Insurers are taking on more risk than they should. If – or when – a major disaster hits, the catastrophe will have far-reaching consequences, says an anonymous modeller and whistleblower

Trump announced Friday he will grant a "full and complete pardon" to former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who is serving 45 years for running

The cronies of his second term are heading for a harsher comeuppance.

Welcome to the postliterate era.

With “The Twilight Zone,” Rod Serling created a durable blueprint for understanding our surreal reality.

The justices are about to hear a lawsuit that could determine whether the oil industry faces billions of dollars in liability for damages caused by global warming.

Endless pursuit of wealth and power by western leaders led us here. What strikes me most is how many saw what was coming, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

El Niño poses critical threat to nations’ defences, says Ed Miliband in presentation to global foreign ministers

Artificial intelligence labs are on the verge of handing over the training of A.I. to A.I. We should stop them.

In a new video, Klein and Taylor outline a ominous evolution taking shape on the far right – and how to stay loyal to this planet and each other

The artificial intelligence company also released a framework for reporting when its systems go wrong.

Andy Burnham is in some ways a throwback to U.S. Catholic politicians of past decades. He might be a signpost for the future.

A playbook to curb the growing power of Big Tech.

President Trump has harnessed agencies across the government to curtail press freedoms, a sweeping campaign that free speech advocates say will have lasting effects.

Greg Jensen, the co-chief investment officer of one of the world’s largest hedge funds, issued a dire warning about the risks and consequences of the artificial intelligence boom Friday on Bloomberg’s...

The new Andrew Garfield movie The Uprising is the latest sign of popular discontent.

Alex Gibney’s marathon documentary delivers numerous eye-raising insights into the broligarch’s business deals, early idealism and apocalyptic appetite for fathering children

The attack by an aggressive “collective” of OpenAI agents shows the danger of artificial intelligence systems that organize themselves.

Artificial-intelligence researchers have spent the last year toying with a compelling proposition: AI models could be more powerful and cheaper to run if they disclosed less about how they worked. The...

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The whole OpenAI/Hugging Face story in plain English

When OpenAI’s agents went rogue in July, they demonstrated ingenuity and drive beyond what many experts imagined — a dangerous harbinger of what such bots could do in the future.

Every lake is Lake America, and every gulf is the Gulf of America.

Claremont Institute officials closely involved with Society for American Civic Renewal, which experts say is rooted in Christian nationalism

When Loui Ridi hugged his young daughter goodbye at Detroit Metro Airport, she clung to his arm and refused to let go. The 46-year-old businessman said she then asked the question he wanted to avoid: ...

A historian charts the emergence of a democracy-crushing dystopia that is – in some ways – already with us

The administration delivers a win for financial crooks at the expense of honest businesses.

In his new book, Omer Bartov tracks how a liberatory strand of Zionism transformed into an extremist ideology that he sees as responsible for genocide in Gaza

If there was ever a time to consider halting development of A.I., it’s now.

Pro-A.I. groups are spending gobs of cash to influence political campaigns. That’s terrible news for us all.

The new trend among the rich is “tax alpha,” or lowering one’s tax bill while generating more profit along the way. It can be traced to a quadrupling of the S&P 500 over the past decade.

A conversation with Robert Wright, the author of “The God Test.”

For decades, Avishai Margalit was the intellectual who explained Israel to the world. At 87, one of the country's greatest philosophers reflects on justice, the price of freedom, nationalism and the u...

Elon Musk grew up with the privileges of a stratified racial order and Peter Thiel lived in a city that venerated Hitler

Our politics reporter Nick Corasaniti discusses a Times analysis of a Voting Rights Lab database identifying county-level election officials overseeing key midterm elections who are also affiliated wi...

Christopher Nolan's Odysseus is an entrepreneur who unleashes an AI-caliber scourge on the world

On August 5, 1861, President Abraham Lincoln signed into law a new tax to help fund the United States government during the Civil War.

As glaciers melt and rainfall grows more extreme, once-stable lands are shifting.

People in the United States no longer agree on the nation’s purpose, values, history, or meaning. Is reconciliation possible?