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How China’s A.I. Is Surging Across Africa

By: Paul Mozur, Adam Satariano and Aaron Krolik β€”
In African tech hubs, developers are picking China’s cheap, freely available artificial intelligence models over more powerful U.S. ones.
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Why Congress Wants a Closer U.S.-Israel Defense Partnership

By: Robert Jimison β€”
A proposal making its way through Congress would integrate the U.S. and Israeli defense and intelligence apparatuses more tightly. Some worry that it is a bad idea.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has engaged in a public campaign to appear less reliant on U.S. military aid as President Trump urges allies to contribute more meaningfully to their own defense.

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Abdul El-Sayed Thinks Progressives Have a Way to Win. I Hope He’s Right.

By: Michelle Goldberg β€”
Abdul El-Sayed is quick, magnetic, overflowing with infectious confidence. But he also has a blind spot endemic to his movement.

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Windy Weather Could Worsen Pacific Northwest Fires

By: Amy Graff β€”
Forecasters expect winds to pick up in eastern Washington and Oregon on Friday and Saturday, but not to be as strong as last weekend’s were.
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It’s the Summer of Soundwalking. He Is Your Sherpa.

By: Patricia Leigh Brown and Vincent Tullo β€”
β€œWe may be hearing but not listening,” Jacek Smolicki said, showing a reporter how sound travels through tree roots in Central Park and amplifying the scraping of aquatic snails.

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Climate Change Comes to Sesame Street

By: David Gelles β€”
An episode this week focuses on the dangerous effects of warming, without mentioning climate change.
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β€˜Comradely’ Talks and a β€˜Deer Leader’ Mascot: Scenes From the D.S.A. Summit

By: Emma Goldberg and Jamie Kelter Davis β€”
At a national meeting of the Democratic Socialists of America, nervous energy and a sprawling tableau of sometimes-competing interests were on display.

Attendees listen as Katie Sims speaks during an afterparty at Maria’s Packaged Goods and Community Bar following the Democratic Socialists of America Summit on Friday in Chicago, Illinois.

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Christopher Nolan’s Trojan Horse

By: Ezra Klein β€”
The big trick of his β€œOdyssey” is smuggling the core of Judeo-Christian ethics into an ancient Greek epic.

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How a Top Law Firm Went From Standing Up to Trump to Bending the Knee

By: Michael S. Schmidt and Jessica Silver-Greenberg β€”
Paul Weiss was a progressive stalwart for decades and led the legal resistance against President Trump in his first term. Then it surrendered without a fight. This is the inside story of its transformation.

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Trump, Paul Weiss and the Capitulation of Big Law: 5 Takeaways

By: Michael S. Schmidt and Jessica Silver-Greenberg β€”
The law firm Paul Weiss led the legal resistance against President Trump. Then it led a sudden retreat across the legal industry. A Times investigation examined how it caved to White House pressure.

Paul Weiss’s offices in Washington.

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How China Keeps Tabs on Foreigners

By: Lily Kuo and Pei-Lin Wu β€”
An unsecured police dashboard was a rare window into how the authorities track foreigners by collecting and aggregating vast amounts of private data.

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Trump Administration Is Undoing Plans to Boost Workplace Heat Protections

By: Scott Dance β€”
The Biden administration took steps to shield workers from extreme temperatures. The Trump administration is taking a gentler approach with employers.

A delivery in Wilmington, N.C., this month. Heat is linked to hundreds of workplace deaths each year, but labor groups say the true toll is unknown because heat-related illnesses are not properly tracked or reported.

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She Voted for a Justice Who Overturned Roe. Now it Haunts Her on the Trail.

By: Lisa Lerer and Beth Reinhard β€”
Senator Susan Collins, who supports abortion rights, endorsed Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination for the Supreme Court. It has emerged as a major issue in her campaign for re-election.

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Anthony Bourdain’s Wild Summers Still Echo in Provincetown

By: Pete Wells β€”
As a new film evokes his coming-of-age in this bohemian Cape Cod town, Pete Wells goes looking for the people and restaurants that shaped him.
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Leopold Aschenbrenner Built a Hot A.I. Hedge Fund. Then it Melted Down.

By: Rob Copeland β€”
Situational Awareness, led by a 24-year-old, exploded onto the artificial intelligence scene β€” and then nose-dived.

Leopold Aschenbrenner, in May.

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How Trump Has Changed, With Maggie Haberman

By: Ezra Klein and Jack McCordick β€”
The New York Times correspondent says 70 percent of the president’s mind is dedicated to White House renovations.

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A Mathematical Tribute to the Soccer Ball

By: Siobhan Roberts β€”
As the World Cup final approaches, take a moment to appreciate the beautiful symmetries of humanity’s favorite truncated icosahedron.
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Christopher Nolan on β€˜The Odyssey’ and IMAX Technical Challenges

By: Melena Ryzik β€”
He and the cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema combined new inventions (like fire-mimicking lights they developed) with century-old techniques.

β€œI called up my friends at IMAX,” Christopher Nolan said. β€œI couldn’t tell them what the movie was yet, but I said if ever we were going to do a film all in IMAX, this is the one.”

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