The smartest technology acts before a crisis. Prevention is the next frontier of reinvention, changing the timing of action.

The Iran war has left Central Europe's growth largely intact, but inflation is sticking, Ukraine is battered and Russia is ...

Russians have created a new market,  from intermediaries promising to locate missing soldiers to scammers hunting for ...

The memory crunch is a fab story. The quieter squeeze, one step later, in advanced packaging, runs through a few makers of ...

Few countries succeed as discreetly as Slovenia does. The low profile rather flatters the place, but capital follows ...

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 ...

The EU’s door to the east is once again ajar, but the partner that spent two decades holding it wide open for newcomers is no ...

Spain is regularising half a million migrants as other governments shut the door. The backlash at home has been milder than ...

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

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 ...

With a voluntary code and a hard deadline. Covered unlabelled deepfakes and AI-generated public-interest content are about to become a compliance risk in Europe. The European Commission published the ...

Poland is on course to graduate from the World Bank. That a rich, high-income economy still has a programme is no failure, but the point. Andrzej Domański welcomed a new six-year plan on June 16, when ...