Catch up:Hamas releases more hostages; Hegseth confirmed as defence secretary
After Hamas released four more Israeli hostages, all of them female soldiers, held in Gaza since October 2023, Israel freed 2...
Catch up:Hegseth confirmed as defence secretary; Hamas releases more hostages
Overcoming doubts about his fitness for the job, Pete Hegseth secured confirmation as America’s next secretary of defence by ...
Catch up:Hegseth confirmed as America’s defence secretary; Israel’s delay in Lebanon
Overcoming doubts about his fitness, Pete Hegseth secured confirmation as America’s next secretary of defence. J.D. Vance, th...
Catch up:Israel’s delay in Lebanon; America’s foreign-aid freeze
Israel said it would not fully withdraw its troops from Lebanon by the end of the weekend, the deadline it had agreed to in a...
Catch up:Israel delays Lebanon withdrawal; Trump’s FEMA “overhaul”
Israel said it would not fully withdraw its troops from Lebanon by the end of the weekend, the deadline it had agreed in a ce...
Catch up:Israel delays withdrawal from Lebanon; Japan raises rates
Israel said it would not fully withdraw its troops from Lebanon by the end of the weekend, the deadline it had agreed in a ce...
China’s AI industry has almost caught up with America’s
THE WORLD’s first “reasoning model”, an advanced form of artificial intelligence, was released in September by OpenAI, an Ame...
OpenAI’s latest model will change the economics of software
When OpenAI announced a new generative artificial-intelligence (AI) model, called o3, a few days before Christmas, it aroused...
A $500bn investment plan says a lot about Trump’s AI priorities
When President Donald Trump announced a half-trillion-dollar of private-sector investment in American artificial-intelligence...
Catch up:Japan’s rate rise; the vote on Pete Hegseth
The Bank of Japan raised its policy rate from 0.25 to “around” 0.5%, the highest level in 17 years. The decision, which was e...