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A baby-prediction app takes two adult photographs, runs them through a generative model trained on faces, and returns what is, mechanically, a weighted composite nudged toward whatever its training data treats as a normal, healthy, appealing infant.
I'm not a psychologist, an economist, or a labor researcher.
On 9 June 2026, Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, the first publicly accessible model from its Mythos class.
The United Kingdom will become the second country in the world to legally bar children under 16 from using mainstream social media…
The headline writes itself and, predictably, wrote itself badly in most places it appeared.
Researchers at Brock University surveyed 416 Canadians aged sixty and over who were enrolled in general-interest courses, and what they found cuts against the way most of us think about later-life learning.
The first time Gallup tested it, just 30% of employees said yes — and those who did turned out to be seven times as likely to be engaged at work.
"Each of us lives only in the present, this brief moment; the rest is either a life that is past, or is in an uncertain future." That's Marcus Aurelius, in the A.S.L. Farquharson translation, writing to himself nearly two thousand years ago in the private notebook we now call the Meditations.
On a Phnom Penh morning in January 2026, a man who had held three passports, a Cambodian royal title, and a personal fortune large enough to make him one of the country's most visible businessmen woke up as none of those things.
On October 14, 2025, federal prosecutors in Brooklyn unsealed an indictment and a civil forfeiture complaint that, taken together, represent what the Department of Justice has described as the largest asset seizure in its history: 127,271 bitcoin, valued at roughly $15 billion at the time of filing.
In a Bristol courtroom this month, a judge reached for a sentencing tool that had never before been applied to protest-related criminal damage in British legal history.
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