Claude is becoming increasingly capable and commercially valuable, while Anthropic is fighting Washington over autonomous weapons and surveillance. The company wants America to lead AI, but not at any price.
Claude is becoming increasingly capable and commercially valuable, while Anthropic is fighting Washington over autonomous weapons and surveillance. The company wants America to lead AI, but not at any price.
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A humanoid robot that cleans kitchens, scrubs toilets and folds laundry is now being rented to households in San Francisco, offering an early test of whether machines designed for factories can eventually
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China plans to complete a geological map covering the entire surface of Mars by the end of 2028, as Beijing prepares for its next major Martian mission and expands its capabilities in
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China’s rapid push into artificial intelligence and humanoid robotics is attracting billions of dollars in investment, but economists and business leaders are warning that the transformation carries risks ranging from excessive valuations
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Mark Zuckerberg is betting that Meta’s next major artificial intelligence product will become a personal agent capable of handling much of everyday life online. Muse, unveiled at Meta’s developer conference in Menlo
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The guillotine was designed to make execution faster and more efficient. But the experience of revolutionary Paris offers an unexpected analogy for the economic effects of artificial intelligence: greater efficiency does not
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One of the world’s best-known cybercrime groups has claimed it hacked one of its principal rivals, exposing an unusually open confrontation within the underground world of digital extortion. ShinyHunters, a group known
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When Krisca, an international student in east China’s Shandong Province, stepped out of a taxi, she didn’t realize she had left her bag behind. Moments later, panic set in—her passport was inside,
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When Jordan Seow joined OpenAI in June 2025, he became the company’s first locally hired forward-deployed engineer in Asia-Pacific. At the time, the company’s Singapore office had fewer than 20 employees. The
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Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD will immediately recall more than 180,000 cars to address a manufacturing defect affecting a brake pedal component, China’s market regulator said on Friday. The recall covers 183,211
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Volkswagen is recalling 208,724 vehicles in the United States because of a faulty steering rack bolt that could break and result in a loss of steering control, the US National Highway Traffic
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Europe risks becoming dangerously dependent on foreign AI, threatening its economic independence, security and geopolitical influence. The warning is that decisions made now could determine whether Europe helps shape the future of
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Bill Gates has spent much of his life at the centre of technological change. Since co-founding Microsoft with Paul Allen in 1975, he has witnessed — and helped shape — the rise
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For Vivian Jenna Wilson, rebellion has become both personal and public. The 22-year-old transgender model and one of Elon Musk’s 14 children has emerged as a prominent critic of her father, and
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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
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