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Race for AI is making Hindenburg-style disaster ‘a real risk’, says leading expert

Prof Michael Wooldridge says scenario such as deadly self-driving car update or AI hack could destroy global interest

Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 4.6, continuing breakneck pace of AI model releases

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is more consistent with coding and is better at following coding instructions, Anthropic said.

Palantir moving its headquarters from Denver to Miami

The software analytics firm is the latest big business to migrate to South Florida as executives seek to transform the region into a hub for innovation.

Cardboard crazy! Scavenger genius Shigeru Ban on building cathedrals and quake shelters with paper

From high-end boutiques to housing in disaster zones with beer-crate foundations, the Japanese architect creates with things people throw away. What will his distillery in whisky’s holy land look like?

Ford to follow Tesla Cybertruck with electrical tech in new EV pickup

Ford's next generation of all-electric vehicles will feature a budding technology commercialized by Tesla in the U.S. on its Cybertruck.

Cloud startup Render raises funding at $1.5 billion valuation as AI-built apps boom

Render is one of the beneficiaries of growing competition in the cloud computing world spurred by the booming demand for artificial intelligence.

Winners of the 2026 Sony World Photography Awards Open Competition

The top entries in this year’s open contest were just announced, selected from more than 430,000 images from more than 200 countries and territories.

Analog is back, and my millennial heart couldn’t be happier

When daily life feels like a black hole of apps and feeds, it’s no surprise we crave the intimacy of physical media

Redux Redux review

The McManus brothers offer a stylish new spin on the time loop genre in this tale of a woman trying to stop the abduction and murder of her daughter

The gulf between critics and audience has never been wider

Critics have given the Flotus flick 11% on the aggregator site, but the ‘verified ticket buyers’ score is a near perfect 98%. A campaign by activists, or a sign of our politically disparate times?

India discussing age-based restrictions with social media firms, top minister says

The comments come after Australia in December became the first to ban users under the age of 16 from accessing major social media platforms.

Wuthering Heights adaptation is what happens when no one reads

The latest work from English filmmaker Emerald Fennell — who cultivated a sizable following with her tawdry 2023 dark comedy Saltburn — is a loose adaptation of Emily Bronte’s 1847 Wuthering Heights — loose being a charitable term doing more than its share of heavy lifting — and a reflection of a stark literary crisis plaguing our modern age.