Last week, Bill Gates shocked the climate world — rocking both those for climate action and those against it — by making what the headlines portrayed as a reversal of position. If you dig deeper into his memo, it was anything but a reversal of position on the importance of addressing climate change. “To be…
On any day during her eight years as first lady of the United States, Michelle Obama said she could go from giving a speech to meeting with a counterpart from another country to digging in her vegetable garden with groups of schoolchildren. And her clothes had to be ready for that. There was too much…
One of the architects of former US President Joe Biden’s tech export controls warned on Thursday that Washington needs better coordination with allies to deny China access to high-end chips and cutting-edge products, criticising a plan by US President Donald Trump’s administration to allow sales of certain Nvidia chips. Citing Beijing’s massive spending on efforts…
The Middle East is no longer asking whether it should develop domestic space capabilities; it’s deciding with whom it will develop them. If the United States wants to be the country of choice ahead of China, it must create a joint space partnership agreement framework to align American and partner nations’ industry, government and financial…
US President Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday disclosed further details about its agreement with China on the control of fentanyl precursors, key ingredients in the production of the drug that kills tens of thousands of Americans each year. Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Kash Patel said in a regular White House briefing that China has…
As access to advanced chips narrows, Chinese AI developers are focusing on fixing an algorithmic bottleneck at the heart of large language models (LLMs) – hoping that smarter code, not more powerful hardware, will help them steal a march on their Western rivals. By experimenting with hybrid forms of “attention” – the mechanism that allows…
Published: Nov. 7, 2025 at 1:16 p.m. ET The S&P 500 SPX, after having gapped to all-time highs a little more than a week ago, is now in a modest (so far) corrective mode. SPX has now closed both of the gaps that were in place in late October and has closed below the first support…
The European Commission says a “worst case scenario” has been averted, after China’s commerce ministry engaged with European companies in recent days to restart the flow of semiconductors that had been disrupted by a crisis surrounding the company Nexperia. The saga, which saw the Dutch-headquartered company cut off from its Chinese processing facilities following a…
Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning made the announcement on Monday, ending a prolonged Covid-19-era freeze that left Canada off China’s outbound tour lists, even as group travel resumed to more than 130 other destinations. Mao said the decision was taken after “comprehensive” consideration of Chinese travellers’ demands and destination safety. “The move will further…
Pity the evil queen in “Snow White” asking the magic mirror who was the fairest of all, waiting anxiously for the reply. Today, all the queen would need to do is upload an image of herself to an AI beauty analysis app and wait 10 seconds for the results. Beauty analysis apps score your face…