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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

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