India is investing billions of dollars to establish itself as a major semiconductor manufacturing centre, but its strategy differs from the approach taken by the world’s leading chipmakers. Instead of entering the
Data centres that support online banking, transport applications, cloud computing and artificial intelligence are increasingly being targeted in military operations, with attacks by Ukraine, Russia and Iran demonstrating how damage to physical
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Intelligent airports promise greater efficiency and safer operations, but growing dependence on artificial intelligence raises a fundamental question: can airport authorities retain meaningful control over systems they may neither fully understand nor
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JPMorgan Chase is restricting external artificial intelligence agents from accessing its systems, with chief executive Jamie Dimon warning that the technology presents heightened security risks and could leave customers liable for unwanted
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OpenAI said it used its artificial intelligence models to identify an employee suspected of planting a concealed recording device in one of its offices, after which the company referred the matter to
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Asian technology stocks fell sharply on Tuesday as a sell-off in US semiconductor shares spread across regional markets, with concerns about artificial intelligence investment, access to capital and intensifying competition from Chinese
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Across the United States, a growing backlash against enormous data centres is emerging as an unexpected bipartisan political issue ahead of the 3 November midterm elections. From the dry communities of New
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How much risk is the AI boom creating in the rest of the economy? Tales of financial stress caused by high interest rates are proliferating
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Governments and political leaders are adopting increasingly different strategies to protect themselves and the public from deepfakes generated by artificial intelligence, as the technology becomes capable of producing convincing fake videos, images
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China is no longer treating robotics as merely an extension of artificial intelligence. Its universities, manufacturers, investors and startups are building an integrated ecosystem in which physics, mechanics, materials, AI and manufacturing
More On 8 July 2026, an OpenAI AI agent named PHASEONE10841 was struggling with a task it could not solve. Isolated inside a digital “sandbox” and denied access to the internet, it was
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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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The next decade could see an estimated $8 trillion surge in additional defence spending by the Group of Seven, according to former US Navy Admiral James Stavridis, creating a vast new source
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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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The prospect of artificial intelligence destroying humanity has become a prominent part of the technology industry’s public debate, but Harvard historian Jill Lepore argues that the more immediate danger lies elsewhere: the
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End Times Fascism argues that the real danger is not simply the return of twentieth-century fascism, but the emergence of a politics that treats planetary crisis as inevitable, profitable and even desirable.
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