AI Assistants Misrepresent News 50% of the Time

A large-scale international study published on 22 October 2025, has revealed that leading AI assistants frequently misrepresent news content, presenting faulty responses to questions almost half the time. The research, co-ordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (hereinafter: EBU) and the British Broadcasting Corporation (hereinafter: BBC), assessed the performance of four major AI assistants, including OpenAI’s...

The Collapse of Arabia. Why Sub-Anatolia Failed and How It Can Recover

With the President of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, fleeing the lands he and his family governed for almost 50 years, Syria is now a failed state in the definitional sense. Although being dysfunctional for most of the past century, the collapse of the Syrian government is another case in a series of failed states in Sub-Anatolian...

Understanding the 2021 Israel-Palestine Conflict (Part II)

In the first part of this comprehensive analysis, we have analysed the Israel-Palestine conflict within the framework for building understanding around political events. If you have not read the first part of this analysis, it is strongly recommended to do so. The second part builds on the findings of part I, which provides the necessary...