In professional sports, there are louder legends—bigger personalities, more ostentatious contracts, athletes who appear to be constantly in front of the camera. That was never the case with Nicklas Lidström. His presence always seemed quieter than the clamor around him in Detroit, where the winter wind rips through the streets near Little Caesars Arena. However, a career fortune that speaks for itself lies behind that composed exterior. An estimated $60 million is Nicklas Lidström’s net worth, which has been accumulated over 20 years of focused excellence rather than high-profile transactions. He was one of hockey’s highest paid players, earning over…
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The King Abdulaziz International Conference Center in Riyadh doesn’t seem like the birthplace of international tech regulations. Footsteps are absorbed by the thick carpets. Besides the translation headsets are half-finished coffee cups. Attendees lean forward and pay close attention as presenters go over a topic that was previously thought to be solely Californian: the proper conduct of artificial intelligence. Silicon Valley is not the source of this conversation. In collaboration with the Islamic World Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, the Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority has started to develop an ethics charter that goes beyond governing AI in the…
Without slowing down, customers tap their phones against payment terminals in the gleaming atrium of a mall in Dubai. Before the receipt prints, a barista serves a latte. There is still cash, tucked into taxi dashboards and folded in wallets, but it has a more ceremonial feel. The question now is not whether money will become more digital—it already has—but rather how quickly physical cash may disappear from everyday life as the United Arab Emirates gets ready to launch the Digital Dirham. The Central Bank of the UAE, which has been constructing the infrastructure for a central bank digital currency,…
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