4+ hour, 43+ min ago  (267+ words) Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the former emir who transformed Qatar from a little-known Gulf state with declining resources into one of the world’s richest countries per capita, has died at the age of 74. The Amiri Diwan, the country’s…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago  (149+ words) Apple on Friday sued OpenAI and its hardware chief, accusing the AI giant of stealing trade secrets. In a legal filing, the iPhone maker alleged that OpenAI’s Tang Tan, who is Apple’s former vice president of product design, gathered information…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago  (189+ words) By controlling the data, companies can also keep users locked into their systems and away from their competitors, a tech analyst told Semafor. Wearable-makers vie to control data Wearable-makers want a smartphone-adoption moment. Chipmaker Qualcomm is working on up to…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago  (191+ words) Muse Image and Muse Spark 1.1 are the latest releases in the tech firm’s race to catch up to competitors and assert itself as a top player in the AI race. Meta this week rolled out two new AI models as…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (113+ words) Cursor and SpaceXAI announced that they collaboratively released a new model, Grok 4.5, designed to work within Cursor. Speed is Elon Musk’s superpower, but his abilities clearly have limits. Cursor and SpaceXAI announced Wednesday that they collaboratively released a new model,…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago  (178+ words) The protests by health workers puts efforts to contain the virus’ spread further at risk. Protesting Ebola health workers in the DR Congo alleged that they haven’t been paid for their work, putting efforts to contain the virus spread…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago  (141+ words) Countries including Australia, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan have all begun upgrading domestic military manufacturing capacity. Asian powers consolidate regional alliances beyond US, China Asian powers are increasingly taking steps to gird against an unpredictable former ally in the US…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago  (152+ words) The two sides remain far apart on the negotiating table: Iran wants to control traffic through the Strait of Hormuz; Washington wants Tehran to give up its missile and proxy efforts. The US said it would hold “technical talksâ…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago  (573+ words) Xenophobic unrest in South Africa has become a painful cost of doing business, executives warned, signalling that companies are bracing for prolonged instability in a country eager to draw fresh investment. Just over a week after mass protests froze parts…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago  (691+ words) Reid Rasner, an openly gay Republican running for Wyoming’s sole House seat, is spending the final stretch of the campaign on a project he didn’t expect: suing members of his own party for defamation. On Friday morning, Rasner will settle…...