Inside Washington’s Role in Microsoft’s Big AI Deal With G42
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Inside Washington’s Role in Microsoft’s Big AI Deal With G42

An A.I. deal as a diplomatic weapon A relatively small deal — by Microsoft’s standards, anyway — is leading to big geopolitical ripples on Tuesday. The tech giant is investing $1.5 billion in G42, an Emirati artificial intelligence company. On its face, that may appear to be just another effort…

Copenhagen’s Old Stock Exchange Building Partly Collapses in Fire
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Copenhagen’s Old Stock Exchange Building Partly Collapses in Fire

The old stock exchange building in downtown Copenhagen — one of the city’s oldest structures, known for its elaborate spire of intertwined dragon tails — partly collapsed in a large fire early Tuesday. It was not immediately clear what caused the fire, but images and video from social media showed…

Opinion | The Smothering of Abortion Rights Reveals Something Else About Republicans
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Opinion | The Smothering of Abortion Rights Reveals Something Else About Republicans

Last Monday, Donald Trump said that abortion rights were best left to the states. “The states,” he said, “will determine by vote or legislation or perhaps both, and whatever they decide must be the law of the land. In this case, the law of the state.” The next day, as…

Israeli Artist Shuts Venice Biennale Exhibit, Calls for Cease-Fire in Gaza
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Israeli Artist Shuts Venice Biennale Exhibit, Calls for Cease-Fire in Gaza

Since February thousands of pro-Palestinian activists have tried in vain to get the Venice Biennale, one of the world’s most prestigious international art exhibitions, to ban Israel over its conduct of the war in Gaza. But on Tuesday, when the Biennale’s international pavilions open for a media preview, the doors…

Microsoft Makes High-Stakes Play in Tech Cold War With Emirati A.I. Deal
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Microsoft Makes High-Stakes Play in Tech Cold War With Emirati A.I. Deal

Microsoft on Tuesday said it would make a $1.5 billion investment in G42, an artificial intelligence giant in the United Arab Emirates, in a deal largely orchestrated by the Biden administration to box out China as Washington and Beijing battle over who will exercise technological influence in the Gulf region…

In Australia, a Validation of Sorts for Brittany Higgins
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In Australia, a Validation of Sorts for Brittany Higgins

When a young former government employee said on national television in 2021 that she had been sexually assaulted in Australia’s Parliament two years earlier, it shocked the nation and unleashed a wave of anger aimed at the country’s insular, male-dominated political establishment. The employee, Brittany Higgins, accused her colleague Bruce…

Iran’s Strike on Israel Creates Military Uncertainty, Diplomatic Opportunity
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Iran’s Strike on Israel Creates Military Uncertainty, Diplomatic Opportunity

The enormous salvo of Iranian weapons fired at Israel this weekend turned the countries’ long-running shadow war into a direct confrontation, raising fears that the countries’ old paradigm of trading carefully measured blows had been replaced by something more overt, violent and risky. But by Monday, Israel had yet to…