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Humanitarian Reform Newsletter
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The System Is Inside the Crisis

What the new Mercy Corps report from Hormuz to the Frontlines of Hunger reveals about the structural limit this war exposed

Thomas Byrnes •
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AI & Technology Newsletter
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Local AI: the excuse is about to disappear.

The AI headlines this month have been dominated by two launches. Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7 on 16 April. OpenAI released GPT-5.5 on 23 April, calling it "a new class of…

Thomas Byrnes •
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US Aid Policy Newsletter
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The $1.25 Billion Question

AI disclosure: This piece predates MarketImpact's per-article disclosure standard, introduced June 2026. During this period AI tools assisted with research synthesis, multilingual data…

Thomas Byrnes •
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