Six greats reads: a train ride to the future; searching for the sky boys' and wallaby hunting in the English countryside

"Composite: Getty/Guardian Design Team In Silicon Valley, rival companies are spending trillions of dollars to reach a goal that could change humanity or potentially destroy it. Robert Booth caught a morning train through the San Francisco outskirts to speak to those working at the cutting edge of this multi-trillion-dollar revolution, where some people worry that the push for AI is all gas, no breaks. Read more Cara Hunter. Photograph: Polly Garnett/The Guardian"

"The Irish politician was targeted in 2022, in the final weeks of her run for office. She has never found out who made the malicious deepfake, but knew immediately she had to try to stop this happening to other women. Anna Moore spoke to her for the first part of this powerful new series about the rise of deepfakes and their impact on the women affected by them. Read more"

"A construction worker connects two cables suspended high above New York during the construction of the Empire State Building. Photograph: Lewis W Hine They are some of the most famous images of the world's most famous building. But who were the men in them? Catherine Slessor spoke to the author Glenn Kurtz, who has made it his mission to identify men like The Sky Boy who built the Empire State Building, and were captured in the photographs of Lewis W Hine."

Rival companies in Silicon Valley are spending trillions of dollars to reach advanced artificial intelligence that could transform or potentially destroy humanity. Observers traveling through the San Francisco outskirts encountered engineers and researchers working at the cutting edge of a multi-trillion-dollar revolution and expressed concern that the AI push prioritizes acceleration over safeguards. An Irish politician was targeted by a malicious deepfake during her 2022 campaign and is campaigning to prevent similar attacks on women. Photographs of Empire State Building construction are being used to identify the workers captured by Lewis W Hine. JP Morgan’s new Park Avenue HQ has received criticism for wasteful design features. Reports of escaped wallabies are rising in Britain.

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