African Alchemy

16/09/2026

In July 2025, four sisters left their family behind and ventured off into the unknown. Just 2 weeks later, three of their brothers followed suit. Over the next 9 months, these intrepid siblings—all African wild dogs from Zambia’s Kafue National Park—traveled thousands of kilometers, braving untold hazards.

Some eventually settled into new territory, having completed the longest movement ever recorded for any African mammal. The others had their journey cut tragically short.

The saga highlights the vulnerability of this iconic canine, which remains one of the world’s most endangered mammals. But the findings also suggest wild dog populations are more connected than previously thought, with movements potentially linking ecosystems across eastern and southern Africa.

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16/09/2026

Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon wasn’t the first to sound the alarm on the risks of the supercharged AI race. But his viral tweet where he publicly quit, claiming that AI companies were “gambling with our lives,” came at the end of a summer where we learned unsettling evidence that the companies building powerful AI systems could not always control them.

These incidents pushed AI safety researchers’ long-held fears into the mainstream, raising worries that the companies building these models cannot prevent them from acting in ways they do not intend. This is a deep, unsolved issue in AI research and the key piece of evidence underpinning worries that near-future AI might wipe out humanity, intentionally or by accident—perhaps by engineering a new pandemic or taking charge of autonomous weapons. A system far smarter than humans, this thinking goes, might want to prevent our ability to switch it off. “The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade,” Coxon wrote. “No other human activity poses this level of danger.”

TIME spoke with researchers, government officials, and more experts on the new risks of AI, the measures being considered to control those risks, and the kind of international cooperation necessary to make that happen. Read the full story here: https://time-magazine.visitlink.me/PKXYgW

16/09/2026

True story.

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Across her novels, political essays, and now her memoir, Arundhati Roy has never stopped challenging the status quo and dreaming of a more humane world.

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