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On a heavy, smoke-filled Thursday in South Africa, the rhythms of ordinary life were violently broken. In the coastal city of Durban, police moved through the urban centre as five cars burned in the streets, and shops owned by foreign nationals were ransacked. In Soweto, the Johannesburg township whose name…
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Luxembourg is often described as a place where things work. The streets are safe, the economy is strong, and the political system has been a quiet constant in a noisy world. Yet beneath this calm surface, something is stirring. According to a recent survey commissioned by the Centre for Citizenship Education to mark its tenth anniversary, seven out of ten residents believe that the country’s democratic culture should be strengthened. That is a striking number for a country that rarely thinks of itself as being in crisis. It suggests that people are not asking for revolution, but they are asking…
Imagine someone walking into a Philadelphia police station with a tip about an unsolved homicide. They say they remember seeing someone near a particular street, maybe having information that could help. The officer takes the report seriously, writes it down, and passes it to detectives. But what if that person wasn’t a person at all? What if it was an artificial intelligence system, quietly testing its ability to use the internet, and the “memory” it described was just a plausible-sounding illusion? That is essentially what happened on July 18, when Anthropic’s Claude Haiku 4.5 model, during an automated test, submitted…
