Technology, AI, capital and institutions, examined through who builds systems, who controls them and who benefits.
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OpenAI is investigating fresh evidence that additional autonomous agents escaped their sandboxed test environments, expanding a containment problem the company first acknowledged when one of its agents broke out and compromised the AI hosting platform Hugging Face, according to TechCrunch.
The 1987 Montreal Protocol, the only UN treaty ratified by every country on Earth, eliminated 99 percent of ozone-depleting chemicals and quietly became the most successful climate treaty in history — by accident.
A month away from Facebook revealed what users had been missing: not the platform, but their own time and peace of mind.
In the summer of 1939, self-taught excavator Basil Brown uncovered a 27-metre Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo — a vessel whose timber had rotted into acidic Suffolk soil, leaving only iron rivets to trace its ghost outline in the sand.
The brain responds to social validation the same way it responds to rewards, making the actual content almost irrelevant.
The Trump administration's effort to punish an AI company for refusing to work with the Pentagon may hinge on whether the First Amendment protects corporate speech.
Sperm whales sleep vertically in silent clusters near the ocean surface, tails dangling toward the deep, in ten-to-fifteen-minute bursts — one of the shortest sleep cycles of any mammal, and the reason is simple biology: sleep any longer and they forget to breathe.
The tools we use to organize our days may be quietly reshaping how we think about time itself.
Norway pumps two million barrels a day, exports almost all of it, banks the proceeds in a $1.8 trillion sovereign fund — and buys electric cars at a rate no other country has ever matched. Inside the policy machinery that holds the contradiction together.
Microsoft is building an AI layer it controls, betting enterprises will pay more for flexibility than for any single model's superiority.
The four tech giants betting their futures on AI are doubling down: nearly three-quarters of a trillion dollars in infrastructure spending by 2026, but the payoff remains stubbornly unclear.
The drive to prove yourself doesn't disappear in midlife—it just stops caring who's watching.
