Jagan Chapagain: Is the global humanitarian system breaking down?
The IFRC chief on US aid cuts, attacks on aid workers and whether neutrality can survive modern wars....
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The IFRC chief on US aid cuts, attacks on aid workers and whether neutrality can survive modern wars....
Grok - the AI chatbot developed my Elon Musk's company - is facing growing international backlash for being misused to generate sexually explicit and nonconsensual images. Malaysia and Indonesia have ...
Elon Musk’s platform X on Wednesday announced measures to prevent its AI chatbot Grok from undressing images of real people, following global backlash over its generation of sexualised photos of women...
Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images Grok will no longer be allowed to create AI photos of real people in sexualized or revealing clothing, after widespread global backlash. "We have implem...
US President Donald Trump has unveiled his “Board of Peace,” a $1 billion initiative aimed at resolving international conflicts through permanent membership. Meanwhile, medical sources at Al-Shifa Hos...
Amnesty International Iran Researcher Raha Bahreini paints a harrowing portrait of a nation under siege by its own government. Amid an internet blackout, reports of systemic, indiscriminate violence h...
Al Jazeera's Linh Nguyen explains the global outrage of Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok....
xAI has announced measures to rein in Grok's 'Spicy Mode' after global backlash over AI-edited images undressing women and children....
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The Swiss resort town of Davos hosts the World Economic Forum each January, bringing together politicians, policymakers, and business executives. Christian Hartmann/Reuters Nearly 400 wealthy individu...
François Picard is pleased to welcome Kurdish humanitarian activist Arya Jemo amid the rapidly shifting sociopolitical and economic dynamics in Syria. Mr. Jemo shares themes of political betrayal, ter...
Mark Owen welcomes Aida Tavakoli, co-founder of We Are Iranian Students, who offers a window into the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Iran under a blanket of state-imposed darkness. Her voice, urgent...
William Hilderbrandt welcomes Dr. Ahu Kucuksefahani, Scholar in International Relations, social movements and digital activism. She offers a sobering analysis of Iran's deepening crisis amidst unprece...
François Picard welcomes Norwegian-Iranian neuroscientist Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, Director of Iran Human Rights NGO. He offers a rare quantified data-driven-account of fatalities in the current Irani...
SpaceX's Starlink has dropped fees to help Iranian demonstrators share protest details globally, activists say...
Adek Berry/Getty Images China's population declined for the fourth year in a row, reaching 1.405 billion. Falling birth rates and an aging population threaten China's economy and the global economy. G...
The WeChat channel 纽约移民记事网Documented (or the New York Immigrant Chronicle) is part newsfeed and part public service. The channel, run by the nonprofit ...
Instagram is testing switching "following" counts to "friends" on user profiles. Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via Getty Images Instagram is testing out replacing "following" count...
Age prediction is rolling out almost globally, with users in the EU getting it ‘in the coming weeks.’ OpenAI has added age prediction features to ChatGPT , meant to identify and bolster protections fo...
It's been 25 years since the launch of Wikipedia on January 15th, 2001, and it's come a long way from housing just 100 pages to becoming a behemoth of online knowledge with more than 65 million articl...