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Even a 0.1% AI Risk Matters: Google’s James Manyika
October 2, 2026 · 42 minAmid the furious debate over the pace and potential risks of AI development, top tech executives have publicly united around a call for their industry to be regulated. As Google's senior vice president of technology and society, James…
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Caught in the Iran War: Qatar’s PM on the Middle East “Earthquake”
September 25, 2026 · 28 min“Our region has experienced what I can only describe as an earthquake.” That was how Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, Qatar’s prime minister, began remarks at a special UN General Assembly edition of the Qatar Economic Forum…
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Trump's 'Unreality Bubble’ Meets the Midterms: Maggie Haberman
September 18, 2026 · 40 minFew journalists have watched Donald Trump as closely or for as long as Maggie Haberman. The New York Times reporter first encountered him as a tabloid fixture in the 1990s and has since chronicled his ascent to the White House, the period…
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Forget the Manosphere: Jon Ronson on Why Men Feel Lost
September 11, 2026 · 39 minAuthor Jon Ronson has spent years focusing on the unusual people and societal undercurrents of our changing world. He has written a series of bestselling books featuring extremists, conspiracy theorists and psychopaths. The Men Who Stare…
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US Versus China, Cheap AI & Human Love: AI Pioneer Kai-Fu Lee
September 4, 2026 · 44 minChinese artificial intelligence companies are rapidly closing the gap with their American rivals despite years of US restrictions on advanced chips. But the race between the world’s two AI superpowers is part of a much bigger…
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Colm Tóibín on 1970s Barcelona, Trump's America and Escaping into Art
August 28, 2026 · 40 minThe writer Colm Tóibín knows something about leaving home. As a young man living in Spain, he discovered a freedom he hadn’t known growing up in Ireland. Later, he would settle in America. Tóibín’s latest books revisit these journeys. The…
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Hamid Karzai on the Taliban, Pakistan and His Daughters’ Future
August 21, 2026 · 40 minIt's been 25 years since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and the US-led invasion of Afghanistan that brought Hamid Karzai, then a little-known tribal leader, to power. Two decades later, Karzai witnessed the chaotic withdrawal of American…
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Why will.i.am Says Human Creativity Will Survive AI
August 14, 2026 · 26 minThe Grammy award winning musician, tech CEO and college professor will.i.am says he believes in the power of artificial intelligence to assist human creativity. He tells Mishal Husain why his attitude toward technology is different from…