Current Affairs
Latest Insights & Stories from Around the World
Source: TechCrunch ·
Tech & StartupsShould AI help you get away with killing your spouse?
What does a world of total user-aligned AI actually look like?
Source: Your Story ·
Startups[Weekly funding roundup July 4-10] VC inflow remains flat
Indian startups raised just $107 million in the second week of July, marking the second straight week of muted funding activity. While investors continue to back sectors such as d…
Source: Your Story ·
Startups5 Teachings from Good Vibes, Good Life for inner peace
Discover 5 powerful teachings from Good Vibes, Good Life that can help you find inner peace, heal emotionally, and build self-worth.
Source: Your Story ·
Startups10 Lessons from the Happiness Advantage for a positive mindset
Discover 10 powerful lessons from The Happiness Advantage that can help you build a positive mindset, reduce stress, and improve success.
Source: Wired ·
Tech & StartupsPeople Used to Control Machines. They Don’t Anymore
In a world regulated by devices, humanity has become disconnected from the physical world—from stick-shift cars to postcards.
Source: The Hindu – World ·
GeopoliticsTrump extols America, rails at communism as U.S. turns 250
“A generation after we fought and won the Cold War against the menace of communism, there is now a resurgence of the communist menace in our land,” Trump said
Source: The Hindu – World ·
GeopoliticsUnchecked AI progress may pose catastrophic risks, UN panel warns
A preliminary report by the UN’s Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence said policymakers face a growing dilemma: they need robust evidence to regul…
Source: South China Morning Post – World ·
GeopoliticsHow Chinese philosophy influenced US founding fathers
“Founding Father, Benjamin Franklin, published the sayings of Confucius in his colonial newspaper and today’s sculpture recognising that ancient Chinese age is carved into the fac…
Source: The Hindu – World ·
GeopoliticsIran invites Modi for official burial ceremonies of Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei
MEA officials did not clarify whether PM will travel for the funeral which will be held between July 3 and 9; Iran’s Petroleum Minister arrives in New Delhi to discuss investment …
Source: The Hindu – World ·
GeopoliticsJapanese PM Sanai Takaichi’s Guwahati visit cancelled, meetings will be hosted in Delhi
Earlier in 2019, the late Japanese PM Shinzo Abe too was expected to visit Assam for a bilateral meeting with PM Modi when the event had to be cancelled because of protests relate…
Source: The Hindu – World ·
GeopoliticsLimits of America: On the U.S.-Iran agreement
Iran won the war by merely denying the U.S. a victory
Source: Deutsche Welle (DW) – World ·
GeopoliticsLeipzig Bach festival: Encouraging dialog
Talking, debating and listening are skills we can all learn, particularly in the light of current global conflicts. The Leipzig Bachfest shows how Johann Sebastian Bach's music ca…
Source: The Guardian – World ·
GeopoliticsJo Cox’s murder prompted calls for a ‘kinder, gentler politics’. Why has intolerance prevailed?
The late MP’s family, politicians and academics on the factors they believe have heightened division in the last 10 yearsHow the murder of my sister changed Britain – podcastTen y…
Source: The New York Times – World ·
GeopoliticsChina Exports Surveillance
The country has spent decades perfecting a surveillance state at home. Now it’s promoting its ideology of state control, and the technology to enforce it, abroad.
Source: South China Morning Post – World ·
GeopoliticsChina’s next big leap: becoming a frontier science civilisation
Singapore’s founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew once offered a striking observation on the nature of American power, wrote Harvard professor Joseph Nye in 2011. China, Lee argued…
Source: Wired ·
Tech & StartupsTo Land a Job in AI, Try Reading Kant
The world’s leading AI labs are hiring philosophers to think through ethical edge cases and grand questions of mind and morality. Are they another instrument of hype?
Source: Wired ·
Tech & StartupsWhat Pope Leo XIV’s First Encyclical Says About the Power of AI
In Magnifica Humanitas, the Pope decries the concentration of technological power in a few global players.
Source: Wired ·
Tech & StartupsPope Leo Schooled the Tech Bros on Tolkien
The Holy Father referenced The Lord of the Rings in his encyclical about AI—an expert (if unintentional) troll of tech billionaires who keep misinterpreting the series.
Source: NBC News – World ·
GeneralGandalf, Picasso and MLK: Cultural references ground Pope Leo’s AI warning
It took a little over a year for Pope Leo XIV to write more than 42,000 words of his first encyclical, which deals with safeguarding human dignity in the age of artificial intelli…
Source: Your Story ·
StartupsThe Harder the Conflict, the More Glorious the Triumph: Thomas Paine’s Insight for Today
“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph,” wrote Thomas Paine during a time of deep uncertainty. The line resonates today
Source: TechCrunch ·
Tech & StartupsThe pope’s AI encyclical isn’t really about AI
Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical uses AI as a lens to diagnose older problems: concentrated power, eroding democracy, and a tech elite that shapes the world to its own advantage.
Source: NBC News – World ·
GeneralPope Leo warns AI is fueling conflict, urges world to slow advances
Pope Leo XIV has called for AI advances to be slowed and blamed the technology for fueling conflict around the world.
Source: The New York Times – World ·
GeopoliticsMain Takeaways From Pope Leo’s Encyclical on A.I.
In his letter, the first American pontiff called for putting care for humans at the heart of technological change.
Source: The New York Times – World ·
GeopoliticsPope Leo Warns of Risks From A.I. in 42,300-Word Encyclical
The document marks a powerful foray by the leader of the Roman Catholic Church into the debate about the misuse or overuse of artificial intelligence.
Source: The New York Times – World ·
GeopoliticsPope Leo Is Set to Release an Encyclical About A.I. Why Is That Important?
Leo XIV is to issue his thoughts about artificial intelligence in the modern world, using a centuries-old form of papal communication called an encyclical, the first since he beca…
Source: Wired ·
Tech & StartupsQuantum ‘Jamming’ Could Help Unlock the Mysteries of Causality
To keep communications secure in a post-quantum world, cryptographers are digging down into the concept of cause and effect.
Source: The Hindu – World ·
GeopoliticsConference at UN to review nuclear non-proliferation treaty fails to reach agreement
A four-week conference at the United Nations to review the treaty to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons has ended without an agreement, as the United States and Iran spar over …
Source: The Hindu – World ·
GeopoliticsMarco Rubio in India LIVE: After a short visit to Kolkata, U.S. Secretary of State lands in New Delhi
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is scheduled to hold wide-ranging talks with External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, in addition to meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and a…
Source: Deutsche Welle (DW) – World ·
GeopoliticsThe dying dream of the dead to be at peace with life
Many people have vivid dreams shortly before death. Research suggests the dreams are not a sign of confusion — but may help both the dying and their loved ones make sense of loss.
Source: Times of India – World ·
GeopoliticsDevotees offer prayers at Bhojshala complex; how principles from Ayodhya verdict paved way
Madhya Pradesh High Court has declared the Bhojshala complex in Dhar a Hindu temple and Sanskrit learning center, granting exclusive daily worship rights to the Hindu community. T…
Source: South China Morning Post – World ·
GeopoliticsBeijing had already won before the Trump-Xi summit even started
Fans of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace all have their own reasons for loving the epic novel. Some read it as a story of personal growth, reflected in Prince Andrei’s spiritual quest.…
Source: South China Morning Post – World ·
GeopoliticsThe West was never the whole world. It’s time to move on
Western social science has made three metaphysical mistakes. The first was to assume that its laws and lessons were, like the physical sciences, universally applicable to all soci…
Source: TechCrunch ·
Tech & StartupsWhat the jury will actually decide in the case of Elon Musk vs. Sam Altman
Here's what the biggest tech court case of the year is all about.
Source: The New York Times – World ·
GeopoliticsA Physicist Who Thinks in Poetry from the Cosmic Edge
In her second pop-science book, theoretical cosmologist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein returns to her celestial and cultural roots.
Source: The New York Times – World ·
GeopoliticsThe Lecturer and Philosopher King: Xi Jinping Behind Closed Doors
Encounters with other world leaders reveal a side of China’s leader that the public rarely sees, and offer clues to how he will approach President Trump in Beijing.
Source: South China Morning Post – World ·
GeopoliticsRise of China complicates ‘authoritarian’ vs ‘democratic’ binary
There is growing unease in how we describe political systems today. Words that once seemed clear no longer illuminate as they should. “Free”, “democratic”, “liberal” and “authorit…
Source: Wired ·
Tech & StartupsNick Bostrom Has a Plan for Humanity’s ‘Big Retirement’
The philosopher thinks humans should pursue advanced AI and the promise of a “solved world.”
Source: South China Morning Post – World ·
GeopoliticsHas China just ended the end of history?
You can perhaps judge the rise and decline of a society by the quality of its public intellectuals. In the last century, the United States had some genuinely great thinkers such a…
Source: Your Story ·
StartupsThe business of belief: How tech is powering India's spritual economy
As access to religious practices expands to include rituals, offerings, devotional products, and even storytelling content, faith is gradually transitioning from a largely communi…
Source: The Hindu – World ·
GeopoliticsDas Adam Smith Problem: rethinking Smith’s moral and economic worlds
The Das Adam Smith Problem shows an apparent dichotomy between sympathy and self-interest in Adam Smith’s works, but most scholars now view it as a misunderstanding, arguing that …
Source: Wired ·
Tech & StartupsDo Lightsaber Blades Have Mass?
On Star Wars Day, we put to rest a question that has bedeviled sci-fi nerds for years.
Source: MIT Technology Review ·
AI / Deep TechThe Download: a new Christian phone network, and debugging LLMs
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A new US phone network for Ch…
Source: The Hindu – World ·
GeopoliticsMamdani says he would encourage King Charles to return the Koh-i-Noor diamond
India has indicated that it will continue to explore ways to bring back the Koh-i-noor from the United Kingdom
Source: The Guardian – World ·
GeopoliticsIsrael’s direction poses ‘existential threat’ to Judaism, UK’s leading progressive rabbis warn
Rabbis Charley Baginsky and Josh Levy say criticising Israeli government is not disloyalty but a Jewish obligationThe UK’s most senior progressive rabbis have warned that Israel’s…
Source: Al Jazeera – News ·
GeopoliticsUK assisted dying bill fails after delays but advocates vow to try again
Supporters of bill to legalise assisted dying for terminally ill people say they will try again to pass legislation.
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