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
Amazon has been accused of pressuring a major European clean-energy coalition by raising the possibility of pulling its financial support, as Big Tech companies battle over looming carbon-accounting reforms that could make
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America has already lost the chip war with China, and the origin story explains why: the semiconductor stack was built as an instrument of state power—an architecture that fixed roles and chokepoints
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The global surge in artificial intelligence investment has accelerated to unprecedented levels, surpassing the scale and speed of spending behind some of history’s most ambitious scientific and technological undertakings, according to industry
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IndiGo has canceled all domestic flights departing from New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport until midnight Friday, intensifying a wave of travel disruption that has stretched through the week. The airport operator
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Meta Platforms Inc. is preparing to significantly scale back its once-flagship metaverse ambitions, with Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg weighing budget cuts as steep as 30 percent for the division responsible for virtual
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China Eastern Airlines has inaugurated what it says is the world’s longest one-way commercial flight, a roughly 20,000-kilometer journey connecting Shanghai with Buenos Aires through a stopover in Auckland, according to information
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Cambricon Technologies Corp. is preparing an aggressive production surge that would more than triple its output of artificial intelligence chips in 2026, positioning the company to seize market share from Huawei and
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Phoebe Gates, daughter of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates, is raising $30 million in new funding for her artificial intelligence shopping startup, Phia, according to a pitch deck viewed
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A growing number of commercial airline pilots are avoiding mental health treatment out of fear that acknowledging even minor or treatable conditions could lead to grounding and jeopardize their careers, according to
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TikTok parent company ByteDance Ltd. will invest more than 200 billion reais ($37.7 billion) to build a large-scale data center in Brazil, marking the company’s first infrastructure project in Latin America. The
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