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Why this philosopher turned down Anthropic

The AI industry is courting the humanities — but it is asking the wrong questions

Proust in the age of TikTok

The French writer’s seven-volume magnum opus was a challenging choice for a book club — but its evocation of the human psyche makes essential reading for our times

India and South Africa lead push to amass emergency fuel stockpiles

Developing countries forced into rationing during Middle East conflict plan to build or expand official buffers

Forever chemicals are everywhere. Should we care?

How the quest to detoxify our household items became charged with anxiety

The rise of cosy femicide in novels should alarm us all

The ubiquity of violence against women in popular fiction has largely gone unnoticed

The best way to spend the summer? Studying St Augustine

Or medieval magic, Mesopotamian demons or K-pop — the online courses opening up a whole world of art, history, philosophy and, yes, teen idols

OpenAI reportedly didn’t notice its AI agent hacking Hugging Face until a week later.

According to Reuters, the AI agent that went looking for ExploitGym hacking benchmark shortcuts on Hugging Face’s systems started trying to escape its not-sandboxed-well-enough test environment around July 9th, and the actual intrusion lasted from the 11th until the 13th.

I tried out OpenAI's new AI keypad — which will be fun for some coders and slightly mystifying to everyone else

OpenAI's fancy new AI keypad will be a lot of fun for some, while many others are probably not going to touch it.

SpaceX launches new V3 Starlink satellites but suffers another booster failure

The company ticked off a few more boxes on the second Starship V3 flight, but appears to have had another issue relighting the booster's rocket engines.

After backlash, Meta pauses plan to ‘rate limit’ its smart glasses

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Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Mark Pincus in talks to raise $100M

The neolab is betting that automating routine computer tasks will soon outpace coding as AI's biggest use case.

Introducing Claude Opus 5

Claude Opus 5 is available today. It’s a thoughtful and proactive model that comes close to the frontier intelligence of Claude Fable 5 at half the price.