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The senator is alive, a key requirement to maintain one's job in the US Senate ...

Undetectable, always on and always sending data back to pervert headquarters ...

Despite Anthropic's claims, Claude is no more likely to achieve sentience than a simulation of a weather system is likely to generate a real hurricane, says Anil Seth, professor of cognitive and computational neuroscience at the University of Sussex ...

Paid-for political access and threadbare regulations have helped to embed the US tech firm in the NHS - and beyond. But there is a way to free ourselves, asks Peter Geoghegan of Democracy for Sale ...

Coherent decision-making and internal accountability are critical to meeting this manic moment ...

Editorial: Donald Trump's tariff threat recasts Brazil's attempt to protect its democracy as unfair commercial practice - and gives Bolsonarism a Washington stage ...

Around the world, climate-sceptic parties are exploiting floods and fires to make political capital. Without urgent changes, this deadly spiral will continue, says Laurie Laybourn, executive director of the Strategic Climate Risks Initiative ...

Bellingham has transcended the hostility he has faced from press and pundits to become the emotional and symbolic focal point of the team, says Calum Jacobs, author of A New Formation: How Black Footballers Shaped the Modern Game ...

Spruiking your billionaire-coded masculinity is now an invitation to feminine mockery. Real social power doesn't come from trinkets or trophies ...

His facial hair fixation might seem perplexing - but it is part of an aestheticisation of politics that is central to the Trump project, writes Arwa Mahdawi ...