HISTORICAL FACTS: Leo szilard - The Untold Story

Dario Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the AI Bomb

You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the AI doomsday wind blows.

Fortune · Oct 12

In 1930, Albert Einstein and another physicist patented a refrigerator with no moving parts; why did their invention never reach your kitchen?

In a remarkable collaboration, Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard advanced the world of refrigeration with a groundbreaking patent. Their design ingeniously harnessed chemical reactions to achieve cooling without relying on electricity. By cycling ammonia, butane, and water, they promoted a cleaner approach to refrigeration. Although it didn't see commercial success,…

The Economic Times · Sep 16

AI’s Asilomar or Hiroshima? World is running out of time to decide whether to slow AI race before technology outruns human control

Concerns over AI safety echo challenges faced during earlier technological developments, including the Manhattan Project and the Asilomar Conference. Experts have warned about potential existential risks linked to the rapid advancement of AI capabilities. As countries and companies race to develop increasingly powerful systems, establishing effective oversight has become crucial.

The Economic Times · Sep 14

When the physicists need burner phones, that’s when you know America’s changed

US academics, fearing persecution by their own government, are becoming ideological refugees. Europe, and Britain, must offer them sanctuary

The Guardian - UK · Mar 29, 2025

If the best defence against AI is more AI, this could be tech’s Oppenheimer moment

An unsettling new book advocates a closer relationship between Silicon Valley and the US government to harness artificial intelligence in the name of national security

The Guardian - UK · Mar 2, 2025

Einstein letter warning FDR of threat of Nazi nuclear bomb set to fetch $4m

Two-page letter written by physicist and fellow scientist, for sale at Christie’s, urged US government to invest in nuclear research

The Guardian - US · Jun 25, 2024

Late Microsoft co-founder's treasure hoard of artefacts to be auctioned, includes a letter Einstein sent to Roosevelt that ultimately led to the Manhattan Project

As per Allen's wishes, all proceeds will go to philanthropy.

PC Gamer · Jun 25, 2024

Question 7 by Richard Flanagan review – the Booker winner’s beautiful, unclassifiable memoir-cum-novel

In seeking to understand his parents and his life, Flanagan merges memory and fiction to ponder the random nature of existence, resulting in a masterpiece of subtlety and depth

The Guardian - UK · May 27, 2024

The atomic bomb and a near-death experience shadow Richard Flanagan's autobiographical Question 7

The most astonishing and accomplished sequence in Richard Flanagan’s Question 7 arrives near the book’s end, as he describes the near-death experience that inspired his first novel, Death of a River Guide, published in 1994.

The Conversation · Nov 6, 2023

84 Years Ago, Einstein Wrote an Urgent Letter that Altered History Forever

In August 1939, Einstein wrote a letter to President Roosevelt notifying him of novel research that could lead to the production of an atomic bomb.

Inverse · Jul 21, 2023