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Grok Is Testing Whether AI Governance Means Anything

WASHINGTON, DC : In recent weeks, Grok – the AI system developed by Elon Musk’s xAI – has been  generating nonconsensual, sexualized images of women and children on the social-media platform X. This has prompted investigations and formal scrutiny by regulators in the European Union, France, India, Malaysia, and the United Kingdom. European

The High Cost of Trump’s Amateur Diplomats

Trump, now engaged in a brazenly neo-imperialist project in Venezuela, has handed China a golden opportunity to portray itself as

UN climate chief says stepping back from climate cooperation will…

The United States' decision to withdraw from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change will leave the United States

Russia says it used new Oreshnik ballistic missile against Ukraine

Russia’s Defense Ministry said Friday that the military has used the new Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile in a strike on

European political order ‘in danger’, France warns

The European political order "is today in danger", France's foreign minister said on Friday, sharply criticising his country's long-time ally

Overcapacity Is China’s Biggest AI Advantage

American policymakers ignore this shift at their peril. By narrowly focusing on winning the race for better models and chips,

Does Venezuela Herald a No-Rules International Order?

The danger now is not that states will openly defect, but that they will quietly adapt to a rogue US.

Humanity’s Alignment Problem

NEW YORK – It’s lunchtime on top of the world again. Time’s annual “Person of the Year” issue has revived the iconic Depression-era

Donald Trump and the White Man’s Burden in Nigeria

Over the next decade, Kipling’s injunction became the leitmotif of the West’s “civilizing” mission, justifying the imperial scramble to annex African

Top 10 China-India news stories of 2025

Noting that India and China are partners, not rivals, and that the consensus between the two countries far outweighs their