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The American Age Is Over

Sign up for our newsletter about national security here. The American age that followed World War II was bound to end eventually. What’s shocking is how suddenly that moment has arrived. In the past six months, America’s power—long exemplified by the world’s best warfighting equipment and most highly trained military

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Thoughts and Observations on Apple’s ‘Surprise and Shine’ Event; the Announcements of the iPhones 18 Pro, AirPods 5, Apple Watches Series 12 and Ultra 4, and the iPhone Duo; and the Dawn of the Ternus, John Ternus Era at Apple

The Keynote I loved the keynote’s “You want a great opening scene?” opening, which ran through a series of genre-inspired hook-you-from-the-first-shot pretend movie openings. Apple started with a title card that said “The following was shot on iPhone”, but the whole keynote — including the fun fake-movie openings — was

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iOS 27 Features: The Ultimate Mega Guide

When iOS 27 first came out back in June, we started working on a series of in-depth feature guides and how tos that go through all of the updates in Apple's new software. Our ultimate guide aggregates all of our ‌iOS 27‌ coverage, and it is useful for iPhone and

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Is Zionism’s Moral Crisis About Roads Not Taken—or Original Sin?

A Critic at Large Where Benjamin Moser replaces one story of Jewish exceptionalism with another, Omer Bartov shows what’s lost when polemic takes the place of history. September 13, 2026 A ship named for the founder of political Zionism brings Jewish immigrants to the Port of Haifa, in 1948. According

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Dario Amodei — We Must Pace the Frontier

I have worked on AI for the last twelve years because I believe it could dramatically raise the quality of human life. I’ve written often about these incredible benefits: I believe that AI could cure most major diseases in the next 5–10 years, greatly accelerate economic growth rates, create a

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How Sweden lost its soul – and stopped being Sweden | Martin Gelin

Last year, a baby named Emanuel was born in Sweden. Before his first birthday, his parents were told that Emanuel could no longer stay in the country. The department of migration ordered his removal, alone, to Iran – despite the ongoing war. Emanuel’s parents were legally in the country. They

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Big Tech Fooled America Once. The Second Time’s Not Going So Well.

Credit...Brandon Celi OpinionGuest Essay Credit...Brandon Celi Listen · 22:30 min Sept. 10, 2026 The popular uprising against data centers has emerged so suddenly that politicians stumble over their own pitchforks racing to the front of the crowd. Where most industries would be launching into crisis P.R. mode, perhaps even engaging

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Un año de trabajo de dos matemáticos españoles frente a 88 horas y 15 millones de OpenAI: “Sin nuestra idea, la IA no lo habría resuelto”

El matemático Diego Córdoba lleva dos días sin dormir cuando contesta a la llamada de EL PAÍS, el miércoles por la mañana: “Estoy aún en shock, la verdad”, dice, y reconoce que no sabe cómo está cuando se le pregunta. El sábado por la noche recibió una llamada de un

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The iPhone Air and iPhone 17 Pro

Last year, an unplanned personal hiatus coincided with the time when I should have been reviewing the then-new iPhones 17 and iPhone Air. In my brief note explaining my absence, I wrote: I look forward to getting back to writing very soon. I can feel it: I will be back

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Write Things Down

Listen to this post: Log in to listen It was Merlin Mann and his 43folders website who introduced me to David Allen and Getting Things Done. Getting Things Done, a book which I have gifted multiple people, is first and foremost a philosophy about how to achieve a clear mind.

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This Tiny E-Reader Is the Single Best Piece of Technology in Years

No matter how you read it, The Power Broker is a serious undertaking. The paperback weighs as much as a brick; to avoid lugging around all 1,344 pages, people have cut it apart at the spine and chunked it into sections. Others have organized in-person Power Broker marathon readings that

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Write Things Down

Listen to this post: Log in to listen It was Merlin Mann and his 43folders website who introduced me to David Allen and Getting Things Done. Getting Things Done, a book which I have gifted multiple people, is first and foremost a philosophy about how to achieve a clear mind.

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Has the A.I. Job Apocalypse Been Postponed?

The Financial Page So far, the proliferation of products such as Claude and ChatGPT hasn’t led to mass displacement of workers. But deployment is accelerating and economic pressures are rising. September 7, 2026 Source photograph by Mel Musto / Bloomberg / Getty You’re reading The Financial Page, John Cassidy’s weekly

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An Alien Mind

In mid-2023, within the “RLSlow” research project, we saw the first results that gave us confidence that we will be able to scale the training of reasoning models, unlocking the capability of pretrained models to form their own chains of thought. Szymon and I spent that night at the office,

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The Singularity Is Not What It Seems

One evening in early August, Sam Stowers and several neighbors packed into an apartment near San Francisco’s Alamo Square and pondered the beginning of the end. Stowers and his guests, many of whom work in the AI industry, were gathered to watch a newly released YouTube video in which two

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The Delusions of John Roberts

Profiles The Chief Justice insists that his Supreme Court isn’t biased even as it keeps making dramatic leaps rightward. August 10, 2026 Today’s Justices are openly fractious. All Roberts can say is “We’re not as much at each other’s throats as you might think.”Illustration by Paul Rogers / Source photograph

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¿Por qué se ríen de ‘La odisea’ de Christopher Nolan?

1. Lo que más teme un autor, en cualquier campo de la creatividad, es que la obra que produce se convierta en objeto de burla. El capital de ridículo que puede acarrear un libro, una obra de teatro, una pintura o una película equivale a la amenaza de la ruina.

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Does Silicon Valley dream of Philip K Dick?

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