Mark Zuckerberg launches an AI-optimism campaign, and a jab at the doomers
Mark Zuckerberg launches an AI-optimism campaign, and a jab at the doomers

The AI industry has a mood problem, and Mark Zuckerberg thinks he can sell the cure. On Thursday, Meta’s chief executive posted a sunny vision of the AI future, and wrapped it in a marketing campaign. In a Facebook post, Zuckerberg said Meta “has alway…

Why Do Russia’s Wildberries Warehouses Burn So Fiercely?

Ukrainian drones hit facilities operated by Russian e-commerce giant Wildberries with spectacular results. This might have been predicted by the tyoes of material stored inside.

An Update On ‘The Hawk’ Season 2 On Netflix

Will The Hawk get a season 2 on Netflix? It’s a complicated question, and here’s what we know so far about its prospects.

Musk thanks Micron for chips, and builds a $55bn fab to replace it
Musk thanks Micron for chips, and builds a $55bn fab to replace it

Memory chips are the oil of the AI boom, and right now they are hard to get. So when Elon Musk used Tesla’s quarterly call to publicly thank Micron, it was worth noticing. Suppliers rarely get shout-outs. Scarce ones do. Micron recently gave Tesla a “s…

Jensen Huang calls the AI jobs panic ‘complete nonsense’, and takes aim at his peers
Jensen Huang calls the AI jobs panic ‘complete nonsense’, and takes aim at his peers

Jensen Huang has heard the warnings. He is not buying them. The Nvidia chief runs the world’s most valuable company on the back of the AI boom. So when he calls the darkest predictions about that boom “complete nonsense,” it is worth asking whether he …

47 World Cup Teams Fell Short. US Medicine Should Learn From Them

What can American medicine learn from the dozens of teams that didn’t win the World Cup in 2026? The answers include strategy, teamwork and leadership.

Apple is overhauling every Mac, and finally adding a touchscreen
Apple is overhauling every Mac, and finally adding a touchscreen

Apple spent years insisting the Mac would never get a touchscreen. That is about to change. The company is planning an overhaul of its entire Mac line, and the most striking new model is a MacBook you can prod with a finger. The refresh spans this autu…

AI boom drives an 80% surge in foreign investment bids for Thailand
AI boom drives an 80% surge in foreign investment bids for Thailand

Thailand does not usually feature in the story of the AI boom. This year it does. Foreign firms applied to invest 1.37tn baht, about $40.6bn, in the first six months of 2026, the country’s Board of Investment said on Thursday. That is up 80% on a year …

Khosla Ventures, first backer of OpenAI, is raising up to $5.5bn
Khosla Ventures, first backer of OpenAI, is raising up to $5.5bn

Vinod Khosla likes to be early. His firm was the first outside investor in OpenAI, back when that was a strange thing to be. Now Khosla Ventures is raising money to do it again, at a scale it has never tried. The firm is in talks to gather as much as $…

A US Senate panel says it has ‘compelling evidence’ of Chinese influence inside Amazon
A US Senate panel says it has ‘compelling evidence’ of Chinese influence inside Amazon

The email was not meant to be public. Writing to a small-business owner on Staten Island, a researcher for the Senate Small Business Committee said Republican staff had been probing “Amazon negligence related to Chinese influence and have found compell…