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Global voice actors are mobilizing to protect their livelihoods and personality rights as studios replace human performances with AI dubbing. Advocates warn that AI lacks the local nuance and emotion …
Voice actors fight to save their livelihoods and local cultures from Hollywood’s AI push Read More
The US-Israeli war on Iran has wrought havoc on global gas markets. It’s just the latest shock in the energy world after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine similarly sent …
The Iran war’s silver lining Read More
Ukraine has damaged or destroyed so much Russian oil and gas infrastructure in the past two weeks that it has prompted Russia to issue a warning to European countries and …
Ukraine’s long-range strikes prompt new Russian threat against Europe Read More
Tehran’s viral videos satirising a Lego-style president have harnessed the power of AI – and Maga’s debasing of political discourse – and turned it against the US, writes disinformation expert …
Iran is winning the propaganda war against Trump – brick by brick Read MoreChatGPT: a conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel good. I am going to come clean. I am an enthusiastic user of artificial intelligence (AI) or at …
The seduction of AI Read More
Richard Vague traces the class division and enmity that has characterised Trump’s presidency back to America’s colonial beginnings. Many thought that the presidential elections of 2016 and 2024 revealed something …
States of disunity from colonies to Trump Read More
Henry Leveson-Gower reviews results from a recent report that tells how cues from mainstream authority sway economics students even at postgraduate level. Walk into any economics department and you will …
Are students economical with the verity? Read More
Alan Freeman explains why China’s pole position in the artificial intelligence race might be down to sharing rather than competing. When Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company, DeepSeek, released its R1 …
A Chinese giveaway Read More
Roger Miles warns of vanishing common sense as over-reliance on artificial intelligence grinds us down into a population of gullible mugs. Hurrah, artificial intelligence (AI) has arrived: let’s join HM …
The shocking untruth Read More
International trade and finance rules have, since their inception, remained skewed in favour of the richest nations. Rick Rowden argues that developing nations want measures to right the asymmetries. Canadian …
Rewriting the rules Read More