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A new report from the UN has concluded that world-changing levels of global heating are now guaranteed. If we do end fossil fuels in the coming years, we can still avert potentially civilization-ending levels…

At the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, a humanoid robot named Tiangong Ultra ran the 100-meter sprint in a staggering 8.64 seconds, shattering Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt’s legendary human…

(Publisher’s note. The American AI doomsday debate is in full gear and dutifully chimed into by West European media. The most recent wave was kicked off by a September 6 blogpost by…

A new threat intelligence report from the AI company Anthropic has revealed that a Russian team scraped Ukrainian combat videos to train an autonomous “kamikaze” drone to choose its own…

Before the end of this year, every resident of South Korea will have free and unmetered access to a general-purpose AI chatbot and a public service agent built on domestic…

In one of our more important write-ups early this year, we discussed how AI is going to be our economics and AI is going to be our politics for years and decades…

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has replaced Finance Minister Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa with Suahasil Nazara. It’s easy to change a minister, but harder to prove that the change will deliver what…

Mongolia’s 2027 budget hinges on Oyu Tolgoi and mining sector dividends. Can PM Uchral balance tax relief, wage hikes, and mining revenue risks?

This week, Maruarar Sirait, Indonesia’s housing minister, spent four hours at the Jakarta residence of China’s ambassador, Wang Lutong, and emerged with the outline of an ambitious plan. China will…

Over the past two weeks, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin staged a major diplomatic blitz. Across three events in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Vladivostok in Russia’s Far East and New Delhi, India, as well as a state visit…