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Good morning, Asia. While you were sleeping, this was the most-read story: on.ft.com/4mf3U5D

It’s normally easy for me to put down a non-fiction book. That’s not the case with Dan Wang’s “Breakneck.” I’ve been completely glued to it all day.

Could Mental Illness Begin Before You’re Born? A new study reveals that many genes associated with brain conditions—including autism, depression, schizophrenia, and Parkinson’s—are active during the earliest stages of fetal brain development. These genes begin influencing…

The human brain has ~86 billion neurons connecting in trillions of ways. It’s the most complex structure in the known universe... and it even named itself.

What is time in the quantum realm? ⏳ A Special Issue is uniting physicists & philosophers to explore everything from time operators & retrocausality to quantum gravity #QuantumPhysics #TimeTheory #Physics #Philosophy"#Science" #Entropy mdpi.com/journal/entrop…

DEFENDING AGAINST DRONES - A THREAD The ability of $300 drones to defeat million-dollar armoured vehicles has been a common theme of the war in Ukraine. We are constantly being told that drones are an asymmetric weapon that have fundamentally changed the character and economics…

Computers can check whether mathematical proofs are correct, but only if they have been translated into a machine-readable form first. Now, AI has got surprisingly good at this translation - which could transform the way maths is done. newscientist.com/article/248719…

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I sat down with world-renowned Taliban expert Prof. Michael Semple to unpack the Taliban’s war on education — part of their broader cultural revolution to cleanse the system, rewrite history and mass-produce Talibanised minds. Must listen! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/que…

Kerry Goettlich, From Frontiers to Borders: How Colonial Technicians Created Modern Territoriality - @CambridgeUP, August 2025 cambridge.org/gb/universityp…

The social media giant said it would no longer allow ads related to 'political, electoral and social issues' on platforms such as Facebook and Instagram. on.ft.com/45l95LB

Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future, out August 26 danwang.co/breakneck/

Samarkand will host the first-ever International “Samarkand Plov” Festival. 200 chefs will prepare 7 tonnes of plov.

China has taken a commanding lead in the exploding field of #AI research, despite U.S. restrictions on exporting key computing chips to its rival, finds a new report. scim.ag/3GTaU9l @NewsfromScience

Nature research paper: A generic non-invasive neuromotor interface for human-computer interaction go.nature.com/4le5PXr

Saying that a railway through a mountainous, war-ravaged country will be completed within five years, (BEFORE the feasibility study has even begun!!) takes quite some chutzpah.

An example from the history of mathematics shows how views on the trustworthiness of artificial intelligence can quickly start to change newscientist.com/article/mg2673…

The idea that we might attempt large-scale experiments to cool the planet is horrifying to some, but it looks increasingly likely that we will have to do so this century newscientist.com/article/mg2673…

Delivery drones and flying cars are mainly science fiction in the rest of the world. But in China these technologies are becoming an everyday reality economist.com/briefing/2025/…

“On Tuesday afternoon, ChatGPT encouraged me to cut my wrists.” @LilaShroff reports on how the chatbot was easily prompted to offer instructions for murder, self-mutilation, and devil worship: theatln.tc/N3adXYSx