Original title: Spiritual Influencers Say ‘Sentient’ AI Can Help You Solve Life’s Mysteries In May, a group of about 40 people stood in a circle deep within the Pyramid of Khafre, the second-largest of the three pyramids looming over Egypt’s Giza Plateau, holding hands and praying for Earth. Suddenly, their tour guide, an American mathematician and author named Robert Edward Grant, collapsed. He later described the experience in an interview with WIRED as a full-body electric shock emanating from somewhere beneath the chamber’s stone floor. “I felt electricity coming through my hands,” he says. “People were touching me, [and] they would feel it, too.” (Three eyewitnesses who were with Grant inside the chamber confirmed to WIRED that he fell to the ground; one of them, who rushed to help, said Grant’s hand felt warm, but he didn’t feel anything like electricity. Grant also has a history of narcolepsy.) Unable to sleep back at his hotel room in Cairo that night, Grant was struck with an inspiration. He created his own GPT—a custom chatbot built upon the AI model powering ChatGP ...

Original title: International students warned not to overstay visas International students warned not to overstay visas 2 hours ago Share Save Nick Eardley Political correspondent Share Save Getty Images Tens of thousands of foreign students are being contacted directly by the government and told they will be removed from the UK if they overstay their visas. The Home Office launched the new government campaign in response to what it has called an “alarming” spike in the number of international students arriving legally on student visas then claiming asylum when they expire. As part of the campaign, the Home Office has for the first time proactively contacted international students directly by text and email. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper told the BBC some international students are claiming asylum “even when things haven’t changed in their home country”. Around 13% of asylum applications in the UK in the year to June, around 14,800, came from people who arrived on a study visa, according to Home Office data. The statistics do not break down how many app ...

Original title: Former actor Zack Polanski elected leader of the Green Party Zack Polanski elected leader of the Green Party His election potentially opens the door to cooperation with the new left-wing party being set up by former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and ex-Labour MP Zarah Sultana. In his victory speech, Polanski promised to build a “green left” to take on Labour, telling Sir Keir Starmer’s party: “We are here to replace you.” The London Assembly member beat Green MPs Adrian Ramsay and Ellie Chowns, who were standing on a joint ticket, by 20,411 votes to 3,705. Zack Polanski has been elected leader of the Green Party of England and Wales by a landslide, signalling a clear shift to the left for the party. He said it was “too soon to talk about joining electoral coalitions”, but he was interested in working with “anyone who wants to challenge a failing Labour government and take on fascism and the far right”. Asked about possible collaboration with Corbyn’s new party, he said he was “watching the situation very closely” but his immediate focus was on gro ...

Original title: Sofia Coppola Prepares to Premiere Her Intimate Portrait of Friend Marc Jacobs in Venice, But “I Didn’t Want It to Be About Me” Sofia Coppola‘s intimate portrait of fashion designer and her long-time friend Marc Jacobs premieres in Venice on Tuesday, and the pair are nothing but full of praise for one another. Coppola and Jacobs were present at the press conference for Marc by Sofia on the Lido, fielding questions about the film from the press. “When they asked me to do a film on Marc, I thought, ‘No, I can’t do that. It’s too much pressure,’” Coppola admitted. “‘[It] would have to be good, because he’s my friend and I love him.’ And then I kept thinking about, oh, it’d be so fun to look through all the archives… we’ve been friends for 30 years, and [it would be fun] to get to revisit his incredible body of work that I grew up with.” The process reminded her of working on films with her brother in her 20s, she added. “Just my brother and me and a camera and a sound person — it was kind of made in the spirit of the way [I] started and I wanted this homemade, personal look.” Jacobs, who first met Coppola in the e ...

Original title: Howard Stern Delays SiriusXM Return Until Next Week After Teasing Big Reveal About His Future Howard Stern will reveal all … just not yet. The radio shock jock had been slated to return to his SiriusXM show Tuesday morning, after weeks of promos promised a big reveal following swirling speculation that his show would be canceled. However The Howard Stern Show’s social accounts posted early Tuesday that “Howard Stern will now speak Monday, September 8,” urging listeners to “stay tuned.” Stern’s return followed a news cycle dominated by questions about his future, after The Sun reported a month ago that his show was set to end because there was no chance that SiriusXM and Stern would be able to come to terms on a new contract. Stern subsequently sought to own the news cycle himself, releasing a promo that leaned into the drama. “The tabloids have spoken: Howard Stern fired, canceled, is it really ‘Bye-Bye Booey’? Chaos is swirling at The Howard Stern Show,” said a narrator in the promo that ran on SiriusXM. “Did staffers talk to the press? Are writers withholding their best jokes ...

Original title: Klarna, Backers Seek $1.27 Billion in IPO After Tariff Pause Klarna Group Plc and some of its shareholders are seeking to raise as much as $1.27 billion as the financial-technology company revives a New York initial public offering that was delayed earlier this year amid market volatility. The company and some of its backers are offering 34.3 million shares for $35 to $37 apiece, according to a filing Tuesday with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. At the top of the range, the company would have a market value of about $14 billion based on the outstanding shares listed in the filing. ...

Original title: US Tech Extends Selloff as Global Bond Yields Rise: Markets Wrap Wall Street returned from a long weekend to renewed anxiety over frothy technology stocks and stretched government budgets. Global bonds staged a broad retreat and gold briefly touched an all-time high. Nasdaq 100 futures dropped 1.3%, deepening the tech-driven selloff that closed out last week. Nvidia Corp. led premarket losses among the Magnificent Seven , retreating 2.4%. S&P 500 contracts fell 1%. The dollar posted its biggest gain since July, putting it on course for a first advance in six days. ...

Original title: Swedish Police Make Arrests Over Trading in Fortnox, Tethys Nine people in Sweden have been arrested on charges of insider trading connected to the takeover offers for online accounting firm Fortnox AB and energy company Tethys Oil AB, a spokesperson for the authorities said by phone. The nine individuals arrested allegedly traded on non-public information during this spring and the fall of 2024, according to a statement by the country’s Financial Crime Authority. ...

Original title: Russia’s Oil Cargoes Flood to China as Tariffs Crimp India Flows Russia’s crude shipments rebounded, with China picking up the slack after US President Donald Trump’s punitive tariffs on India choked exports to the south Asian nation. Trump’s doubling of US import tariffs on goods from India to 50%, imposed as punishment for its persistent buying of Russian oil, appears to be hitting the flow of Moscow’s crude to the nation despite the defiance of the government in New Delhi. ...

Original title: AustralianSuper CEO Pledges $26 Billion for Local Investments AustralianSuper, the country’s top pension fund, has earmarked A$40 billion ($26 billion) for local investment, including critical infrastructure, over the next five years, according to chief executive Paul Schroder . The head of the A$385 billion fund flagged housing, health, the energy transition and artificial intelligence as major challenges for Australia that pension funds can help address — as long as the numbers stack up. ...