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The global ai race is defined by competing approaches, led by America and China. On one side is a nimble ecosystem of tech ...

L ike many politicians running for office, Zohran Mamdani, the 33-year-old New York Democratic mayoral candidate, is partly a ...

H olidaymakers, including American vice-presidents, are drawn to rural Britain partly because it seems to change so little.

This month’s summits between America, Russia and Europe haves produced no concrete agreements on ending Ukraine’s war. On ...

Such projections, though, now have been foiled by India’s government. On August 21st India’s parliament passed a bill banning ...

As is well known to the 5m radio listeners who followed the harvest over several days in early August, the background to this ...

Japan wants both to revive its domestic champions and to attract foreign ones, such as TSMC, the Taiwanese semiconductor ...

Despite unease over his Islamist past, most Syrians rallied behind Ahmed al-Sharaa, their new leader. Over the summer, ...

Add in the grid upgrades to power AI models, plus the intellectual-property value of the software itself, and one estimate ...

Among those who feared a sinister plot are several Republican politicians, including Marjorie Taylor Greene, a congresswoman ...

The world’s biggest market is less central to global trade today than it once was. At the start of the century, America ...