President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen heads to the Middle East. Plus: Boris Johnson’s plan to alter the Northern Ireland protocol, Wikipedia fights a Russian order to remove information on the conflict in Ukraine and are Vienna’s famous horse-drawn carriages under threat?
Category Archives: Politics
Previews: The New Yorker Magazine – June 20, 2022
Sunday Morning: Stories From Zurich, Ljublana, Berlin And Lausanne
Monocle’s editorial director Tyler Brûlé, Benno Zogg and Aleksandra Tirziu discuss the weekend’s biggest news stories. Plus, check-ins with our friends and correspondents in Ljubljana, Berlin and Lausanne.
Saturday Morning: News And Stories From London
Georgina Godwin sets the tone for the weekend. Simon Brooke reviews the day’s papers and we revisit the world’s largest furniture fair, Salone del Mobile in Milan.
Morning News: January 6 Panel Focus On Trump Role, Wolf Populations
The committee investigating the Capitol attacks of January 6th 2021 held the first of several public hearings last night, having gathered evidence for the past year.
The hearings may not break Donald Trump’s hold on the Republicans, but they are creating a vital record of an attempted coup. As wolf populations grow, humans are learning to live with them. And why the corporate world has taken an interest in psychedelic drugs.
Preview: The Economist Magazine – June 11, 2022
Artificial intelligence’s new frontier
The promise and perils of a breakthrough in machine intelligence
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Picture a computer that could finish your sentences, using a better turn of phrase; or use a snatch of melody to compose music that sounds as if you wrote it (though you never would have); or solve a problem by creating hundreds of lines of computer code—leaving you to focus on something even harder. In a sense, that computer is merely the descendant of the power looms and steam engines that hastened the Industrial Revolution. But it also belongs to a new class of machine, because it grasps the symbols in language, music and programming and uses them in ways that seem creative. A bit like a human.
The “foundation models” that can do these things represent a breakthrough in artificial intelligence, or ai. They, too, promise a revolution, but this one will affect the high-status brainwork that the Industrial Revolution never touched. There are no guarantees about what lies ahead—after all, ai has stumbled in the past. But it is time to look at the promise and perils of the next big thing in machine intelligence.
Morning News: January 6 Attack Hearings, U.S. Supreme Court Rulings
The panel investigating the January 6 attack shares its findings in a televised primetime hearing. The US seeks private funds for immigration issues.
And a fraught Supreme Court readies the most high-profile rulings of its term. NPR is doing its annual survey to better understand how listeners like you spend time with podcasts.
Morning News: Turmoil In Pakistan, Ukraine Seed Bank, Words For Family
Pakistan’s government faces an unpleasant choice between doing what’s popular and what is economically necessary, as Imran Khan, the former prime minister, exploits widespread discontent for his own ends.
Russia’s invasion is threatening Ukraine’s unique seed bank. And why so many languages have such a rich variety of words to describe family members and relationships.
Opinion: A New Nuclear Era, U.S. Recession Views, The Whole Self At Work
A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week, a new nuclear era, what America’s next recession will look like (10:15), and why you shouldn’t bring your whole self to work (31:40).
News: Johnson Survives Confidence Vote, Putin’s Threats, Milan Design
Boris Johnson survives a confidence vote – but at what price? Plus: Putin’s threats over Western weapon deliveries to Ukraine, a flick through today’s papers and a special update from the 2022 edition of Salone del Mobile.
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