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Yasuhide Nakayama speaks at the FirstPost Defense Summit panel on AI

Yasuhide Nakayama speaks at the FirstPost Defense Summit panel on AI

Former Japanese Minister of Defence Yasuhide Nakayama, a BGF Global Enlightenment Leader, spoke at the “Will AI shape how wars are fought? What role will artificial intelligence play in the future of warfare?” panel at the FirstPost Defense Summit 2024 in India. The...

Logo of AIWS Angel

Logo of AIWS Angel

The logo of AIWS Angel embodies the essence of innovation, compassion, and human-machine synergy at the heart of the AI World Society Initiative. With its distinctive design, the logo symbolizes the transformative potential of AI in fostering a more harmonious and...

Why Putin refuses to admit to state-sponsored doping

Russian President Vladimir Putin  won't admit to the  massive state-sponsored doping of Russia's would-be Olympic athletes because that might  be seen as admitting that Mr. Putin  himself is a criminal. And so, Bloomberg reports, "Putin appears less and less willing...

Brazilian judge suspends WhatsApp

Brazilian Judge  Daniela Barbosa Assunção de Souza has imposed an indefinite suspension of Facebook Inc.'s WhatsApp after it failed to cooperate in a criminal investigation. Reuters reports that it's the third such incident involving the phone-messaging app since...

Turkish coup came close to succeeding

  New details are emerging that show how close the Turkish coup came to success. Contrary to what has already become the conventional wisdom, the attempt was very well organized. But the plotters had some bad luck. One observer said that the coup started to fail...

China closing part of South China Sea for exercises

  In a new show of muscle, China is closing  part of the South China Sea for military exercises this week. The announcement comes after an international tribunal ruled against Beijing’s claim to own virtually the entire sea. An area southeast of China Hainan...

West urges Turkish government restraint after botched coup

  In a plea that's unlikely to be respected by Turkey's increasingly dictatorial president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, European politicians and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry have called on Turkey to respect the rule of law amid a purge of state institutions in...

In Scotland, May pushes U.K. unity

The United Kingdom's new prime minister, Theresa May, pushed for U.K. unity in Edinburgh on July 15 on her first visit as Britain's premier. While 51 percent of voters in the U.K. as a whole backed its exit from the European Union, 62 percent of Scots voting favored...