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13 Dec 2025

Time honours leading AI architects worldwide

The magazine highlights economic, political and social shifts driven by rapid AI expansion.

12 Dec 2025

RightsX Summit 2025: Governing technology through human rights

Human rights are no longer abstract ideals but living principles shaping how AI, data, and digital governance influence everyday life, power structures, and the future of human dignity in an increasingly technological world.

10 Dec 2025

The fundamentals of AI

Understanding the fundamentals of AI explains how machines learn, adapt and perform tasks once considered uniquely human.

5 Dec 2025

Gaming and Esports: A new frontier in diplomacy

Gaming and professional esports are rapidly emerging as powerful tools of global diplomacy, revealing how digital competition and shared virtual worlds can connect cultures, influence international relations, and empower new generations to shape the narratives that transcend traditional borders.

3 Dec 2025

Quantum money meets Bitcoin: Building unforgeable digital currency

A new battle for the digital throne is emerging as quantum money moves from theory to possibility, raising the question of whether Bitcoin’s decentralised strength can withstand a future shaped by quantum technology.

26 Nov 2025

What the Cloudflare outage taught us: Tracing ones that shaped the internet of today

Every outage exposes another crack in the systems we rely on, reminding us that resilience must become part of the design, not an afterthought.

19 Nov 2025

The future of EU data protection under the Omnibus Package

EU data protection law and competitiveness are struggling to work cohesively, according to senior Union leaders. That is why the GDPR and ePD are next on the digital omnibus’ chopping board. With leaked drafts and questionable legal reasoning, all eyes are on 19 November for the Commission’s official proposal.

12 Nov 2025

The AI soldier and the ethics of war

AI is transforming warfare from a human-driven struggle into a machine-guided simulation, raising urgent questions about the future of ethics, accountability, and humanity on the battlefield.