Is France’s Le Chat in fact a cat?
One pressing question at the artificial-intelligence (AI) summit in Paris this week was this: is Mistral AI’s assistant a cat...
Israel mounts an attack on Palestinian intellectual life
On a busy thoroughfare in East Jerusalem, the predominantly Palestinian part of the city, sits a literary oasis. The Educatio...
Javier Milei’s liberal reforms are hurting yerba mate growers
Many Argentines sip mate daily. The brewed, bitter drink is made by infusing leaves of the yerba mate plant, a relative of ho...
Le Chat, the cat-bot France has pinned its AI hopes on
One pressing question at the artificial-intelligence (AI) summit in Paris this week was this: is Mistral AI’s assistant a cat...
Most Latin American migrants no longer go to the United States
Esther Hernández fled Venezuela to Colombia in 2017 with her husband, three daughters and a sewing machine. Her voice cracks ...
New Zealand and the Cook Islands fall out over China
IN THE strategic contest under way in the Pacific, a familiar pattern has emerged. China signs an agreement with an island na...
Panama symbolises the Sino-American struggle for influence
Panama responded quickly to Donald Trump’s rhetoric about Chinese influence in the Panama Canal. On February 2nd it said it w...
Parliament is advertising for a new Black Rod
The job advertisement is at once both clear and coy. It states that the successful candidate will demonstrate “strong interpe...
Robert Fico’s pleas for cheap Russian gas bring Slovaks onto the street
OLD-TIMERS IN Bratislava still call Freedom Square “Gottko”, harking back to Soviet times when it was named after Klement Got...
South-East Asian producers are being hammered by Chinese imports
In Bangkok, Thailand’s capital, a shopkeeper hawking trendy clothes made in Vietnam and Bangladesh complains that business ha...