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Elon Musk has a giant charity, but its money stays close to home

Since 2020, he has seeded his charity with tax-deductible donations of stock worth more than $7 billion at the time, making it one of the largest in the Unites States

Year after Silicon Valley Bank crisis, a struggle over what needs to change

Regulators say they are now paying closer attention to midsize banks, recognizing that problems can quickly spread between banks with diverse geographic footprints and customer bases

$1,780 to spend night in a 'cocoon'? Hotels now betting on sleep tourism

AI-assisted beds, on-call hypnotherapists are taking sleep tourism to the next level

AI startup Anthropic challenges OpenAI and Google with new chatbot

Dario Amodei, Anthropic's chief executive and co-founder, said the new technology, called Claude 3 Opus, was particularly useful when analysing scientific data or generating computer code

Forced to change: Tech giants bow to global onslaught of regulations

Apple, Google, Meta operated unfettered for years. But new laws have compelled them to make major shifts to their businesses

The paradox at the heart of Elon Musk's lawsuit against the OpenAI

Most leaders of AI companies claim that not only is AGI possible to build, but also that it is imminent

Surveillance: High tech and narcs

Two new books about state surveillance in the 21st century, one focused on China and the other on the United States, make it clear that Foucault was right

Fresh ceasefire calls after Israel attacks Palestinians awaiting food

International leaders said the disaster reinforced the need for an immediate halt in fighting to alleviate the human suffering that has no parallel in recent memory

Behind Apple's doomed car project: False starts and wrong turns

Throughout its existence, the car effort was scrapped and rebooted several times, shedding hundreds of workers along the way

Cost of nuclear war in space: Putting a weapon into orbit a military threat

It's also a risk to the billions of dollars pouring into the space economy

The men who made and unmade Twitter

As for Musk, he seemed determined to break things as soon as he entered Twitter's offices carrying a porcelain sink

Putin has already lost

For Mr Putin, more concerned by Ukraine than any other country that arose from the wreckage of the Soviet Union, that alone is tantamount to defeat

Leaked files show secret world of China's hackers for hire: Report

The offerings, detailed in leaked documents, were a portion of the hacking tools and data caches sold by a Chinese security firm called I-Soon

Wife, protector and now political heir: Yulia Navalnaya rallies Russians

Aleksei A Navalny had collapsed after being given what German medical investigators would later declare was a near-fatal dose of the nerve agent Novichok

Navalny's final months, in his own words: Trump, Indian food, books

"If they're told to feed you caviar tomorrow, they'll feed you caviar," Navalny, the Russian opposition leader, wrote to the same acquaintance, Ilia Krasilshchik, in August

The antitrust enforcers aimed at Big Tech: Then came the backlash

The Korea Fair Trade Commission, with the backing of President Yoon Suk Yeol, said in December that it planned to make a proposal modeled after the 2022 Digital Markets Act,

Immigration crisis, Made in America

Conflicts over immigration often arise from similarity rather than difference, and the strangers at our border have a familiar history that Blitzer tells in meticulous and vivid detail

Trump is at odds with Nato - and reality

Mr Trump's mishandling of Covid and election denial were uniquely Trumpian - the behaviour of a man who doesn't like to accept reality when it isn't what he wants it to be

The deadly business of restricting immigration

While xenophobia remains a constant in American life, anti-immigrant policies have consequences beyond borders. Two recent books, spanning different periods in history, illustrate this point

Explained: How China built electric vehicle company BYD, its Tesla killer

The leading Chinese EV company has posted two years of million-car growth in sales