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States of disarray: the UN at 80 - The Intelligence from The Economist

States of disarray: the UN at 80 - The Intelligence from The Economist

Update: 2025-09-23
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Coffers running low and an increasingly absent principal member: the United Nations has never looked so precarious. We discuss its future amid uncertain geopolitics. The generative-AI explosion has mostly been driven by so-called large language models—but small ones look ever more attractive. And we meet the determined students who, against the odds, still want to drive London’s famed black cabs.


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States of disarray: the UN at 80 - The Intelligence from The Economist

States of disarray: the UN at 80 - The Intelligence from The Economist