IF YOU ARE confused about the status of talks between America and Iran, you are in good company. Diplomats in Washington went into the long Memorial Day weekend hopeful that a deal might be imminent. Officials from Pakistan and Qatar, which are helping mediate, visited Tehran, the Iranian capital, on Friday. After a call with…
TikTok’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, has finalised a deal to establish a majority US-owned joint venture company to avoid a ban on the popular social media app used by more than 200 million Americans. The deal is a milestone for the short video app after years of battles that began in August 2020, when US President…
The Chinese commerce ministry’s latest remarks on the TikTok deal in the US signalled acceptance rather than approval, as Beijing “hopes” the arrangement will comply with Chinese laws and strike a balance between rival interests, analysts say. The Chinese Ministry of Commerce, which oversees trade and export controls, declared its position a week after TikTok…
ANKARA Türkiye and the United Kingdom signed a cooperation deal on the Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets during British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s visit to Ankara on Monday, marking a new step in defense ties between the two NATO allies. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan hailed the agreement as “a new symbol of our strategic partnership” and…
OpenAI bestowed its blessings and backing on another tech company Monday, inking a deal with chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices, instantly making it one of the hot companies investors hope will be at the forefront of the artificial intelligence boom. The shares of AMD soared more than 30% after the company behind ChatGPT said it plans…