AMERICANGREATNESS (Stephen Soukup) - The EU and the Iron Law of Oligarchy
A long, long time ago—27 years, to be exact—my boss (the inimitable Mark Melcher) and I predicted that the European Monetary Union would be the […] Source
NEWSNATIONNOW (Dominick Mastrangelo) - FIFA president drops plan to seek private investment for World Cup
"...my intent is to bring all interested parties back together..."
NPR (Rafael Nam) - FIFA has a new plan to raise billions of dollars: Selling stakes in the World Cup
FIFA has a complex plan to sell chunks of its commercial rights to the World Cup to minority investors, including a firm run by Joshua Kushner, the brother of Jared Kushner.
AXIOS (Ashley Gold) - Exclusive: UN launches "AI for Good" commission
A new UN-backed commission will bring top tech executives and heads of state to the same table to forge global rules for AI , per an announcement shared exclusively with Axios. Why it matters: As global AI regulation grows more splintered , this initiative is an attempt to connect the executives building advanced AI with a group of global politicians. Driving the news: The United Nations and its International Telecommunication Union are convening the AI for Good Global Commission, which will hold its first meeting on July 8 in Geneva, Switzerland. - Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and Rwandan President Paul Kagame will co-chair the commission. - Other members include ITU Secretary-General Doreen Bogdan-Martin, Estonian President Alar Karis,…
AXIOS (Mike Allen) - New global order: AI CEOs as heads of nation-states
It was a historic, even jarring, scene that captures a once-unimaginable geopolitical ordering . The world's most powerful heads of state gathered in the French Alps this week for the annual G7 summit, with the CEOs of America's dominant AI companies seated and treated like heads of nation-states themselves. Why it matters: This is the future many leaders and AI CEOs envision — heads of state and the masters of tech in constant discussion, and sometimes conflict, over who controls AI, its rules, and its application to governing and world security. Think of Anthropic vs. Trump as merely a small test run of this dynamic, with governments battling private companies over their products' threat to U.S. or global security. - AI CEOs sat…
AMERICANTHINKER - International abortion deception and Democrat complicity
Why are the Democrats defying the Hyde Amendment to support UN agencies?
ABCNEWS - Pope calls for robust regulation of AI in manifesto
Pope Leo XIV has called for robust regulation of artificial intelligence and for its developers to work for the common good rather than profit
NEWSNATIONNOW (NICOLE WINFIELD, KAITLYN HOUMANI and PAOLO SANTALUCIA, Associated Press) - Pope Leo calls on tech giants to slow down and regulate AI
Magnifica Humanitas is Pope Leo's first encyclical.
NYTIMES (Elisabetta Povoledo) - Pope Leo Is Set to Release an Encyclical About A.I. Why Is That Important?
Leo XIV is to issue his thoughts about artificial intelligence in the modern world, using a centuries-old form of papal communication called an encyclical, the first since he became pope.
AMERICANTHINKER - Three Cheers for the Collapsing ‘Rules Based’ Global Order
pixabay There exists a growing mismatch between the original design of the “rules based” order and the evolving realities of modern conflict.