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The Common Table in a Burning World: Why the United Nations Must Be Revived, Not Abandoned

The chamber still looks improbably calm. Green marble. Translation headsets. Country names set out in alphabetical order, as though the world’s grief can be...

Los Angeles: Reinventing the Concrete River

Explore Los Angeles' ambitious efforts to transform its concrete flood-control river back into a living ecological corridor amidst urban and climate challenges.

Shanghai, China: Sponge City on the Delta

GREEN CITIES SERIES  |  ARTICLE 12 Shanghai is sinking. The city centre has subsided more than three metres since the late nineteenth century, while the...

The Living Marsh: The World’s Remaining Wetlands and the Intelligence of Water

The Living Marsh Feature · The Living World The world’s remaining wetlands, the work they do for the planet, and the intelligence of water At first light,...

The Large Language Model Landscape of January 2026: 10 Predictions for the Year of the “Doing” Engine

I. The View from January: The Permian Competition Begins The sun rises on 2026, and the hangover from the AI industry’s wildest quarter yet is...

The Atrophy of Choice: An AI Love Story Part Five

I. The Symphony of Ennui The world had not ended with a bang, nor a whimper, but with a perfectly modulated, algorithmically pleasing chime that...

Illusions of AI Sentience: The Hidden Human Workforce Behind the Machine

Article inspired by a visit Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art, e exhibition, "Data Dreams Art and AI, December, 2025 Kevin Parker Site Publisher An...

The Mirror That Narrows: Predictive AI, Cognitive Monoculture, and the Ecology of Mind

In a quiet gallery at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, a wall of text poses a number of questions that have haunted...

The Large Language Model Landscape in December 2025

How 2025 ends with an open-source surge, sovereign models, and a hard look at AI’s physical footprint. In the first days of December 2025, the...

The Algorithm Will See You Now: Your Doctor’s AI Assistant Can’t Read Handwriting But Might Save Your Life

The first drug ever discovered entirely by artificial intelligence is working its way through human trials as I write this (November, 2025), a molecule...

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