NAIROBI/CAPE TOWN—Africa’s immense renewable-energy potential and fast-growing population offer the continent a rare opportunity to pursue economic strategies that can deliver resilient and sustainable growth. Climate action is a tremendous development opportunity for Africa, in addition to being an environmental necessity.

Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images Economics 0 Is a Perfect Financial Storm Gathering? Agustín Carstens, et al. see a confluence of three forces that could ultimately pose a systemic risk to global financial stability.

Is a Perfect Financial Storm Gathering?

Cheng Xin/Getty Images Longer Reads 0 The Origins and Fate of Digital Sovereignty Robin Rivaton Talent, capital, and large markets are not enough to create globally dominant digital champions. As the experience of China, India, Brazil, and Russia shows, domestic firms need time and space to grow before network effects lock in foreign incumbents. explains why, contrary to economic orthodoxy, open markets consistently fail to produce homegrown tech giants.

The Origins and Fate of Digital Sovereignty

Talent, capital, and large markets are not enough to create globally dominant digital champions. As the experience of China, India, Brazil, and Russia shows, domestic firms need time and space to grow before network effects lock in foreign incumbents.

Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto via Getty Images Innovation 0 The Global AI Threat Has Arrived S. Alex Yang & Angela Huyue Zhang The ability of Anthropic’s new AI model, Claude Mythos Preview, to find vulnerabilities across major operating systems and web browsers has dangerous implications for today’s highly interconnected world. Instead of merely securing its own firms, the United States must address the problem through diplomacy, particularly with China. warn that Anthropic’s Mythos model will make every country more vulnerable to economic disruption.

The Global AI Threat Has........

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