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Semiconductors - Chip fabrication - Small-scale semiconductor fabs - Semiconductor industry - Hacker FabCan we manufacture chips without billion-dollar fabs?
Smaller, lower-cost semiconductor facilities could widen access to chipmaking, even as mass production remains dominated by industrial giants.By The Beiruter -
RUSI cyber research - Geopolitics - European security - Cybersecurity - Cyber deterrence - Hybrid warfareEurope's cyber deterrence problem goes beyond cyberattacks
New research suggests that fears of escalation and difficulties reaching collective agreement are limiting Europe's willingness to use the tools already at its disposal.By The Beiruter -
AI warfare - Artificial intelligence - Underwater warfare - Naval technology - Autonomous systemsAI warfare meets the limits of the ocean
Artificial intelligence promises to transform warfare, but underwater it encounters an environment that makes sensing, communication and coordination unusually difficult.By The Beiruter -
Lebanese tech talent - AI training - Lebanon UAE relations - UAE - Artificial intelligence - H.E. Kamal ShehadiLebanon and the UAE’s million-person AI bet
The UAE-backed programme is Lebanon’s largest attempt yet to take artificial intelligence beyond the technology sector and into everyday life.By The Beiruter -
Renewable energy - Tidal energy - Tidal-stream power - Marine technology - Ocean energyWhat if wind turbines went underwater?
Tidal turbines can turn predictable ocean currents into electricity, but after decades of limited deployment, the industry must prove that larger projects can bring costs down enough to compete with wind and solar.By The Beiruter -
Direct-to-device connectivity - D2D satellite - Satellite communications - Mobile services - Satellites - 6GYour phone is about to stop having dead zones
Satellites could soon bring a signal to almost any smartphone, but turning near-universal coverage into reliable high-speed internet will be much harder.By The Beiruter -
Gulf energy tensions - Energy security - Food security - Agricultural land - BiofuelsThe fight for land on one line
The Gulf energy crisis is accelerating a global turn toward biofuels, but replacing imported oil with domestically produced fuel is putting new pressure on agricultural land.By The Beiruter -
Artificial intelligence - Future of translation - Languages - Translation industry - Cultural contextTranslation: A profession in transition in the age of AI
AI may be changing the way we translate, but it is not making translators irrelevant. From cultural interpretation to human judgment, discover how the profession is evolving and why the human touch still matters.
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AI data centers - China - Ulanqab - Chinese artificial intelligence - Computing powerThe Mongolian city at the heart of China’s AI ambitions
China is moving computing west, turning energy-rich Inner Mongolia into a hub for the data centers, electricity, and fiber networks behind its AI ambitions.By The Beiruter -
Middle East technology adoption - AI data centers - Cloud computing - Sovereign AI - AI infrastructureThe power behind the Middle Eastern cloud
The Middle East is seeking a larger role in the global cloud, with Gulf computing campuses, regional data routes and new digital infrastructure testing how much technological control can accompany investment at home.By The Beiruter -
Cloud infrastructure - Digital economy - Digital infrastructure - Cloud computing - Internet outages - Internet blackouts - Economic resilienceWhat happens when the internet goes dark?
The internet was built to connect the world. Economies have made themselves dependent on never losing it.By The Beiruter -
Frontier AI - Bespoke AI - Enterprise AI - Proprietary data - Business technologyBespoke AI and the race to specialize
Frontier AI offers companies powerful general-purpose capabilities, but a growing market for specialized systems is testing how much more useful those models become when adapted to individual businesses.By The Beiruter -
Claude AI - Anthropic - Weapons proliferation - Missile technology - Military artificial intelligenceHow the Houthis used AI to build missile software
Anthropic’s discovery of a weapons cell in Yemen using Claude to develop missile software suggests that generative AI could make scarce military engineering expertise cheaper and more accessible.By The Beiruter -
Artificial intelligence - Smartphone market - Device upgrades - Mobile services - Refurbished smartphonesWhat happens when smartphones become too good?
Longer replacement cycles are forcing smartphone manufacturers to rethink an industry once built on frequent upgrades, with services and AI offering new ways to generate value.By The Beiruter -
Artificial intelligence - Synthetic biology - Gene editing - Biotechnology regulation - Gene drivesBiotechnology’s advances, new discoveries, new rules
Advances in synthetic biology, gene editing and artificial intelligence are accelerating scientists’ ability to engineer living systems, testing regulatory frameworks built for an earlier generation of biotechnology.By The Beiruter -
AI adoption - Unemployment - Generative AI - Artificial intelligence - Labor marketMapping AI at work
New research shows that AI adoption remains highly uneven across the workplace, with some early signs of employment effects emerging among younger workers entering AI-exposed occupations.By The Beiruter -
Lebanese tech talent - Citizen-generated data - Civic technology - Government accountability, - Digital governanceCan citizen data improve accountability in Lebanon?
As Lebanon expands its digital government infrastructure, citizen-generated data could provide a new way to track public-service failures and measure how authorities respond.By The Beiruter -
Artificial intelligence - Clinical decision-making - AI-assisted diagnosis - Medical expertise - Medical AIThe paradox of medical AI in the exam room
As artificial intelligence moves deeper into diagnosis and clinical decision-making, medicine is confronting how to expand access to expertise without surrendering human judgment or weakening the training that produces future specialists.By The Beiruter
