Technology

A massive global technology outage highlights how the concentration of tech companies is a vulnerability in and of itself.

Washington and Beijing have adopted radically different strategies to win the battle over the semiconductor industry. Both have significant flaws.

The U.N. often seems powerless, especially amid today’s polycrisis. Yet the organization did seem poised to take a leading role in one emerging global challenge: governing AI, at least until the growing trend of AI nationalism became an obstacle. Ideally, however, the U.N. should still play a leading role in AI governance.