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How AI Is Changing Warfare From Drones to Kill Chains
From Britain’s StormCloud experiment to Gaza and Ukraine, AI now links sensors, drones and weapons. This guide explains what works, where the legal risks lie, and who is…
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Claire Dubois
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The Physical Singularity: Machines That Build Themselves
Jeff Schneider says the decisive AI race is not only over superintelligence, but over self-expanding industrial capacity that could free growth from human-labour limits.
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Why keeping women at home makes countries poorer
Keeping women out of paid work impoverishes whole countries. Legal equality, safer jobs and changing norms — plus the pull of extra income — can open the door.
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EU Merger Reform: Balancing Competition and Fairness
EU competition chief Teresa Ribera says the draft merger guidelines modernise — not deregulate — EU review to account for innovation, investment and resilience while keeping competition central.
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Britain’s foreign policy for the new geoeconomic era
As disruption in the Strait of Hormuz hits fuel, food and fertiliser, Yvette Cooper sets out how Britain can remain open without being exposed.
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Should the West Engage the Taliban? Readers Respond
Five years after the US withdrawal, readers respond to our call for democracies to work with the Taliban — on aid, accountability, and the opium ban.
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Revealing Job Interview Questions to Ask Candidates
Our Bartleby columnist asked readers for the one interview question that says most about a candidate. Here is a selection of their most revealing replies.
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The Ideal Age Gap for Marriage, in One Formula
A correspondent proposes B = G/2 + 7 as the optimal age gap between bride and groom at marriage.
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Taliban’s Afghanistan: Calm Streets, Repression and Poverty
After five years back in power, the Taliban have ended Afghanistan’s war but offer 45m people repression, isolation and deepening poverty.
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China’s exorbitant surplus calls for a much stronger yuan
A stronger yuan, not domestic demand alone, is needed to curb China’s vast trade surplus and its reliance on exports for growth, writes Brad Setser.