AI technology has had a huge impact on warfare in recent years, yet the systems are fallible, and concerns are growing, not least in terms of ethics and legality
Algorithms already perform many human tasks with greater accuracy and efficiency. While AI cannot yet do everything a human brain can, progress in this field is rapid. What next for humanity?
Amidst a larger trade war, the race to establish dominance in the AI industry is in full flow, the winner likely to set the rules of the game. A recent meeting in Beijing is evidence of its importance
When a start-up using 2,000 old Nvidia chips produced a ChatGPT rival for $6mn, investors took around $1tn out of the big US tech firms. Donald Trump called it 'a wake-up call'. Never a truer word.
Last week, Chinese start-up company Deepseek disrupted the AI market with the launch of its R1 model. Upon the launch of its AI chatbot, the company revealed in a research paper that it spent only …
A $500bn project involving key industry players is designed to build the gargantuan infrastructure needed to support the expansion of the AI revolution. For the US president, it is also about winning.
The standoff in the Hormuz is not simply a question of whether Tehran can survive economic pressure, but whether Washington can sustain the pressure at an acceptable cost.
Many Israelis actually believe that they lost the war, with opposition leader Yair Lapid accusing the Israeli premier of having led the country into "strategic collapse and diplomatic catastrophe"
The Strait of Hormuz is now poised to become the primary arena of confrontation, with Iran relying on speedboat-driven guerrilla warfare to confront the US navy.
Former regime soldiers are stuck in limbo, as their undocumented status prevents them from working, travelling, and curbs family members' access to education, healthcare and social services