What the EU AI Act’s first provisions meant for European startups
February 2, 2025 marks the first enforcement provisions of the EU's AI Act going into force.
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Record funding fails to stop Europe’s AI brain drain — and the gap is widening
Europe has never had more money flowing into artificial intelligence.
Why Europe’s AI talent is staying home instead of moving to Silicon Valley
Europe's AI researchers are increasingly choosing to stay put rather than move to Silicon Valley, driven by better local funding, quality-of-life advantages, geopolitical shifts, and a maturing institutional ecosystem that finally makes staying the rational choice.
Why using social media feels good for 30 seconds — and awful hours later
The emotional whiplash isn’t just “too much screen time.” Gudrun M. Henemann, Mike M. Schmitgen, Sophie H. Haage, Jakob P. Rosero, Patrick…
The morbid lifeline that went viral: what the “are you dead?” app tells us about…
The premise of the “are you dead?” app is almost offensively plain: once a day, you tap a single button to signal you’re alive.
Singapore vs Ireland: Which is the richest country in 2026?
On one IMF measure for 2025, Ireland's nominal GDP per capita exceeded Singapore's.
Singapore vs Switzerland: Which Is the Richest Country in 2026?
In 1965, Lee Kuan Yew wept on television as he announced that Singapore had been expelled from Malaysia, cast adrift as an independent nation nobody expected to survive.
The U.S. just stopped pretending. That’s the real story.
Trump captured a sitting president and announced America would "run" Venezuela.
A Russian billionaire offers free IVF for women who will use his donated sperm
The tech billionaire, who claims to have fathered over 100 children through sperm donation, frames his unconventional program as a response to a global fertility crisis.
OpenAI’s Sora raises questions about who benefits from creative output
Last month, I sat in a cafe in Singapore—a city that often feels like a scale model for the future—and watched a demo of Sora 2.0. On the screen, a hyper-realistic scene of a 1920s jazz club flickered to life.
This hidden Samsung Galaxy Z TriFold feature is a game changer for productivity
When Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Z TriFold, the headlines focused on what you'd expect: the dual hinges, the 10-inch display, the fact that a tablet now folds into your pocket.
A company scraped 30 billion photos of your face without consent. Now MAGA…
The surveillance state isn't coming.