For the first time ever, legendary editor Otto Penzler has handpicked some of the most respected and bestselling thriller writers working today for a riveting collection of spy fiction. From first to last, this stellar collection signals mission...
In the Middle East, following the Gulf War of 1991, unknown terrorists kidnap a Russian delegation visiting Syria and the US ambassador to Saudi Arabia and his staff. Three men come together to find and rescue these hostages: Col. Ulm, a US special...
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is a concept that evokes both excitement and apprehension. While some view it as a promising dream, others perceive it as a looming nightmare. This paper aims to give strong evidence - or, to be more precise: to...
Subsequent to the completion of this paper, a widely discussed study by Shojaee et al. at Apple (The Illusion of Thinking, 2025) presented empirical evidence that several advanced reasoning models (e.g., Claude 3.7 Sonnet, DeepSeek-R1) exhibit a...