Ukraine managed to wrangle some more favorable terms out of the United States before signing the long-awaited minerals deal on Wednesday. The agreement on natural resources was finally struck late on Wednesday, after weeks of tense bargaining that at times turned sour...
At the Boston Global Forum (BGF) Conference on April 22, 2025, Cameron Sabet, a member of the Enlightenment in Action Alliance (EAA), delivered a compelling address introducing the Boston Finance Accord for AI Governance 24/7, a groundbreaking framework aimed at...
This Bloomberg story looks at how a man trains computers to find future criminals through algorithms. The article says: "Risk scores, generated by algorithms, are an increasingly common factor in sentencing. Computers crunch data—arrests, type of crime committed, and...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says that the United Kingdom's decision to leave the European Union has "thrown a spanner in the works" of its global economic growth forecast. The IMF's 2017 growth forecast for the U.K. has been slashed to 1.3 percent...
Boxed areas contain islands claimed by China. China's state media said the government plans to put offshore nuclear-power platforms to promote development in the South China Sea. Such a development could make it much more difficult to militarily stop the increasingly...
Dictatorships tend to support other dictatorships in order, in part, to discourage democracy. Thus it was no surprise that the Syrian regime of Bashar Assad sides with China's claim to virtually the entire South China Sea -- in opposition to the decision of a...
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 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...