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Mannequins of South Korean soldiers at a guard post beside the barbed wire fence of the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea on Ganghwa island on May 24, 2018.

—Photo-Illustration by TIME (Source Image: gorodenkoff/Getty Images) As more people turn to AI chatbots to share their most distressing thoughts, companies are making pivotal decisions about how their platforms respond to users in the midst of mental-heal…

The Chi Pi fraternity house on the campus at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York on October 2, 2026.

Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, Attorney General Todd Blanche, Vice President J.D.

The author during a rally in response to the U.S.

Navi Pillay at a press conference in Geneva on June 18, 2025.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks during a press conference at the site where a man was shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer during an operation in the Bronx, on Oct. 8, 2026.

—Westend61—Getty Images We often think of science as a search for answers to a specific issue: a solution to a known problem, or a cure for a particular disease.

President Donald Trump speaks about "Trump Accounts," investment savings accounts for children, in the Oval Office in the White House in Washington, D.C. on October 7, 2026.

Tech executives pose for a photo during a ceremony at River Bend, Hut 8's AI data center campus under construction in Saint Francisville, La., on Oct. 5, 2026 .

David Schisler and Courtney Head place plywood over the windows of the Islander Ice Cream restaurant as they prepare for the possible arrival of Hurricane Isaias on Oct. 8, 2026 in Gulf Breeze, Fla.

Optic nerve in eye affected by severe glaucoma —Marvin Samuel Tolentino Pineda—Getty Images Three people have received an innovative treatment designed to rejuvenate vision cells.

—Max Zolotukhin—Getty Images American healthcare, the priciest healthcare system in the world, is set to get even more expensive In the coming weeks, the roughly 160 million Americans who get health insurance through work will log into their benefits port…

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President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House on July 22, 2025.

A protester sits on the ground during the blockade of the University of Perpignan via Domitia in France on Oct. 6, 2026.

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From left: Rachel Keller, Ella Stiller, and Mike Colter in Cupertino —CBS Now is the autumn of our tech-dystopia content.

—Photography by Sharif Hamza for TIME Shai Gilgeous-Alexander had not seen the Onion headline.

Houthi supporters take part in an armed rally against the involvement of Turkey and Pakistan with Saudi Arabia in backing Yemeni government forces in Sanaa, Yemen, on Oct. 7, 2026.

Josh Hartnett in Below —Courtesy of Netflix Warning: This post contains spoilers for the Below finale.

An election billboard illustrated with presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto (left) and his running mate Gibran Rakabuming Raka in Jakarta on March 18, 2024.

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Students walk through the University of Texas campus on Aug. 24, 2026.

President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in San Antonio, Texas, on Oct. 7, 2026.

Jeremy Strong as Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Reckoning —Courtesy of Sony In the months leading up to the release of The Social Reckoning—a sequel to David Fincher’s 2010 film The Social Network, which covered the rise of Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook—mov…

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The campus of Cornell University on September 30, 2026, in Ithaca, New York.

President Donald Trump throws a pen into the crowd after he signed an executive order during a campaign rally at Pinnacle Bank Expo Center in Grand Island, Nebraska, on October 5, 2026.

The logo of Russia's consumer and health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor sits on its grounds' fencing in Moscow on Oct. 5, 2026.

—Photo-Illustration by TIME (Source Image: Igor Suka—Getty Images) Your colleague has a fever, a packed calendar, and no intention of missing your 2 p.m. meeting.

Frances Haugen and Mikey Madison during an interview with TIME.

The Nova music festival memorial site on Oct. 07, 2026.

Homes off the Alamitos Peninsula braces for waves from a waning swell from Hurricane Marie combined with a 6 ft. high tide that has been flooding streets and homes on Sept. 8, 2026 in Long Beach, Calif.

Andrew Garfield as Sam Altman and Yura Borisov as Ilya Sutskever in Artificial —Courtesy of Neon If you’re like most people, your preoccupations in late summer 2026 were fairly workaday: Maybe you were negotiating the eternal challenge of the life-work ba…

—Emmanuel Guimier—Netflix This article originally appeared in TIME France; click here to read it in French.

Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney and U.S.

—Photo-Illustration by TIME (Source Images: DmitriiSimakov, Thinkstock, WhiteTea, Westend61—Getty Images) Kelsey Bettis discovered the Fleuria Audiobook Walking Club the way people discover many things they didn’t know they needed: Instagram’s algorithm s…

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A woman attends a protest over a murder in Okinawa allegedly committed by a U.S. marine, in front of the Prime Minister’s Office in Tokyo on Oct. 5, 2026.

Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar is driven through rural Nevada to visit rural county clerks weeks on Oct. 11, 2024, ahead of the president election.

The aftermath of a snowstorm in Reading, Pa. on Dec. 17, 2020.

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Demonstrators attend a protest against Cornell University's handling of the 2024 fraternity-house gang rape allegations at the campus, Monday, Oct. 5, 2026, in Ithaca, N.Y.

Hundreds of Cornell students participate in a rally against the university’s actions after a student was sexually assaulted at a campus fraternity in 2024, on Oct. 5, 2026, in Ithaca, New York.

Democratic candidate for Texas governor Gina Hinojosa speaks during Democratic state Rep.

More than 250,000 people took to streets across France on Tuesday as teachers, parents, and union activists joined students who have spent the past two weeks protesting, what they say is, a poorly-funded high school system.

Rachel Goldberg-Polin speaks during the 2026 TIME100 Summit at on April 22, 2026 in New York City.

—Photo-Illustration by TIME (Source Image: Pexels via Canva) When you said yes to dinner at that new sushi place last week, it sounded like a great idea.

A digital billboard advertises the Muse AI agent in Oakland, California on Sept. 24, 2026.