Editorial Note: We earn a commission from partner links on Forbes Advisor. Commissions do not affect our editors’ opinions or evaluations. Key Takeaways Today’s highest CD rate is 5.02% for a 1-year CD. CD rates from online banks are commonly twice as high as the national average rates. CD ladders let you leverage high rates … Read more
Over the past two weeks, EJIL:Talk! has featured a range of contributions spanning pressing issues, including: the growing challenges of regulating Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs), the under-recognized crime of targeting children in conflict zones, legal dimensions of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, criminal military investigations as a tool for civilian protection, the potential impact of … Read more
Google Gemini 2.5 Flash, its hybrid reasoning model, is now available in preview for the standalone Gemini app. On Thursday, the company rolled out an “early version” of the model with updated reasoning capabilities. It can also better determine how much processing power or “thinking” to apply to each request. The Gemini 2.5 Flash model … Read more
The main four parametric disaster insurance risk pools have signed a grant agreement with the Global Shield Solutions Platform (GSSP) to help them accelerate and deepen their collaboration, something which could have implications for how they transfer risk to reinsurance and potentially capital markets.Back in 2023, the African Risk Capacity Limited (ARC), Caribbean Catastrophe Risk … Read more
Like giant bones planted in the earth, clusters of tree trunks, stripped clean of bark, are appearing along the Chesapeake Bay on the United States’ mid-Atlantic coast. They are ghost forests: the haunting remains of what were once stands of cedar and pine. Since the late 19th century, an ever-widening swath of these trees have … Read more