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If 2023 was artificial intelligence’s breakout year, then 2024 was when the rules of the road were established. This was the year that U.S. government agencies acted on the White House executive order on AI safety. Over the summer, the European Union’s AI regulation became law. In October, the Swedes weighed in as the Nobel […]
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Africa Brief. The highlights this year: Great powers scramble for African infrastructure, elections spur democratic transitions in Senegal and Botswana, and South Africa’s ICJ case against Israel pits the West against the rest, and other major stories from 2024. Sign up to receive Africa Brief in your inbox every Wednesday. Sign up […]
Chinese merchant ships that appear to take an unusual interest in ocean floor infrastructure are not the only things causing disorder in the Baltic Sea. In recent months, automatic identification system (AIS) spoofing has been increasing there, too. Since these systems exist to allow ships to know where they and other ships are, manipulation that […]
Last week, Syrian rebels led by the Sunni Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) launched a surprise offensive, capturing significant parts of Aleppo, one of Syria’s largest cities, and advancing south into Hama province. This offensive—the most substantial territorial gain by rebel forces in nearly a decade—struck at the heart of what Russia once considered […]
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House in January holds both promise and peril for Southeast Asia. On the one hand, the incoming administration appears poised to reinvigorate the Indo-Pacific strategy devised during Trump’s first term, which focused on countering China and included the strengthening of alliances and partnerships throughout the region. Several […]
“One of the more remarkable developments over the last 25 years is that an investment banker’s arbitrary acronym for a quartet of emerging market economies has become the rubric for rebellion,” FP’s Keith Johnson wrote ahead of the high-profile BRICS meeting in Kazan, Russia, last week. It was the first summit since the group—originally comprising […]
Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at what the killing of Yahya Sinwar means for the Israel-Hamas war, alleged North Korean troops alongside Russian forces, and U.S. accusations against a former Indian intelligence officer. The War Trudges On Hamas confirmed the killing of leader Yahya Sinwar by Israeli forces in a televised eulogy […]