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Why the global league of autocrats thrives

One of the great failures of neoliberalism was to assume that all good things would go together

Data that powers artificial intelligence is disappearing a rapid pace

Over the past year, many of the most important web sources used for training AI models have restricted the use of their data, according to a study by the Data Provenance Initiative

US elections: Can Trump-Vance administration herald new era for dollar?

"As your president, one would think that I would be thrilled with our very strong dollar," Trump said in 2019

From sceptic to superfan: Senator JD Vance's dramatic Trump turnabout

That was nearly a decade ago, when Trump's political ascent coincided with Vance's rise as the author of "Hillbilly Elegy," his memoir of growing up poor in Ohio

How Microsoft's Satya Nadella became tech industry's steely-eyed AI gambler

The notion that Nadella is a steely-eyed risk taker with a grand vision for AI can be hard to square with his history as a low-key boss in an industry full of corner office peacocks

Bernie Madoff: Thoughts from the jailhouse

For every dollar he stole, Madoff seems to have generated at least one piece of regular paper

Spacesuits to dome habitats: Inside Elon Musk's plan to colonise Mars

Musk, 53, has directed SpaceX employees to drill into the design and details of a Martian city, according to five people with knowledge of the efforts and documents viewed by NYT

Tesla's share of US electric car market slips below 50% for first time

The numbers are the latest sign that Tesla is losing its dominance in a market it in effect created in 2012 when it introduced the Model S sedan

As EV revolution slows down, automobile major Ferrari enters the race

A lot is riding on Ferrari's 200-million-euro "e-building," which went into operation last month and is nearly twice the size of Rome's Colosseum

Vulnerable Pakistan withers under deadly heat and fears the coming rains

Karachi endured days of temperatures above 38 degrees Celsius, made worse by power cuts and high humidity

Spin doctoring for the rich and corrupt

All the Worst Humans, a pithy, anecdote-rich memoir by Phil Elwood, has a lot in common with those books. But it tells a story from journalism's shadow side, the realm of high-level public relations

Investors pour $27.1 billion into AI startups, defying a downturn

Now, the AI boom that started in late 2022, has become the strongest counterpoint to the broader startup downturn

From courtroom to 10 Downing Street: Keir Starmer on cusp of power

The polls that predict his party will win a lopsided majority in Parliament on Thursday also suggest that he is unloved by British voters

48 hours to fix a 90-minute mess: Inside Biden camp's post-debate frenzy

The all-hands efforts, from Wilmington to Washington, showed the depths of the damage Mr. Biden did to his re-election campaign in a mere 90 minutes

Robots in your veins

The Singularity Is Nearer follows Kurzweil's 2005 The Singularity Is Near, and several other heraldic works of tech futurism that have become sacred texts to the current generation of AI utopians

President Biden's disjointed debate performance alarms Democratic Party

Democrats who have defended the president for months against his doubters - including members of his own administration - traded frenzied phone calls

Once hottest thing on Wall Street, where have all Chinese IPOs gone?

Wall Street has not seen anything close to a blockbuster Chinese IPO in three years

Pilgrim deaths in Mecca bring underworld of Hajj industry into spotlight

While pilgrims with permits are transported around the holy city of Mecca in air-conditioned buses and rest in air-conditioned tents, unregistered ones are often exposed to the elements

Egypt cracks down on tourism cos after hundreds of pilgrims die during Hajj

Mahmoud Qassem, a member of Egypt's Parliament, said the travel companies "left the pilgrims stranded and turned off their mobile phones" so they could not hear the travellers' calls for help

Was global trade a mistake?

The late-20th-century project of integrating China into the global economy, in the hope that economic development would come hand in hand with political liberalism, feels at best misguided