The mountain section whose collapse triggered deadly floods in Nepal and China on August 26 experienced exceptionally high temperatures in the days before the disaster, according to meteorological data reconstructed and analysed
Russian schoolchildren are being taught that Winston Smith, the protagonist of George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984, behaved like a dangerous radical whose actions mirror those of criminals and terrorists, according to a
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Intel and AMD have warned Chinese customers of mounting shortages in server central processing units, underscoring how the global race to build artificial intelligence infrastructure is now straining even traditional computing components.
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Amazon has signalled that it will push ahead with one of the largest investment programmes in corporate history, forecasting capital expenditure of about $200 billion in 2026, largely driven by artificial intelligence,
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More than 3,000 government schools across Sri Lanka are functioning with fewer than 10 teachers, revealing a growing structural strain on the country’s education system, according to the Department of Census and
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In the fjords of northern British Columbia, humpback whales execute one of nature’s most extraordinary cooperative hunting techniques: bubble-net feeding. A group of whales dives beneath a shoal of herring, with one
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ElevenLabs, a UK company specializing in ultra-realistic AI-generated human voices and music, has secured $500 million in a funding round that values the business at $11 billion, more than triple its worth
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Alphabet, the technology conglomerate behind Google, announced fourth-quarter revenue of $113.8 billion on Wednesday, an 18 percent increase year-on-year and slightly above Wall Street expectations. Net income rose 30 percent to $34.5
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Austrian coder Peter Steinberger has created what is being called the world’s first viral AI assistant with his open-source project, OpenClaw, and the results are “getting weird,” according to reporting from the
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Any hopes that Big Tech might be easing off its massive artificial intelligence spending appear misplaced, as 2026 is shaping up to be another record year for investment across the global technology
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U.S. President Donald Trump is facing fresh accusations of corruption after a Democratic senator alleged that secret financial deals involving Trump’s family coincided with a controversial approval of advanced artificial intelligence chip
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