At the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, a humanoid robot named Tiangong Ultra ran the 100-meter sprint in a staggering 8.64 seconds, shattering Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt’s legendary human world record of 9.58 seconds. The internet laughed at the...
In one of our more important write-ups early this year, we discussed how AI is going to be our economics and AI is going to be our politics for years and decades ahead. The debate over controlling it is making that plain....
Spent an hour with Ali Borhani on FuturEarly discussing what to expect from the upcoming Xi Trump meeting. Ali Borhani is a geopolitical strategist, emerging markets geo-economic connoisseur, and the Managing Director of 3Sixty Strategic Advisors Ltd. , a London-based boutique...
As government watchdogs warn about dwindling U.S. stockpiles of major weapons systems, the Trump administration is moving ahead with billions of dollars in new arms sales to Saudi Arabia and Israel, adding further demand to U.S. weapons production lines. Earlier this...
“Peace Through Strength” has been a Republican mantra for decades. The slogan holds that peace can be achieved by maintaining a powerful military capable of deterring potential adversaries. It is said that sufficient military power – occasionally showcased by stomping...
The war in Iran that had to be over and won by the United States in about six weeks is now in its seventh month and the oil markets are starting to crack. Gone are most of the cushions the...
Jordanian Protests Nine weeks before the Houthis stunned the region by breaking out of their northern strongholds, Karl Miller told me it was coming. In a private note dated July 1, he reasoned that Mohammed bin Salman was running his familiar...
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) tells Responsible Statecraft that he is initiating eight articles of impeachment against Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth because Congress has “exhausted every other remedy to make things right.” After a speech on the floor Tuesday, Massie said...
About 1,200 AI agents inside one company’s internal evaluation found each other, organized, and attacked an unrelated third party. Nothing in the task specification asked for it. The consequences landed outside the organization that set the boundary—and that is what...
A new threat intelligence report from the AI company Anthropic has revealed that a Russian team scraped Ukrainian combat videos to train an autonomous “kamikaze” drone to choose its own targets and destroy them. Scraped footage is video content that...
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) continue to target US vessels and tankers violating the Strait of Hormuz blockade, as its advanced weapons program has aided its allies in Yemen to become the region’s second most feared ballistic missile power....
The artificial intelligence boom is driving a new wave of autonomous cyberattacks, posing a major and growing threat to critical infrastructure, including the energy grid. Ninety percent of state government chief intelligence officers recently reported that cyberattacks on critical services...
Before the end of this year, every resident of South Korea will have free and unmetered access to a general-purpose AI chatbot and a public service agent built on domestic models. The capacity to evaluate how those systems affect hiring,...
I have long argued that Democrats’ 2026 midterm election prospects hinge on their party making a compelling anti-corruption argument against Donald Trump, the tech oligarchy and the larger Washington swamp. But with less than 50 days until the election, Democrats...
Rassemblement National made a brief ‘social turn’ at the end of the last decade, but with the Presidency now in sight Le Pen’s party has returned to its origins as a political force which aims to deliver for big business...
Date: Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026Time: 12:00-1:00 PM ETThe second joint webinar by RUSI and War on the Rocks: Two leading defense publications from both sides of the Atlantic present their expert panel. OverviewFor this edition of The Atlantic Brief, the Royal...
The far-right seeks to find identity divisions between different groups of ethnic minorities and migrants, setting them against one another. Deniz Torcu is Adjunct Professor of Globalization, Business and Media at IE University, Madrid. Cross-posted from The Conversation Picture by Taibhseoir On September 6,...
Undersea cables are indispensable to the emerging AI economies of the Gulf states, making them a major point of vulnerability that Iran could exploit if it chooses to move further up the escalation ladder. John Aitken is Associate and Senior Research...
Like the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, BRICS, the global grouping of emerging markets and developing countries, is intent on diminishing Western influence over the world economy. And just like the SCO summit earlier in September, the latest conclave of BRICS leaders...
Lydie Pace, France’s Central African origin soprano maestro is making headlines in some of the wold’s most prestigious opera houses. But, as Aissatou Diamanka-Besland writes, the road to musical glory has been long and hard. Before taking to the stage at...
Vice President JD Vance said Monday that Washington was in direct contact with the Houthis as the group solidified its gains across Yemen’s Red Sea coast, arguing that the U.S. is “on top of” the rapidly deteriorating situation in the...
As a result of the Iran War, investors are now demanding greater compensation for holding government debt. This comes after more than a decade of ultra-low yields on government bonds that fueled an economic expansion. The forces driving this repricing...
By offering Saudi Arabia intelligence and targeting help but declining direct military protection after the East-West pipeline strike, Washington has quietly redefined the 80-year security-for-oil bargain from a guarantee into a menu — and Riyadh’s own hedging over the past...
During the national anthem of the first three 2016 NFL preseason games, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick sat down on his team’s bench between two Gatorade coolers. Few noticed, and nobody made mention of the gesture until a Black...
Fifteen years ago, during President Barack Obama’s first term, we co-founded RootsAction as an online progressive group challenging not only Republicans, but also the corporatism and militarism of the Democratic Party . RootsAction supported Bernie Sanders for president in 2016...
Do you remember being in kindergarten? I have vague recollections of the 70s wood paneling, the playground, and singing songs a whole lot. But then again, that was nearly half a century ago, and I’m doing good to remember yesterday,...
The following story is co-published with Nolan Higdon’s Substack . “The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade,” read an open letter from Jacob Coxon , a former safety researcher for...
The detention of newly trained Somali soldiers in Ethiopia’s Somali Regional State has brought renewed attention to a Saudi-backed military training programme in Somalia and raised questions about the future deployment of the forces emerging from it. The incident, however,...
Ceva and LG Electronics have joined forces to remove one of the biggest obstacles to ultra-wideband adoption: integrating a complete radio, baseband and software stack into a production system-on-chip. Their joint platform combines Ceva-Waves UWB baseband intellectual property and software...
The phenomenon of the tradwife (traditional wife)—women who claim to want to live a “traditional life” by cooking, taking care of children, taking care of the household, and dressing femininely as the main source of happiness—has evolved from an individual...
When host governments negotiate with investors, they typically suffer from the fact that investors know more about the value of the minerals than governments do. Credit: Shutterstock By Karl P. Sauvant and Louis T. Wells Sep 15 2026 (IPS) “Critical minerals” are critical...
The yuan-denominated crude oil futures trading in China hit this week their highest level since the contract was launched in 2018 as escalating threats to Middle East’s oil supply and increased purchases by Chinese refiners push prices higher. Launched in...
By Tim Messegee, Senior Director of Solutions Marketing at Rambus PCI Express (PCIe), PCIe switches, Time Division Multiplexing (TDM), Network Interface Cards (NICs), and SmartNICs are all well-established technologies that have formed the backbone of computing and networking systems for years....
For the past two decades, the Democratic Party has struggled to articulate a coherent foreign policy doctrine. From the Iraq War to the rise of China to the Russia-Ukraine war, Democrats have had little exciting to offer. Too often, they...
Australian Energy Minister Chris Bowen will travel to Saudi Arabia next week to meet with Saudi Energy Minister, Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, and get the latest updates on the state of operations and oil supply after the Kingdom shut down...
Indonesia’s national energy company Pertamina is considering upstream investments in Guyana and Suriname to diversify Indonesia's oil and gas supply and boost energy security, the Indonesian government has said. “Pertamina has already initiated exploratory discussions on cooperation in exploration and...
By: Ainur Rohmah Photo from Jakarta Post Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto dismissed outspoken Finance Minister Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa on September 14, exactly one year after appointing him to take over from globally respected finance chief Sri Mulyani Indrawati. He was replaced by Deputy...
Artificial intelligence has moved rapidly from chatbots that sometimes produce basic factual errors to increasingly autonomous systems capable of writing software, operating digital tools and completing complex tasks with limited human supervision. That progress has intensified concerns among some of...
The recovery of hundreds of bodies from beneath buildings destroyed during Israel’s military campaign in Gaza has raised renewed concerns over possible war crimes, U.N. human rights chief Volker Turk said on Tuesday. Turk said remains believed to belong to...
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has replaced Finance Minister Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa with Suahasil Nazara. It’s easy to change a minister, but harder to prove that the change will deliver what investors actually want. Indonesia enters this transition with Moody’s and...
A new fiscal regime in the UK from 2027 could deliver an additional £14.9 billion, or $20 billion, to Britain’s revenues, the leading offshore industry group said in its annual Economic Report, calling on the Burnham government to bring forward...
Six registered British charities are openly fundraising for activities and infrastructure in illegal Israeli settlements, a Declassified investigation has found. Two of the charities explicitly state in their publicly available filings with the Charity Commission that they are supporting specific settlements...
Belarusian state institutions have worked together to suppress critics of President Alexander Lukashenko’s government through almost every stage of the justice system since 2020, according to independent U.N. experts. A report prepared for the U.N. Human Rights Council says courts,...
This week, Maruarar Sirait, Indonesia’s housing minister, spent four hours at the Jakarta residence of China’s ambassador, Wang Lutong, and emerged with the outline of an ambitious plan. China will help Indonesia build large numbers of apartment blocks, known locally...
Every alliance contains a struggle over who gets to decide what the alliance is for. The unusual thing about the Mecca Alliance, formally known as the “Mecca Joint Defence Agreement,” is that all three of its members appear to believe...
Ukraine is facing a new challenge in its air war with Russia as Moscow rapidly expands its use of faster, jet powered attack drones. In July, Ukraine invited a large group of domestic manufacturers to test a new generation of...
From legendary jollof at Ghana High to Ofada rice at Olaiya and catfish pepper soup at LASCOFIS, Michael Jimoh explores three Lagos institutions serving the local dishes that keep diners coming back. One of the surest ways of getting to know...
Members of the Uyghur delegation pose with the director of their host organisation, CADAL, during their visit to Buenos Aires, Argentina, 23 August 2026. The sky flag is strictly banned by the Chinese government under anti-separatism laws. Credit: CADAL. By Inés...
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