Bolivia may be one of the cocaine capitals of the world – but don't you dare call it a narco state. The Bolivian government complained to France after a French video game publisher, Ubisoft, developed a game that highly offended the South American nation. The popular game, "Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands," revolves around a Mexican drug cartel that controls Bolivia and has turned the country into a violent narco-state. The game is set to be officially launched next week, but the game's beta version has already been downloaded by 6.8 million users. Bolivian Interior Minister Carlos Romero said the Andean nation delivered a letter to the French ambassador earlier this week and asked French officials to intervene.

Each Friday, I embrace the adage that "a picture is worth a thousand words" and hand-select compelling graphics to put important investment news into perspective. All it takes is a quick glance and you'll be up to speed. The company behind popular messaging app Snapchat priced its IPO on Wednesday and began trading yesterday. As Reuters reports, "Investors set aside concerns about its lack of profits and voting rights for a piece of the hottest tech IPO in years." As I previously warned, Snap is hardly a "fist-pounding buy." And let's get real, Reuters.

A woman is selling an extremely rare 1970s IBM computer like that which helps power the US nuclear system. Faith Warner, 38, decided to auction off the huge Series 1 machine after it spent decades gathering dust in her garage. She says the computer model originally sold for anything between £100,000 to £150,000 - but she has listed it on Ebay with a modest starting price of £5,000. Ms Warner said: 'My dad used to run an engineering firm but in his spare time he wrote for a PC magazine and loved collecting old technology that he would try to fix. 'My father died six years ago and over the years my mum has got rid of some bits and the collection has dwindled - but this one was left behind, mainly because it's so big.' Ms Warner, who runs a retreat in north Devon, researched the IBM Series 1 after uncovering it under a tarpaulin two years ago.

Scientists have teamed up artificial intelligence boosters to help predict many things, like when we will have teleportation or whether we can actually time travel. Veteran AI scientists Eric Horvitz and Lawrence Krauss (of Doomsday Clock fame) are working together with a group of experts to try to predict and stop doomsday from coming. They met last weekend at Arizona State, helped along by funding from Tesla Inc. co-founder Elon Musk and Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn to create a team called "Envisioning and Addressing Adverse AI Outcomes." All in all, over 40 scientist, security experts, and policy makers broke into two teams: attackers (red) and defenders (blue) to reenact some of the AI-gone-wrong scenarios that could happen, including environmental problems, global warfare, and stock-market problems. Horvitz hopes that they all learned something from this, and believes that the team has taken a few steps ahead of the rest of the world, according to Bloomberg.

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) could add a whopping £654bn to the UK economy, according to a report published by Accenture. Perhaps this is why the government announced late last week that it would pump approximately £20m into developing and researching AI and robotics as part of its long-awaited Digital Strategy. The technology, which could potentially render almost half a million public sector workers unemployed over the next 15 years, has been credited with helping organisations save time and money – both attractive propositions for governments across the globe. With this in mind, here are four examples of how the UK public sector has delved into the world of AI in recent times. The Serious Fraud Office used AI for the first time in its landmark investigation of Rolls Royce, which saw the car manufacturer found guilty of bribery and corruption in January this year.

Abu Khayr al-Masri was killed in Syria on Thursday. Abdullah Muhammad Rajab Abd Al-Rahman, better known by his alias Abu Khayr al-Masri, a 59-year-old Egyptian and a longtime top member of al-Qaida, was killed in an American drone strike in Syria, the terrorist group confirmed in a statement on Thursday. The al-Qaida statement said he died in a "treacherous" drone strike it described as a "new crime by America and the crusader coalition," according to Reuters. A Hellfire missile fired by a CIA drone struck the car carrying Abu Khayr al-Masri in Idlib, Syria, on Sunday, Reuters reported. The attack was also reported by CNN, The New York Times, and The Guardian.

ISLAMABAD – A Taliban official says a suspected U.S. drone strike the previous day killed a top commander of the militant Haqqani network -- the man who in 2014 accompanied U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl when he was handed over to U.S. authorities. The Taliban official identified the man as Qari Abdullah, saying he died in the "area of Khost." Pakistani intelligence officials had earlier said a suspected U.S. strike hit in Pakistan's lawless tribal region bordering Afghanistan's Khost, a Haqqani stronghold, killing two militants. The Taliban official wouldn't confirm it was the same strike.

President Donald Trump has ordered the U.S. military to step up in its fight against Islamic terror groups in Africa after various Al Qaeda offshoot groups have increased their militant actions in the massive continent, according to multiple reports. Somalia was named in Trump's executive order on immigration that banned travel to the U.S. from seven Muslim-majority countries. Adding a metaphorical insult to injury, three Islamic militant groups based in Mali have reportedly pledged allegiance to Al Qaeda this week, bolstering Al Qaeda's growing grip on Africa. While the U.S. government had not immediately addressed the reports of the Al Qaeda merger of sorts, experts in global conflict told the Associated Press that steps were already being taken to quell Al-Shabab's activities in the East African nation of Somalia. "The concern in Washington has been mounting for some time now," Rashid Abdi, an analyst with the International Crisis Grou "The Trump administration is simply reiterating what has been policy, with slight variations. U.S. special forces are already on the ground. Drone attacks have been scaled up."

Proposals to tax robots have been debated by serious folks recently. The European Union considered but ultimately rejected the idea of taxing firms that use robots. And last week Quartz published an interview with Bill Gates in which he argues for a robot tax. These proposals follow a spate of recent articles on robots and automation, some of which argue there will be large job losses from robots and automation. These articles include one in the New Yorker, which profiled books by Martin Ford, Jerry Kaplan, Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, and David Autor's article on workplace automation in Journal of Economic Perspectives, among others.

Symantec has announced the formation of a new venture arm, Symantec Ventures, to help cybersecurity startups make the transition from ideas to profits. On Thursday, the antivirus software provider said Symantec Ventures will not only provide funding to startups, but will aim to "help the startup community reduce expenses and accelerate time to market." Entrepreneurs tapped by the new venture capital arm will be given not only cash but access to Symantec technology including the Integrated Cyber Defense Platform for enterprises and the Digital Safety Platform for consumers, depending on the focus of the startup. The cybersecurity firm has also promised startups access to threat intelligence data which can be used for product testing, validation, machine learning algorithm training and AI system creation. "This kind of data can be expensive and sometimes impossible for a startup to obtain access," Symantec notes.