Dispatch
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Tech
When the Watchdog Barks at Its Own Creations
OpenAI’s safety crusade exposes the paradox at the heart of modern AI
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Monde
Trump’s Economy Is Colliding With Reality
Trade threats, tariff politics and an uneven labour market are exposing the limits of the White House economic narrative
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Monde
Japan’s Expanding State: Big Budgets, Tight Money, and a Society in Transition
As Tokyo reaches for record spending and higher interest rates, the real test is whether Japan can still promise opportunity and security in an aging, anxious nation
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Société
The World Is Starving in Plain Sight
From Sudan to Somalia, Nigeria and Gaza, the new UN hunger map exposes a global moral failure
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Tech
Crypto’s Two Faces: Record Hacks, Relentless Regulation, and the Quiet March of Wall Street
As North Korean hackers feast and Brussels tightens the screws, institutional money keeps flowing into the very system everyone claims to fear.
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Culture
Culture in 2026: When the New Looks Familiar
AI, nostalgia, and hybrid identity are reshaping culture faster than the headlines can keep up
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Monde
Latin America’s Democratic Stress Test Begins in Brazil
As Lula’s 2026 race tightens, the region’s biggest democracy becomes a proving ground for institutions, inequality, and geopolitical pressure
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Société
Security Without Illusions: The World Is Safer in Some Places, Deadlier in Others
Haiti, eastern Congo, crypto kidnappings and falling U.S. violent crime reveal a fragmented global security picture
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Tech
The Price of Brilliance: Innovation at $40 Billion a Pop
As AI swallows the startup economy, we must ask whether this is progress—or just scale masquerading as innovation
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Géopolitique
Europe’s Edge-of-the-Map Moment
Close calls, fragile victories, and a far-right ceiling that keeps rising
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Écologie
Europe’s Energy Crossroads: Why Nuclear Refuses to Fade Away
As Brussels doubles down on both reactors and renewables, Spain and France expose the uncomfortable truth of the energy transition
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Société
The New Machinery of Lies: How AI Is Supercharging Disinformation
From Moscow’s content farms to Bangladesh’s ballot box, the world is watching truth lose ground online
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