# NuseReal

WEF: "Summer Davos" concludes in Dalian, China, with call to scale innovation into growth, jobs and competitiveness (LINK) — 25 June 2026

— WEF: More than 1800 global leaders from 90 countries and regions and across sectors gathered in Dalian to explore how technology and innovation can translate into economic progress and jobs. WEF: "The meeting brought together Li Qiang, Premier of the People's Republic of China; six heads of government; 90 government leaders; 1,000 senior business executives; and more than 200 innovators, among them Technology Pioneers and a record number of 'unicorns'."

— "This is a very different world in which CEOs have to operate," said Margery Kraus, Founder and Executive Chairman, APCO, Co-Chair of the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2026. "The ability to find out who the right stakeholders are and how to engage on a market-by-market basis is really going to be the difference between success and lack of success for some companies."

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World Economic Forum: China's 15th Five-Year Plan priorities span innovation, domestic consumption, industrial upgrading, green energy and continued opening to the global economy, speakers said at the World Economic Forum's 17th Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Dalian (LINK) — 25 June 2026

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Trump cancels signing of bipartisan housing bill until his SAVE America Act is passed (LINK) — 24 June 2026

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Russian opposition leader jailed for 7 years over anti-war social media posts in 2022 (LINK) — 24 June 2026

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China says it has a right to target people overseas who contravene it new ethnic unity law (LINK) — 24 June 2026

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Bill Gates gives Epstein testimony about blackmail fears: newly-published transcript of Gates' testimony to Congressional panel on June 10 (LINK) — 24 June 2026

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'If AI is to help build a better future, it must be honest about what it costs us now': UN Secretary-General António Guterres urges AI giants to reveal full extent of environmental damage (LINK) — 24 June 2026

— "By 2030, they could use ?more power than all but five countries — and enough water to meet the basic needs ?of all 1.3 billion residents of sub-Saharan Africa for an entire year," he said. His speech (via Reuters) also included the launch of the UN's AI Environmental Transparency Initiative, which offers AI companies the opportunity to publicly disclose water, the environmental impacts of their water usage, carbon emissions, and land use.

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UN Working Group calls for action to ensure AI serves equality, not discrimination (LINK) — 24 June 2026

— The Working Group on discrimination against women and girls today warned that the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) and related digital technologies absent meaningful regulation may deepen existing gender inequalities and create new risks for the human rights of women and girls worldwide.

— "AI and digital technologies are reshaping the conditions under which women and girls exercise their rights," the Working Group said. "Without deliberate, gender-responsive governance, these systems risk amplifying exclusion, reinforcing harmful stereotypes, and exacerbating structural inequalities."

— The Working Group identified three urgent preconditions for achieving substantive gender equality in the digital age: closing the digital divide, harnessing AI and digital technologies to bolster rather than undermine women's and girls' human rights, and promoting their meaningful participation and leadership in public and political life. The experts also echoed calls for multilateral dialogue on AI redlines. They expressed alarm about some of the most extreme harms, including the gendered impact of AI in armed conflict and lethal autonomous weapons, climate change, mass surveillance and technology-facilitated gender-based violence. "These harms are not hypothetical, they are already being felt around the world," the Working Group said, stressing that intersecting forms of marginalisation are regularly mirrored and exacerbated by AI.

— They also underscored the potential of AI to advance gender equality, including by expanding access to education, healthcare, financial services, and justice — if developed responsibly and inclusively.

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UN Women: Five reasons why the care economy is one of the most transformative investments of our time (LINK) — 24 June 2026

• An estimated 350 million children require childcare services globally.
• If given a monetary value, unpaid care work would account for up to 40 per cent of GDP in some countries
• Investments in care sectors can create two to three times more jobs than investments in the construction sector.
• Women and girls spend 2.5 times more hours per day on unpaid care work than men.
• Globally, 45 per cent of working-age women (708 million women) are outside the labour market because of unpaid care responsibilities, compared with just 5 per cent of men.
• Women make up 80 per cent of paid domestic workers globally. Yet 90 per cent of domestic workers lack social protection and social security coverage.
• In crisis settings, women spend nearly four times more hours on unpaid care work than men.For example, in Ukraine, women spend 16 more hours per week on unpaid care work than men, resulting in an estimated USD 72.5 billion loss to the economy.
• Investments in care services could create nearly 300 million new decent jobs by 2035.
• Investing in care sectors has the potential to be 30 per cent less polluting than investing in the construction industry.
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— UN Women's Transform Care Initiative aims to strengthen care systems in over 50 countries. By 2035, the initiative has the potential to contribute to:

• Reaching 2.9 billion women and girls;
• Creating 260 million decent jobs for women;
• Freeing up 10 trillion hours of women's and girls' time by 2035.

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Smarter waste sorting with AI from WasteFlow by EPFL students, Lausanne: "Our system can currently identify 66 different categories of waste, with accuracy rates reaching 98% for some plastics including PET, HDPE and LDPE," says co-founder Théophile Agresti. The company estimates that facilities using its technology could recycle around 6% more material, thus reducing the amount of waste that ends up being incinerated (LINK) — 25 June 2026

— In 2023, EPFL students Valentin Ibars, Théophile Agresti and Theo Vitupier came up with the idea for WasteFlow. Since then, they have graduated from EPFL and have grown the business into a company employing 13 people. The trio joined Blaze, the School's program for student entrepreneurs, which provided structure and a supportive environment. The founders connected with experienced mentors, whose guidance saved them valuable time. The same year, WasteFlow secured a CHF 30,000 Ignition Grant from EPFL and additional support from the Foundation for Innovation and Technology (FIT).

— A BRIDGE Proof of Concept grant from the Swiss government's Innosuisse program and a collaboration with EPFL's Computer Vision Laboratory (CVLab) helped the team move beyond the lab and test the technology in real sorting facilities. They also benefited from EPFL's internship program for master's students and recent graduates: one intern spent six months developing tools to analyze sorting-facility performance and optimize recycling processes. Further internships, funded by WasteFlow and carried out with CVLab, gave students valuable industry experience while bringing additional expertise into the company.

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Indigenous cultural practices are a climate solution, Conservation International report finds (LINK) — 24 June 2026

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Swiss study finds fewer job ads for career starters as AI reshapes entry-level work (LINK) — 24 June 2026

— An analysis of 7.3 million job advertisements shows entry-level postings down sharply since the years before generative AI, with the steepest declines in roles the tools can most readily take on. The number of Swiss job advertisements aimed at career starters in 2025 was just under a third lower than the average for the period before generative AI arrived, according to a study published on Wednesday by the recruitment portal Jobs.ch.

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AI loses out to human wealth managers when the money actually moves, HSBC finds: survey of nearly 10,000 wealthy investors finds AI doing the research and a human adviser making the final call (LINK) — 24 June 2026

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After 'circling the drain' Trump's DJT stock finally plops in (LINK) — 24 June 2026

— AlterNet: According to Futurism, the stock — which represents Trump's Truth Social social media platform — has been "circling the drain for over a year now." The DJT stock made its public debut in 2022 for just under $10 per share, and it was rapidly hyped up to its all-time high of just under $94.20 before dropping back into the low teens. Then in early 2024, it was relaunched after a merger, briefly shooting up to around $60. Since then it has lost nearly 90 percent of its value, and the decline shows no sign of slowing.

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Anthropic sends Congress letter accusing China's Alibaba of illicitly accessing AI models (LINK) — 24 June 2026

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Catchup: AI solution to an 80-year-old problem: the first major mathematical open problem solved with AI with minimal human intervention beyond the initial prompt (LINK) — 26 May 2026

— Days after OpenAI's paper, US mathematician Will Sawin followed the same line of reasoning to an improved result. Also last week, a team from Google DeepMind used one of their own models to resolve nine lesser open problems left.

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Global Dialogue on AI Governance: PalExpo 6-7 July 2026: convened by the United Nations General Assembly (LINK)

AI for Good Global Summit 2026 and the inaugural Global Dialogue on AI Governance: 7 to 10 July at Geneva's Palexpo convention centre (LINK)

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25 to 27 October 2026: UNCTAD World Investment Forum 9: in Doha (LINK) — 22 January 2026

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Road to the First International Conference of the Global Framework on Chemicals being held in Geneva on 16 to 20 November 2026 (LINK) — 11 February 2026

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11 to 15 July 2027: International AIDS Society announces Geneva as host city for IAS 2027:: Around 5,000 people from more than 130 countries are expected to attend. Registration for IAS 2027 will open in November 2026 (LINK) — 22 January 2026

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