The one change that worked: I was terrified of the dentist – until I found a very special one.
I haven’t always been afraid of the dentist. If you’d asked me ten years ago whether sitting in the dentist’s…
I worked at Google DeepMind. You should listen to the warnings about AI | Alex Turner
This weekend, the CEOs of major AI labs called for slowing down AI development. Their concern is justified: the field…
George Osborne has called for the UK to rejoin the EU customs union and increase trade.
Former chancellor George Osborne said Britain’s economy had “fallen off a cliff” since Brexit and that rejoining the European Union’s…
OpenAI’s CEO and Elon Musk support calls to slow down ‘reckless’ AI development.
Sam Altman and Elon Musk have backed a call from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to “slow the pace” of AI…
The AfD won a shocking election in Germany. Elon Musk was thrilled.
The Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party shook European politics this week with a decisive win in a German state election,…
‘I was hit by an emotional hurricane’: Esther Freud, Deborah Levy and other novelists revisit their childhood homes
‘People return to their childhood homes to revisit earlier versions of themselves.’ — Psychotherapist and author Julia Samuel Julia Samuel,…
Who are the 514 people accused of starting wildfires in France, and what are their motives?
One is a 15-year-old boy who threw a lit cigarette into a wood near Bordeaux. Another is a 36-year-old man…
Voting is underway in Sweden, with the far right hoping to enter government for the first time.
Voting is under way in Sweden in a high-stakes election that could bring the far-right Sweden Democrats (SD) into government…
‘You start to worry you’ll never listen to anything else’: 25 years of Can’t Get You Out of My Head, the song that saw the future of pop
Around the release of Pet Shop Boys’ 1988 album Introspective, Neil Tennant coined the term “imperial phase” to describe a…
Warning: our democracy won’t survive the death of reading. Read on if you still can | John Harris
Imagine this: by chance, your TikTok feed shows you footage of the fascists who recently held highly organised demonstrations in…