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Artificial Intelligence (AI)

The Most Powerful AI Institution In The World Is Starting To Think Like A State

OpenAI’s latest economic initiative raises a question far larger than artificial intelligence itself. As the organisation funds research into wealth distribution, worker transition and economic security, it is beginning to occupy a role once reserved for governments, universities and public institutions. The future of AI may not be defined by intelligence, but by who controls the wealth that intelligence creates.

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Israel

The Iran War Has Exposed Israel’s Greatest Strategic Fear

The Iran war has exposed a deeper regional crisis beneath the rhetoric of deterrence. Israel’s growing fear is not simply Iran’s nuclear programme, but the possibility that Washington concludes the conflict is too costly…

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Science

Something Happened in the Bronze Age That Should Shock Us

Ancient DNA research is challenging one of the deepest assumptions about human history: that civilisation changed culture but left biology largely untouched. A major 2026 Nature study suggests the Bronze Age may have altered…

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