Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the time has come to slow down AI development and will give third-party evaluators like METR access to its models to help ensure its "adherence to safety practices and commitments." In a winding essay,...
There’s a specific kind of quiet that only turns up at family gatherings.
Someone who runs meetings for a living, who will happily argue with a stranger about football, who is funny at dinner parties, goes oddly flat the moment...
Somewhere after thirty, the guest list gets shorter. Fewer birthday drinks. Fewer group chats that survive the calendar year. Fewer people worth crossing a city for on a Tuesday.
Most people read that as a character flaw. Gone boring. Gone...
A friend rang me at two in the morning, Bangkok time, which meant it was a civilised hour wherever he was and a criminal one where I was. He was forty-six. He had the job, the flat, the marriage,...
For the first time in decades, young men are more religious than young women. As women leave churches over rigid traditional gender roles, young men, especially young Republicans, are finding solace in faith. Bonnie Erbé discusses this historic shift...
Talking to your partner about money more often did not show up, in either partner’s numbers, as a happier relationship a month later.
That is the awkward middle of a new study that followed 136 couples through November 2025, asking...
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Houthi rebels in Yemen consolidated lightning gains across the country's western coast. The group, which recently resumed fighting with the Saudi-backed government, also extended its hold on the Bab al-Mandab Strait, a crucial chokepoint at the southern reaches of...
In our news wrap Friday, the Labor Department reported that consumer prices rose 3.4% in August when compared to last year, the inflation report is fueling speculation that the Fed will raise interest rates, U.S. health officials declared an...
Families, survivors, first responders and dignitaries marked the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks with somber and poignant ceremonies. That included major gatherings in New York, at the Pentagon and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The attacks killed 2,977 people and...
