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Artificial Intelligence
EU’s AI law won’t prevent catastrophe, warns top expert Stuart Russell
BRUSSELS (Realist English). The EU’s flagship AI Act falls far short of what is needed to avert existential risks posed...
Oracle shares hit all-time high on $30bn cloud deal
SAN FRANCISCO (Realist English). Oracle shares surged to a record high of $218.63 on Monday following the announcement of a...
Big Tech pushes for 10-year AI regulation freeze in US states, sparking political rift
WASHINGTON (Realist English). Major US technology firms — including Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta* — are lobbying Congress to impose...
AI deepfakes of Pope Leo XIV surge online, exposing gaps in platform safeguards
ROME (Realist English). AI-generated videos and audio clips of Pope Leo XIV are proliferating rapidly across social media, drawing millions...
UK government developing AI tool to predict murders, rights groups warn of “stigmatisation algorithm”
LONDON (Realist English). The UK Ministry of Justice is developing a predictive risk assessment tool designed to identify individuals who...
ChatGPT artificial intelligence bot wins new adherents in Russia
MOSCOW (Realist English). The effect of advanced foreign technology this time surprised the Minister of the Russian Federation for the...
Russia’s Cabinet of Ministers will allocate over 2.4 billion rubles for research of artificial intelligence
MOSCOW (Realist English). Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed an order on the allocation of over 2.4 billion rubles from the...
Taiwan fears US weapons use in Iran could aid China
TAIPEI (Realist English). Taiwan has raised concerns that extensive US use of long-range cruise missiles in the war involving Iran...
Strait of Hormuz disruption sends shockwaves through global trade
LONDON (Realist English). Escalating military tensions around the Strait of Hormuz are rapidly disrupting global shipping and energy markets, as...
Iran war puts Vice President JD Vance in difficult political position
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The ongoing war with Iran has placed US Vice President JD Vance in a politically sensitive position,...
Hormuz crisis reshapes global tanker market as shipping routes collapse
LONDON (Realist English). The effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz following the escalation of the Iran war has triggered...
Star Wars without fiction: how space became the next battlefield
MOSCOW (Realist English). “Star Wars” stopped being science fiction long ago. Unfortunately, over ten thousand years of civilisation, humanity has...
Dadivank: The Legacy of Christ’s Apostles in Artsakh
YEREVAN (Realist English). In Artsakh, before the ethnic cleansing and forced deportation – simply put, genocide – carried out by...
An unusual phenomenon at the Church of the Holy Savior in Shushi
YEREVAN (Realist English). In the distant year 1979, as a third-year university student, I used to visit the Church of...
War with Iran seen as inevitable, Armenia warned of looming regional storm
YEREVAN (Realist English). The war with Iran is drawing ever closer. And once again, this pulls Armenia into a zone...
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