China applies to put 200,000 satellites in space after calling Starlink a crash risk

What would the world be like without the US Dollar as a reserve currency? Some of the same people in America's government working to dissolve NATO want to end the Dollar's global primacy, too.

Some European governments consider abandoning the use of Twitter/X, as its owner refuses to deal with their questions about Grok AI's use in creating and distributing child porn on the platform.

As the post-World War 2 international order disintegrates, and its institutions like NATO may soon end, is it time to end another of its institutions, the United Nations, and start again?

In a poll of 20K voters in Europe, N America & Japan, 2/3 said the political system was “failing people” & living standards were in decline. Will it make radical ideas like UBI easier to accept?

Eurasia Group - The Top 10 Risks of 2026

The 'network state' project for parallel societies and sovereign "freedom cities" is getting a huge boost - all the international sites it wants to build on are targets for US annexation & takeover

The emergence of a global, large-scale disinformation industry has privatised influence operations, granting states strategic reach with plausible deniability.

The cost of unregulated Big Tech. New research shows Meta not only refuses to remove scam ads, as it makes so much money from them, it also tries to scam the regulators by hiding the ads from them.

17 predictions for AI in 2026

AI showing signs of self-preservation and humans should be ready to pull plug, says pioneer.

Scientists build a 'speed scanner' to test thousands of plant gene switches at once & say it can vastly accelerate plant engineering.

In areas with autonomous taxis, human drivers’ pay has fallen. Down 6.9% in San Francisco and 4.7% in Los Angeles year-on-year.

World models new driver for auto autonomy - Cutting-edge tech to improve vehicle reactions in complex environments.

US startup launches construction’s largest supervised autonomy deployment for mass excavation.

Waymo's robotaxi expansion accelerates with 3 new US cities

China's Baidu to launch driverless taxi trials in Switzerland this December

One of Britain's largest recruitment agencies said middle-class parents should train their kids for manual labor, not send them to university, as graduate job openings are falling so fast due to AI

At almost $250 billion a year, China's green energy investments in the developing world are now the equal of the US's post-WW2 Marshall Plan, adjusted for inflation.

Researchers at Stanford/Arc Institute just created the first AI-generated, entirely new viruses from scratch that successfully infect and kill bacteria, a breakthrough in computational biology.