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When AI Speaks for the Company
Enterprise AI is moving from search into emails, decisions and regulated workflows. What happens when its answers begin to carry the company’s authority?
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When AI Speaks for the Company
Enterprise AI is moving from search into emails, decisions and regulated workflows. What happens when its answers begin to carry the company’s authority?
22 Jul 2026, 13:36
Read moreCan Europe Protect Children Without Turning Every Phone Into Surveillance?
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Read moreAI-2026: When Technology Becomes the Infrastructure of Power
Over the next two years, AI could eliminate up to 30% of jobs and make warfare cheaper and faster. Power is moving toward those who control data centers and compute. The question is what remains for people.
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How Spain’s World Cup Win Made the Gold in Trump’s Oval Office Look Cheap
Spain won the World Cup, and Donald Trump received a rare reminder: not everything in this world can be settled with a single phone call.
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The End of the West's Migration Delusion: How One Film Hit Where It Hurts
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Through Friction to Power: How Trump and Sánchez Turn Outrage Into Centrality
Trump’s power lies in centrality: turning outrage, scandal, and negative publicity into attention. Pedro Sánchez shows how the same politics of friction can work in Europe.
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Read moreHow Spain’s World Cup Win Made the Gold in Trump’s Oval Office Look Cheap
Spain won the World Cup, and Donald Trump received a rare reminder: not everything in this world can be settled with a single phone call.
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Rightward Drift: Migrants and Europe's New Reality
As Spain shifts right, migrants are cast both as a threat and as an economic necessity, exposing Europe's growing political contradiction.
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From Moscow to Barcelona — Pussy Riot’s Protest That Still Scares the Kremlin
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As Spain shifts right, migrants are cast both as a threat and as an economic necessity, exposing Europe's growing political contradiction.
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From Jammers to VPNs: How the Kremlin Is Losing the Same War Again
From Radio Liberty’s transmitters in Pals to today’s fight over VPNs and Telegram, the Kremlin is once again trying to shut out the outside world. And once again, it is failing.
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Barcelona is accelerating into a European tech hub, but the price of that shift is reshaping who gets to stay.
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From Heracles’ ninth ship to Rome’s colony, Barcelona’s origins are plural. Its strength lies in stories where myth and archaeology meet.
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Read moreFrom Jammers to VPNs: How the Kremlin Is Losing the Same War Again
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