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Bot the difference: AI and the future of search
The race for AI supremacy is on. Microsoft, Google, Baidu and a host of smaller firms are all placing bets on the technology’s future. Which version …
3 years, 1 month ago
Race against time: rescue efforts in Turkey and Syria
Amid unthinkable destruction and loss of life, we examine the factors that will frustrate relief efforts following earthquakes in an already troubled…
3 years, 1 month ago
Tony isn’t blinkin’: Sino-American relations, post-balloon
American fighters shot down a balloon that China says was monitoring the weather, but America insists was spying. It was a minor incident, but it hig…
3 years, 1 month ago
Bold eagle: America's industrial evolution
As part of The Economist’s new series on the remaking of the country's economy, our correspondent looks at the Biden administration’s audacious indus…
3 years, 1 month ago
Poll fishing: Peru’s persistent protests
The country remains riven by unrest since the “self-coup” and subsequent arrest of its president in December; only an early election might bring a re…
3 years, 1 month ago
Troubled shares, troubles shared: Adani and India Inc
The Adani Group, one of India’s biggest conglomerates, has come under fire from a tiny American research firm. A successful secondary share sale amid…
3 years, 1 month ago
Not shy about retiring: strikes in France
Fixing the complex, creaking pension system remains central to President Emmanuel Macron’s agenda of reforms. But leaving it alone is central to Fren…
3 years, 1 month ago
Didn’t protect or serve: Tyre Nichols’s killing
The response to the death of the 29-year-old has differed from that of previous cases of police killings; we ask what the tragedy indicates about how…
3 years, 1 month ago
Tunnel, no lights: South Africa’s crumbling infrastructure
South Africa’s infrastructure—its ports, railways and power grid—are struggling and poorly managed. Ordinary South Africans are increasingly fed up. …
3 years, 1 month ago
Bibi’s gambit: Israel’s government v its judiciary
Israel’s right-wing coalition government has the country’s supreme court in its sights. Their proposal to effectively subjugate its independence to t…
3 years, 1 month ago