By Binoy Kampmark They are a trying lot, spruiking their overvalued, loss-making firms, sowing discord and fear, and then seeking state collaboration that will serve to implicate all the parties concerned should things sour. And what will the rest of us get? Hardly the promised land. But the United Nations, for the first time in history, became a centre stage …

By Richard Stone Further revelations about planning for AI data-centres in outer space have revealed a fierce power struggle for what is considered a potentially lucrative corporate sector business. It will remain outside the jurisdiction of law enforcement agencies; serious questions, therefore, arise including that of control: the space-based systems, potentially, will possess vast troves of data for the uses …