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Fauci on Trump: It's complicated

Dr Fauci has long been circumspect in describing his feelings toward Mr Trump. But On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service, he writes with candour about their relationship

Don't say 'elite': Corporate firms' new pitch is going to be meritocracy

McKinsey, Accenture, and other big firms want to recruit with a wider net, focusing more on skills than on pedigree

Hey, Siri! Let's talk about how Apple is giving you an AI makeover

Apple, OpenAI and Google declined to comment. Apple's agreement with OpenAI was previously reported by The Information and Bloomberg, which also reported the name for Apple's AI system

The other side of nonviolent resistance

Is Carter Jackson advocating armed resistance at the next protest? Her book is not an instruction manual for activists

OpenAI insiders blowing whistle, warn of reckless race for dominance

'Company has not done enough to prevent its AI systems from becoming dangerous'

A wild ride for US diplomacy

Stuart E Eizenstat's book is a technocratic endeavour that harks back to an ideal of US diplomacy as a nonpartisan arena

Tech giant Google's AI search leaves content publishers scrambling

Publishers could also try to protect their content by orbidding Google's web crawler from sharing any content snippets from their sites

How AI made Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg popular again in Silicon Valley

Many developers and technologists have embraced the Meta chief as their champion of 'open-source' artificial intelligence

British govt moves to revive London's reputation as financial hub

The global competition for investors - among cities like New York, Hong Kong, Dubai and Singapore - is intense

Amid Russian gains in the Ukraine war, Putin overhauls defence ministry

The timing of Putin's recent moves is most likely a sign that he has greater confidence about his battlefield prospects in Ukraine and his hold on political power as he begins his fifth term as prez

The scrappy pilots of the China-Burma-India theatre

Alexander, the author of books on Shackleton's Endurance expedition and the fateful voyage of the Bounty, begins with the Allied loss of Burma to the Japanese in April 1942

Can recognition by European nations bring Palestine closer to statehood?

"We're not going to allow the possibility of the two-state solution to be destroyed by force," said Pedro Sánchez, the Spanish prime minister

Artificial intelligence black boxes just got a little less mysterious

Anthropic claims to have found clues about the inner workings of large language models

Are those mimes spying on us? In Pakistan, it's not a strange question

Today, the "golden men" of Islamabad have been added to the ranks of the conspiracy theories sprouted, knocked down and rehashed every day across the city

BlackRock sans Fink? Shareholders fret about asset management firm's future

Today, it's a caretaker of $10.5 trillion of investor money and a provider of sophisticated trading technology, and Fink has been an informal financial adviser to many governments, including the US

Israel resists grand bargain as US, Saudi officials work on security pact

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has rebuffed calls for the creation of a Palestinian state, saying that it would become a "terror haven"

Google unveils AI-led technology for predicting human molecules' behaviour

The system, AlphaFold3, could accelerate efforts to understand the human body and fight disease

OpenAI launches tool to detect deepfake content by its image generator

OpenAI said it would share its new deepfake detector with a small group of disinformation researchers so they could test the tool in real-world situations and help pinpoint ways it could be improved

Tensions rise in US-based Silicon Valley over sales of startup stocks

The market for shares of startups like SpaceX and Stripe is projected to reach a record $64 bn this year

Tesla pullback puts onus on other firms to build electric vehicle chargers

"There is certainly a psychological component," said Robert Zabors, a senior partner at Roland Berger, a consulting firm. "Availability and reliability are critical to overall EV adoption."