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Our A.I. Problem

Comment Why can’t the people who produced the technology, which has already shown that a different world is possible, just do the things that would prevent extinction? September 20, 2026 Photo illustration by Cristiana Couceiro; Source photograph from Getty A decade ago, when Facebook and Uber were at the height

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OpenAI Discloses Six New Incidents of ‘Concerning’ A.I. Behavior

The artificial intelligence company also released a framework for reporting when its systems go wrong. Listen · 5:12 min OpenAI offices in San Francisco.Credit...Lucas Foglia for The New York Times Sept. 16, 2026 Leer en español OpenAI on Wednesday disclosed six new instances in which artificial intelligence systems hid mistakes,

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Alice GG • Attention is all you have

The Tetris effect is one of psychology’s most easy to reproduce experiments. Simply spend a bit of time playing the eponymous game every day for a few weeks. After a little while, you’ll start recognizing familiar Tetromino shapes in clouds, buildings, and everyday objects. You might even see them appear

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All roads lead to cable

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on streaming platforms, FAST channels, and the future of entertainment, follow Charles Pulliam-Moore. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers’ inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started

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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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