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...
Ukraine’s fears are becoming reality, after Trump talks to Putin
EVER SINCE Donald Trump vowed during his election campaign to end the war in Ukraine quickly, President Volodymyr Zelensky an...
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...
What is Elon Musk getting up to with America’s payment system?
ON THE MORNING of January 28th April Mullins-Datko, the director of ADVOCAP, a social-services provider in Fond Du Lac, a cit...
Cheap solar power is sending electrical grids into a death spiral
In 1812 Frederick Winsor, a madcap entrepreneur, invented the public utility. The idea behind his Gas Light and Coke company,...
Protests in Brussels Halt Over 400 Flights and Snarl Public Transit
Tens of thousands of anti-government demonstrators filled the streets of Brussels on Thursday during a nationwide strike to p...
OpenAI Questions Rationale of Elon Musk’s Bid to Control the Company
OpenAI’s board of directors on Wednesday questioned the rationale of a $97.4 billion bid from Elon Musk and others to gain co...
After DeepSeek, America and the EU are getting AI wrong
The attempt at global harmony ended in cacophony. As Emmanuel Macron’s ai summit drew to a close on February 11th J.D. Vance,...
It increasingly looks as if Lucy Letby’s conviction was unsafe
IS LUCY LETBY guilty? The question has persisted since August 2023, when a jury found the nurse had murdered seven babies and...
Tensions with the West are fuelling China’s anxiety about food supplies
American soyabean farmers could draw some comfort from the tariffs that China imposed on an array of American imports on Febr...