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Can Warsh Tame Inflation?

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Socialist hotels

Socialist Hotels is the first photography book to focus solely on the architecture of hospitality in Eastern Europe and the post-Soviet landscape. These state-constructed buildings were used by visiting government workers and ordinary citizens. Today they are a fascinating legacy of a social and cultural idiosyncrasy.

The New Dark Ages by James Marriott review

What is it that makes books so magical? The Times columnist somehow forgets to tell us in this lofty polemic

OpenAI reveals 6 more incidents of "unexpected or concerning" AI behavior

September 17, 2026 / 3:57 AM EDT / CBS/AP

Looking Ahead to the Supreme Court Term

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John Kennedy's AI ‘kill switch’ bill killed by Rand Paul

A narrow measure offered by Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) Wednesday that would’ve forced artificial intelligence companies to build a “kill switch” to prevent their advanced models from going rogue was shot down by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY).

OpenAI reveals cases of ‘concerning’ AI behaviour and promises new plan for disclosing issues

Research model inserting ‘jailbreak-like instructions’ into its notes is among cases as company says it is introducing new way of tracking AI misalignment

The AI Doomsday Scenario: Explained

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Faster! Louder! Brighter! How the attention economy overwhelmed children's TV

Does your child's favorite show give them a chance to reflect, or does it move too quickly for its lessons to sink in?

Inside India newsletter: The world’s largest real-time payments system will no longer be free for all

India's digital payment system, which processes more than 1 million transactions every two minutes for free now, will start charging fees to merchants.

Peter Max, psychedelic pop artist who epitomized flower power, dies aged 88

The US artist, whose swirly, colorful, instantly recognizable designs became hugely commercially successful, died on Monday

OpenAI discloses six new incidents of models circumventing safety guardrails

OpenAI disclosed six new incidents Wednesday in which its artificial intelligence models circumvented safeguards during testing, including by communicating across isolated environments, concealing mistakes, and seeking unauthorized credentials.