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  1. OpenAI Ignored Employees’ Warnings About Safely Testing A.I. Models

    Tue, 29 Sep 2026 18:52:33 -0000

    Employees and security researchers said that they had cautioned the company on safely testing its A.I. models and strengthening its corporate infrastructure, but that OpenAI did not listen.
  2. OpenAI Apologizes for Australia Medicare Hack

    Tue, 29 Sep 2026 05:23:15 -0000

    The company detailed how A.I. agents gained access to four government websites and acknowledged mishandling its response.
  3. College Students Flex Their Power in A.I. Investment Frenzy

    Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:31:45 -0000

    Dorm Room Fund, a program that lets college students invest in their peers, raised a new $50 million fund as the competition for young founders ramps up.
  4. ICE Plans 5,000 New Hires to Help With Deportation Drive

    Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:23:36 -0000

    A similar surge last year resulted in undervetted officers initially being let in and then removed as the agency skipped basic checks for new recruits.
  5. Man Shot by ICE Agent in Austin Is Charged With Assault

    Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:59:25 -0000

    Prosecutors say the man struck an agent with his car’s mirror before another agent shot him. The charge reveals the existence of body camera footage of the shooting, though that has not been released.
  6. Trump Administration Prepares to Ask Tax Filers if They Are U.S. Citizens

    Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:15:47 -0000

    The new question, included on a draft version of the primary tax form, comes as part of an anti-immigrant turn at an agency that long prioritized tax administration.
  7. Victor Marx, Colorado Governor Nominee With Sensational Past, Splinters the G.O.P.

    Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:49:28 -0000

    Some Republicans in the state fear that the sensational biography of Victor Marx, their party’s candidate for governor, could drag down the rest of the ticket.
  8. His Jet vs. Her Jeep: How Wealth Is Playing in the Midterms

    Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:19:11 -0000

    In the so-called affordability election, two candidates for governor of Ohio are sparring over whether billionaires are the problem or the solution.
  9. Mamdani Announces Plan to Fight Antisemitism, Without Discussing Israel

    Tue, 29 Sep 2026 18:43:50 -0000

    A report issued by Mayor Zohran Mamdani describes ways that New York City is funding hate crime prevention and celebrating the contributions of Jewish New Yorkers.
  10. Cornell University Rape Investigation: What We Know

    Tue, 29 Sep 2026 16:19:05 -0000

    Prosecutors have reopened the case of a woman who said she was sexually assaulted on campus in 2024. The woman’s lawsuit brought renewed pressure to reopen the investigation.
  11. Is Claude Conscious? Inside Anthropic’s Quest to Instill Morality Into Its A.I. Models

    Tue, 29 Sep 2026 18:06:01 -0000

    In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.
  12. Book Review: ‘This Cursed Beautiful Land,’ by Evan Gershkovich

    Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:01:12 -0000

    In “This Cursed Beautiful Land,” the journalist Evan Gershkovich explores what he learned while imprisoned in the country his parents fled.
  13. I’m Exhausted. You’re Demoralized. We Weren’t Built for a World Like This.

    Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:46:25 -0000

    A greatly underappreciated virtue of other presidents was that you could forget about them for weeks at a time.
  14. Trump’s Luck Is Finally Running Out

    Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:03:55 -0000

    Voters are showing a growing determination to repudiate his presidency.
  15. How to Improve Schools

    Tue, 29 Sep 2026 10:53:02 -0000

    We look at a few compelling proposals.
  16. MacArthur Foundation Announces 2026 ‘Genius Grant’ Winners

    Tue, 29 Sep 2026 16:01:05 -0000

    The 20 fellowship recipients across the arts, humanities and sciences will each receive an $800,000, no-strings-attached stipend for their work.
  17. How Paweł Pawlikowski Learned to Film Europe’s Fractures

    Mon, 28 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The Polish director has made a career out of examining the mysteries of borders, both spiritual and political.
  18. At the Department of Justice, Many Lawyers Are Wondering If It’s Time to Quit

    Mon, 28 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The quandary faced by government lawyers who think that the Trump Administration is subverting justice.
  19. Why Doesn’t Anyone Want to Fix One of America’s Scariest Roads?

    Mon, 28 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The Million Dollar Highway, prone to rockfall and avalanches, is the site of horrific crashes and courageous rescues.
  20. Hockey Dads and Hockey Sons

    Mon, 28 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Parenting is a practice. You learn from your mistakes and then repeat them anyway.
  21. A Night Living in Penn Station

    Sat, 26 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    For the outreach workers trying to place homeless New Yorkers in shelters, each evening presents familiar faces and fresh challenges.
  22. The President vs. the Press

    Sun, 27 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Donald Trump’s behavior cannot be called unexpected at this point. What was noteworthy last week, however, was the way that the media responded.
  23. Iran’s Bitterness and Bewilderment Over How to Make Peace with Trump

    Sat, 26 Sep 2026 14:45:36 -0000

    After a heated week at the U.N. General Assembly, a new ceasefire proposal came and apparently went.
  24. Nolan Wells’s Family Still Wants Answers

    Sat, 26 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    A Mississippi grand jury declined to bring charges in connection with the death of a Black teen-ager during a boating trip, but it’s still unclear exactly how he died.
  25. Susan Collins’s Maine Money Machine

    Fri, 25 Sep 2026 22:06:29 -0000

    The senator uses her seniority in Congress to bring significant resources to her state. Is that enough for voters who hate her party?
  26. What Life Is Actually Like in Gaza Today

    Mon, 21 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Nearly a year after the ceasefire, the analyst Jaser AbuMousa explains the impediments to rebuilding, and the devastation of his own family.
  27. Why China Isn’t Getting Existential About A.I.

    Fri, 18 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    China’s fears about the technology are increasingly distinct from those of the U.S. What does that mean for international coöperation?
  28. How, Exactly, Could A.I. Kill Us?

    Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0000

    Employees of A.I. companies are increasingly sounding the alarm. What should we make of their warnings?
  29. Can East Germany’s Cold War History Explain the Rise of the AfD?

    Tue, 08 Sep 2026 22:46:03 -0000

    After winning a state election this past weekend, the German far right is closer to power than it has been in decades.
  30. Individual Choices Won’t Fix America’s Public Schools

    Tue, 29 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Nikole Hannah-Jones sent her daughter to a struggling local school and has come to regret it. But personalizing the problem is the wrong approach.
  31. The Week Republicans Finally Panicked About Trump

    Thu, 24 Sep 2026 23:25:21 -0000

    The President’s party, facing a midterm reckoning, is begging for a way out of his Iran-war doom loop.
  32. How the Absence of Shame Weakens Democracy

    Tue, 22 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    A sense of shame binds us together—and can hold the powerful in check.
  33. Will A.I. Overwrite Our Sense of Shame?

    Tue, 15 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The tech world has long been run by iconoclasts whose ideas about right and wrong are self-consciously different from those of most people.
  34. Ari Emanuel on Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Mixing Business with Politics

    Fri, 25 Sep 2026 18:11:57 -0000

    The entertainment agent and executive talks with David Remnick about his dealings with the President, the tech mogul, and Mohammed bin Salman, and operating within “shades of gray.”
  35. There Is No A.I. “Race”

    Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    We’re constantly told that Chinese advances would have catastrophic consequences. But the first to innovate is rarely the one who wins.
  36. What China’s Vibe-Coding Capital Can Tell Us About the A.I. Boom

    Wed, 23 Sep 2026 18:25:32 -0000

    Tech workers have flocked to Liangzhu, a small town outside Hangzhou, looking to escape China’s corporate culture and build their future with A.I.
  37. The Worlds That Donald Trump and Xi Jinping Want

    Wed, 23 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    As the President stages a gala welcome for the Chinese leader, it appears that, in curious ways, the two men mirror each other.
  38. Is Trump’s Latest Press Attack Just Another Distraction?

    Tue, 22 Sep 2026 18:29:05 -0000

    After CNN, MS NOW, and Politico were barred from the White House, the entire TV press pool announced a boycott of the President.
  39. The Lost Descendants of Thomas Jefferson

    Mon, 21 Sep 2026 14:08:19 -0000

    Scientists have new proof that the President had children with his enslaved chambermaid Sally Hemings—and that their bloodline endures across the country.
  40. A Populist Revival in Iowa

    Mon, 21 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    In close contests for governor and a Senate seat, candidates from both parties claim that they’re fighting a corrupt system.
  41. Our A.I. Problem

    Sun, 20 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Why can’t the people who produced the technology, which has already shown that a different world is possible, just do the things that would prevent extinction?