| The secret to Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s success in elections in Turkey? Conservative religious women.A North Korean rocket briefly triggered “false alarm” evacuation alerts in South Korea and Japan.Dozens of NATO peacekeepers were injured in clashes with ethnic Serbs in northern Kosovo.Wildfires in Nova Scotia have prompted the evacuation of more than 16,000 people.A U.N. operation to salvage a decaying supertanker off the coast of Yemen is moving forward this week after years of delays. |
| From the U.S. |
| A bipartisan deal to suspend the federal debt ceiling has advanced toward a House vote despite a rebellion by hard-right Republicans.Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced Theranos entrepreneur, reported to a federal prison to begin her sentence of 11 years and three months.Members of the Sackler family will receive full immunity from all civil legal claims over their role in Purdue Pharma’s prescription opioid business.The trial of the gunman who killed 11 worshipers at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018 began yesterday. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.The former U.S. first lady Rosalynn Carter has dementia. |
| Science Times |
| Cardiologists hope a new genetic test will help identify people who are most likely to have heart attacks before they have them.Research suggests that ketamine is at least as effective as electroconvulsive therapy for patients with treatment-resistant depression who do not have psychosis.In a lab setting, ultrasound pulses to mouse brains sent the creatures into a hibernation-like state.Why did Venice’s famous Grand Canal turn bright green? |
| A Morning Read |
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| A Financial Times investigation was slated to reveal explosive allegations of sexual harassment from women including Lucy Siegle, above, about Nick Cohen, a prominent columnist. It was never published — because the paper’s top editor disputed whether the journalist was significant enough to warrant the story. |
| The death of the article, as well as Cohen’s resignation from The Guardian, offer a window into the British news media’s complicated relationship with the #MeToo movement as it relates to its own. |
| SPORTS NEWS FROM THE ATHLETIC |
| Tony Woodcock’s search for the truth: The former England striker is trying to find answers to a mystery stemming from a DNA test. |
| How a one club’s fairy tale turned into a nightmare: Leicester City, which came from nowhere to win the Premier League seven years ago, has slumped into the Championship. How did it happen? |
| From The Times: Stanford golf star Rose Zhang’s career is likely to become a case study in athletic development, long-range planning and skillful marketing, now that college athletes are allowed to make money. |
| ARTS AND IDEAS |
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| Meet the Shoggoth |
| The Shoggoth — a menacing, octopus-like creature with many eyes and a yellow smiley face attached to one of its tentacles — is the most important meme in artificial intelligence, insiders say. |
| Originally depicted by the science fiction author H.P. Lovecraft, the creature has become a vivid visual metaphor for how a large language model (the type of A.I. system that powers ChatGPT and other chatbots) actually works. At the same time, it hints at the anxieties many tech workers have about the tools they’re building. |
| To prevent A.I. language models from behaving in scary and dangerous ways, A.I. companies have had to train them to act polite and harmless. The training works — but some argue that fine-tuning a language model this way doesn’t actually make the underlying model less weird and inscrutable. In their view, it’s just a flimsy, friendly mask that obscures the mysterious beast underneath. |
