Saturday, 26 September 2026
Picked from the best of the world's press
Jabiru (Jabiru mycteria) feeding its chicks in their nest in Mato Grosso, Brazil
Caleb Flynn, a former American Idol contestant accused of killing his wife, had two AI-generated love songs for his mistress played in open court, and the room struggled not to laugh.
Meta's new AI agent Muse hit 2.8 million downloads in two weeks, and by comparing policies and switching them for users, it goes straight at the inertia the finance industry profits from.
Congress holds the purse, a board runs the Kennedy Center, the IRS and courts enforce the rules — and none of those checks is currently willing to stop the president.
Silicon Valley warns that AI could end human life, while the people who clean its data and filter its output earn a few dollars a day and never hear from the company that depends on them.
Researchers in China got damaged mouse and pig brains to recover not by implanting electrodes in the skull but by tapping the shin bone twice a second for five days, leaving less brain-cell death and better maze runs.
Physicists found that the amount of stuff a region of space can hold equals the amount of paint needed to cover its surface, making volume and area the same thing.
A new theory treats risk-taking among the poor as rational arithmetic: below a survival threshold there is little left to lose, and crossing it changes everything.
