Hundreds of migrants and refugees are camping out on the streets of Durban, defenseless against the harassment. Thousands have begun returning to their countries of origin
The Silicon Valley congressman is leading the push to release the Epstein files and does not rule out a 2028 presidential bid. ‘They are not going to silence me,’ he warns
The enormous sums committed to developing artificial intelligence are making investors nervous
Offenders continue to use the former Twitter to peddle child pornography despite Elon Musk’s promise that he would eradicate this scourge when he bought the social media platform
The founder and world’s richest person alters the company’s essence to sustain its high valuation. Sometimes it is an electric carmaker, sometimes an energy giant or the vanguard of AI
Musk relies on a legion of fiercely loyal small investors while erecting ever higher barriers against potentially critical shareholders
The company’s valuation is approaching two trillion dollars. SpaceX is trying to ‘take the fiction out of science fiction’ and create an exciting future, said Elon Musk
Kyiv is intensifying its offensive in the occupied east to cut off the Moscow-annexed tongue of land north of the Sea of Azov
The US president calls state election officials ‘cheating dogs’ in the Democratic state where the Republican gubernatorial candidate finished second, signaling a strategy to undermine confidence ahead of the midterms
Flashpoints like the murder of Henry Nowak or the attempted beheading of Stephen Ogilvy in Belfast mobilize extremist groups
Groups of masked individuals set fire to homes believed to belong to foreigners and burned buses, cars, and dumpsters. The victim’s family has called for an end to the riots
The whistleblower who exposed social media’s dangers to teenagers says the next major legal battle will be against the AI friends that minors interact with
EL PAÍS talked to Cory Doctorow, who coined the popular term. With Big Tech taking over the internet, the positive atmosphere and user-friendly features of social media platforms – which previously allowed us to connect with friends – are disappearing
The US plans to launch three robotic missions to the Moon, run by private companies, starting with Blue Origin’s first lunar flight in fall 2026
OpenAI emerges on top thanks to a ‘calendar technicality,’ with the judge not addressing the substantive issue
After months of tensions, Beijing is expected to use the meeting to draw its red lines on Taiwan, while Washington stresses the economic focus of the talks and seeks support for negotiating peace with Iran
Elon Musk and Sam Altman may grab the headlines, but billionaires, theorists, and futurists are designing the most transformative technology of our era
Wealth is becoming increasingly concentrated in fewer and fewer hands. The world’s wealthiest individuals are transforming their money into political influence to shape society and the democratic system to their liking
The goal is to recreate the conditions of a future colony on the red planet in the place on Earth that most closely resembles it
The US economist and professor warns that there has never been an assault on democracy like the one unfolding now under the leadership of Donald Trump and the group of oligarchs who support him
The initiative seeks to correct biases and show the protagonists of history beyond their role as daughters or wives
EL PAÍS analyzes the most relevant profiles from the sex offender’s ultra-wealthy circle, at least 16 of whom have faced legal consequences, while 56 have felt an impact on their personal and professional lives
We made the mistake of minimizing and caricaturing the rise of authoritarianism. This far-right populism took advantage of the distrust in democracies generated by the Great Recession to infiltrate the very core of society. If we want a democratic recovery to succeed, we cannot continue to uncritically defend a system that not only led to the 2008 crisis but also failed to pursue a just way out of it
The accelerationists of anarcho-capitalism want to bring their new conception of human nature to fruition. They have the means to do so, Carlos Fernández Liria explains in ‘Against the Dark Enlightenment’
In the Netflix film, Magnus Carlsen does not say sorry for accusing Hans Niemann of cheating without any evidence
The US space agency is already assembling an SLS rocket and an Orion capsule to launch the next mission in 2027. The lunar landers from SpaceX and Blue Origin are prototypes that are years behind schedule
The discoverer of the first exoplanet speaks to EL PAÍS about the next big breakthrough he hopes to see: the first planet with life outside the solar system