Around 5.8 million refugee children did not attend school in 2025, according to the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR, leaving 44 per cent of the world’s 13.2 million school-age refugee children without
OpenAI’s data-centre and infrastructure partners are on track to accumulate almost $100bn in borrowing tied to the fast-growing but still lossmaking AI start-up, according to figures reported by the Financial Times. The
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OpenAI may need to raise more than $200 billion in fresh capital by the end of the decade to keep pace with soaring computing demands and global AI competition, according to new
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Australia faces a growing risk of missing its 2035 climate targets unless it implements deeper reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, according to a government report released on Thursday. Current projections indicate emissions
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Alibaba has officially launched its new Quark artificial intelligence glasses in China, marking the company’s entry into the global AI wearables market, Reuters reported. The headset, priced starting at 1,899 yuan ($268.25),
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China has overtaken the United States in the global market for open artificial-intelligence models, marking a pivotal moment in the race to shape the future of the technology. A joint study by
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A new study published on Nov. 25 in Nature Climate Change warns that Earth’s oceans are undergoing rapid and unprecedented transformations, with vast regions now experiencing multiple climate-driven shifts at the same
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As US-India relations experienced tensions earlier this year, officials in the Trump administration were briefed on India’s role in the global trade of chemicals used to make fentanyl, according to sources familiar
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The United Nations has issued a stark warning about the escalating risks of extreme heat across Asia and the Pacific, highlighting the region’s growing vulnerability to climate-related disasters. The warning comes as
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About half of all American jobs could be replaced by artificial intelligence and robotics, according to a new analysis from the McKinsey Global Institute, which found that currently available technologies are capable
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A Reliance Industries joint venture will invest $11 billion over five years to develop 1 gigawatt of AI data-centre capacity in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, the companies and the
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The Chinese government has instructed the country’s airlines to reduce the number of flights to Japan through March 2026, Bloomberg reported, signaling Beijing is preparing for a prolonged diplomatic dispute with Tokyo.
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Artificial intelligence research is entering a bold new era as scientists push to combine neural networks with symbolic reasoning, the so-called “good old-fashioned AI” that relies on formal rules and logical relationships.
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Three years after OpenAI released ChatGPT, artificial intelligence has become the dominant driver of U.S. stock market gains, according to Bloomberg. The technology has fueled a surge in Big Tech shares, created
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Tim Berners-Lee, the computer scientist who created the World Wide Web, argues that the internet has strayed far from its original principles and needs urgent reform. In his book This Is for
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo Prime Minister and Minister of Education Harini Amarasuriya triggered intense political shockwaves today after declaring in Parliament that there “was never a demand” to allocate 6% of
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