Mongolia and the Geopolitics of Dependence
August was a busy month for work travel at GPF. While Antonia was exploring the origins of geopolitics in Sweden, my journey took me to Mongolia, the
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The Rules-Based Nuclear Bomb | naked capitalism
Traditional accounts of nuclear nonproliferation obfuscate that states with the bomb sell the path to it and are planning to use it themselves
Trump invoked a zombie statute to justify tariffs on Canada
The world is used to American tariff news daily. A new target is chosen, a new reason is put forward, another legal authority is selected, and a new tariff is put in place, ostensibly to force concessions from a trading...
Security Council LIVE: Addressing the legacy of Syria’s chemical weapons
Following revelations from the UN nuclear watchdog that the former Syrian regime failed to report holding nuclear material and the discovery in May of an undeclared chemical weapons cache, the Security Council met Thursd...
An Agentic WTO: Thoughts on WTO reform in the face of a divided WTO membership and China’s role
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Outside forces fuel Sudan war, new report finds
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Nepal floods leave 22,000 children without safe water: UNICEF
More than a week after flash floods struck the Bhotekoshi-Trishuli river basin in Nepal, at least 22,000 children urgently need safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene support, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNI...
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Meta Pushes Its New AI Agent on Employees—but Eases Off on Tokenmaxxing
The company is reducing pressure on workers to use artificial intelligence tools while encouraging them to experiment with Hatch, its most advanced AI project yet.
Training a coding model to paint watercolours with TRL and OpenEnv
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
Give Your Coding Agents a Memory You Own
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
Fine-tuning a 350M Model for Better Structured Outputs in 100 GRPO Steps
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.