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Russia and the West
Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine is part of his revolution against the West
He is leading Russia into a new phase of strategic confrontation, says Stephen Covington, a longtime NATO adviser
Artificial intelligence
Ray Kurzweil on how AI will transform the physical world
The changes will be particularly profound in energy, manufacturing and medicine, says the futurist
Pharmaceutical innovation
What good are whizzy new drugs if the world can’t afford them?
Bringing gene therapies and obesity drugs to the masses will require financial innovation too, says Steven Pearson
A moderate proposal
Why political centrists must rediscover their passion
They need to be clear about what opposing populism does and doesn’t mean, argues Yair Zivan
Crypto-criminality
Digital finance is a money-launderer’s dream, argues an author
Curbing dirty money will require both governments and techies to be less dogmatic, says Geoff White
Business and Trump
American business should not empower a criminal, says Reid Hoffman
No rational CEO would want a capricious strongman in the White House, argues the entrepreneur
Policing tech giants
A whack-a-mole approach to big tech won’t do, says Europe’s antitrust chief
Margrethe Vestager insists that openness need not come at the expense of security
Putin, the West and the rest
Yuval Noah Harari on how to prevent a new age of imperialism
Non-Western powers have a stake in bringing peace to Ukraine, argues the historian
Artificial intelligence
OpenAI board members respond to a warning by former members
The firm is a leader in safety as well as capability, insist Bret Taylor and Larry Summers
Technology and society
A tech ethicist on how AI worsens ills caused by social media
The only cure is to impose change on AI firms’ incentives, argues Tristan Harris
Artificial intelligence
AI firms mustn’t govern themselves, say ex-members of OpenAI’s board
For humanity’s sake, regulation is needed to tame market forces, argue Helen Toner and Tasha McCauley
The future of Europe
Emmanuel Macron has done Europe a favour, reckons Germany’s opposition leader
But Friedrich Merz insists that the continent has “no time to die”