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MIT Technology Review · Global
“Runaway” AI, “rogue” agents, and “autonomous” actors—the current rhetoric would have you believe that AI agents are not only awake and aware, but angry at the…
Wired · Global
Beyond Elon Musk’s interpretation of The Odyssey, Silicon Valley leaders have often misunderstood classic books like Foundation and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to t…
Times of India – World · India
Aarav Dengla traces the journeys of chess players caught between their game and the politics of their countries. From Viktor Korchnoi’s defection from the Sovi…
Wired · Global
Yiyang Zhuge was already an intellectual celebrity in China. Her viral interview with Christopher Nolan made her famous in the US—and quickly turned her into a…
Your Story · India
Discover how Seneca's timeless wisdom reveals that courage comes before confidence and why daring action makes difficult things easier.
Your Story · India
Discover seven thought-provoking books that transform how you think about time, aging, goals, and the future you are building.
TechCrunch · US
After a quarter that delivered $1 billion in profit, Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Monday once again warned that AI frontier labs are too untrustworthy for enterpr…
Your Story · India
Discover seven insightful books that explore uncertainty, acceptance, and the freedom that comes from letting go of control.
Your Story · India
Discover seven thought-provoking books that challenge assumptions about success, happiness, time, and what truly matters in life.
South China Morning Post – World · China
Three years ago, I warned in these pages that the greatest existential threat to humanity might not emerge from a stray asteroid or a cosmic cataclysm but from…
Your Story · India
Discover five insightful books that encourage acceptance, contentment, and freedom from unrealistic expectations and constant striving.
South China Morning Post – World · China
Anthropomorphising artificial intelligence – that is, treating AI systems as though they possess human emotions, intentions, consciousness or moral judgment – …
BBC News – World · Europe
Talking to The Economist, Musk said he doesn't care if people hate him and said he was not a racist.
Your Story · India
Discover five powerful books that encourage intentional living, fulfillment, balance, and building a life you genuinely enjoy.
Your Story · India
Discover five thought-provoking books that challenge conventional beliefs about success, work, happiness, and the life you choose to live.
Your Story · India
Discover five powerful books that explore personal freedom, independence, authenticity, and what it truly means to live on your own terms.
Your Story · India
Discover five insightful books that explore the difference between happiness and peace, and why inner calm may matter more than constant joy.
Wired · Global
On this week’s episode of The Big Interview podcast, WIRED’s senior culture editor Manisha Krishnan talks to Gowanus about eschewing Big Tech, going outside, a…
TechCrunch · US
What does a world of total user-aligned AI actually look like?
Your Story · India
Indian startups raised just $107 million in the second week of July, marking the second straight week of muted funding activity. While investors continue to ba…
Your Story · India
Discover 5 powerful teachings from Good Vibes, Good Life that can help you find inner peace, heal emotionally, and build self-worth.
Your Story · India
Discover 10 powerful lessons from The Happiness Advantage that can help you build a positive mindset, reduce stress, and improve success.
Wired · Global
In a world regulated by devices, humanity has become disconnected from the physical world—from stick-shift cars to postcards.
The Hindu – World · India
“A generation after we fought and won the Cold War against the menace of communism, there is now a resurgence of the communist menace in our land,” Trump said
The Hindu – World · India
A preliminary report by the UN’s Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence said policymakers face a growing dilemma: they need robu…
South China Morning Post – World · China
“Founding Father, Benjamin Franklin, published the sayings of Confucius in his colonial newspaper and today’s sculpture recognising that ancient Chinese age is…
The Hindu – World · India
MEA officials did not clarify whether PM will travel for the funeral which will be held between July 3 and 9; Iran’s Petroleum Minister arrives in New Delhi to…
The Hindu – World · India
Earlier in 2019, the late Japanese PM Shinzo Abe too was expected to visit Assam for a bilateral meeting with PM Modi when the event had to be cancelled becaus…
The Hindu – World · India
Iran won the war by merely denying the U.S. a victory
Deutsche Welle (DW) – World · Europe
Talking, debating and listening are skills we can all learn, particularly in the light of current global conflicts. The Leipzig Bachfest shows how Johann Sebas…
The Guardian – World · Europe
The late MP’s family, politicians and academics on the factors they believe have heightened division in the last 10 yearsHow the murder of my sister changed Br…
The New York Times – World · US
The country has spent decades perfecting a surveillance state at home. Now it’s promoting its ideology of state control, and the technology to enforce it, abro…
South China Morning Post – World · China
Singapore’s founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew once offered a striking observation on the nature of American power, wrote Harvard professor Joseph Nye in 201…
Wired · Global
The world’s leading AI labs are hiring philosophers to think through ethical edge cases and grand questions of mind and morality. Are they another instrument o…
Wired · Global
In Magnifica Humanitas, the Pope decries the concentration of technological power in a few global players.
Wired · Global
The Holy Father referenced The Lord of the Rings in his encyclical about AI—an expert (if unintentional) troll of tech billionaires who keep misinterpreting th…
NBC News – World · US
It took a little over a year for Pope Leo XIV to write more than 42,000 words of his first encyclical, which deals with safeguarding human dignity in the age o…
Your Story · India
“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph,” wrote Thomas Paine during a time of deep uncertainty. The line resonates today
TechCrunch · US
Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical uses AI as a lens to diagnose older problems: concentrated power, eroding democracy, and a tech elite that shapes the world to …
NBC News – World · US
Pope Leo XIV has called for AI advances to be slowed and blamed the technology for fueling conflict around the world.
The New York Times – World · US
In his letter, the first American pontiff called for putting care for humans at the heart of technological change.
The New York Times – World · US
The document marks a powerful foray by the leader of the Roman Catholic Church into the debate about the misuse or overuse of artificial intelligence.
The New York Times – World · US
Leo XIV is to issue his thoughts about artificial intelligence in the modern world, using a centuries-old form of papal communication called an encyclical, the…
Wired · Global
To keep communications secure in a post-quantum world, cryptographers are digging down into the concept of cause and effect.
The Hindu – World · India
A four-week conference at the United Nations to review the treaty to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons has ended without an agreement, as the United States…
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