, his parents were told that Emanuel could no longer stay in the country. The department of migration ordered his removal, alone, to Iran – despite the ongoing war. Emanuel’s parents were legally in the country. They

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Is Zionism’s Moral Crisis About Roads Not Taken—or Original Sin?

A Critic at Large Where Benjamin Moser replaces one story of Jewish exceptionalism with another, Omer Bartov shows what’s lost when polemic takes the place of history. September 13, 2026 A ship named for the founder of political Zionism brings Jewish immigrants to the Port of Haifa, in 1948. According

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Big Tech Fooled America Once. The Second Time’s Not Going So Well.

Credit...Brandon Celi OpinionGuest Essay Credit...Brandon Celi Listen · 22:30 min Sept. 10, 2026 The popular uprising against data centers has emerged so suddenly that politicians stumble over their own pitchforks racing to the front of the crowd. Where most industries would be launching into crisis P.R. mode, perhaps even engaging

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Dario Amodei — We Must Pace the Frontier

I have worked on AI for the last twelve years because I believe it could dramatically raise the quality of human life. I’ve written often about these incredible benefits: I believe that AI could cure most major diseases in the next 5–10 years, greatly accelerate economic growth rates, create a

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Trump’s Weird Loyalty Pledge

Donald Trump loves rallies. Everyone can see how they energize him, how the crowd’s applause encourages him to ditch the hackneyed prose of his speechwriters and go on wild riffs, how the music and cheering are like water to a parched man. Tonight, at the end of a two-day rally

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Why So Many AI Researchers Think the Machines Could Kill Everyone

Earlier this year, Rishub Jain left his position as an artificial intelligence researcher at Google DeepMind after a revelation. As he worked on new models, he came to believe that he and everyone else on AI’s frontier were ceding control. By using AI’s coding skills to accelerate work on the

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The 24-Year-Old Who Lost Billions

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. Updated at 4:32 p.m. ET on September 8, 2026. In the fall of 2007, as the American housing market began to buckle, a Morgan Stanley bond trader named Howie Hubler lost $9 billion.

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Un año de trabajo de dos matemáticos españoles frente a 88 horas y 15 millones de OpenAI: “Sin nuestra idea, la IA no lo habría resuelto”

El matemático Diego Córdoba lleva dos días sin dormir cuando contesta a la llamada de EL PAÍS, el miércoles por la mañana: “Estoy aún en shock, la verdad”, dice, y reconoce que no sabe cómo está cuando se le pregunta. El sábado por la noche recibió una llamada de un

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