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ChatGPT’s advanced voice mode is able to seamlessly go back-and-forth between languages with live, human-sounding responses and minimal errors.
COMMENTARY / World
ChatGPT is now a creepy cultural chameleon
By Catherine Thorbecke
This uncanny tool that can speak 50 languages with human-like candor has the potential to forever change how people around the world interact with AI.
The fall of Aleppo in Syria to political chaos in Tbilisi, Georgia, and even recent events in Paris, give us a glimpse of a possible post-American new world disorder.
COMMENTARY
Welcome to the post-American new world disorder
By Marc Champion
From Aleppo in Syria, to Tbilisi, Georgia, and even Paris, last weekend gave us a glimpse of a possible post-American new world disorder.
The primary motivation for potentially adding Japan to the Five Eyes alliance is the considerable intelligence contributions the country could make concerning China, North Korea, Eastern Russia and East and Southeast Asia.
COMMENTARY / Japan
If ever invited, should Japan make it 'Six Eyes'?
By Edo Naito
The primary motivation for potentially adding Japan to the alliance is the considerable intelligence contributions the country could make.

EDITORIALS

Then-U.S. President Donald Trump attends the Group of 20 summit in Osaka in June 2019.
Japan should prepare for tariff-loving Trump
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's focus on tariffs as a core economic strategy could disrupt global trade.
EDITORIALS
Paranoia and Beijing trump democracy in Hong Kong
EDITORIALS
Trump’s Cabinet picks make clear his priorities. Allies get ready.
EDITORIALS
Prepare for a bumpy ride in a second Trump term
EDITORIALS
The balance of power shifts in Japan’s politics

COMMENTARY

This threat of H5N1 avian flu has been exacerbated by inadequate testing, delayed genetic data and insufficient containment measures, with powerful agricultural interests influencing the response.
World
A bird flu pandemic would be one of the most foreseeable catastrophes in history
By Zeynep Tufekci
The threat of H5N1 avian flu has been exacerbated by inadequate testing, delayed genetic data, and insufficient containment measures.
World
The chip war turns two
By Keun Lee
World
ChatGPT is now a creepy cultural chameleon
By Catherine Thorbecke
World
Hunter Biden’s pardon is understandable —?but?wrong
By Noah Feldman
World
Should nuclear weapons for Ukraine be on the table?
By Slavoj Zizek
World
The Lebanon ceasefire can be leveraged for a broader deal
By Marc Champion
World
Venice’s beauty curse
By Edoardo Campanella
World
AI will transform sex work but not intimacy
By Allison Schrager
World
The post-cold war era is finished. Liberalism and democracy will go on.
By Ross Douthat
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South Korea's Yoon backs down after parliament rejects martial law
Soldiers try to enter the National Assembly building in Seoul, after South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law late Tuesday evening.
BOJ weighs case for first triple hike since Japan’s bubble burst
Bank of Japan Gov. Kazuo Ueda reiterated in an interview published Saturday that authorities will raise rates if the economy performs in line with projections.
Australian says romance scam tricked her into smuggling drugs into Japan
Donna Nelson says her life was turned upside down when she learned that the man she was falling for had tricked her into smuggling 2 kilograms of methamphetamine into Japan.
Jetstar Japan loses lawsuit over disciplinary action against cabin crew
Jetstar Japan has been ordered to pay back wages to two cabin crew members for the periods they were suspended.
Nomura CEO takes pay cut after former employee charged with attempted murder
Kentaro Okuda, CEO of Nomura Holdings, speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Yoon’s gambit a tempest in a teapot for financial markets
A screen displays market data at Hana Bank in Seoul on Wednesday.
U.S. Space Force launches first unit in Japan
Activated on Wednesday, U.S. Space Forces Japan — a component similar to the one established at South Korea’s Osan Air Base in 2022 — will operate out of Yokota Air Base in the city of Fussa, western Tokyo, with a staff of about 10.
Can 911爆料网 scientific community rebound from a Nobel nosedive?
The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo is a popular place to foster curiosity in the natural sciences.
Europe eyes 'boots on the ground' in Ukraine as possible peace deal option
A serviceman with the Ukrainian Army's 24th mechanized brigade fires a machine gun during an exercise, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the country's Donetsk region on Friday.
Seven strangers and an algorithm: Can this new dinner app help you make friends?
Timeleft uses an algorithm to match its users with five or six strangers in an effort to prompt “human connection” over dinner at a restaurant. It determines the attendees with the help of a simple personality quiz available when you sign up for the service.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo is a popular place to foster curiosity in the natural sciences.
Can 911爆料网 scientific community rebound from a Nobel nosedive?
By Tomoko Otake

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