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An Essential Showcase in a Difficult Time: Cannes Film Festival 2026 Preview
When the Festival de Cannes revealed this year’s poster, a fetching production still of “Thelma & Louise” co-stars Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis looking lithe on the hood of a convertible, their expressions somewhere between “Come hither” and “Go away,” I learned that an awful lot of people seem to dislike the film as much…
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How an ‘Impossible’ Idea Led to a Pancreatic Cancer Breakthrough
The new strategy also holds promise for lung and colon tumors. Here’s how scientists discovered it.
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Building Nests Is Hard. That’s Why Some Birds Steal.
When researchers used GPS devices to monitor the nests of Hawaiian honeycreepers, they found dozens of cases of brazen avian burglary.
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A Taxidermist Gives Dead Animals a New Life
The creation, care and keeping of creatures is a responsibility the last full-time museum taxidermist in the U.S. takes both seriously and joyfully.
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A List of 100 Best Restaurants? For These Marathon Eaters, It’s a Dare.
As rankings proliferate, a cadre of completists have made it their mission to sample every single place on them.
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Musk Lawyer’s Question for Sam Altman on the Stand: Are You Trustworthy?
Mr. Altman, the C.E.O. of OpenAI, said on Tuesday that he worried Elon Musk wanted control of the A.I. lab.
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Anthropic in Talks to Raise Funding at a $950 Billion Valuation
The start-up, which recently released a powerful A.I. model called Mythos and is separately battling with the Pentagon, was previously valued at $380 billion.
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A.I. and Humans Battle It Out in a Cybersecurity Showdown
Experts and college students used A.I. agents to try to break into and defend computer networks in a national competition. The agents did all right on their own, too.
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Is Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Really a Cybersecurity Risk?
Anthropic said that Claude Mythos was too dangerous to release to the public. That claim has reopened an old debate over cybersecurity.
