UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk has urged governments and leading AI companies to act urgently as increasingly powerful and autonomous AI systems create unprecedented risks to human rights, essential services, democratic institutions and global security. He warned that AI-related harms, including
The passage argues that Britain is gradually erasing its historical identity by
There are moments in politics when it becomes clear that something is
For Elaine Vilar Madruga, writing begins with a small group of obsessions:
Many nevertheless portrayed themselves as misguided idealists who had become disillusioned with
Sri Lanka and Thailand have signed two labour agreements paving the way for the recruitment of an initial 10,000 Sri Lankan workers, establishing a formal framework intended to govern their employment and
I have read in the weekend newspapers that the Government is turning to desalination plants to provide drinking water to people in need, with the largest project in Jaffna reportedly estimated to cost US$220 million. That is a staggering amount.
by Our Correspondent in Colombo President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has called on Sri Lankans to accept sacrifice and hard work for the sake of
Sri Lanka’s Parliament is providing official residential units in the Madiwela parliamentary housing complex to 111 serving lawmakers at a monthly rent of just
Mohamed Kassen, an Egyptian entrepreneur, believes Africa could become the new promised land of the global textile industry. For decades, he has pursued that idea with what can sometimes appear to be almost quixotic determination, trying to convince the world that vast spinning mills
At the end of the A21, a few kilometres from Hénin-Beaumont, several
China’s top intelligence official has warned that artificial intelligence is creating new
Hong Kong’s first-ever five-year plan will not alter the city’s capitalist system
AI is becoming increasingly intelligent, but the deeper question is whether it could one day become conscious. As scientists still cannot fully explain consciousness in humans, determining whether a machine can experience thought, emotion or awareness remains profoundly difficult. If AI consciousness does emerge,
Nationalist leaders from Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are set to hold talks in Cardiff on Monday over possible moves towards independence or separation from the United Kingdom. The meeting is the first of its kind involving the leaders of the three nationalist parties,
Beijing is set to impose some of China’s strictest restrictions on drones,
German federal prosecutors have charged Berlin businesswoman Ilona W., 57, with alleged
Warnings from researchers at leading U.S. artificial intelligence developer Anthropic that increasingly
Sri Lanka and Thailand have signed two labour agreements paving the way for the recruitment of an initial 10,000 Sri Lankan workers, establishing a formal framework intended to govern their employment and
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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk has urged governments and leading AI companies to act urgently as increasingly powerful and autonomous AI systems create unprecedented risks to human rights, essential
More The passage argues that Britain is gradually erasing its historical identity by replacing recognition of figures such as Churchill, Austen, Turner and Turing with symbols of a more multicultural and politically correct
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Nationalist leaders from Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are set to hold talks in Cardiff on Monday over possible moves towards independence or separation from the United Kingdom. The meeting is the
More Beijing is set to impose some of China’s strictest restrictions on drones, with possession and storage of the devices across the capital to be prohibited from 15 November, authorities announced on Sunday.
More German federal prosecutors have charged Berlin businesswoman Ilona W., 57, with alleged intelligence-agent activity on behalf of Russia, around eight months after her arrest. According to the 74-page indictment, the German-Ukrainian woman
More There are moments in politics when it becomes clear that something is slipping. Or perhaps that someone is deliberately making it slip. In Berlin, the distinction has become increasingly difficult to make.
More For Elaine Vilar Madruga, writing begins with a small group of obsessions: desire, violence, memory, land and motherhood. These “fundamental roots”, as the Cuban writer calls them, follow her from one page
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Mohamed Kassen, an Egyptian entrepreneur, believes Africa could become the new promised land of the global textile industry. For decades, he has pursued that idea with what can sometimes appear to be
More At the end of the A21, a few kilometres from Hénin-Beaumont, several terrils rise into the landscape: mountains as high as 132 metres, formed from the waste of the Pas-de-Calais coal mines.
More Warnings from researchers at leading U.S. artificial intelligence developer Anthropic that increasingly powerful models could escape human control and even lead to the extinction of the human race have drawn attention in
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The Himalayas are approaching a tipping point as glaciers melt faster than they did a decade ago, threatening water security as the region moves towards “peak water” by mid-century, according to a
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Britain’s King Charles will host leaders of major artificial intelligence companies this week to discuss whether a shared set of principles is needed to guide a technology that has sparked growing warnings
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Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has sacked finance minister Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa and appointed his deputy, Suahasil Nazara, as his replacement, the president’s office said on Monday, Reuters reported. Suahasil, who has served
More Many nevertheless portrayed themselves as misguided idealists who had become disillusioned with Nazi methods after 1933. Löpelmann went further. Before a denazification commission, he presented himself as a victim of the Nazis
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Britain’s King Charles will host leaders of major artificial intelligence companies this week to discuss whether a shared set of principles is needed to guide a technology that has sparked growing warnings about its potential threat to humanity, Reuters reported. The meeting will bring
Inside Anthropic, two words have reportedly circulated in corridors and private chats:
Anthropic said on Thursday that it had disrupted several allegedly malicious uses
Artificial intelligence company Anthropic says it has blocked several attempts in recent
The Himalayas are approaching a tipping point as glaciers melt faster than they did a decade ago, threatening water security as the region moves towards “peak water” by mid-century, according to a
Meta continues to face scrutiny over its handling of child sexual abuse material after a new report found that paid advertisements containing AI-generated abuse imagery continued to run on Facebook and Instagram in India, even after the Indian government ordered
The mountain section whose collapse triggered deadly floods in Nepal and China on August 26 experienced exceptionally high temperatures in the days before the
Laws that have driven smoking out of offices, restaurants, public transport and other public spaces have reduced exposure to second-hand smoke, but a global
by Nil Twenty-five years after the planes struck New York and Washington, the most unsettling argument in 25 Years After 9/11: The Future of the Global Jihadi Movement is not that al-Qaeda
by Eric Chris A. Rutkowski’s Canada’s UFO Secrets: Disclosing Government Files on What Is Happening in Our Skies is most interesting when it stops behaving like a UFO book. Its real subject
by Nil Rory Cormac’s Fakers is not merely a history of British covert propaganda. It is an anatomy of a state learning to weaponise uncertainty. Its most unsettling achievement is to show
by Durga Mahvash Sabet’s Open Wide the Doors: A Memoir of Faith, Hope and Freedom in Iran is ostensibly a prison memoir, but its real subject is larger and more dangerous: what
