
EU Central Bank Warns of the AI Bubble
The more severe scenario is not the AI correction on its own but a correction that coincides with broader market instability because today’s markedly less room to cut interest rates, fiscal policy use
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The more severe scenario is not the AI correction on its own but a correction that coincides with broader market instability because today’s markedly less room to cut interest rates, fiscal policy use

The government issued an immediate regulation against AI cheating, which contains initiatives that can be used in the short term to combat inappropriate use of AI in high school assignments.

Northern Spain hard hit by triple calamities: First extreme heat, then wildfires, then torrential rain and flash flooding.

Russia is investing in the Northeast Passage along the Arctic coast of Eurasia from the Barents Sea to the Pacific Ocean, opening for shadow fleet traffic to China and back again to Russia.

New yearly reports from V-Dem and the EU High Representative highlight the rapid deterioration of democratic rule in many parts of the world, with USA standing out.

Swedish union IF Metall ends the strike it has run for nearly three years against Tesla. All unionized workers were bought out or dismissed with compensation. IF Metall is forced to withdraw.

Controversy about developing an abandoned Galena mine in Sardinia into a third-generation gravitational wave observatory. An arson attack last week and earlier botched bombing worry the community.

After record gains in first half 2026, Petroleum Fund CEO Nicolai Tangen warns Norway is exposed to markets it does not control, to inflation, interest rates and crises that do not necessarily pass.

Celebrating UN’s International Day of Indigenous Peoples, the National Organization for Greenlanders in Denmark Uagut organized a festive Kayak Parade for Greenland in Copenhagen Harbor.

Smoky white is an acquired taste in wine, just like Greek Retsina, perhaps. But French winemakers are doubly hit by heatwaves and wildfires that make them fear loss of income for failed harvest.