The AI spending boom has raised red flags with investors this week. October 24, 2026 https://time.com/article/2026/10/23/clean-energy-ai-boom-coreweave/

Wedgewood Polls admitted to using fabricated data in its surveys, claiming the stunt was an “experimental project” intended to showcase the “vulnerabilities” of the polling industry. […]

Pawel Pawlikowski’s extraordinary, compact drama is a somewhat fictionalized story of Thomas Mann’s brief 1949 visit to Germany, accompanied by his daughter. October 24, 2026 https://time.com/article/2026/10/23/fatherland-movie-review/

Cybersecurity researchers raced to patch a major flaw in PHP as details leaked online and attempted exploits surged. October 24, 2026 https://time.com/article/2026/10/23/ai-cybersecurity-php-hack/

Christian Mungiu on his new movie, starring Renate Reinsve and Sebastian Stan, about a religious couple in Norway whose children are taken away due to reports […]

“Our shared language around artificial intelligence already places far too much emphasis on intelligence, and far too little on artifice,” argues David Litt. October 23, 2026 […]

Place names that are changed arbitrarily should not be recognized by the international community, write Reuben Rose-Redwood, Derek Alderman, and Frédéric Giraut. October 23, 2026 https://time.com/article/2026/10/23/the-atlantic-and-pacific-oceans-are-not-trump-s-to-rename/

“Students get limited instruction, particularly in early grades, about how our government works,” write Lamar Alexander and Phil Bredesen. October 23, 2026 https://time.com/article/2026/10/23/governors-have-an-opportunity-to-give-civics-education-a-badly-needed-boost/

Here’s what to know as the President officially determined energy production shortfalls to be a national defense risk. October 23, 2026 https://time.com/article/2026/10/23/defense-production-act-memorandum-oil-gas-diesel-energy-us-iran/