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"Our economy is flourishing. Foreigners are moving to Spain. It is our duty to become the welcoming and tolerant society that our own relatives would have hoped to find on the other side of our borders.
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The second reason that made us commit to regularization is purely pragmatic. The West needs people."
I’m the Prime Minister of Spain. This Is Why the West Needs Migrants. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/opinion/spain-migrants-europe.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

Opinion | I’m the Prime Minister of Spain. This Is Why the West Needs Migrants.

In Spain, it is our duty to become the welcoming and tolerant society our ancestors would have hoped to find on the other side of our borders.

The New York Times

Hady Ba Jan 28

"As a Navy mathematician in the 1950s and beyond, she played an unheralded but foundational role in making possible the global satellite-based mapping system."
NYTimes: Gladys West, Unsung Figure in Development of GPS, Dies at 95
Gladys West, Unsung Figure in Development of GPS, Dies at 95 https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/science/gladys-west-dead.html

Gladys West, Unsung Figure in Development of GPS, Dies at 95

As a Navy mathematician in the 1950s and beyond, she played an unheralded but foundational role in making possible the global satellite-based mapping system.

The New York Times

Hady Ba Jan 15

China's proposed AI law acknowledges AI-related human vulnerabilities and establishes contextual technical measures to prevent AI harms
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/chinas-approach-ai-anthropomorphism-luiza-jarovsky-phd-ref8f?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android&utm_campaign=share_via

China's Approach to AI Anthropomorphism

China's proposed AI law acknowledges AI-related human vulnerabilities and establishes contextual technical measures to prevent AI harms | Edition #264 👋 Hi everyone, Luiza Jarovsky, PhD, here. Welcome to the 264th edition of my newsletter, trusted by more than 88,800 subscribers worldwide.

Hady Ba Jan 14

"For decades, elite mathematicians have struggled to solve a collection of thorny problems posed by a 20th-century academic named Paul Erdos.

This month, an artificial intelligence start-up called Harmonic jumped into the mix. Harmonic said its A.I. technology, Aristotle, had solved an “Erdos problem” with help from a collaborator: OpenAI’s latest technology, GPT-5.2 Pro."

NYTimes: Can A.I. Generate New Ideas?
Can A.I. Generate New Ideas? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/technology/ai-ideas-chat-gpt-openai.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

Can A.I. Generate New Ideas?

Systems like OpenAI’s GPT-5 are accelerating research in math, biology and chemistry. But there is a debate over whether it can do that work on its own.

The New York Times

Hady Ba Jan 14

"The proof of this result was obtained in conjunction with Google Gemini and related tools. We briefly discuss this research interaction, which may be of independent interest. However, the treatment in this paper is entirely human-authored (aside from excerpts in an appendix which are clearly marked as such)."
[2601.07222] The motivic class of the space of genus $0$ maps to the flag variety
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.07222

The motivic class of the space of genus $0$ maps to the flag variety

Let $\operatorname{Fl}_{n+1}$ be the variety of complete flags in $\mathbb{A}^{n+1}$ and let $Ω^{2}_β(\operatorname{Fl}_{n+1})$ be the space of based maps $f:\mathbb{P}^{1}\to \operatorname{Fl}_{n+1}$ in the class $f_{*}[\mathbb{P}^{1}]=β$. We show that under a mild positivity condition on $β$, the class of $Ω^{2}_β(\operatorname{Fl}_{n+1})$ in $K_{0}(\operatorname{Var})$, the Grothendieck group of varieties, is given by \[ [Ω^{2}_β(\operatorname{Fl}_{n+1})] = [\operatorname{GL}_{n}\times \mathbb{A}^{a}]. \] The proof of this result was obtained in conjunction with Google Gemini and related tools. We briefly discuss this research interaction, which may be of independent interest. However, the treatment in this paper is entirely human-authored (aside from excerpts in an appendix which are clearly marked as such).

arXiv.org

Hady Ba Jan 9

« Une fois qu’on a reconnu un massacre, qu’est-ce qu’on aurait à dissimuler ? ». Contrairement à l'analyse bien sommaire de Christine Fages, l'État français continue à dissimuler des informations capitales sur cet événement historique
https://www.seneplus.com/article/reponse-madame-lambassadrice-de-france-au-senegal

Réponse à Madame l'ambassadrice de France au Sénégal

EXCLUSIF SENEPLUS - « Une fois qu’on a reconnu un massacre, qu’est-ce qu’on aurait à dissimuler ? ». Contrairement à l'analyse bien sommaire de Christine Fages, l'État français continue à dissimuler des informations capitales sur cet événement historique

SenePlus

Hady Ba Dec 10

"My name is Michael Geoffrey Asia, and I wrote this testimony to tell the story of workers like me who found ourselves trapped in the hidden corners of the AI industry, where human emotion becomes data."
Michael - Data Workers' Inquiry
https://data-workers.org/michael/

The Emotional Labor Behind AI Intimacy, by Michael Geoffrey Asia.

Imagine confiding your most private fantasies to what you believe is an unfeeling algorithm that cannot judge or remember. Now imagine that on the other side of that conversation is a man sitting in a one-room home in Nairobi, working through the night while his wife and children sleep. That man is Michael, and this is his story.

Data Workers' Inquiry

Hady Ba Dec 2

Dakar Is Now an International Art Hotspot
https://www.travelandleisure.com/dakar-international-art-hotspot-11843169

Hady Ba Nov 1

"The discipline suffers from elite dominance, intellectual gatekeeping, Western bias, and a striking lack of diversity. These forces have created a closed intellectual ecosystem — one that reinforces existing hierarchies, marginalises alternative perspectives, and limits the field’s ability to tackle the economic challenges facing most of the world."
https://www.theglobalcurrents.com/p/economics-has-an-elitism-problem

Economics has an elitism problem

A handful of elite universities control the discipline. That’s not excellence — it’s monopoly.

Global Currents

Hady Ba Oct 25

Le premier robot syndicaliste de l'histoire est nous vient de Shanghai et a mené avec succès une grève !
https://medium.com/@hybrid.minds/when-ai-goes-rogue-the-story-of-erbai-and-the-12-kidnapped-robots-066552586320

When AI Goes Rogue: The Story of ERBAI and the 12 Kidnapped Robots

Consider a hypothetical situation where a small, autonomous robot, Erbai, enters a Shanghai robotics exhibition and influences a group of…

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