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Bland new world: is AI making us all think the same?0
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- September 1, 2026
Zhivar Sourati often gets déjà vu while perusing recent research in his field of computer science. “I read papers and I’m like, ‘I’ve seen this paper before,’” he says. Everything’s looking kind of the same, shorn of individual quirks, says Sourati, who is a PhD student at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
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Why are rich people so pessimistic? What the numbers say 0
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- August 31, 2026
Every week, it seems, a fresh opinion poll leads to shocking headlines: never have people been more afraid of the future, believed that their children won’t be as well off as them, or thought that their country is going in the wrong direction. Feelings of gloom about what lies ahead are particularly rife in the
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Will Meta’s deal make social media safe for kids? Researchers are dubious 0
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- August 28, 2026
Under a legal settlement, teenagers in the United States will have time limits put on their use of certain social-media platforms. Credit: Anna Barclay/Getty Social-media giant Meta has agreed to pay up to US$18 billion to US states and make changes to its Facebook and Instagram platforms, settling a legal case about whether its technology
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Why we must stop talking about artificial general intelligence — and instead build ‘pro-worker’ AI 0
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- August 21, 2026
Artificial intelligence is reshaping the world in front of our eyes. The concerns around AI, however, extend beyond the uncertainty and disruption that accompany any other radical technological change. They stem in part from the direction AI development has taken: many leading companies are engaged in a single-minded pursuit of artificial general intelligence (AGI). Why
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The forgotten 20 million: why is the world neglecting Afghanistan’s girls and women?0
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- August 12, 2026
Girls return home from school in Fayzabad, Afghanistan. Girls are allowed to go to primary school until they are 11 or 12 years old, but are barred from secondary school and university.Credit: Omer Abrar/AFP/Getty This week marks five years since the Taliban marched back into Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul. It is nearly four years since girls
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Americans are as unhappy as ever. Could ‘a happiness-segregated society by marriage’ be why? | Fortune 0
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- August 10, 2026
For nearly 50 years, one number barely moved. Every year or two, the General Social Survey asks Americans how happy they are, and for decades the balance between “very happy” and “not too happy” held steady, from 1972 through 2018. But as soon as the pandemic hit, it came cratering down. Sam Peltzman, an economist
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