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Could Beirut Become a Gateway Between India and Europe?
Lebanon's two main ports just joined the IMEC Ports Club. Here's what that could mean — and what it would take to get on the route.
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Trump Wants to Replace “AI” With “SI.” But Superintelligence Means Something Much Bigger.
Donald Trump wants the U.S. government to start calling artificial intelligence “Superintelligence,” or SI. But superintelligence already means something much bigger—and the announcement reveals how AI is becoming an economic, infrastructure and geopolitical race.
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The People Building AI Are Now Arguing for Slowing It Down. And Their Rivals Agreed.
Anthropic’s Dario Amodei called for slowing the pace of frontier AI. Sam Altman and Elon Musk publicly agreed. When the people competing to build the most powerful AI systems start questioning the speed of the race, it is worth paying attention.
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How a shipping route becomes a grocery bill
A disruption thousands of kilometres away reaches your weekly shop through a chain of entirely ordinary business decisions. Following that chain is more useful than any headline about it.
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