Inspired by Indian ice stupas, Chilean engineers are creating artificial towers of ice to preserve winter precipitation for the spring and summer months, ensuring a steadier water supply for people and agriculture. Read more from María de los Ángeles Orfila. ⬇️

In 1600, the East India Company began as a trading venture with royal backing. Within decades, it was minting British currency and taxing millions. A similar pattern can be seen with government and Big Tech today. "The AI Raj: How tech giants are recolonizing power," by @allisonstanger.bsky.social.

Business Insider reportedly tells journalists they can use AI to draft stories

🚨 JUST IN: To make America a leader once again in the global nuclear industry, the US nonproliferation regime and nuclear policies need a revamp, @richardmnephew.bsky.social and Matt Bowen of @columbiauenergy.bsky.social write. thebulletin.org/2025/09/upda... #nuclearenergy #UnitedStates #nukesky

"Just as the East India Company’s commercial success gradually justified new powers, today’s AI firms seek to leverage technical prowess to assume public functions by default...," writes @allisonstanger.bsky.social. thebulletin.org/2025/09/the-...

"Just as the East India Company’s commercial success gradually justified new powers, today’s AI firms seek to leverage technical prowess to assume public functions by default...," writes @allisonstanger.bsky.social. thebulletin.org/2025/09/the-...

Ireland's peat bogs contain a vast record of archaeological and natural history, and sequester a LOT of carbon, but between resource extraction and climate change, they're at risk. Is there a way to preserve the peat bogs without sacrificing the treasures within? thebulletin.org/2025/09/tick...

To anticipate new threats, policymakers should see the Indian Ocean as a whole and no longer as a compartmentalized patch of sub-regions, Nitya Labh of @chathamhouse.org writes in @thebulletin.org. thebulletin.org/2025/09/why-... #IndianOcean #nuclearweapons #nukesky @dawnstover.bsky.social

NEW YORK (AP) — Anthropic agrees to pay authors $3,000 per book in landmark settlement over pirated chatbot training material.

Generative AI and off-the-shelf computational tools can make the synthesis and use of nerve agents for nefarious purposes more probable. "The Sarin shortcut: How AI lowers the bar for chemical weapons," by @ashjogalekar.bsky.social. ⬇️

My new piece in the @thebulletin.org is out. To my surprise, I ended up in a more pessimistic place than I thought I would, about the threats to democracy. thebulletin.org/2025/08/how-...

Great piece by @geomblog.bsky.social

"As the lines between private and public data are blurred in modern society, many won’t realize that their private lives are becoming data points used to make decisions about them. AI has supercharged these capabilities..." writes ‪ geomblog.bsky.social. thebulletin.org/2025/08/how-...

I was in Athens for a little over a week, which was just enough for me to get a taste of the hot and windy climate that can nurture any stray spark into an inferno. I climbed to the top of the Acropolis, sweating in the early evening sun with other tourists. thebulletin.org/2025/08/a-pe...

World leaders shouldn't just talk about Hiroshima and Nagasaki—they should visit, writes Alexandra Bell. "The often sterile, detached nature of modern deterrence conversations becomes untenable once you have seen what's left behind in the wake of death wrought on an unimaginable scale."

🚨 JUST IN: 80 years after the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, Arjun Makhijani reflects on the nuclear road no taken. In @thebulletin.org thebulletin.org/2025/08/the-... #nuclearweapons #80thanniversary #Hiroshima #Nagasaki #nukesky

Defensive AI "functions like a digital immune system, spotting abnormalities in real time and responding before humans even know something is wrong," writes Ali Nouri in a new piece for @thebulletin.org. thebulletin.org/2025/08/to-d...

For @thebulletin.org, I spoke with @sangernyt.bsky.social about how cyber operations are reshaping geopolitics and the future of warfare and what the United States can do to prepare for the next breach. thebulletin.org/premium/2025...

Note left on our typewriter. And a new life motto.

Last week, the Trump administration unveiled America’s AI Action Plan, aiming to gut regulations, expand AI use, and build data centers. @francesmack.bsky.social breaks it down for @thebulletin.org. thebulletin.org/2025/07/amer...

🚨 JUST IN: Two essays offer contrasting perspectives about J. Robert Oppenheimer. First, for @ericssinger.bsky.social, now that Oppenheimer has become a folk hero, he must be taught about in his full complexity. (1/2) thebulletin.org/2025/07/oppe... #Oppenheimer #80thAnniversary #nukesky

Stretching more than 1 million km, submarine cables serve as the global information highway. To keep data flowing in case of breaks, the U.S. and its allies must expand their repair infrastructure, explains @aaronbateman.bsky.social in a piece for @thebulletin.org. thebulletin.org/2025/07/to-k...

Data visualizations are some of the most powerful tools in a climate science communicator’s playbook. However, designing visuals that are clear to the public and policy makers is not a straightforward task, writes @rachitdubey.bsky.social . So, what works?

Tomorrow, join David Sanger, White House and national security correspondent for The New York Times, and Bulletin President and CEO Alexandra Bell for a discussion on the technologies driving the newest arms race. buff.ly/Gvk3ekG

"Just because I’m not on the keyboard—and you have to add two extra steps for me to appear correctly—I’m suddenly the product of some soulless technology?"

Last week, the Nobel Laureate Assembly for the Prevention of Nuclear War ended with a performance by Kronos Quartet alongside singer-songwriter Allison Russell. You can watch their performance of Bob Dylan's "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" below.

“Cyberstorm on the horizon: @sangernyt.bsky.social on what two recent breaches reveal about modern warfare,” an interview by @saragoud.bsky.social. (3/12)

Bulletin tech editor @saragoud.bsky.social interviewed @abeba.bsky.social on the censorship she experienced during the #AIForGood summit, and how the industry can do better. ⬇️

My colleague @saragoud.bsky.social is at the "AI for Good" summit in Geneva and interviewed @abeba.bsky.social about how the organizers censored her talk right before she took the stage thebulletin.org/2025/07/ai-f...

Absolutely shocking behaviour from the #AIForGood conference organisers. They obviously wanted to avoid embarrassing prominent sponsors, but how can we make progress if scientists aren’t allowed to report their uncensored findings? It undermines the legitimacy of the whole event. #AIEthics

The AI industry seems not to care very much about doing good.

I sat down and chatted with the AI for Good keynote speaker @abeba.bsky.social about how her talk was censored, how this undermines the spirit of the summit, and what the industry can do to build fairer, more just systems. thebulletin.org/2025/07/ai-f...

Even two weeks of war or less can leave lasting environmental scars with consequences for people, ecosystems, biodiversity, and the climate. My latest with @saragoud.bsky.social for @thebulletin.org thebulletin.org/2025/07/the-...

Israel and the United States' strikes on Iran could leave lasting health, environmental, and climate damage to the country. The Bulletin's @jessimckenzi.bsky.social and @saragoud.bsky.social take a closer look.

“… even 12 days of war is enough to cause serious health, environmental, and climate damage,” @jessimckenzi.bsky.social and I write in a piece on Iran.

The House just voted to pass the one big beautiful bill without a moratorium that would prevent states from enforcing regulations/introducing new laws on AI systems for a decade. How will that affect the global AI race? thebulletin.org/2025/07/how-...

How the big, beautiful bill will make America less prepared for a pandemic. @thebulletin.org thebulletin.org/2025/07/fewe...

Writers, submit to Bulletin's short fiction contest, judged by American science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson. Winner gets $3,000 and published in the January issue of @thebulletin.org's magazine. Deadline: September 30; no submission fee📚

Yesterday the United States bombed three Iranian nuclear sites. A review of what we know so far and how the world reacted: thebulletin.org/2025/06/unit...

A timely risk assessment. (But I am biased.)

Security policy experts worry about threats from emerging biotechnology like genetically tailored bioweapons, but these remain theoretical. Other genetic technology security risks are more imminent. @thebulletin.org thebulletin.org/2025/06/assa...

BREAKING: Explosions rang out across Iran’s capital as Israel claimed it was attacking the country.

What to make about Trump's Gulf trip and AI deals? It's a dangerous gamble w/ major national security questions + corruption & human rights concerns. Worth the risk? My take 👇 @thebulletin.org @saragoud.bsky.social thebulletin.org/2025/06/trum...

During his trip to the Gulf, Trump “sent a clear message: AI chips would be part of the bargaining process.” But “is it in America’s best interests to hand over vast amounts of a scarce strategic resource to a set of unreliable partners?” Steven Feldstein writes. thebulletin.org/2025/06/trum...

JUST IN: Grok’s answer to a question of whether the May 12 seismic event in Pakistan could be from an underground nuclear test was probably harmless. But it shows how AI chatbots could spread misinformation in a crisis, @kjolvegeland.bsky.social writes. thebulletin.org/2025/06/when...

New video from me and @thebulletin.org based on research from @scientistsorg.bsky.social: How many nuclear weapons does Russia have in 2025? One topic covered in the video is Russia's 2024 revisions to its nuclear deterrence policy, which Ukraine's drone attack this past weekend may have violated.

Researchers studying the link between conflict & environmental change have found that war & violence almost always harm the environment. But does peace guarantee environmental stability or vice versa? Thought-provoking new @thebulletin.org article by Drew Marcantonio thebulletin.org/2025/06/give...

Excerpt from The AI Con.

Offloading govt responsibilities to AI can encourage "discrimination, provide patently wrong advice, and limit access to valid claims of asylum and movement,” write @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social in THE AI CON excerpt published @thebulletin.org thebulletin.org/2025/05/gove...

bsky.app/profile/sara... see new article in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, “The Silicon Valley Way: Move fast and break…aviation safety?”