The same year that Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has broken box office record after box office record, Canadian poet, essayist and translator Anne Carson has been awarded the Nobel Prize in literature at the age of 76. zurl.co/QA8EY

Joy Rojas mounts exhibit at ArtistSpace, Levi Masuli experiments with gate patterns, doorbell sounds, and more in our Arts & Culture stories. zurl.co/zTHHZ

Two Philippine inventions designed to address challenges in home-based dialysis and earthquake safety have advanced to the Global Top 20 of the James Dyson Award 2026, marking the first time the country has secured two entries in the international design competition’s final shortlist. zurl.co/FKV0C

WELL INTO the ’ber months, also known as the Philippines’ extended Christmas season, the theater scene continues to heat up, closing the year with a wide variety of plays and musicals from October to December. zurl.co/S7wdc

IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva on Wednesday warned that current economic developments and the rapid advance of AI threaten to deepen the gulf between advanced and developing economies, especially given steep drops in development assistance. zurl.co/vsFs9

French police accelerated the arrest of suspects in a theft of two Renoir paintings after one of the alleged thieves visited another museum, raising fears of an imminent second theft, Marseille prosecutor Nicolas Bessone said on Monday. zurl.co/enEMC

Pope Leo was diagnosed with lung adenocarcinoma after doctors removed the lower lobe of his right lung during surgery on Tuesday, the Vatican said. zurl.co/UallK

Actor Selma Blair has been arrested after flight attendants reported a “physically abusive passenger” on a Delta Air Lines flight from Los Angeles to New York, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s police department said on Monday. zurl.co/EXYxu

Google Philippines said it aims to upskill over a million public school teachers nationwide in artificial intelligence as the technology continues to transform classroom routines and behaviors. zurl.co/LuoqP

Wealthy Gen Z collectors spend far more on fine art than purchasers from any other generation, according to a report published on Thursday by Art Basel and Swiss bank UBS. zurl.co/Kbx2W

Actor RJ Mitte, whose personal experience living with cerebral palsy informed his role as Walter White, Jr., the physically disabled son of a methamphetamine kingpin in the landmark television series Breaking Bad, died on Monday at age 34. zurl.co/2Lzb4

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ANTHROPIC asked a US appeals court on Tuesday to reconsider a ruling that upheld the Pentagon's decision to label the AI company as a national security supply chain risk over a dispute about safety guardrails on its technology. zurl.co/TTZ9q

The headquarters of Saudi Arabia's state-owned oil company Saudi Aramco in the eastern city of Dhahran was attacked on Tuesday night, causing what the kingdom's energy ministry said in a statement was a limited fire, as fighting between Yemen's Iran-allied Houthis and the kingdom intensified. zurl.co/hOqQe

Former US Vice President Kamala Harris urged governments and technology companies on Wednesday to urgently put safeguards in place for artificial intelligence, warning that the window for containing its gravest risks was closing. zurl.co/iVaOV

Rakuten Viber is partnering with the Department of Tourism (DoT) to make accredited local tour operators accessible to travelers through business accounts on its application. zurl.co/NXOWN

GLOBE Telecom, Inc. has proposed a national utility resiliency plan that would establish coordination procedures between government agencies and telecommunications operators to facilitate the restoration of essential services following disasters. zurl.co/p9Cfz

OPINION | The economics of harm reduction By Bienvenido S. Oplas, Jr. Read: zurl.co/kKZLH

PHILEX Mining Corp. said it will present a revised labor offer to its Padcal mine workers for another round of voting as discussions continue over a labor dispute at its Benguet operations. zurl.co/PHAYd