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Before we start using and teaching AI in schools, perhaps we should ourselves learn more about what exactly we want to ...

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Brutal regimes rarely want for trading partners. The Taliban are only the latest to find that strategy and commerce outlast moral objection. In October 2025 Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, Turkmenistan’s ...

Radu Magdin is a global analyst and consultant, and former prime ministerial advisor in Romania and Moldova. The 21st century will be shaped not only by the rise of Asia, but by regions that connect ...

Demand for a few, highly advanced technology skills is surging while Europe’s wider IT employment market softens. How to square the circle? In March 2026 Arthur Mensch, who runs Mistral AI, raised 830 ...

Artificial intelligence now turns the lone founder into a credible rival to the corporation, and the steady salaried job into a riskier bet. In February 2025 Maor Shlomo, a programmer in Tel Aviv, put ...