Jensen Huang’s sudden departure from Nvidia has created an unusual situation for an industry that has come to regard the company’s chief executive as one of the principal figures behind the artificial intelligence revolution. For more than three decades, Huang… Read More ›
For Darshnika Lakhoo, the danger of extreme heat was not something she discovered after becoming a mother. She had spent years studying how rising temperatures affect pregnant women and the health of unborn babies. Yet when Johannesburg experienced repeated heatwaves… Read More ›
A legal challenge by 21 Indian news publishers has brought the country’s digital privacy framework into a dispute that goes beyond data protection. The publishers, including media organisations associated with Mukesh Ambani and Gautam Adani, argue that the rules could… Read More ›
Major United States banks are confronting a new problem as artificial intelligence agents increasingly attempt to interact with customer accounts. Reports of third-party agents accessing financial platforms without bank approval have raised concerns about whether existing security systems can distinguish… Read More ›
China’s expanding exports of chicken, processed meat and dairy products are revealing a shift in the country’s role in global food markets. Once heavily dependent on imported proteins in several categories, Chinese producers are increasingly using industrial scale, technological investment… Read More ›
The European Union and China have reached an understanding intended to reduce Chinese hybrid vehicle exports to Europe, offering a temporary route away from escalating trade tensions. The October 2026 arrangement also addresses European access to the Chinese market and… Read More ›
The global luxury industry is confronting a difficult combination of weaker consumer spending, geopolitical uncertainty and tighter tax enforcement in China, one of its most important markets. For companies that built their expansion strategies around affluent consumers in China and… Read More ›
Nepal’s decision to begin work on lowering the water levels of four dangerous glacial lakes represents a shift from responding to climate disasters toward attempting to reduce their physical causes. The proposed project targets Thulagi, Lower Barun, Lumding Tsho and… Read More ›
Global financial markets are entering September with several risks developing at the same time, leaving investors to navigate an unusually complicated combination of geopolitical uncertainty, persistent inflation, elevated government borrowing costs, central bank decisions and increasingly expensive technology stocks. The… Read More ›
The technology industry’s latest warning about artificial intelligence and cybercrime reflects a growing concern that conventional cybersecurity practices may not improve quickly enough to match the capabilities of increasingly advanced AI systems. More than 100 technology, financial, infrastructure and industrial… Read More ›
