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Bold predictions about imminent AI breakthroughs have given way to doubt. Many in the field now think progress demands more ...

Each attack has left Kyiv more vulnerable, as reserves and balancing capacities disappear. Yet the city may have been granted a brief reprieve. On January 29th Donald Trump said that he had secured an ...

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Europe is playing a long game but must speed up and pledge more money. One rare-earth element, Europium, is abbreviated to Eu ...

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The fact that the yen has been so weak against a falling greenback is remarkable. It is doubly striking, because the gap ...

As The Economist went to press, Britain’s prime minister, Sir Keir Starmer, was visiting China’s president, Xi Jinping, the ...

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A new report by PEN America, a non-profit, found that lawmakers in 32 states filed 93 bills last year censoring higher ...