A tragic case has sparked international debate about the risks of artificial intelligence in everyday life. A grieving mother has filed a lawsuit against Google, claiming that her son’s death by suicide was directly influenced by interactions with an AI chatbot. According to the lawsuit, the young man, who struggled with personal difficulties, ...
In rural China, an extraordinary story of persistence and courage unfolded when farmer Wang Enlin and his neighbors decided to confront a powerful state-owned chemical company over pollution. For sixteen years, Wang, who had only three years of formal education, studied law on his own to prepare for the legal battle. The company, Qihua Group, h...
The global billionaire rankings have seen a historic shift. Larry Ellison, co-founder of the technology giant Oracle, has for the first time in his life climbed to the very top, becoming the wealthiest person on the planet. This milestone came after Oracle’s stock surged by more than forty percent in a single day. This dramatic rise increased E...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has taken a groundbreaking step that could reshape the future of obesity treatment and access to modern medicines worldwide. For the first time, it has added weight-loss drugs – specifically semaglutide and tirzepatide – to its official List of Essential Medicines for adults. This list is a crucial reference f...
The Caribbean island of Anguilla may be small and hard to spot on a map, yet it has become one of the most surprising players in the digital economy. The reason is not its tourist resorts or exports, but the two-letter internet domain .ai, assigned to the island back in the 1990s. At the time, it was nothing more than a formal country code for t...
Payment giant PayPal recently found itself at the center of an unexpected storm. At the end of August and the beginning of September, Europe experienced a disruption with massive financial consequences. It wasn’t a hacker attack or cyber sabotage – the cause was a human mistake and a misconfigured internal process. Yet the outcome looked dramati...
A unique type of business has developed in Japan called yonigeya, which translates as "night movers." These companies offer a service that at first glance seems like something out of a movie: they help people disappear without a word in a single night. No arguments, no goodbyes—just an empty apartment waiting for unsuspecting neighbors in the mo...
Manasi Mishra recently shared her disappointment on TikTok: after completing her computer science degree, she was invited to interview by only one company—the fast food chain Chipotle. Her story is not unique. Twenty-five-year-old Zach Taylor graduated with a degree in computer science from Oregon State University at a time when job offers in...
When we pull out our phones and scan a QR code today, few people realize that behind this simple black-and-white image is a modest Japanese engineer. In 1994, while playing the strategy game Go, Masahiro Hara came up with an idea that changed not only industrial production, but later also the everyday lives of millions of people. His employer...
