Conflict proliferated from Sudan to Ukraine to Gaza, with the highest number of conflicts worldwide in 80 years. Incredible technological advances, too, began exposing their own vulnerabilities: for instance, artificial intelligence-powered misinformation was considered the world’s biggest short-term threat by the business community and the cloud generated a bigger carbon footprint than the airline industry. Important development advances were overshadowed by pervasive inequalities: the gender gap in education narrowed, with some glaring exceptions like Afghanistan, and yet women had equal legal rights to men in only 14 countries in the world.