They call it a “world model”, an essential tool to help AI systems make sense of the complex, unpredictable physical spaces into which many will eventually be put to work. The company argues that a ...

For length, Mr Trump broke Bill Clinton’s records from 1995 and 2000 (see chart 1), and surpassed even his own marathon address to Congress in 2025. He handed out medals to guardsmen and veterans, ...

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From the moment Hannibal Lecter appeared in “Red Dragon”, a psychological-horror novel of 1981, readers were captivated by the character. Since then, the psychiatrist-turned-cannibal has featured in ...

So did Mr Trump’s growing confidence in the power of his polarising politics. After all, he dutifully read that first speech to Congress off the teleprompter, and it lasted just an hour. This time, he ...

This matters because right-wing candidates are expected to sweep the Senate in Brazil’s general election in October. They may gain enough seats to impeach Supreme Court judges. The right holds special ...

The showdown took place during a meeting at the Pentagon between Mr Hegseth and Dario Amodei, Anthropic’s boss, whose credo ...

Today more than 2.5trn PDFs float in the ether. But will the format survive the ai revolution? PDFs still have drawbacks.

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If the River Thames is London’s intestine—and it has at times performed a similar function—it has grown polyps. At ...