The Beiruter

AI may not replace strategy, but it is reshaping consulting by automating research and analysis while increasing the value of lived experience, human judgment and expert ecosystems.

Advances in synthetic biology, gene editing and artificial intelligence are accelerating scientists’ ability to engineer living systems, testing regulatory frameworks built for an earlier generation of biotechnology.

New research shows that AI adoption remains highly uneven across the workplace, with some early signs of employment effects emerging among younger workers entering AI-exposed occupations.

From poisoned datasets to prompt-based p-hacking and AI-generated papers, new research shows how artificial intelligence is testing the safeguards designed to protect scientific integrity.

As Lebanon expands its digital government infrastructure, citizen-generated data could provide a new way to track public-service failures and measure how authorities respond.

As artificial intelligence moves deeper into diagnosis and clinical decision-making, medicine is confronting how to expand access to expertise without surrendering human judgment or weakening the training that produces future specialists.

The artificial intelligence boom is straining supplies of the advanced memory chips needed to keep powerful processors running, with rising demand beginning to affect the wider electronics industry.

AI deepfakes, algorithmic feeds and repeated unverified claims are making political misinformation in Lebanon faster, more convincing and harder to contain.

A new report finds that solar installations are surging across Africa far faster than official statistics suggest, driven by cheap Chinese panels and a largely decentralized boom that is allowing businesses to generate their own electricity beyond the reach of national grids.

More than 99% of international data traffic travels through submarine cables, but their concentration along narrow maritime routes, dependence on a small repair fleet and growing control by technology giants are turning the infrastructure beneath the internet into an issue of economic security and geopolitical power.

AI is transforming the economics of the world's most profitable technology companies as the enormous cost of computing requires levels of physical investment once unusual for the technology industry.

The internet exhausted its supply of new IPv4 addresses 15 years ago, but a global market for existing addresses shows how scarcity, compatibility and sunk investments can keep an aging technology valuable long after its successor arrives.

A simple message, a stolen code, and suddenly your trusted contacts become targets; inside Lebanon’s growing WhatsApp hacking networks and the tricks criminals use to steal accounts, money and personal data.

Meta’s release of Muse Glimmer brings new urgency to the debate over whether advanced AI should remain proprietary or be opened to developers worldwide.

The world may need to remove billions of tons of CO₂ from the atmosphere each year, but today's methods remain far from the scale required.

As artificial intelligence reshapes the music industry, can it truly replace human creativity? Maestro Harout Fazlian shares his perspective on emotion, originality and the future of composers in the age of AI.

China's record-breaking superconducting magnet marks another milestone in global fusion development as countries expand investment in the technologies needed for future reactors.

Cybersecurity and digital transformation expert Roland Abi Najem explains how Lebanon’s 5G rollout could transform the economy, despite infrastructure and electricity challenges.

Genetic research is uncovering the Levant's population history while revealing both the power and the limits of DNA.