20+ hour, 55+ min ago  (714+ words) For the first time, the United States government has switched off frontier artificial intelligence and forced the world to go without it. Two of the most capable AI systems ever built, Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5, went dark last week....

20+ hour, 55+ min ago  (16+ words) The Spectator Australia Got something to add? Join the discussion and comment below....

20+ hour, 55+ min ago  (580+ words) Sir: Overt political allegiance and class snobbery may indeed have thwarted Toby Young's undergraduate ambition to be "tapped on the shoulder' by the security services (No sacred cows, 13 June), but I wonder if he underestimates the importance of persistence. The…...

20+ hour, 55+ min ago  (270+ words) While most Fake Fuzz operatives are less aggressive than this, their condescending self-importance is all the more irritating for its stupidity. Retail parks often employ them, as do individual businesses. A shop in my town has an entry gate, about…...

5+ day, 12+ min ago  (237+ words) The quiet kid from my friend's school has become a trillionaire, and many people are unhappy that this should be so. Musk's success narrows our lives only when we let it make us prisoners of our own resentment "I call…...

6+ day, 23+ hour ago  (499+ words) A'late spring outbreak of righteous indignation is affecting Britain. It's yet another variant of Palantir Derangement Syndrome. Virologists tracked this smug neurosis as it jumped across the Atlantic from the American left to Labour. Symptoms include selective blindness, performative anguish,…...

1+ week, 17+ hour ago  (191+ words) The Bishop of Leicester has decided that it's OK, even admirable, for clergy to use AI to write sermons It's the little phrases, the pattern: not this, but that. There's an intrinsic absence of humour and of humility. Because AI…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (815+ words) In a classic episode of Yes, Minister, Jim Hacker stumbles onto a heresy. His local football club is sliding into receivership while a council art gallery down the road averages eleven visitors a day. Hacker proposes to sell the gallery…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (248+ words) AI has taken the world by storm, and few workplaces have been immune to its impact. In the House of Commons last year, Written Parliamentary Questions from MPs and peers doubled compared with 2024. The Department of Health and Social Care…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (334+ words) If you have been online in the last couple of years, you have probably been bombarded with advertisements, articles, over-enthusiastic "Linked Influencers, etc, peddling that AI is going to "take your job or "replace lawyers, etc. To be honest, Im…...