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I’m watching my old friend Liam break the caramel on his crème brûlée, in a discreet restaurant in the hills above Nice. Liam is in his...
Many decades ago (or so it seems, it was actually January 2023, but things move fast in AI-world) I wrote a Spectator piece claiming that The End of...
Many decades ago (or so it seems, it was actually January 2023, but things move fast in AI-world) I wrote a Spectator piece claiming that The End of...
Such is the pace of change in AI that it has been, yet again, quite a weekend. On Saturday, Dario Amodei, boss of Anthropic, published an essay, We...
Such is the pace of change in AI that it has been, yet again, quite a weekend. On Saturday, Dario Amodei, boss of Anthropic, published an essay, We...
On Tuesday a 27-year-old British researcher called Jacob Coxon walked out of Anthropic, the San Francisco lab that has made ‘AI safety’ its raison...
On Tuesday a 27-year-old British researcher called Jacob Coxon walked out of Anthropic, the San Francisco lab that has made ‘AI safety’ its raison...
A lovely, intelligent female acquaintance, roughly my own age, keeps telling me to grow up and date women roughly my own age. And she has a point. If...
In July, in Zaporizhzhia, in the southeast of Ukraine, a small Russian drone attacked a petrol station. Human operators had sent it there, but the...
About ten years ago, I realised I had largely forgotten how to write longhand. After decades of Amstrads, PCs, laptops, smartphones, writing more...
The most depressing number in Britain right now is not the national debt, small boat arrivals, the IQ of Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband, or the price...
As observers of the trendy psychedelic scene know well, it is strongly advised that anyone who wants to experiment, anyone who wants to go on ‘a...
In a country full of brilliant food, the Garden Night Market in sultry Tainan, south-west Taiwan, is still a standout: a cheerful riot of steam,...
In a country full of brilliant food, the Garden Night Market in sultry Tainan, southwest Taiwan, is still a standout: a cheerful riot of steam, umami,...
It’s a sweet little town, Arcachon. Clinging to the long French Atlantic coast, adorned with Victorian villas and pretty flowerbeds, it reminds me...
I was about 19 years old and threatening to kill myself with a Bic disposable razor (not easy: I was bluffing) when I realized that Women Love...
For a decidedly short London road, little Store Street in Bloomsbury, which connects the scholarly precincts of London University with the furniture...
Deep in the honeycombed limestone caves of Slovenia, Croatia, and Friulian Italy, there is a fantastical creature called “the olm,” also known...
Deep in the honeycombed limestone caves of Slovenia, Croatia, and Friulian Italy, there is a fantastical creature called ‘the olm’, also known...
I am sitting in the Ottoman courtyard at Ruin Adalya in the old town of Antalya, drinking a tulip glass of black sweet tea and munching near-perfect...
I am sitting in the Ottoman courtyard at Ruin Adalya in the old town of Antalya, drinking a tulip glass of black sweet tea and munching near-perfect...
It’s that time of year again. The giddy middle of May. When millions across the English-speaking world gather to find out who has been shortlisted...
It’s that time of year again. The giddy middle of May. When millions across the English-speaking world gather to find out who has been shortlisted...
Her name, let us say, is Mary Ann McCready. She is eleven-years-old when she first walks through the gate at six in the morning. The hooter has...
First things first, as this is an article about toilets, we need to establish if the word ‘toilet’ is an acceptable word. Here at The...
First things first, as this is an article about toilets, we need to establish if the word ‘toilet’ is an acceptable word. Here at The...
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