10+ hour, 50+ min ago   (1762+ words) This was the week that AI safety hit the big time. A 27-year-old AI researcher named Jacob Coxon quit his job at Anthropic, declaring that OpenAI and Anthropic are racing to create technology that could destroy the human race: I…...

11+ hour, 43+ min ago   (1168+ words) For most of modern history, the household was a bundle. Under one roof, families pooled rent and meals, raised children, cared for parents, kept each other company and insured one another against bad luck. Nobody itemized it, and national accounts…...

13+ hour, 16+ min ago   (740+ words) Israel has been building settlements in the occupied West Bank for decades. But Britain’s new ban on the import of settlement goods comes in a response to a major escalation in construction over the past four years, which an International…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (987+ words) In the global supply chain, Indonesia sits at the epicenter of the market for nickel and other critical minerals. Yet the value of that natural wealth is still set on distant trading floors and market exchanges in places like London…...

1+ week, 6+ hour ago   (1628+ words) After International Energy Agency executive director Fatih Birol labeled the ongoing global energy turmoil the “biggest energy security threat in history” in April, events over the summer vindicated his warning. The United States authorized the grid operator Southwest Power Pool,…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1140+ words) NEW YORK – America’s trade deficit just widened to US$88.6 billion, its largest since March 2025 — and the political reflex in Washington is almost certain to be more, not fewer, tariffs and trade restrictions. The irony is that the number doesn’t mean…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (882+ words) By almost every explanation on offer for the bond selloff underway treats it as a familiar story wearing a new coat. Too much debt, too much deficit, inflation refusing to die down. All are true. But none of it fully…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1296+ words) Japan owes more relative to the size of its economy than any government on Earth at over 250% of GDP. For 30 years that didn’t matter, because Tokyo could borrow almost for free. Now the bill is arriving. Benchmark yields just hit…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (834+ words) Many participants at the Pacific Islands Forum in Palau this week would like to talk about anything but great power rivalry: transnational crime, energy security, climate change, development finance, seabed minerals, transport links. Instead, the meeting has been pulled toward…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1457+ words) This year marks four decades since Vietnam launched Doi Moi, the economic renovation program that broke with communist central planning. It also marks one of the most concentrated bursts of institutional change the country has witnessed since launching the market-oriented…...