The latest anxiety over artificial intelligence investment is less about whether the technology will continue advancing and more about whether spending can maintain its extraordinary pace. Years of aggressive investment have created a powerful chain linking AI developers, cloud companies,...

The rapid Houthi advance along Yemen’s Red Sea coast has transformed a long-running conflict into a wider strategic problem for Saudi Arabia and its Gulf neighbours. By gaining positions near the Bab el-Mandeb Strait and threatening an alternative route for Saudi oil exports, the Iran-aligned group...

The sharp fall in artificial intelligence stocks after leading technology executives called for a slower pace of development has exposed a financial vulnerability beneath the industry's extraordinary expansion. The immediate concern is not that artificial intelligence development will suddenly...

Israel’s decision to close the British consulate in East Jerusalem marks a sharp escalation in an already deteriorating relationship with Britain, but the immediate dispute is rooted in a broader change in how several Western governments are approaching Israel’s settlement policy. Britain, France...

The rapid rise of artificial intelligence stocks is forcing investors to reconsider one of Wall Street's most familiar measures of market stress: the 20% decline commonly used to define a bear market. The problem is not that the threshold has suddenly become meaningless. It is that increasingly...

Google is changing how it enforces one of its search spam policies across Europe after European Union regulators raised concerns that the rules could unfairly penalise publishers that use third-party commercial content. The change is significant not because Google is abandoning its fight against...

Chinese automakers are moving deeper into South Africa's vehicle market, using electric vehicles, hybrids and pickup trucks to build on a rapid increase in their presence and challenge established manufacturers on several fronts at once. The latest launches at the WesBank Festival of Motoring in...

Coral reefs are facing a problem more serious than any single bleaching event: the time available for recovery is shrinking. A new assessment of more than four decades of observations from nearly 37,000 reef sites across 120 countries and territories indicates that major bleaching events are now...

Venezuela's interim President Delcy Rodriguez says a new energy agreement with the United States will remain in force for 25 years, making the arrangement far more significant than a short-term effort to restore oil production. The agreement is intended to rebuild Venezuela's damaged petroleum...

China’s three largest state-owned airlines have been pulled back into heavy losses by a combination of soaring jet fuel costs, weak domestic pricing power and disruption to international routes, exposing the fragile economics of the country’s aviation recovery. Air China, China Eastern Airlines and...

The proposed increase in US tariffs on Canadian-built vehicles threatens to leave Toyota and Honda carrying much of the financial burden of a trade dispute between Washington and Ottawa. The two Japanese automakers account for more than three-quarters of vehicle production in Canada, and their...