Without AI you will be a ‘weaker and poorer nation’, warns former UK chancellor two months into job at US firm The former chancellor George Osborne has warned that countries that do not embrace the kind of powerful AI systems made by his new employer, OpenAI, risked “Fomo” and could be left weaker and poorer. Osborne, who is two months into a job as head of the $500bn San Francisco AI company’s “for countries” programme, told leaders gathered for the AI Impact summit in Delhi: “Don’t be left behind.” He warned that without AI rollouts they could end up with a workforce “less willing to stay put” because they might want to seek AI-enabled fortunes elsewhere. Continue reading...

a new book dips into the multifarious world of fermented dairy in Central Asia

A few of you - but probably not loads - will have read this before but, while I put a few finishing touches to a new piece ready for Sunday, I wanted to post it again, in slightly spruced up form, for...

In Horden, County Durham, Westminster slogans have long been left unmet as the population has plummeted.

Σε μια περιφέρεια που μετρά πλέον σε χειμώνες τα αποθέματα νερού της, ποιος τελικά αναλαμβάνει την ευθύνη για το πραγματικό υδατικό αποτύπωμα της ψηφιακής ανάπτυξης;