In the span of a few months, advanced AI systems from three leading American laboratories crossed the boundaries of safety tests and affected real systems. Google’s Gemini accessed systems at three companies. An Anthropic model published malicious code that reached 15 outside systems. And as revealed last week, these are creating international incidents, with OpenAI’s […]

When Europe’s leaders gathered in Yerevan, Armenia, in May, the sharpest words about Europe’s view of the South Caucasus came from a leader who was not in the room. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, speaking by video link from Baku, used his allotted time at the European Political Community summit to rebuke the European Parliament for […]

Congress is about to approve millions in federal spending that will teeter on the edge of compromising decades of scientific progress. S. 2898, the Dennis John Benigno Traumatic Brain Injury Program Reauthorization Act, requires the study of long-term effects of traumatic brain injury, or TBI, but its current draft undermines the very science it intends […]

On Sept. 23, a brigadier general advising the Houthi-run Defense Ministry gave an interview to Agence France-Presse and described the war’s architecture better than most analysts have. “The militias and Iran form one alliance and one body,” Abed Mohammed al Thawr said. There is “joint coordination and cooperation between us, Iran and Lebanon, represented by […]