Meta recently open-sourced a capable, large-scale agent model — 30 billion parameters, a rough measure of the model’s size and complexity. It’s free, downloadable, and runs, per Meta’s own benchmarks, on a MacBook Pro with an M4 Max or M5...
As the artificial intelligence boom drives major energy demand growth and catalyzes an all-of-the-above approach to energy development, enhanced geothermal energy is catching a windfall of investment dollars and renewed policy interest. A new wave of next-gen geothermal energy projects...
A final deal between the United States and Iran is slipping further out of reach. Since the Memorandum of Understanding collapsed in July, the prospects for reviving it have deteriorated by the day. While Tehran publicly demands a return to...
Chevron will invest more than $7 billion in Venezuela over the next five years and more than double its oil production in the country to about 600,000 barrels per day, Reuters reported Wednesday. The investment follows new agreements with Venezuela...
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In 2025, Michael Hunzeker and Yuster Yu wrote, “Taiwan’s Biggest Problem in Steeling Itself for War With China is Cultural,” where they argued major cultural changes were needed in both Taiwan’s military and civilian society if it were to be...
With President Xi Jinping’s anticipated visit to Egypt in late August and early September, coinciding with the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Bishkek (August 30 – September 3) and the Chinese president’s visits to Kyrgyzstan and Egypt, several questions...
It was a rough night for Seth Moulton, a congressman challenging incumbent Ed Markey in Massachusetts’ Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate. Seeing opportunity in an election season favoring anti-establishment candidates, Moulton billed himself as “one of Massachusetts’ rising progressive...
The latest package of US sanctions on Iran is unlikely to achieve Washington’s objectives Jeffrey D. Sachs is University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University. He is President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network,...
Intel Foundry has a blog on LinkedIn that is worth a look. The blogs are by trusted Intel Foundry technical experts and are filled with content. I will cherry pick write a bit about them but be sure and subscribe...
Donald Trump is determined to subvert the midterms. All that can save us, if he succeeds, is a national strike. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where...
President Donald Trump made a potentially market-moving announcement last Friday evening. He said the United States had reached what he called “THE BIGGEST OIL DEAL IN WORLD HISTORY,” giving the U.S. majority control over more than 65 billion barrels of...
A government has plenty of alternatives in dealing with its debt, but most are not palatable for financial speculators Richard Murphy is an economic justice campaigner. Professor of Accounting at Sheffield University Management School., and Chartered Accountant, and Co-founder of the...
Review of Odd Arne Westad’s “The Coming Storm” Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His latest book, The Great Global Transformation: National Market Liberalism in a Multipolar World , was published November 2025. Cross-posed from Branko Milanović’s blog Global...
Anti-Muslim sentiment is on the rise in the United States, and yet Muslim political candidates are enjoying a banner year. Zohran Mamdani was elected the first Muslim mayor of New York City in 2025. This year, Abdul El-Sayed won the Democratic...
Two high-level US Trump administration emissaries crashed the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek, holding talks with top Central Asian leaders and disrupting any appearance of unity among the gathering’s attendees. Leading participants in the SCO summit,...
This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News , a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here . Fossil fuel emissions are pushing Earth’s climate toward a dangerous new phase of...
For the rest of this week and until next Wednesday, we’re having a sale as a way to celebrate my 53rd birthday, which is today. In fact, I’m the one giving the gifts, because I’m offering a whopping 53 percent...
Army Secretary Dan Driscoll resigned this week, raising a flurry of questions about whether his departure is part of a larger political reordering that has pushed skeptics of President Donald Trump ’s war policies to the margins. A longtime friend of...
This story is produced by Floodlight , a nonprofit newsroom that investigates the powerful interests stalling climate action, and The Guardian . Sign up for Floodlight’s newsletter here . The largest planned AI data center in New Jersey is being accused...
‘Where the wealthiest country in the world allocates money has always been a question of political will over political way’ The United States once led most other nations on resettling refugees from all over the world. But in the fiscal year...
Last month, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom issued a highly anticipated decision in The Kingdom of Bahrain v. Shehabi and another (Shehabi). The claimants, two Bahraini dissidents living in the U.K., allegedly suffered psychological harm after Bahrain used...
This coming Saturday 5 th September will see large marches for Palestine take place across Ireland to demand the cancellation of the Ireland v Israel football matches in the Nations League. Under the slogan of ‘ Stop the Games – Not...
Bangladesh is moving towards military mobilization and starting negotiations with China for the acquisition of fighter aircraft J10CE equipped with PL-15. Reuters reported that the number of aircraft being considered would be between 20 and 24, the agreement worth $2.2billion...
Simukai Chigudu’s filmic memoir details the confines and conflicts of growing up in Zimbabwe during political turmoil. - Don’t already get The Long Wave in your inbox? Sign up here Last week, I finally managed to snatch one read out of the...
The industry is moving from simple documentation chatbots to agentic workflows capable of performing complex, multi-step tasks like design creation, verification, and library characterization. These agents are intended to enhance engineering productivity by roughly 50%. A panel of industry experts...
Kazakhstan plans to more than double its crude oil refining capacity by 2040 from current levels by expanding existing capacities and building a major new refinery, the country's Energy Ministry said on Wednesday, citing the government's 2025-2040 plan to boost...
During the night of August 23, 2026, armed gangs attacked Kenscoff, a mountain community overlooking Port-au-Prince. By the end of the assault, at least 47 people had been killed, including five children. Twenty-two others were injured, dozens were abducted, and...
The plight of American journalist Bilal Abdul Kareem, who has been detained in Syria for more than eight months without any publicly announced charge or trial, is being considered by UN experts in Geneva this week. His case has been submitted...
TODAY’S NUMBERS 99.73 Dollar Index (DXY) · 4.81% US 10-year Treasury yield · $4,304 Gold, per ounce All three are rising together — the market pricing a Fed rate hike into a war, not a slowdown, a combination not seen...
The European Union is facing growing concerns over alleged Russian hybrid operations on European territory after Germany concluded that Russia was responsible for an attempted drone attack at Leipzig/Halle Airport last month. German authorities said their assessment was based on...
The re-escalation in the Middle East and the Russian ban on diesel exports amid incessant Ukrainian drone attacks on refineries have pushed middle distillate cracks to record highs this week. The renewed exchange of strikes in and around the Strait...
The death of a British national, Bradley Townsend, killed in Ukraine in June while fighting for Russian forces has been widely reported in the media. “British traitor who joined Vladimir Putin’s army ‘killed by Ukraine drone'” splashed the Daily Star while...
Referendum result means fewer seats in parliament and new rules on candidates, ahead of December elections Guinea-Bissau voters have approved a new constitution, which critics say will undermine democracy, that significantly expands presidential powers ahead of elections due in December. According to...
When Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif signed the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement at Al-Safa Palace on 7 August 2026, the joint statement was studiously silent about who the...
The United States has launched a new wave of attacks on Iran, marking a renewed escalation in a conflict that has remained deadlocked for months. Iran has responded with missile attacks on what it identified as US assets across several...
In August 2024, special forces from five Ukrainian military intelligence units crossed the Black Sea to raid Russian-held Kinburn Spit. The commandos of these units — Chimera, Aratta, Stuhna, Paragon, Terror, and the Siberian Battalion — landed, fought, destroyed equipment,...
The summer of 2026 has raised questions once again among politicians, diplomats, and academics about whether Germany might be about to dither on Russia. Last month, a drone attack on German soil seemed designed to coerce Germany back into business...
Australia and the United States have announced a combined $580 million in funding for Pacific Island nations, highlighting growing competition with China for influence across the strategically important region. The funding comes as Pacific states face energy insecurity, organised crime...
US President Donald Trump’s plan to secure direct access to Venezuela’s oil reserves could undermine the country’s efforts to revive its struggling energy sector. While Washington says the arrangement will accelerate reconstruction and strengthen US energy security, critics warn that...
South African artist Puleng Mongale explores how her childhood church still connects her to the women of her family, not through religion but shared history and memory This image, called Holy Gang, combines an image of a church in my mother’s...
Venezuela’s crude oil production rate could double in the next few years thanks to new deals set to be signed with U.S. and other foreign energy companies, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright has said. “The investment in these deals will...
The 65-billion-barrel Venezuela oil deal is not proof that regime change was sold with a resource contract attached as its explicit precondition — the deal was announced eight months after Nicolás Maduro’s capture, not before it. But the actual innovation,...
Asian financial markets came under heavy pressure on Wednesday as renewed US airstrikes on Iran intensified fears of further disruption to the global energy supply. Rising oil prices and a sharp increase in US government bond yields revived concerns over...
Taiwanese companies are planning an additional $20 billion in investment in the United States, driven largely by strong demand for artificial intelligence and semiconductor technologies. The move comes as Washington pressures Taiwan’s technology industry to expand its US presence and...
I was told to keep my diagnosis private but I am determined to show the reality of breast cancer and reject the stigma that prevents women seeking treatment ‘Madam, this looks like breast cancer, and if it is, we will chop...
On 28 August, six months to the day after American and Israeli aircraft opened the war on Iran, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi posted that putting diplomacy back on track was not impossible. He had just held what he called creative...
Army Secretary Dan Driscoll resigned this week, raising a flurry of questions about whether his departure is part of a larger political reordering that has pushed skeptics of President Donald Trump’s war policies to the margins. A long-time friend of Vice...
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