Outgoing U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres told The Associated Press in an interview four days before the annual U.N. General Assembly that the world faces at least three existential problems — …
Humanity AI, a five-year initiative backed by 10 US philanthropies, opened a $10 million grant program on Sept. 10 for community-led projects shaping how AI is built, governed and used, part of a broa…
StatCite — Verified Economic Statistics version 1.12.3 was published to the official MCP registry on 2026-09-15 as a hosted remote over streamable-http, according to the mcpindex index. The mcpindex s…
The World Bank MCP server io.github.cyanheads/worldbank-mcp-server reached version 0.3.5, published to the official MCP registry on 2026-09-12 and distributed as @cyanheads/worldbank-mcp-server on npm…
A new report from the UN Secretary-General to the General Assembly, "Unique challenges faced by developing countries in artificial intelligence capacity-building" (A/80/817), finds that AI capacity-bu…
Qurultay deputy Sergey Ponomarev submitted a parliamentary inquiry to Kazakh Prime Minister Olzhas Bektenov calling for nationwide deployment of a domestic AI system for early lung cancer screening, Q…
A new World Bank report warns that transformative AI could widen the gap between rich and poor nations unless governments act to distribute its gains, as the most powerful systems are built in a few w…
In flood-hit Nepal, drones airlifted seven bodies from Devighat-3 to Devighat-5 in Nuwakot this week, an area too dangerous for rescuers to reach, according to The Kathmandu Post. The operation, invol…
MiniMax president Yeyi Yun said at the Goldman Sachs Asia Leadership Conference in Hong Kong on September 1 that true artificial general intelligence should be measured by AI autonomously generating a…
Industrial policy has returned to prominence in advanced capitalist countries, but without working-class power to discipline capital, it risks becoming public money flowing to private profit, accordin…
Entry-level employment in the most AI-exposed occupations fell 19 percent below that of less exposed fields for workers aged 22 to 25, according to a Stanford University study released August 25, 2026…
The World Bank's World Development Report 2026 finds that developing economies have more to gain and less to fear from AI than richer ones, with only 4.5% of jobs in low- and middle-income countries a…
BHP's copper business generated $18.19 billion in underlying EBITDA for fiscal 2025, surpassing iron ore's $14.53 billion, as copper prices near record highs driven by AI data center demand. Copper co…
Anthony Rowley, a veteran journalist specializing in Asian economic and financial affairs, warns that global leaders are dangerously complacent about the uncontrolled adoption of artificial intelligen…
The World Bank's World Development Report 2026: The Promise of Artificial Intelligence identifies the UAE as one of the few countries developing its own advanced foundation models, placing it in the '…
The World Bank's World Development Report 2026: The Promise of AI says AI could drive economic growth and improve public services in developing countries if governments focus on adopting and adapting …
Pakistan is among the nations most vulnerable to AI-driven job displacement, according to the World Bank's World Development Report 2026: The Promise of AI, which finds that educated, skilled workers …
Malaysia is working with state governments to protect farmland from industrial and real estate expansion as data centre and chip manufacturing booms intensify competition for land, with about 25,000 h…
The World Bank's upcoming World Development Report for 2026 urges developing economies to rapidly adopt artificial intelligence, calling it a 'lifeline' as these nations face their weakest average gro…
The World Bank on Tuesday urged developing countries to adopt lower-cost artificial intelligence tools to improve governance, warning they risk being left behind if they do not. Chief Economist Inderm…