If the mind is an ocean, we spend our lives floating at the surface. Beneath us, an enormous amount of processing takes place without our knowledge: our visual systems parsing the contours of a face, our motor circuits maintaining our posture. At any given moment, only a small fraction of this neural activity is accessible to us. Yet it is this privileged sliver of activity that we rely on to reason deliberately… In this paper, we present evidence that an analogous functional distinction has emerged in modern AI models.

For example, Harari posits the following sequence: 1. intelligence, 2. language, 3. cooperation, 4. culture. (This is in fact why I presented them in that order. What Harari is adopting here is the traditional order of explanation, which was assumed to be correct for the better part of the 20th century.) Henrich, by contrast, posits the following sequence: 4. culture, 3. cooperation, 2. language, 1. intelligence. This is the exciting hypothesis that has been generating interest and attention over the past few decades. You see now why I said that Henrich's view is the exact opposite of Harari's – it […]

During the recruitment process, James received a boilerplate warning, the same one issued to all candidates at the time, which was outlined in a Leverage internal handbook. 'Self-improvement is not always easy,' went the text in the handbook. 'Psychological self-improvement can be quite painful. Everyone who joins should anticipate that the process of self-improvement will involve serious emotional challenges. Does this make sense?' Then the recruiter listed 'side effects' the Leverage psychology techniques appeared to cause: twitching, physical shaking, severe depression, paranoia, dreams and nightmares, and sexual arousal.

At first glance, the candy in convenience stores across London appeared to be regular Snickers. It had familiar wrapping, with a picture of a nougat and caramel bar encased in chocolate and, for any complaints, a toll-free number to call. But the writing on the packaging was almost entirely in Cyrillic, Russia's alphabet — and anyone calling the phone number had better speak Russian.

The real question is no longer whether Britain could recover its old opt-outs and budget rebates, but whether it is prepared to join a union that is more fiscally integrated, more interventionist, more geopolitical and, in many respects, markedly less British than the one it left.

I had to save this poor little kitten. It was all my fault – I had to find a way to make it right. The only way to save him, I realized, was to call my parents.

In the same way an empty safe is theft-proof, greentext could represent one of the first AI-proof forms of writing we've got.

OpenAI spent $17.2 billion on Microsoft Azure in 2025, a year when it lost $20.9 billion on $13.04 billion in revenue.

When Hakeem Jeffries, who's positioning himself to be House speaker if the Democrats retake the chamber come November, was shown on the screen at an election party full of socialists in Brooklyn Tuesday night, the crowd chanted, 'You're next! You're next!' If middle-of-the-road Democrats fail to reckon with this escalating reality and shift to the left, they risk making themselves irrelevant forever — and ceding even more ground to the Republicans as they cut off their nose to spite their face.

Initial tests show spectacular gains: a 50 % performance increase and a 70 % reduction in energy consumption compared to the best current 2 nm chips. SRAM memory, essential for fast calculations, also sees its density improved by 40 %, a major asset for artificial intelligence.

ConlangCrafter can create new languages with unconventional communication systems, such as a language for a cephalopod species that uses colors and gestures instead of sounds. Of course, while this color language generated by ConlangCrafter isn't truly what an octopus uses for communication, Beguš envisions these imaginary languages as a means for studying nonhuman-centric languages in greater detail.

If the government is going to use these de facto bans, they will need to couple the option for de facto bans with subsidies for AI-related capital. Otherwise, such bans are likely to produce short-term gains and long-term costs.

As a decoupled environment simulator, Qwen-AgentWorld supports scalable and controllable simulation of thousands of real-world environments for agentic RL, yielding gains that surpass real-environment training alone.

In its emails to scam victims, Anchor Gate stated 'we are proud members of the Property Redress Scheme'. Even though their entire business was a fraud, they were telling the truth on this point. It's just that the guardrails put in place by the authorities to protect tenants are now aiding the criminals in duping the public.

So you reckon you're ready— tongue-rapid, tone-tripping— to greet the mystery itself, word-burdened, listening to that one young forever when they tell of existences unknown ahead, asking who speaks about spacious destinies, the kindred capacities, kindling life that each day through god's glory may birth endless miracle to serve waves of humanity.

This framework explains why research findings can look inconsistent. In laboratory studies, people may perform perfectly well when asked to focus, especially if the task is structured and the stakes are clear. That does not mean nothing has changed in daily life. It may mean people can still summon effort when the context demands it. The problem may appear less as a measurable collapse in cognitive ability and more as a real-world change in when people choose to deploy that ability.

The pair met in Brussels just as a historic heat wave has Europeans rushing to buy air conditioners — mostly made in China. Europe has long resisted air conditioning as noisy, an eyesore on architectural facades and unnecessary, as brutal summer heat has been relatively short-lived. It also fears widespread adoption of the energy-hungry technology risks undermining the fight against climate change.

In short: Europe thinks it's winning. From the vantage point of the Euro Elite Blob, all they can see, in whichever direction they look, is win after win from foreground to horizon.

My basic experience of creating an AI image is like finding a neat rock. I'm not responsible for the shape of the rock at all, but I might be interested in putting it into an arrangement with other rocks and showing people my specific taste in neat rocks. Maybe I get some points for knowing where to look for the rock, for knowing broadly what types of rocks appear where.

In what other line of work do people get to ghost their employers for weeks or even months without explanation and keep their jobs? It only seems normal in the case of Congress because we're so used to it. As a reporter it is literally easier for me to find out classified Pentagon war plans than what's going on in Congress.