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Spain Says AI Cannot Regulate Itself, Which Is Also Why Toddlers Do Not Run Daycare
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez says companies controlling powerful AI systems cannot be left to write and enforce their own rules.
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Famous people doing famous-people things, with the volume turned down and the eyebrow raised.
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Putin’s Party Wins Nearly 80% of Parliament, Because Suspense Was Not on the Ballot
United Russia kept its constitutional majority after a tightly controlled election, while anti-war party Yabloko gained one small regional foothold.
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Britain Finds an Industrial-Scale Fake Vinyl Empire, Because Counterfeiters Discovered Record Store Day
A British counterfeiter was sentenced after investigators uncovered thousands of fake records and a wider market worth millions of pounds.
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Australia Investigates a Church’s Election Activity, and Faith Leaders See a Dangerous Precedent
Australian faith leaders warn that an inquiry into alleged political activity linked to the Plymouth Brethren could slide into guilt by association.
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New Zealand Tells Washington to Show Up in the Pacific Before China Owns the Group Chat
New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters urged a stronger and steadier U.S. presence in the Pacific as China expands its regional influence.
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Anthropic Built a Biology Lab, Because Apparently AI Needed Actual Test Tubes
Anthropic has opened a San Francisco Bay Area wet lab to combine AI, automation and physical biology experiments aimed at difficult diseases.
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Pope Leo Says War Strained Jewish-Christian Dialogue but Did Not Break It
A Vatican decree marking 60 years of Catholic interreligious dialogue condemns antisemitism and Islamophobia while acknowledging strains caused by war.
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China’s New Memory Chips Enter Mass Production, and Washington Just Lost Some Sleep
Chinese chipmaker CXMT says its fifth-generation DRAM platform is in mass production, narrowing a gap that U.S. export controls were meant to preserve.
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Germany’s Far Right Wins a State While Merz Calls His Result a “Disaster”
The far-right AfD won Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania as Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s conservatives suffered their worst state result since 1949.
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West Bank Violence Surges on the Eve of Yom Kippur, Leaving Two Families in Mourning
An Israeli man and a Palestinian motorist were killed in separate West Bank incidents as security tightened before Yom Kippur.
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Gas Hits $4.48 While Trump Calls It an “Inexpensive Price” for the Iran War
U.S. gasoline averages about $4.48 a gallon as voters blame the Iran war and reject Trump’s description of the increase as an inexpensive tradeoff.
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Trump Wants His Giant Washington Arch to Hold Drones and Snipers, Because a Monument Was Too Normal
Trump says his proposed 250-foot Washington arch would also operate as a military complex housing drones, snipers and ammunition.