Tuesday, 13 October 2026
Picked from the best of the world's press
Desert elephant (Loxodonta africana) spraying sand on herself while guarding her sleeping baby. She has covered the baby with a branch. In Damaraland, Namibia
For decades governments have weakened computer security to catch criminals, and the bugs they hoard or leave behind are open to anyone who finds them.
From 2022 to 2025, median net worth rose 38% for US households aged 75 and over and fell 23% for those under 35, after adjusting for inflation.
Researchers gave adults fraction and reading questions with or without ChatGPT; once the chatbot was removed, the group that had used it solved fewer problems and skipped more.
In Orange County, California, where rehab centers are concentrated, out-of-state visitors had 159% more overdoses than expected compared with out-of-state visitors elsewhere in the state. The researchers suspect predatory operators are partly to blame.
From 2015 to 2018, anthropologist Jessica Katzenstein observed Maryland police trainings and found the simulations mostly stage worst-case encounters, built on a racialized idea of the 'thug'.
A KfW study estimates that if AI lifts productivity by an extra 0.4% a year, the US debt-to-GDP ratio could fall from 185% to 113% by 2056.
Americans socialize less than before, so organizers now earn a living hosting parties, and brands like Tinder are paying to sponsor them.
Looking through her family's albums, the author found her parents almost never pictured together and no photo of all four of them. The gaps trace back to what her parents lived through after the war.
The UAE made AI a required K-12 subject, but young pupils are not expected to use generative tools themselves; schools teach how AI works and where it fails.
In 1974 Hayek and Myrdal shared the Nobel in economics, then both argued it should be scrapped: economists' fame spilled into policy questions far beyond their expertise.
A mechanism built in 2014 to help machines translate English into French became the core of large language models, yet Llion Jones, who worked on the Transformer, now says it is far from all of intelligence.
Runway bets that a model trained to predict the next frame of enough video can power robots, interfaces and operating systems on one shared foundation.
The S&P 500's IT sector weighs 39.7%, but two classification changes in 2018 and 2023 moved Google, Meta and Visa out; the author estimates it would be about 55% without them.
