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Incidents of AI misuse and malfunction are growing across Africa. Companies are piloting American and Chinese AI systems, with little consideration for safety. Frontier models should undergo Africa-centric safety evaluations, …
Who gets to decide if AI is safe? Africa wants a say Read More
Reaching net-zero CO2 emissions by 2050, as prescribed by the Paris Agreement, is hard to imagine without a carbon tax. This column estimates that reaching the goal by carbon taxation …
The smokestack illusion: Who really pays for net zero Read More
Guy Dauncey has fashioned a short guide for radicals from the work of a non-radical economics heavyweight. Capitalism: A Global History, by Sven Beckert: Penguin, November 2025 This book is …
An astonishing piece of work Read More
When it comes to matters of plans for regional economies, Henry Leveson-Gower suggests the government might want to start from a different place to the one it is at. One …
Who knows best? Read More
Young people are finding it increasingly difficult to get a foothold in the labour market and artificial intelligence (AI) is an obvious culprit. But James Robson argues that blaming it …
Jobless youth is not all about bots Read More
Outsourcing companies made an estimated £6bn in profit from public services last year, with close to 11% of all public expenditure going to these private firms. A new report by the …
Outsourcing Giants Made £6bn in Profit From UK’s Public Services Last Year Read More
BRUSSELS — Amid fears that AI models could destroy humanity, top European tech leaders and cybersecurity experts have an increasingly loud response: Ignore the hype, and get on with the …
Don’t believe the doomers: Europe’s tech industry slams AI panic Read More
The central theme of the BRICS bloc of nations is to push back against the global economic dominance of Western countries. That core value was very much at the centre …
What is BRICS Pay, and can it rival the West’s SWIFT payments system? Read More
The midterm elections are heating up, and AI has entered the race. More than 30 candidates running for office around the country have signed a new pledge promising to put …
The first AI election Read More
President Donald Trump had been hearing the message loud and clear for weeks about the sweeping cryptocurrency bill being written in the Senate: to get it across the line, he would have to …
Trump agreed to new ethics rules to get a crypto bill across the line. But that might not be enough Read More