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AI becoming more powerful, but its hallucinations are getting worse

In angry posts to internet message boards, the customers complained. Some cancelled their Cursor accounts

'Strangers in the Land' traces Chinese workers' rise and expulsion in US

But you can't paint a complete picture of America without this story, and The New Yorker journalist Michael Luo tells it persuasively in this book, a granular account of Chinese migration to US

Mark Carney vs Pierre Poilievre: What's at stake as Canada goes to polls?

The top two candidates seem to agree on major problems: A crisis of affordability, Trump's actions and menacing words, the economy, and crime

Uncertain dollar creates opportunity for euro, can the rally last?

The most comprehensive indication that funds are flowing to Europe: Since the beginning of April, the euro has gained 5.4 per cent against the dollar

'Unity' could potentially turn divisive for cardinals electing new Pope

It is hard to imagine a less offensive rallying cry, but in ears of Francis' most committed supporters, it rings as a code word for rolling back Francis' more inclusive vision of Roman Catholic Church

Tales of influence, ambition: 3 books about tech, politics and big business

Germany's big businesses profited thanks to their collaboration, and after the war most executives escaped blame, keeping much of the plundered wealth even after millions died

China warns nations not to team up against it to gain US reprieve

The US was the biggest single-country market for Chinese goods before the latest tariffs, but the Chinese government had been working for years to diversify its export markets

Hayek's Bastards: Far Right's love-hate relationship with globalisation

The economic ideas that are predicated on such a worldview are inevitably ruthless and cutthroat

China-built airport in Nepal littered with corruption, finds inquiry

In 2023, The New York Times reported that CAMC had inflated the project's cost and undermined Nepal's efforts to maintain quality control

Possible signs of life found on distant planet K2-18b, say scientists

Now a team of researchers is offering what it contends is the strongest indication yet of extraterrestrial life, not in our solar system but on a massive planet, known as K2-18b

Harvard's decision to resist Trump is of 'momentous significance'

University's $2.2 bn funding frozen for defying Prez's campus demands

Fall of Biden: A tragic chronicle of ignored warnings and missteps

In his lively, engaging but sometimes frustrating chronicle of the 2024 presidential election campaign, Chris Whipple records the incredulity of one of those at the gathering

After Musk's criticism, South Africa paves way for Starlink's entry

South African official is paving the way for Starlink, and other similar providers, to operate in the country through an alternative to the requirement of Black ownership

'Everything is going to work out well': Trump on tariff reversal decision

After his reversal on social media, Trump's team was put in the unenviable position of trying to spin the media that this was the plan all along, a brilliant strategy

Tech titans funded Trump; now face tariffs, trials and tight rules

The sweeping tariffs he imposed last week will squeeze Apple's iPhone supply chain and make it much more expensive for Amazon, Meta, Google, and Microsoft to build supercomputers to power AI

The Beatlemania duet: Ian Leslie's book traces John and Paul's epic journey

Leslie, a British journalist and author, has a deep affection for, and a penetrating understanding of, these complex characters and their unprecedented friendship

The Thinking Machine: Tracing AI's rise from gaming to Nvidia's vision

Huang doesn't offer the author much on how his upbringing may have led to his current status as a technology apex predator

'0 to 1939 in 3 secs': Why anti-Musk satire is flourishing in Britain

There have been some instances of unruly protests and vandalism in Europe. But much of the anti-Musk sentiment has taken the form of political satire

As Bangladesh reinvents itself, Islamist extremists see an opening

Demonstrators at a rally in Dhaka, the capital, warned that if the government did not give the death penalty to anyone who disrespected Islam, they would carry out executions with their own hands

'The Mysterious Mr Nakamoto': The tangled story of cryptocurrency's rise

Even in 1999, the notion of a digital currency that bypassed nation-states and financial institutions was not a novel one