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Business Line12d ago
This is with reference to ‘Guardrails challenge’ (October 1). The AI safety pact between the US President Donald Trump and technology giants has certain limitations which weaken the framework.
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top 9%Taking stock of IRDAI’s distribution reset
Business Lineby P Saravanan; A Paul Williams12d ago
In India, insurance is still sold rather than bought, and for the past three years, the seller has often been paid far more than the service justified.
Chimps plunder less pineapple from friends—and expect them to do the same
Phys.orgby Jason Pohl12d ago
Chimps plunder less pineapple from friends—and expect them to do the same In recent years, scientists have shown that chimpanzees favor certain peers by picking whom they prefer to groom and...
Nigeria @66: NHRC, RULAAC, CISLAC insist reforms must translate into better lives, rights
Premium Timesby Ndidiamaka Ede12d ago
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), the Rule of Law and Accountability Advocacy Centre (RULAAC) and the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) have maintained that Nigeria’s...
Russia's methodical use of starvation in Oleshky
Kyiv Independentby Elise Lauriot Prevost12d ago
Russia's methodical use of starvation in Oleshky An aerial view of Oleshky, a Russian-occupied town in Kherson Oblast, Ukraine in a photo published on May 2, 2026.
Brett Christophers, economic geographer: ‘In contemporary capitalism, the right to housing does not exist’
El País Englishby Lluís Pellicer Mateu12d ago
Brett Christophers, 55, has spent years studying the strategies of large corporations. He began by examining big investment banks such as JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs.
'Haven for anti-socials': TMC rebel Madan Mitra hints at quitting politics after 30 years
New Indian Expressby TNIE online desk12d ago
Rebel Trinamool Congress MLA Madan Mitra on Thursday expressed disillusionment with the state of politics, saying it had increasingly become a haven for anti-social elements and hinting that he was...
Ecowas Court and women’s rights in west Africa: what’s working – and what isn’t
The Conversation Africaby Maame Efua Addadzi-Koom, Senior Lecturer, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)12d ago
The Ecowas Court is a west African regional body located in Abuja, Nigeria, serving the now 12-nation Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas).
Neoclassical labour theory undercuts our Constitution
Business Lineby Asmi Gupto12d ago
When the US Congress passed the Fair Labor Standards Act in 1938, it did not do so in a vacuum of abstract theory.
The AIs Are Not Going Rogue | NOEMA
Noema Magazineby Ken Archer12d ago
Ken Archer is a San Francisco-based philosopher building Responsible AI at Microsoft. He is a doctoral researcher in philosophy and AI at Linköping University in Sweden.
Journalist Evan Gershkovich: My 491 Days as Putin's Political Prisoner - Longreads
Longreadsby Carolyn Wells12d ago
In this tense, riveting first-person excerpt from his new book This Cursed Beautiful Land: A Russian Story, Evan Gershkovich recounts the harrowing months he spent as a prisoner in Russia, leading...
The just-world hypothesis and other mental traps that guide us, but that we can avoid
El País Englishby Olga Carmona12d ago
We like to believe we are rational. That we make decisions based on data, that we analyze reality objectively and that our opinions stem from clear thinking.
What we lose when language becomes more informal
Business Lineby Prabir Kumar Bandyopadhyay12d ago
I have been thinking about three small Bengali words: tui, tumi and apni. All three mean “you”, but to a Bengali speaker they have never meant quite the same thing.
‘Mabuting dumaan sa legal’: Mary Jane Veloso gives advice to future OFWs
Rapplerby Jelo Ritzhie Mantaring12d ago
AT A GLANCE - Mary Jane Veloso, a former overseas Filipino worker, advises potential OFWs to avoid illegal recruiters.
"We want people to try and outsmart the game": No Law aims for Arkane-style reactivity within a dangerous walled city
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Julian Benson12d ago
Port Desire, the hemmed-in city setting of immersive sim No Law, is hard to place. At points, it reminds me of walking around Lisbon.
The Concept of the Asian Robot Maid Has Haunted My Life - Electric Literature
Electric Literatureby Franny Choi12d ago
The Concept of the Asian Robot Maid Has Haunted My Life Who is this mechanical maid everyone wants to conjure into existence? What is this job we’re so desperate to give her?
Kerala memories, rebuilt for the internet
New Indian Expressby Parvana K B12d ago
Some memories have started collecting URLs. The kind you thought would stay exactly where you left them — in the window seat of a private bus, at a crowded chaayakada, in the sound of rain hitting...
The President and the Press
Timeby David Greenberg12d ago
Berating reporters, revoking credentials, suing news organizations—hardly a week goes by without Donald Trump’s attacking the press.
The American Revolution was Ireland’s first victory
IrishCentral.comby Niall O'Dowd11d ago
IrishCentral founder and Irish Voice publisher Niall O’Dowd’s new book on the history of Ireland’s instrumental role in the creation of the United States, "George Washington and the Irish...
Ireland invented Halloween but America sold it back to us at a markup
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff12d ago
Trick-or-treating in Ireland in 1995 meant knocking on doors and asking for apples or nuts, with half the houses handing out nothing at all.