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Experts urge Japan to bolster Africa partnership amid China, U.S. moves
From left, Managing Director of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) Makhtar Diop, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, Angolan President and Chairperson of the African Union Joao Lourenco, and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba clink gl…
Despite Our Grumbles, America Still Delivers on the Dream
It’s become fashionable — especially among the globally mobile, the tax-weary and the disillusioned — to grumble about life in America.
From health care costs to political dysfunction, the list of frustrations is long.…
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Opinion: The steep cost of tariffs is finally coming into focus
Some six months after the Trump administration announced its first tariffs on goods from China, Canada and Mexico, it’s starting to feel that policy may be starting to stabilize now that higher rates for most of the rest of America’s trading partners w…
Neuralink’s first study participant says his whole life has changed
It was February 2024 when Noland Arbaugh, the first person to get Elon Musk’s experimental brain chip, rolled across the stage in a wheelchair during a Neuralink “all hands” meeting, revealing his identity for the first time.…
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Chinese bridge collapse kills at least 12 construction workers
Female political prisoners in Belarus face abuse, humiliation and threats of losing parental rights
TALLINN: Antanina Kanavalava says her four years in a Belarusian penal colony as a political prisoner were filled with a fear and anguish that still hau…
Iranian President Inks Defense Treaty With Belarus, Seeks To ‘Overcome US Sanctions’
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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko signed 12 cooperation agreements during Pezeshkian’s official visit to Minsk on Wednesday, strengthening ties between the two nations in defiance of US san…
An MIT report finding 95% of AI pilots fail spooked investors. It should have spooked C-suite execs instead.
Hello and welcome to Eye on AI…In this edition: DeepSeek drops another impressive model…China tells companies not to buy Nvidia chips…and OpenEvidence scores an impressive result on the medical licensing exam.…
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The AI Doomers Are Getting Doomier
Nate Soares doesn’t set aside money for his 401(k). “I just don’t expect the world to be around,” he told me earlier this summer from his office at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, where he is the president.…
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COVID Revisionism Has Gone Too Far
Pandemic revisionism has gone mainstream. More than five years after COVID-19 began spreading in the United States, a new conventional wisdom has taken hold in some quarters: Public-health officials knew or should have known from the start that pandemi…
U.N. leader: Israel’s total Gaza takeover plan must be halted
Palestinian children on Thursday wait in western Gaza City for aircraft to drop aid by parachute amid Israeli attacks. Photo by Mahmoud Issa/UPI | License Photo
Aug. 8 (UPI) — The United Nations’ human rights chief on Friday joined sev…