This year has been a crazy time with regard to Washington’s treatment of artificial intelligence, and the pace has picked up in the last couple of weeks. This train of events began
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On June 23, the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel released one of the most devastating reports ever produced by a UN investigative
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Sri Lanka must strengthen its National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) and take concrete action to address continuing risks of torture and ill-treatment faced by people deprived of their liberty, the United Nations Subcommittee
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More than seven decades after the fall of Nazi Germany, questions surrounding Josef Mengele’s escape from justice continue to resurface through fragments of forgotten records and unresolved investigations. One of the latest
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When Israeli forces withdrew from southern Lebanon in 2000 after 18 years of occupation, the departure became a symbol of a campaign many Israelis had come to view as costly and unresolved.
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Artificial intelligence researchers are shifting their focus from models that generate responses to AI agents that can carry out complex tasks in the real world, with the goal of creating systems that
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A bitter legal dispute involving members of Thailand’s billionaire family behind the Singha beer empire has drawn renewed attention to a century-old law that allows parents to revoke gifts from children accused
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The push comes after a series of incidents involving alleged industrial espionage, technology smuggling and illicit activities that have highlighted vulnerabilities in Japan’s economic system. Cases involving suspected theft of industrial secrets,
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Sovereign wealth funds and central banks managing $29 trillion in assets are reassessing their investment strategies as concerns grow over the long-term role of the US dollar, according to a survey published
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China has expanded export restrictions on Japanese entities, adding 20 companies and organizations to its dual-use export control list as Beijing intensifies measures against firms it says are linked to Japan’s military
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