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At the vanguard of Gen Z movements, protesters in Bangladesh ousted the prime minister in 2024. They now face the hard reality of winning change through elections. At a railway station in Dhaka, ...

An exclusive conversation with OpenAI’s chief scientist, Jakub Pachocki, about his firm's new grand challenge and the future of AI.

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Microsoft has released a beta of TypeScript 6.0, an update to the company’s strongly typed JavaScript variant that promises to be the last release based on the current JavaScript codebase. TypeScript ...