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Data is the new oil. And while nations around the globe are renewing efforts to shore up this vital asset, tech companies are getting rich off it and using what they collect to fuel future artificial intelligence development. The question of who has access to the digital footprints of a nation’s …

Empires have risen and crumbled throughout history. But what were the largest and most powerful empires throughout history? Let’s take a look at the world’s biggest empires. We ranked them by the landmass they controlled at their height. The biggest empire in the world controlled a quarter of the world’s land. Can you guess what…

It’s time to celebrate the incredible women leading the way in AI! Nominate your inspiring leaders for VentureBeat’s Women in AI Awards today before June 18. Learn More Last week, an OpenAI PR rep reached out by email to let me know the company had formed a new “Collective Alignment” team that would …

Disinformation, misleading information, and even hate speech, are the order of the day and the big question now is how to prevent these evils in …

The World Health Organization (WHO) is drafting a new pandemic agreement and amendments to the International Health Regulations, which since 2005 …

So let’s dump the death trap of chauvinism of all kinds, national, gender and race, and unite with our brothers and sisters of the Wild South to …

Politics in all its variants, particularly the politics of political parties, is the archenemy of freedom, prosperity, and peace. Yet, wherever one …

As we try to figure out what the next year holds in store for the world, one milestone looms menacingly on the horizon: the US presidential election …

BEFORE THE GREAT RECESSION and the populist tides of the 2010s, the meaning of democracy was somewhat stable. Democracy was, for a brief period— …

Today we talk about some of the work of Murray Bookchin. We talk about anarchism as a historical trend in human thought that keeps recurring. Then we talk about the superficiality of typical approaches to being environmentally conscious. We talk about Futurism and the hope of colonizing other planets. We talk about Artificial Intelligence and…