“I know in my heart that med beds [sic] are real,” a woman named Pam wrote recently on Truth Social, the social media site owned by Trump Media and Technology Group, and President Donald Trump’s favorite place to post. “I’ve been hoping and at the same time thinking it’s too good to be true,” Pam […]
The Chinese government is a technocracy with a deep backbench. About 40 percent of the Communist Party’s new Central Committee has some kind of technical background, ranging in fields from aerospace to artificial intelligence. It is remarkable what happens to decision-making when you are charged with the well-being of over one billion souls—assuming you take that charge seriously. And the Chinese government does. It sees climate change for what it is: a security threat that could wreak havoc on the Chinese social model and economy. But it is also an opportunity.
Former government officials rarely write good books. Whatever insights they may have acquired tend to be buried by self-justifying recriminations, personal loyalties, and the fear that unsolicited candor will prove disqualifying in some future administration. Tomorrow Is Yesterday, a new book by veteran peace negotiators Robert Malley and Hussein Agha, is an exception. It tells […]
Power couple Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan want to block the creation of AI videos that violate their image, and prevent their likeness from being used to train AI models.