Xi Jinping gave Donald Trump rose seeds to plant at the White House — and almost nothing else. After two days in Beijing's grandest halls, the world's two biggest powers walked away with pageantry, no breakthroughs, and a fresh warning abou
Move your AI startup's headquarters from Beijing to Singapore, sell it to Meta for $2bn, exit cleanly. That was the plan — until China killed it and exposed a loophole the entire tech world had been quietly using.
A swarm of speedboats — some little more than racing yachts with machine guns bolted on — is keeping a fifth of the world's oil hostage and embarrassing the US Navy.
India's economy has balanced on a single trick for twenty years: sell foreign software, buy foreign oil. A speculative research note argues AI is about to shatter both halves of that equation at once.
A deadly virus carried by rats in Argentina somehow ended up killing passengers on a high-end Antarctic cruise — and now a dozen countries are scrambling to contain it.
China just blocked Meta from buying an AI startup that isn't even Chinese anymore — a $2bn shot across Silicon Valley's bow weeks before Trump and Xi sit down to talk.
For ten years, the UAE quietly capped its own oil production to keep Saudi Arabia solvent. Then a war with Iran exposed the bill — and Abu Dhabi decided it was done paying.
What if you could place a bet on a secret military raid — and win big because you knew it was coming? That's exactly the fear haunting Polymarket right now.
Everyone says AI will gut India's outsourcing industry. A contrarian analyst crunched the numbers and found the opposite — and what he found could reshape the entire global economy.
An AI model costing four cents per task is about to vaporize $2.85 billion in human labor — and the company selling that AI captures less than 1% of the value it destroys.
Imagine paying your boss a million rubles just to get medical leave after being shot. For Russian soldiers in Ukraine, that's not a metaphor — it's the price list.
A naval blockade in a waterway most teenagers couldn't find on a map is quietly rewriting what next year's groceries will cost — and farmers half a world away are already paying the price.
Imagine cheating on a test by secretly photographing every answer the smartest kid writes — then selling your knockoff version for a tenth of the price. That's what the White House just accused China of doing to American AI.