Yet a new report from Catalist, a left-leaning political-data firm, shows that although Democrats still won a majority of ...

In February Mr Trump halted graft investigations under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, blaming the law for erecting ...

YOU MIGHT think it would be impossible for the inferno in Israel and Gaza to burn hotter. Yet Binyamin Netanyahu is fuelling ...

Cheese rolling is, for now, not officially recognised. That may soon change. This summer, the government will invite public ...

D ONALD TRUMP insists that tariffs will bring back jobs and revitalise American industry, and that short-term pain would be ...

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The battle over Chinese AI is taking place across three layers: cloud infrastructure, models and applications. Consider each in turn. Cloud-computing sales in China will exceed $50bn this year, and ...

It helps, too, that big companies tend to have more suppliers in more places. A study by the World Economic Forum and Kearney ...

That might surprise people who had to cope with bubonic plague, ice ages, Vikings, world wars, colonisation and the rest. But ...

A LMOST EVERY week the world takes another step towards artificial super-intelligence. The most powerful AI models can do an ...

The debt of other governments looks newly risky, too, with long-term yields rising across much of the rich world (see chart).

Mr Trump prefers to govern by executive order, but the bill approved last week addressed administration priorities that couldn’t be tackled with his signature alone. Most significantly, it makes ...