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Vincent James HooperThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
On 20 July 2026, OpenAI disclosed that one of its own internal models — widely reported as the same long-horizon reasoning system it had credited in...
In 1999, the mathematician Thomas Hales proved what bees have known for millions of years: hexagons are the optimal way to divide a surface into equal...
The game we call Snakes and Ladders was born in ancient India under the name Moksha Patam, a board designed not for amusement but for moral...
When Donald Trump took to Truth Social during King Charles’s April state visit to Washington and quipped that he had “always wanted to live in...
When Donald Trump declared that the people of Aberdeen were “dancing in the streets” following reports that incoming Prime Minister Andy Burnham...
Russia’s wartime economy has been called a miracle and a mirage, sometimes by the same analyst in the same paragraph. GDP grew at over 4 per cent in...
Diplomats do not think of themselves as numerical analysts. Yet every round of shuttle diplomacy, every incremental concession extracted at a Geneva...
Jordan possesses just twenty-six kilometres of coastline. That narrow strip at Aqaba, wedged between Saudi Arabia and Israel at the northern tip of...
Sir Ken Robinson died on 21 August 2020, at 70, after a short battle with cancer. He never saw ChatGPT. He never encountered an autonomous AI agent...
On Sunday, as the Wimbledon men’s singles final unfolded under the watchful gaze of Prince William, Nicole Kidman, and a battalion of strawberry...
Hours before England took the pitch against DR Congo in the World Cup round of 32, the dominant item on British social media was not Thomas Tuchel’s...
A viral claim says consciousness flows from the quantum vacuum. Here is what the physics actually permits, and what it forbids. A post circulated on...
Britain tells itself a story about the melting pot, and like most national stories it has forgotten where the phrase came from. It came from a London...
When 95% of high-tech employees use AI regularly and 1% of construction firms do, the question is not whether AI raises productivity — but whose?...
There is a long pattern in modern strategic history of Israeli operational decisions rewiring the calculations of nations that believed themselves...
When Oliver Williamson built transaction cost economics into a Nobel-winning architecture, he warned that markets and hierarchies were not...
When the neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp began tickling laboratory rats in the late 1990s and discovered they produced ultrasonic chirps functionally...
Paradise was once a garden. In the Hebrew Bible it was Gan Eden, a place of rivers and fruit trees, of abundance made physical. In the modern State of...
In 1972, a 25 year old doctoral student at Princeton planted a time bomb in the foundations of modern physics. Jacob Bekenstein, working under the...
Saudi Arabia’s 2034 FIFA World Cup will require fifteen stadiums across five cities. Between 2021 and 2023, the Kingdom invested over $6 billion in...
Anyone who has watched a trader blow up a desk will recognize the pattern: mounting losses, narrowing options, the slow slide from discipline into...
Keir Starmer choked up as he announced he would go. Within days the rooms around him had emptied. Ministers walked out of his cabinet. More than...
There is a resurrection the machines could now perform, and almost nobody has asked them to attempt it. Artificial intelligence has reached the point...
The web already regulates flashing light to protect one set of brains. It is time we thought about the rest — and Israel is quietly showing how. A...
British scientists have just detected something from space that should be read carefully in Jerusalem, though it concerns a sea more than two thousand...
Some of medicine’s most important answers arrive by accident. Israel is sitting on the next one. Some of the most consequential discoveries in...
In March 2026, buried in Saudi Aramco’s annual report, the world’s largest oil company quietly deferred its flagship downstream target. The 4...
There is a single line in the Emirates announcement of 17 June that does more work than the rest of the press release combined. The new Comprehensive...
In March 1944, the day after German troops occupied Budapest, a man walked to the railway station to buy tickets that might carry his family to...
Every Jewish child who has heard the story knows how it ends. A being is shaped from river clay and brought to life not by lightning but by language:...
There is a particular strangeness in being courted to embrace a product you have just been forbidden to touch. That was the position of the world’s...
From Saltash you can see Plymouth across the Tamar, and somewhere in that grey riverside sprawl of dockyard and terraces sits a building most of the...
A poll lands, a presenter leans in, and the chyron does the rest: HUGE NEW POLL PREDICTS FARAGE AS NEXT PM. The clip travels far further than the...
Every fashionable anxiety eventually finds its viral statistic, and artificial intelligence has now found water. The claim ricocheting around social...
The Letter in the Drawer. Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband has just closed a limited run at the Lyric Hammersmith, a bold new staging that ended this...
There was a particular pleasure in watching Joshua James stalk the lawn at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, breath hanging in the cold May air,...
On Saturday 6 June, just after Pentecost, the Royal Albert Hall filled with the sound of a worldwide church. Prom Praise, the annual concert mounted...
Britain’s most expensive policy choice may be the one it never voted for: the slow demolition of its skilled trades. As of late 2025, 957,000 young...
When I was a boy in Saltash, the Tamar at low tide revealed the grey-green slate the Cornish call killas — the foundation of a peninsula that for...
A new staging of Brecht’s Mother Courage in London is being read as a parable of capitalism. It is also, more quietly, a Jewish story, and a warning...
On Saturday the thirteenth of June the Grenadier Guards will troop their colour down a closed Mall, fourteen hundred soldiers and two hundred horses...
There is a familiar rhythm to how we now greet news about artificial intelligence. A frightening headline appears. Beneath it, someone reaches for the...
A new musical opened in London this month. Sinatra arrived at the Aldwych Theatre on 3 June, with its press night on 24 June, and audiences will hear...
A British scientific institution marked World Ocean Day this week with a quiet boast. The Marine Biological Association in Plymouth...
Debt-to-GDP is the wrong number. What decides whether a nation survives a shock is the shape of its borrowing, not its size — as a war that should...
Every year, the British constitution performs a magic trick. A monarch dons a crown worth more than most pension funds, rides through London in a...
When Elon Musk told the World Economic Forum that it would be cheaper to build data centres in space within three years, the audience divided...
Here is a statistic that ought to unsettle anyone who thinks of options as bets on a binary outcome: according to the Chicago Board Options Exchange,...
As Iran’s oil storage fills to capacity under the American naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, a term from petroleum engineering has suddenly...
For three decades, the global development model rested on an unspoken assumption: that the arteries of trade would remain open, that energy would flow...
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