Are the U.S. and North Korea moving toward conflict or a lasting peace? This week Ian Bremmer goes deep on North Korea and talks to the man who was nearly U.S. ambassador to South Korea, until the White House thought otherwise. And on Puppet Regime, everyone is gearing up for the U.S. midterm elections. Especially Vladimir Putin.
The OpenAI cofounder and CEO's framing of AI development as a national security imperative now echoes a familiar strategy used by emerging tech sectors to garner government support and funding.
With an estimated 4 billion people—almost half the world’s population—set to vote or have already voted in the 2024 elections, AI's influence has been minimal so far, but its potential impact looms large. Ginny Badanes, general manager of Democracy Forward at Microsoft, explained that while AI-driven disruptions like deep fake videos and robocalls haven't altered results yet, they have undermined public trust.
Thousands of Venezuelans descended on downtown Caracas Monday to protest strongman President Nicolás Maduro’s claimed victory in Sunday’s elections. Independent exit polls suggested that opposition candidate Edmundo González defeated Maduro — an authoritarian who has overseen economic decline in the oil-rich nation — by a sizable margin.
On Monday, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin blamed“ultra-left” anarchists for the Olympic opening day sabotage attacks that disrupted rail service across France.
Ian Bremmer's Quick Take: There will be more pressure on a migration policy from the United States, from Joe Biden, from Kamala Harris, that is seen as a failure and is clearly the biggest policy vulnerability that Harris has in her election bid. And now the Biden administration is stuck with a failed policy.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday warned there would be a “severe” response to a deadly rocket strike on Saturday in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
Vice President Kamala Harris is on track to replace President Joe Biden as the Democratic nominee, leaving one major question remaining: Who will she choose as her number two? Think you know the top contenders? Prove it by playing our latest crossword. Let us know how fast you solved it here.