Russia’s isolation, China’s assertiveness and a surge of interest in joining BRICS have pushed calls for a BRICS currency. Brazilian President Lula da Silva attacked the global economic order at last month’s international financing summit in Paris, criticising the dominance of the United States (US) dollar as the currency for …

Azerbaijan has refused to allow through the Lachin Corridor a convoy of trucks that Armenia said were delivering emergency food aid to the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The Lachin Corridor, the only road linking Armenia with Nagorno-Karabakh, has been blocked by Baku for more than seven months. The Armenian government …

There is a new article in Nature, ChatGPT broke the Turing test — the race is on for new ways to assess AI, where the author wrote, “The most famous test of machine intelligence has long been the Turing test, proposed by the British mathematician and computing luminary Alan Turing …