Asian family philanthropy is ‘a lot more hands-on’—and more corporate—than the West
Over three-quarters of Asian family philanthropies partner with government, a contrast with Western donors who get 'nervous' about the state.
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Meet the carnival performer-turned-opera actor in charge of auditioning snakes for a Mozart adaptation. ‘We will be moving forward with Princess’
Pretty much everyone on stage at the Metropolitan Opera in New York must audition — even the snake who will briefly take center stage in an upcoming adaptation of a Mozart classic.
‘Chuck it in the fire.’ A leading candidate in France’s presidential race has a simple solution to its massive national debt: just cancel it
“Why did we make a single currency and an ECB together? We can do it and I bet we’d find allies in Europe.”
ASEAN can still hedge between America and China on AI. It needs to get its act together first
Can ASEAN members draw from both the Chinese and Western ecosystems in pursuit of their own interests?
‘Feeding the beast’: Meta faces allegations of using its ‘perv glasses’ to train AI in new lawsuit
The tech giant faces a new privacy lawsuit weeks after agreeing to the largest child-safety settlement of its kind.
Denmark and four EU countries agree on migrant ‘return hubs’ outside the bloc, aim to start by 2027
Netherlands' minister of asylum and migration Bart van den Brink says "this is something new and it's groundbreaking."
Bitcoin is trading more like an ‘amplified version of gold’ again, but the four-year cycle theory threatens further declines
Some analysts warn the four-year cycle set to complete later this year could bring another slide.
OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra, its most powerful model yet, and touts its ability to use your computer
OpenAI president Greg Brockman calls Astra “the start of the AGI era” even as outside experts worry about whether the company has effective safety and security controls in place.
AI visionary Ray Kurzweil is joining a Silicon Valley startup developing a brain computer system that involves snorting nanoparticles
Subsense’s brain computing interface could compete with Elon Musk’s Neuralink, but would not require surgery.
