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‘Cruel hoax’ or ‘work-life balance nirvana’: whatever happened to the four-day work week?

It has been years since the four-day work week was floated as a solution to everything from traffic congestion to burnout. So why aren’t we all doing it now?Get our weekend culture and lifestyle emailDuring the global soul-searching that followed the rupture of Covid-19 lockdowns, one idea for how we might live better suddenly seemed […]

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AI News Weekly – 100 years from now : Future lost in transation – Mar 15th 2026

Welcome What happens when we can’t understand the machines anymore? You were a lot to write back last week about the Museum of Human Effort piece, thanks for that feedback and happy to continue the conversation on this 2nd iteration. Alexis This is 100 Years From Now, a weekly series. Once a week, we skip

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AI News Weekly – 100 years from now : Future lost in transation – Mar 15th 2026

Welcome What happens when we can’t understand the machines anymore? You were a lot to write back last week about the Museum of Human Effort piece, thanks for that feedback and happy to continue the conversation on this 2nd iteration. Alexis This is 100 Years From Now, a weekly series. Once a week, we skip

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These aren’t AI firms, they’re defense contractors. We can’t let them hide behind their models

From Gaza to Iran, the pattern is the same: precision weapons, chosen blindness, and dead children. The cost of failing to regulate AI warfare is already too highThere is an Israeli military strategy called the “fog procedure”. First used during the second intifada, it’s an unofficial rule that requires soldiers guarding military posts in conditions

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Nigeria’s online content creator market has boomed. Can the skit-makers and streamers make it pay?

As platforms make less from advertising, creators are struggling to monetise work – leading to calls for more government investment and tax breaksOn a humid afternoon in Lagos, a shoot for a comedy skit is under way on a set that looks more like a small film production.Dozens of people mill about: lighting assistants, a

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