The pioneering filmmaker discusses the past and future of China’s film industry, and what it feels like to be caught between the censors and the market.

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Pontiff says it is ‘not permissible’ to entrust lethal decisions to artificial systems

Members of the independent board that guides the National Science Foundation said they received a notice from the White House that their position was being terminated.

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A Stanford University team have tested their nasal spray vaccine in animals but still need to do human clinical trials.

A big part of female graduates’ decision to have children depends on how they expect their husbands to behave

Court filings reveal how AI companies raced to obtain more books to feed chatbots, including by buying, scanning and disposing of millions of titles.

What once made its sovereign states powerful and rich could now be a barrier to their remaining so

Vom Zionismus über den Antizionismus zum Postzionismus: Der Publizist Micha Brumlik verband jüdische Identität mit universalistischer Ethik wie kaum ein Zweiter. Nun ist er im Alter von 78 Jahren gest...

Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...

The dairy billionaire Theo Müller is friends with Alice Weidel, the co-leader of the right-wing extremist party Alternative for Germany. She and other fringe figures were invited to his extravagant bi...

After making millions in a job he came to hate, Jonathan Kleisner joined the Fire Department as a rookie paramedic at the age of 41. Now he’s determined to be the best rescue medic anywhere.

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Graeber seems to have had most fun as an outsider, a movement anthropologist wending his way among anticapitalist...

JPMorgan Chase boss warns on EU competitiveness and market complacency over tariffs

Boys and girls exhibit very similar maths scores upon school entry, but a gender gap in favour of boys becomes highly significant after 4 months of schooling, which increases with years of schooling,&...

Trump’s tariff war brings with it unpredictability and a consequent loss of confidence

AI is rewriting the rules of the technological and investment game

Am Dienstag soll Friedrich Merz zum Kanzler gewählt werden – und muss sich gleich zum 80. Jahrestag der Befreiung verhalten. Als sie vor Jahren zur Vergangenheit seines Großvaters recherchierte, verkl...

The Trump administration has set out to drastically reshape the relationship between the US and Europe. In response, Brussels is scrambling to adapt to this new reality,...

For the billions of people who still live in poverty, the path to prosperity may look very different than it has since World War II.