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Volkswagen to end production at German plant for first time in 88 years

Volkswagen warned of potential production cuts last year, as it faced shaky demand in Europe and China, its biggest market, as well as higher tariffs that have crimped sales in the United States

How Tech's biggest companies are offloading the risks of the AI boom

Those deals had one thing in common: They allowed companies that make massive quarterly profits to reduce their financial exposure to the frenetic, global buildup of data centers

Rob Reiner death: Actor known for his work on both sides of the camera

Reiner worked in small theaters and started his own improv group before landing the role on what would become one of America's defining family sitcoms

How the CIA left a nuclear device buried in Himalayas for decades?

A plutonium-packed generator disappeared on one of the world's highest mountains in a hush-hush mission the US still won't talk about

America needs allies to counter China's industrial, military expansion

Tomahawk missile case highlights US limits against China. To maintain security and influence, US must collaborate with allies economically, technologically, and militarily to counter China's rise

Behind Nobel Laureate Maria Machado's daring escape from Venezuela to Oslo

An American firm with experience in special operations spirited María Corina Machado, the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, out of the country in a secretive land, sea and air operation

Can OpenAI respond after Google closes artificial intelligence tech gap?

But for many industry experts, the real story was that the technical gap between OpenAI's so-called foundational AI model and everyone else had become practically nonexistent

Divisions in Federal Reserve underscore challenge for Trump's next chair

President Trump wants substantially lower borrowing costs, but officials at the central bank appear ready to resist delivering further cuts if the economic backdrop does not warrant it

New warfare era: AI, bioweapons escalate US-China security fears

Deterrence will be necessary. The biggest reason to build a military that can win the wars of the future is to prevent those wars from ever happening

Sleepy Donald? Trump battles the very label he once gave Joe Biden

Trump's cabinet-room snooze and his dismissal of affordability concerns are prompting comparisons with Biden's energy struggles from the last administration

Japan's rare earth strategy offers West a roadmap to reduce China reliance

The 15-year effort by Japan is a model for countries now scrambling to reduce their dependence on Beijing's critical metals

China's trade surplus hits $1.08 tn in 11 months, beating earlier record

The overall surplus through the first 11 months of the year is up 21.7 percent from the same period last year

Beneath the pink glitter, Barbie is a tale of theft and ruthlessness

Barbieland is a book written from outside Barbieland's high-security gates; we meet Hitt - an editor and contributor with The Drift magazine

Hollywood anger mounts as Netflix's Warner Bros takeover sparks job fears

Much of the entertainment capital fears that Netflix's deal will lead to more job losses and theater closings and fewer boundary-pushing movies

Why does AI write like that? Exploring strange patterns of machine text

If only they were robotic! Instead, chatbots have developed a distinctive - and grating - voice

As Trump covets Nobel Peace Prize, FIFA cozies up to him with its own award

Infantino, president of FIFA, soccer's global governing body, who had publicly lobbied for Trump to receive the peace prize, simply had his organisation establish its own

A new book reviews the global history of how capitalism took over the world

Sven Beckert's sweeping global history reframes capitalism as a centuries-long, often violent world-making force - rich in detail, ambitious in scope, and certain to provoke debate

'I was once a broken reader but slowly found my way back to books'

Writers may be more likely to break than other readers because there's ego and other occupational hazards involved

Green card interviews end in handcuffs for spouses of US citizens

Agents are arresting foreign-born spouses when they report for the final step to obtain permanent residency, and charging them with visa violations that could result in deportation

As anti-vaccine conferences rise, future of medicine seems to be in trouble

Vaccine decisions today go beyond personal risk-benefit - they carry cultural and political weight, often leading to judgement when outcomes don't go as expected