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Artificial intelligence - Roy Baladi - Jobs for Lebanon - AI hackathon - AI education

Building Lebanon's AI advantage

Through a global AI hackathon, one Lebanese entrepreneur argues that democratizing AI skills could redefine how countries compete in the AI economy.

By The Beiruter

China reusable rocket - Long March 10B - Reusable launch systems - SpaceX - Blue Origin

China's reusable rocket changes the space race

China's successful recovery of its first reusable orbital rocket marks a major technological milestone and intensifies competition in the rapidly expanding global space economy.

By The Beiruter
AI and blockchain - AI agents - OECD - IBM - IBM blockchain

The AI-blockchain convergence

The rise of autonomous AI is driving renewed interest in blockchain as infrastructure for digital identity, secure transactions and coordination across the next generation of digital systems.

By The Beiruter
AI regulation - AI governance - Big Tech - Nell Watson - OECD AI Principles

Can big tobacco explain big tech?

As governments develop new rules for artificial intelligence, experts are debating whether the tobacco industry's history offers a useful framework for regulating today's largest technology companies.

By The Beiruter
Artificial intelligence - Liberal democracy - Rob Riemen - Nexus Institute - Education

Can liberal democracy survive the age of AI?

The debate over artificial intelligence is often framed as a technological revolution. It may ultimately prove to be a test of liberal democracy.

By The Beiruter
Omar M. Yaghi - Tsinghua University - Scientific research - Nature Index - Nobel Prize

China's pursuit of scientific talent

The recruitment of Nobel Prize-winning chemist Omar Yaghi reflects a decades-long strategy to build world-class universities, attract top researchers and strengthen China's position at the forefront of scientific innovation.

By The Beiruter
AI - AI governance - Artificial intelligence - Anthropic - intellectual property

The AI dispute over model ownership

Anthropic's allegations that Alibaba extracted Claude's capabilities have brought new attention to one of artificial intelligence's least settled questions: who owns the knowledge embedded within frontier AI models?

By The Beiruter
Europe AI - AI sovereignty - European Union - Clean energy - Anthropic

Europe’s AI sovereignty test

As AI demand drives a race for data centers and compute, Europe faces a new sovereignty challenge: whether its clean power can help build domestic technology capacity or mainly power platforms controlled abroad.

By Katharine Sorensen
Lebanon startups - Deloitte Technology - Whish Money - Kloudr - AUB iPark

Lebanon's tech sector earns Deloitte recognition

Despite years of economic crisis, Lebanon's startup ecosystem continues to gain international recognition, with Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 highlighting the country's growing strength in fintech, cloud technology, and innovation-driven entrepreneurship.

By Lynn El Khalil
AI infrastructure - Orbital data centers - Space data centers - Cloud computing

Can data centers leave earth?

Once considered a futuristic concept, orbital data centers are attracting growing scientific and commercial interest as researchers investigate whether space could support the next generation of AI infrastructure.

By The Beiruter
Artificial intelligence - Generative AI - AI liability - AI regulation - Google AI Overviews

The court ruling testing the limits of AI Liability

A German court's decision holding Google liable for defamatory AI-generated content is becoming one of the first major legal tests of corporate responsibility for AI-generated information as generative AI becomes embedded in everyday services.

By The Beiruter
Artificial Intelligence - AI bias - Minority communities - Digital inclusion - Algorithmic bias

How AI leaves minority communities behind

As artificial intelligence becomes embedded in everyday decision-making, ensuring minority communities are represented in the data that powers these systems is essential to preventing new forms of digital exclusion and inequality.

By Lynn El Khalil
Quantum technology - Michael Doser - CERN - McKinsey - GPS spoofing

The next strategic competition will be quantum

As governments invest in quantum computing, communications and sensing, the global quantum race is becoming a competition over encryption, navigation, intelligence and the scientific talent that will underpin future strategic power.

By Katharine Sorensen