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Watchdog blows the whistle on America’s biggest AI villains

With backlash against the artificial intelligence industry growing throughout the US, one government watchdog has created a database to help keep tabs on the people it describes as the biggest “AI villains.” The Revolving Door Project on Thursday launched a webpage that tracks

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Indonesia is rewriting the emerging-market inflation playbook

For over three decades, the standard playbook for taming inflation has remained virtually unchanged. Faced with surging prices, central banks invariably resort to hiking interest rates. The ripple effects are swift: demand cools, consumption slows and inflationary pressures

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Australia-Fiji defense pact is about much more than China

The treaty Australia and Fiji signed in Suva on July 6 is no ordinary defense pact. The Ocean of Peace Alliance, also known as the Veitacini Treaty, is explicit: An armed attack on either party in the Pacific is treated as a threat to shared security, and both governments have

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Volkswagen leads Europe’s automotive retrenchment

Subscribe now with a one-month trial for only $1, then enjoy the first year at an exclusive rate of just $99. European carmakers have too much capacityDiego Faßnacht reports that Volkswagen’s retrenchment reflects a broader structural crisis in Europe’s auto industry, where

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Iran war 2.0 slams Asia back into the blast zone

TOKYO — The collapse of the US-Iran ceasefire is hitting Asia hard. Again. The region never really left the woods. It had been bracing for second-round shocks — surging food prices chief among them — so the calm around the Strait of Hormuz felt less like a resolution than a

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Canada’s German sub buy dives between NATO and the Pacific

By choosing German-Norwegian submarines over South Korean units, Canada did not just buy submarines—it chose the alliance architecture that will shape its place between the Atlantic and Pacific security orders. This month, multiple media outlets reported that Canada selected

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Clock ticking down on Iran’s Hormuz gamble

Iran’s move on Hormuz is ultimately a short-term maneuver. And if it doesn’t get its act together soon, the whole region could turn against it. The new wave of US attacks against Iran has an undefined time frame, but at least a clear, limited objective – to reopen the Strait of

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UNESCO urges wider use of debt-for-education swaps

LONDON, July 10 - UNESCO has urged governments and international lenders to expand debt-for-education swaps to help tackle a worsening education financing crisis, warning that 113 countries now spend more on servicing debt than on educating their populations.

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