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The US is helping Saudi Arabia fight the Houthi group in Yemen with AI-assisted targeting. But AI is not a magic bullet, experts say, and there are technological, political and human rights issues to consider.
Customer service can be a "really, really difficult job." Will AI make it easier — or cause even more headaches?
Interstellar probes. Lunar drones. Helicopters on Mars. When a group of Caltech graduate students and enthusiasts began conducting rocket-propulsion tests in Pasadena’s Arroyo Seco on Oct. 31, 1936, they had no idea that their work marked the inception of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Ninety years later, the lab, now managed by Caltech for NASA, isn’t […]
Booking.com wants more of India’s travel wallet, not just its hotel bookings. Payments and business travel could help it get there, but local platforms will make that a harder sell.
Three nationalist parties are poised to dominate again, deepening fears of division and paralysis.
India is looking east to solve a problem that has been forcing its airlines to fly west the long way around.
The continued blockade of the Strait of Hormuz has forced Iraq to look for alternatives to export its oil.
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of massive galaxy cluster MACS J0417 (left of center) on Sept. 19, 2026. This galaxy cluster acts as a gravitational lens, bending and magnifying light from objects far behind it. Supernova Athena, discovered by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope in 2025, is predicted to reappear between now and […]
Aurora's founder and CEO told CNBC the company is targeting positive free cash flow by 2028, driven by a substantial increase in the number autonomous trucks.
The BRICS summit 2026 takes place in Delhi this weekend. Unlike last year, Putin and Xi are expected to attend. Can India keep the expanded bloc united?
It is hoped that coordinated action minimises the blowback to any one country from Israel or America, our political editor writes.
Some say scrapping the parliament for 11 to 18-year-olds would be a blow for democracy, while others say it is overdue.
