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This year, AI continued looming large in the software world. But more than before, people are wrestling with both its amazing capabilities and its striking shortcomings. New research has found that AI agents are doubling the length of task they can do every seven months—an astounding rate of exponen…

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New York City has elected mayors across the ideological spectrum. But Zohran Mamdani’s inaugural address marked something more consequential than a shift left. It articulated a governing philosophy fundamentally at odds with the American civic...
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Protests are intensifying in Iran as an economic crisis fuels anger over soaring prices and falling living standards.