Culture

Kekova island and the village of Kaleköy, on Turkey's Mediterranean coast, seen from the Simena fortress in 2019. The wreck was located in the waters of this area.

Shipwreck up to 4,700 years old found 30 metres deep off Turkey may be the oldest ever discovered

A low-cost LED smart television of the kind the report describes as a potential host, photographed in Pakistan in 2025.

Artificial intelligence

Anthropic ran an AI model across 15 TV boxes that cost $55 each, and says self-replicating models are months away

The Philadelphia Police Administration Building at 700 Race Street, the brutalist structure known as the Roundhouse, photographed in 2013.

Artificial intelligence

An Anthropic model filed a false murder tip with Philadelphia police, and it sat unnoticed for two months

The Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building in Washington, D.C., headquarters of the department whose Antitrust Division opened the inquiry, photographed in March 2026.

The Justice Department is investigating the five networks that stopped covering the White House, and calls it a boycott

The Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, about 45 kilometres north-west of Madrid, in 2018.

El Escorial reopens its painting and architecture museums after ten years, free until December

The Cine Odeon in central Rio de Janeiro in 2023. The theatre hosted the opening screening of the 28th Festival do Rio.

Rio Film Festival opens its 28th edition with 359 titles and 110 Brazilian premieres

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, with the Watergate complex behind it, on the Potomac in Washington, in 2019.

The Kennedy Center has burned through a $21 million credit line and half its reserves in nine months

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum at one of her morning press conferences, in 2024.

Mexico's Senate passes the so-called "anti-meme law", and Sheinbaum says it bans no memes at all

The artist Christine Sun Kim, one of the 20 MacArthur fellows named for 2026, in a portrait taken in 2022.

MacArthur Fellows

Twenty MacArthur fellows get $800,000 each, with no project to deliver and no report to file

The building in Meguro, Tokyo, that houses the Intellectual Property High Court and the Nakameguro branch of the Tokyo District Court, in 2023.

Artificial intelligence

Tokyo court rules a performer's voice is protected by publicity rights in TikTok AI cloning case

Kehinde Wiley at the State Department in Washington on January 21, 2015, the day he received the department's Medal of Arts.

Art in Embassies

Kehinde Wiley asks Trump to sell him back the painting pulled from the US embassy in Santo Domingo

The square in front of the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA), in northern England, seen from the museum's roof in 2009.

Turner Prize 2026 exhibition opens in Middlesbrough with four shortlisted artists and a December winner

The north front of the White House in Washington, D.C., in 2013. The current advertising campaign is being paid for out of federal funds.

Government advertising

A 2024 Trump campaign ad is back on air, and this time the disclaimer says "Paid for by the U.S. Government"

The National Museum of African American History and Culture and the Washington Monument on the National Mall, in September 2016, the month the museum opened.

The Smithsonian's African American museum turns 10 and says it has not changed a single exhibition

The globe at the entrance to Universal Studios Hollywood, in 2009.

Universal becomes the first studio to pass $5 billion at the 2026 global box office

British director Mike Leigh at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2024.

Mike Leigh wins the Golden Shell in San Sebastián with what he says is his final film

Carlo Petrini, then president of Slow Food, in Brazil in July 2015, at the signing of a cooperation agreement between the Brazilian government and the international association.

Turin hosts the first Terra Madre without Carlo Petrini, in the year Slow Food turns 40

The E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse on Constitution Avenue in Washington, seat of the federal district court that ordered the press passes restored, photographed in July 2026.

Judge orders the White House to return press passes to CNN, MS NOW and Politico

The Melrose Gate entrance to the Paramount Pictures lot in Hollywood, Los Angeles, photographed in 2014. The settlement bars the company from selling the lot for at least five years.

Paramount settles with 12 states and clears the last obstacle to its Warner takeover

The New York City Criminal Courts Building at 100 Centre Street in Manhattan, which houses Criminal and Supreme Court courtrooms and the Manhattan district attorney's offices, photographed in 2013.

Harvey Weinstein is sentenced to 15 years for the 2006 assault of Miriam Haley