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The rise and flaws of agentic AI

Digital assistants that can autonomously perform tasks for a user are the new big thing. But do they actually work?

Helen Lewis: ‘Is Musk a genius? Look at his tweets’

Lewis’s new book, The Genius Myth, skewers rebel innovators who come to believe they can do no wrong. Remind you of anyone?

Zed Nelson’s unnatural world

The photographer’s images of man’s ongoing mission to tame and commercialise the wild are a spectacle

Fears are not enough: the hard sell of net zero

A populist pushback is fuelled by voter scepticism that our global leaders can ever crack the climate crisis

Can padel take over the world?

Big money and big ambitions fuel the racket sport born in a Mexican back garden

The rise of bombs: how physics lost its innocence

How did an inquiry into the laws of nature produce a form of technology capable of annihilating civilisation?

It’s Moron v Loser as Reformers exchange blows

Two of the party’s most prominent pundits are tragically at each others’ throats

Is there really another planet out there?

2017 OF201 is the largest object to have been found in our solar system for more than a decade

A newer, cleverer kind of racist

A failed far right rally in Birmingham highlights how racist activism has evolved in strategy, becoming more subtle and media-savvy

Nerd’s Eye View: 12 things you need to know about Air Force One

Digging into the detail and data to separate the noise from the news

Letters: Europe has a tech problem. Here’s how to fix it

The continent lacks tech giants due to fragmented capital markets – a true single market also needs fiscal union

Jack Johnson, the boxer who thrived as the world exploded around him

His life took him from the blood-stained cellars of Texas to a place in the sporting pantheon

Alastair Campbell’s Diary: A new magazine for new times

The New World will hopefully outlast the new world trends, traits and personalities currently doing so much damage in so many ways

Nigel Farage is deep in the crypto-crapto

It is the preferred currency of organised criminals, terrorists – and now the Reform Party is getting in on the act