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Sam Rockwell’s New Spy Movie Is Officially One of 2026’s Highest-Rated Thrillers

Wild Horse Nine, starring Parker Posey and Sam Rockwell, earns a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score from 136 reviews ahead of release.

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Alan Cumming Says ‘Tip Toe’ Was His Greatest Role Ever — but He Never Wants to Think About It Again

Series creator Russell T. Davies and Cumming tells IndieWire all about that devastating finale and why this role made the actor's career.

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‘Cherry & Virgin’ Review: A Fantastic Indie Anime Blends Different Art Styles and a Slew of Pop Culture References into an Innovative Modern Rom-Com

An erotic manga artist who's never had sex falls in love with a similarly inexperienced illustrator in Masanao Kawajiri's Tokyo International Film Festival standout.

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Will Brill Won a Tony and Got His First Leading Film Role, but That’s Not How He Measures Success

A Tony winner for "Stereophonic," a leading man thanks to "The Musical," and the kind of supporting star who makes everything better (like this week's "Being Heumann"), Brill tells IndieWire what real creative joy looks like.

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‘Being Heumann’ Review: Siân Heder’s ‘CODA’ Follow-Up Is an Essential Biopic That’s Not Afraid to Have Some Fun

Heder's look at a remarkable period in activist Judy Heumann's work is life-affirming in myriad ways, and boasts a star turn from Ruth Madeley.

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‘Club Kid’ Review: Jordan Firstman’s Brazen, Funny, and Surprisingly Earnest Directing Debut Is a Wild Party Movie with Heart

The controversy-courting comedian/actor reinvents himself as a filmmaker, and as the star of his own hugely crowdpleasing movie as a washed-up New York party promoter forced to mature the hard way.

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‘Wildwood’ Director Travis Knight on How Live-Action Filmmaking Shaped His Stop-Motion Animated Adventure

Director Travis Knight tells IndieWire about bringing techniques he learned in live action to Laika's stop-motion epic adventure story.

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‘The Ballad of Lieutenant Dan,’ Documentary About Gary Sinise’s Work with Veterans, Acquired by Freestyle Digital Media

Exclusive: The film follows the Oscar-nominated actor as he grapples with the death of his son.

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Bengaluru AI Jailbreaking Workshop Retrospective

Summary We, the Secure AI Futures Lab ( SAFL ) team, ran 5 sessions between 8 Aug and 3 Oct 2026 at the Secure AI Hub in Bengaluru to help technical professionals from different backgrounds upskill in AI red teaming. We structured the sessions to go beyond paper reading and discussion by including exercises such as predicting results and using Colab notebooks to reproduce key results with smaller models. Two guest talks. Mohammad Taufeeque (FAR.AI) gave a talk for the workshop on 22 Aug, covering, among other things, what red teaming looks like at FAR.AI. Pulkit Verma (IIT Madras) gave the fir

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A therapist’s offer to AI researchers

AI researchers are doing some of the most stressful work in the world right now, and I don't mean that as an exaggeration. A majority report burnout and almost half have considered leaving the field because of the pressure. [1] Researchers are working under the belief that human labor is about to become obsolete and the window to intervene is running out. They feel guilty for overworking and at the same time guilty for not working hard enough, considering what is at stake, which very likely means the future of humanity. Even admitting how grandiose that sounds brings on more guilt and embarras

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Positive and Negative AI Futures

I'm continuing to share some notes I created for myself to use when I facilitate AI safety courses. I really like using Ilya: the AI scientist shaping the world as a way of engaging students at the start of a course. The video primarily focuses on the way that AI could go wrong, however, it also starts with “Now, AI is a great thing…”, so it naturally leads to a discussion of positive and negative futures. Positive Futures: One obvious resource on positive futures Foresight Institute’s Existential Hope website. I’ve browsed their content in the past, some of it is kind of interesting, but hone

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The Midterms and AI Development

The midterm elections have resulted in a crushing defeat for the Republican Party and one of the most impressive and resounding Democratic party victories in recent memory. I suspect that both parties will spend the coming weeks analyzing and processing the results and what they mean for American politics. The consequences of this election will likely change the political landscape in fundamental ways both in the near-term (over the next two years), and in the lead up to the 2028 election. I wanted to spend some time analyzing the political ramifications of this shift, especially in as far as

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Aligned Data Can Induce Severe Misalignment via Context Confusion

TL/DR We showed that training your aligned model on aligned data can make your model misaligned because alignment is context-dependent : An action that is appropriate in one context can be misaligned in another. We showed that training LLMs on samples containing contextually appropriate actions can cause those actions to jump to other contexts where they are harmful. We called this phenomenon context confusion and provided model organisms (datasets creating context confusion), showed its existence in a popular instruction-tuning dataset, and provided a mechanistic explanation. We speculate tha

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The Hallucinated Superagent

Written as a MATS extension fellow, mentored by Richard Ngo. [1] Agents manage their beliefs differently to non-agentic predictors. A key example of agent-specific belief management is hyperstition, which is a particular case of goal-models . Based on the idea that belief-management is an important aspect of agency, here's a (vibe) attempt at a rationality criterion: An agent's beliefs are rational when they are a fixed point under the agent's own belief operator. B = U(B). Here, U is an update (interpreted as the agent choosing to execute a belief update computation—or perhaps being forced to

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Wednesday assorted links

1. Important people in the AI world. 2. Ted Nordhaus on Bill Nordhaus. 3. “That universities facilitate broader political mobilization can explain why governments often seek to restrict student activism.” 4. NYT obituary for William Nordhaus. 5. A new (job market) paper on how much does economic geography matter? 6. “Recent-graduate unemployment fell to 5.2%, […] The post Wednesday assorted links appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .

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What Drives Censorship on College Campuses?

There has been widespread concern about self-censorship on university campuses, and especially that conservative voices are being stifled. Using survey data from a private elite college, we show that self-censorship is not simply about being conservative: it is students with the most moderate views who self-censor the most. This pattern is associated with confidence and […] The post What Drives Censorship on College Campuses? appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .

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How Positive Psychology Can Influence Public Policy

Imagine a medical doctor who never goes to the clinic and never publicizes availability for care. Instead, the doctor provides care when close friends need help or when an emergency occurs in their presence. While these acts are good in and of themselves, one could not help but wonder whether the doctor’s approach maximizes their potential positive impact. Positive psychologists often act like that. Like the doctor, we have specialized knowledge. We run studies and test theories. We accomplish things in our smaller circles. But without diminishing the value of these acts, one cannot help—as wi

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'I was partying too much': Jordan Firstman knows firsthand about being a 'Club Kid'

Firstman's new film is about a gay party promoter whose life is upended when he discovers he has a young son. "Arlo teaches Peter to grow up, and I think Peter teaches Arlo to be a kid," he says.

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Brahms’ First is 150 years old today. Here’s how he grappled with ‘a giant on his back’ to write a masterpiece

Brahms’ first symphony was 21 years in the making. It was well worth the wait. Also, today, why Ivan Fischer and the Berlin Phil have parted company over a seating arrangement By any reckoning, 21 years is a very long gestation period. Beethoven wrote his first eight symphonies (and was stuck into the ninth) in less time. But it’s how long it took Brahms to complete his First Symphony . He initially sketched it in the mid-1850s, in his 20s, and he was 43 by the time it was premiered, exactly 150 years ago on 4 November 1876 in Karlsruhe. Earlier that summer had seen the premiere of Wagner’s Ri

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‘I put a smoke bomb in a road cone and stuck it on my head’: Delton Barrett’s best photograph

‘It occurred to me that this image looked like someone losing their mind, going ballistic. I tried many shots and was getting tired. Looking back, it’s a wonder I survived’ I grew up on New Providence in the Bahamas, and still live on the south side of the island. After leaving school, I worked with my dad in construction, and that’s where I started taking photos. For the first couple of years, I used my flip phone, playing with images of nature and flowers on the sites we were working on, but in 2010 I bought my first DSLR (digital single-lens reflex) camera and started teaching myself about

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‘Jimi Horsedrix brought me so much joy’: the comic drawing a horse a day – and day 69’s is unsuitable for children

On day 58, he did a boxing Ali horse. On day 67, he did a howling horse. So what made Andy Field suddenly decide to draw 100 equines? And what made day 48’s so phallic? Andy Field was midway through his standup run at this year’s Edinburgh fringe when he was struck by an unusual urge – the urge to draw a horse. “I hadn’t sat down to draw anything since I was at school,” says the 34-year-old comedian. “Drawing was a skill I didn’t have.” He’s not lying. The subsequent horse Field posted to TikTok and Instagram was rather naive, with its four identical straight legs and cartoon eyeball. But the

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Herbert Blomstedt, renowned conductor with a seven-decade career, dies aged 99

The much loved Swedish-American musician, particularly known for his work with the San Francisco Symphony and Leipzig Gewandhaus, continued performing until earlier this year The conductor Herbert Blomstedt has died aged 99. His career stretched over an extraordinary seven decades and he continued to conduct and tour into his late 90s; his final concert was earlier this year, aged 98. Born in Massachusetts, US, in July 1927 to Swedish parents, the musician grew up in Sweden and Finland. His conducting tutors included Igor Markevitch, Jean Morel and Leonard Bernstein. Continue reading...

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Democrats better hope they don’t have another Manchin in their midst

Even with a decisive Senate majority, conservative Democrats can stymie legislation and the party's agenda

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MAGA media scrambles to form a circular firing squad

Alex Jones blames Donald Trump, who blames Fox News, who can't get over culture wars

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