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Michael Pollan Punctures the AI Bubble

His new book, about the mystery of consciousness, strengthens the case that technology will never truly replicate humans.

The Edge of Mathematics

Terence Tao, the legendary mathematician, explains the promise of generative AI.

Anthropic joins OpenAI in flagging 'industrial-scale' distillation campaigns by Chinese AI firms

Anthropic accused three Chinese artificial intelligence enterprises of engaging in coordinated distillation campaigns, the latest American tech firm to do so.

Meta strikes AI chip deal with AMD days after committing to deploy millions of Nvidia GPUs

AMD has secured Meta as a customer for its Helios rack-scale system, as Nvidia's Blackwell faces heightened competition.

Anlife: what does an unusual evolution simulator have to say about AI?

We explore the strange food-obsessed world of a new game whose tech was once called ‘an insult to life itself’ by Hayao Miyazaki, the film-maker behind Spirited Away

We asked scientists what they think we'll learn from the government's UFO files. Here's what they said.

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God of Frogs review

Self-aware horror set across four time periods sees a woman impregnated by a human-sized pond-beast resulting in multigenerational havoc

Mexico’s Bold Strike Against Drug Cartels

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‘I like the challenge’: French animator Florence Miailhe on being nominated for an Oscar for the first time aged 70

The film-maker’s passionate and richly textured new short Papillon (Butterfly) tells the heartbreaking story of French-Jewish swimmer Alfred Nakache, who was stripped of his citizenship in Vichy France

'Beauty in the everyday': A butterfly's-eye view of the world

US photographer Jeff Mermelstein has been likened to the winged insect due to his passion for flitting from one attractive subject to the next, as shown in his new book of work

Nonesuch by Francis Spufford review

Dark magic, fascism and romance in blitz-stricken London: this exuberant novel is a popcorny delight

Sam Altman Is Losing His Grip on Humanity

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