How Ukraine Is Forgetting Its Most Desperate CitizensLolita Brayman
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Ukraine's AI effort benefits from its society's broad willingness to contribute data for the war effort. Citizens upload geotagged photos potentially relevant for the country's defence into a government app called Diia (Ukrainian for “action”). Many businesses supply Mantis Analytics, a firm in...
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The picture is complicated by the fact that many children in Ukraine’s so-called orphanages are not orphans at all. Ukraine’s government acknowledged to the U.N. before the war that most children of the state “are not orphans, have no serious illness or disease and are in an instituti...
Margaret Brennan: When people hear the term special operators, they think of some out of the movie action scene. Is that what we should be picturing here in north Gaza? Alex Plitsas: People have seen too many movies. They're thinking, you know, you're gonna see GI Joe show up ...
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