Sales of electric vehicles in the United States are almost certain to tumble when the $7,500 federal tax credit for EV buyers expires on Oct. 1, leaving automakers and car buyers wondering where prices will go.The tax credit, which was passed in 2022 as part of the Biden administration’s legislative push to support EVs and…
US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that his administration was moving to retake control of Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, claiming that such a move was necessary because of the facility’s proximity to nuclear weapons sites in China. Bagram, located 44 kilometres (27 miles) north of Kabul, was the largest US military base in…
Shenzhen-based MGI Tech unveiled what it claims to be the world’s fastest gene sequencer, an advance that promises to help accelerate breakthroughs in cancer genomics and rare disease research. The company said at a launch event on Tuesday that the DNBSEQ-T7+ can sequence 144 human genomes a day, or one every 10 minutes. More than…
Geoffrey Hinton is a British-Canadian computer scientist often called the “godfather of AI” because of his revolutionary neural network models inspired by the structure of the human brain. His research brought about a paradigm shift that enabled today’s machine learning technology. He won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics with John J. Hopfield of Princeton…
Huawei Technologies is set to unveil a technological breakthrough that could reduce China’s reliance on high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips for running artificial intelligence reasoning models, according to state-run Securities Times. The announcement will take place in collaboration with China UnionPay at the 2025 Financial AI Reasoning Application Landing and Development Forum in Shanghai on Tuesday,…
US President Donald Trump’s signature budget bill, signed into law earlier this month, marked a startling pivot towards fossil fuels and nuclear power, reigniting a fierce debate over how best to balance the country’s energy future with its national security. The act, known officially as the One Big Beautiful Bill, rolls back Joe Biden era…
Welcome to Open Dialogue, a new series from the Post where we bring together leading voices to discuss the stories and subjects occupying international headlines. In this edition, two leading China watchers discuss the consequential relationship between the world’s two largest economies and how ties might develop under the second Donald Trump administration amid growing…
After already experiencing whiplash in federal student loan policies since the pandemic, borrowers must again brace for change. The “big, beautiful bill” that President Trump signed into law on July 4 overhauls the federal student loan system by reducing the number of repayment plan options down to two and capping the amount individuals can borrow…
Denis Simon is one of the leading experts on US-China science and technology cooperation as well as China’s innovation system. He has held senior roles including executive vice-chancellor at Duke Kunshan University and director of the US-China programme at Pennsylvania State University. He is teaching a graduate course on China science and technology policy at…
The Department of Education says federal student loan borrowers who do not pay on time could damage their credit scores and even have their wages garnished beginning today, May 5 — causing challenges for some of the more than 5 million borrowers who are in default and struggling to get answers about their loans. “I don’t…