Articles & Videos

Chinese nationals were awarded the prestigious Fields Medal for the first time, in the latest sign of the country’s growing academic prowess.

For some execs, the rise of open-source AI from China marks a “dystopian hellscape,” while others are complimenting the “excellent” models.

Suddenly, the wordenshittification has become literal. Before this month, Americans already had more than enough problems to worry about, fromfood and fuel costs to a heinous and seemingly never-endingwar with Iran. But now, we’ve got a Biblical plague ofdiarrhea to contend with too. It’s not the first of its kind, but it’s hitting the national bowels especially hard, aided by the dismantling of regulations and public health networks across the country in the 2020s. Meanwhile, our politicians are too busy with their own reckless profit-making schemes to field much of a response. So as the shit-storm spreads across the map, it’s revealing some critical fault lines in the American state itself.

India’s government will likely quell the student-led Cockroach protests, but it will have a harder time suppressing the underlying frustration fueling them, prominent Indian commentators argued.

Washington’s tariff announcements have tended to be “more dramatic than their eventual implementation,” an analyst noted.

Protesters across Italy demand justice for Abderrahim Fakir, who died after being violently restrained by police in Bologna.

The US president’s stipulation threatens to stymie the newly signed agreement, which allows Saudi Arabia to build nuclear power plants with US technology.

Oil hit $100 a barrel and Magnificent 7 stocks shed nearly $800 billion in market value on Thursday, as pessimism over steep AI spending and the Iran war dragged down global markets.