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Jorge Costa Oliveira The Trump administration revived rhetoric built on the idea of a world divided into spheres of influence, echoing the Monroe Doctrine and reasserting ambitions
Jorge Costa Oliveira Europe’s exposure to the current closure by Iran of the Strait of Hormuz (“Hormuz Shock”) is significant, chiefly because it strikes at the heart
Dana Johnson,University of Wisconsin–Madison Teens in the U.S. are obtaining medication abortion pills through telehealth, and young people age 18 to 24 are ordering medication abortion
Jorge Costa Oliveira The ability to act autonomously has led some to argue that AI agents should be granted legal personhood. The law already recognizes “legal persons”
Jorge Costa Oliveira Traditionally, the liberal international order led by the United States and the European Union after the collapse of the USSR and the failure of
Jorge Costa Oliveira Although achieving Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) – intelligence comparable to humans across a wide range of domains – has become a priority for some
Jorge Costa Oliveira These days, Beijing is hosting the “Two Sessions” (the National People’s Congress and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference), where the most important event
Jorge Costa Oliveira Last Friday, OpenAI announced it had raised $110 billion in its latest funding round; Amazon invested $50 billion, Nvidia $30 billion and SoftBank $30
Jorge Costa Oliveira In the first six weeks of 2026, the S&P 500 Software & Services Index saw nearly $1 trillion in market value evaporate. On February
Jorge Costa Oliveira Last Thursday marked the expiration of New START, the last remaining bilateral agreement – between Russia, with 5,459 nuclear warheads, and the United States,
Jorge Costa Oliveira Tesla’s price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio currently stands at around 283.5 (380, according to Gemini, and 400, according to MarketWatch) – far higher than that of
Jorge Costa Oliveira Donald Trump’s continued insistence that the United States should annex Greenland triggered a strong condemnation from European governments. Trump responded by threatening to impose additional tariffs
Jorge Costa Oliveira Artificial general intelligence (AGI) – which can be understood as the point at which a machine is capable of performing any intellectual task a
Jorge Costa Oliveira In a recent article, we saw how excessive debt, when not matched by an adequate equity ratio or by income generated within the timeframe
Jorge Costa Oliveira Several newspapers report that U.S. companies and investors with close ties to Donald Trump have already begun negotiations to acquire assets or jointly exploit
Jorge Costa Oliveira Over the past decade, we have seen rapid growth in data centers – whether for cloud data storage, cryptocurrency mining, or the development of
Jorge Costa Oliveira In most countries, posting “life is crap” on social media gets you a sympathy emoji or, at worst, silence. In China, it can now
Jorge Costa Oliveira The significant influence that major corporations exert on American politics is well known, from funding extremely expensive electoral campaigns to spending fortunes on lobbying
Jorge Costa Oliveira Beyond the future risks associated with general artificial intelligence (AI) and superintelligent AIs, there are current threats that are seldom discussed — yet deserve to
Jorge Costa Oliveira Since 2015, when China approved its industrial policy program “Made in China 2025,” Beijing’s ultimate goal has been to reduce the country’s dependence on
Jorge Costa Oliveira China’s population began to shrink in 2022. The UN’s projections – revised several times, the last one in 2024 – point to a gradual decline to 633
Jorge Costa Oliveira When discussing the enormous potential arising from today’s technological advances – especially artificial intelligence (AI) – it’s common to draw comparisons with earlier moments
Jorge Costa Oliveira Despite the tendency to designate everything that is technologically advanced as AI, there are still only a few cases of true AI (i.e., autonomous
Jorge Costa Oliveira “Go” (in Chinese, wéiqí) is a two-player board game invented in China more than 2,500 years ago. The objective is to surround more territory
Jorge Costa Oliveira A Gallup survey (June 2025) shows an increase in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the workplace, though it concludes that workers
Jorge Costa Oliveira In the coming years, we should witness the emergence of numerous artificial intelligence (AI) agents designed for specific tasks or areas – IT/programming, healthcare,
Jorge Costa Oliveira In the current Trump 2.0 administration, beyond the usual fiscal and budgetary measures, economic stimulus packages, and regulatory agencies in sectors such as finance,
Jorge Costa Oliveira The highly regarded Pew Research Center recently released a concise analysis of projections for some of the major changes in the world’s population
Jorge Costa Oliveira There is no doubt that Artificial Intelligence (AI) will revolutionize industries, supercharge scientific research, and make many aspects of life and work more efficient.
Jorge Costa Oliveira In Today, environmental degradation is still far from an ecocide of that scale, although much remains to be done to preserve biodiversity and prevent the destruction of
Presenting himself as an outsider challenging the political establishment, Trump set out to “drain the swamp” . In Trump’s first administration (2017–2021), there was no swamp-draining whatsoever.
International trade law is governed by global multilateral agreements under the WTO and a multitude of regional multilateral agreements (EU, USMCA, Mercosur, AFTA, CPTPP, CIS, AfCFTA, TiSA) and bilateral
Under Presidents Obama and Biden, commutations of sentence far outnumbered pardons – 1,715 to 212 under Obama, 4,165 to 80 under Biden – and both administrations followed formal guidelines laid
To compare with what’s currently happening in the U.S., I asked an AI bot to list the typical characteristics of fascist political regimes. Here is the response, with my commentary
For decades, U.S. federal governments have grown accustomed to operating with recurring budget deficits, expanding public debt from $7 trillion in 2000 to $36 trillion in 2024. This increase occurred under
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