The “Last Mile” Problem in AI Safety

Link for Tonight’s Live Briefing

Hiroshi Ishii honored for contributions to global design and human-computer interaction

AI edges closer to solving the Riemann hypothesis, one of math’s hardest problems

Elephants Engineer Their Ecosystems Even in Death

Noble and Naughty: In Praise of the Circus

How Healthy Is Broccoli?

Today in Supreme Court History: October 14, 1911

TV Networks Protested Press Bans by Declining To Cover Trump. That Might Have Been Illegal, the DOJ Says.

Catspeak

Exploring how plants thrive in a changing environment

Europe Must Look Beyond the US and China to Solve Its Productivity Problem

A quip about Hitler made Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy enemies. A subway-platform truce made them friends for life

Shape-sensing sheet digitally tracks its movement as it bends and twists

Mencken is still relevant, but which Mencken? There were many — some confounding, some repellent, others bracing and hilarious 

Smuggling literature behind the Iron Curtain took ingenuity. Think microscopic copies of Solzhenitsyn nestled in a baby’s diaper

Inventing Pad Thai

“They Have Been Denied Their Right to Parent and Protect Her”

Trump Is an Easy Mark for Putin

Napoleon and his Marshals

James Madison on Human Nature