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Elon Musk’s company xAI has launched a website called Grokipedia to compete with online encyclopaedia Wikipedia, which he and others on the American right-wing have accused of ideological bias. The site, dubbed version 0.1, had more than 885,000 articles by Monday evening after its launch, compared to Wikipedia’s more than 7 million in English. The launch came with the promise …

US retail and tech giant Amazon has announced thousands of job cuts, citing a need to restructure and a focus on AI. The company will cut about 14,000 corporate jobs, a 4% reduction in its office workforce, according to a statement published on Tuesday, adding that AI is “enabling companies to innovate much faster than ever before.” Staff in the …

The strikes come amid a major U.S. military buildup in the region, most recently bolstered by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s order last week for the USS Gerald Ford aircraft carrier and its escorts to deploy from the Mediterranean to Latin America. President Trump says he is also considering military action against land targets in Venezuela, a sentiment echoed recently …

OPINION — Two weeks ago, my colleagues and I stood in Dnipro while warning sirens cut across the city and Shahed drones screamed overhead. We had come as a medical-humanitarian delegation to inspect trauma centers that receive the worst of the front’s casualties; instead, we found ourselves in a strike zone, sifting through a debris field that included drone fragments …

Russia should “instill horror and the fear of God” into the West to scare the US and European allies, Kremlin political scientist Sergey Karaganov has said. The non-profit organisation Russian Media Monitor has shared a video clip from the Russian TV show The Right To Know, featuring Mr Karaganov, the head of the Moscow-based think tank Council for Foreign and …

The Hong Kong Palace Museum has said that it will maintain “the highest international standards of security” and “best storage conditions” ahead of hosting the city’s largest and longest-running exhibition of ancient Egyptian treasures. The museum in the West Kowloon Cultural District on Tuesday unveiled three Egyptian statues, including one weighing 1.8 tonnes, which will open to the public from …

New Delhi’s top diplomat has hit out at the selective application of principles after the US imposed new sanctions on Russian oil Indian Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar has called out Western double standards on energy trade, days after the US and EU announced new restrictions on the Russian energy sector. Speaking at the 20th East Asia Summit in Malaysia on …

OPINION — “I’m not going to answer particulars on something that may be in the planning process, but we definitely do have multiple layers of National Guard response forces, whether it’s in each state, whether it’s regionally, whether it’s Title 10 active duty, whether it’s Washington D.C. We’ve got a lot of different ways that constitutionally and legally we can …

In Malaysia on Sunday, on the sidelines of a summit of Southeast Asian leaders, President Donald Trump presided over a ceremony for the signing of a ceasefire agreement between Thailand and Cambodia. The two countries had already agreed to a ceasefire back in July to end a five-day skirmish, the latest flare-up of a decades-old border dispute. This was an …

Two teens were allegedly stabbed with a metal fork by a passenger aboard a Lufthansa flight from Chicago to Frankfurt. He also slapped a female passenger and gestured suicide during the unprovoked attacks that led pilots to make an emergency landing in Boston on Saturday. Praneeth Kumar Usiripalli, the 28-year-old master’s student from India, first stood over a 17-year-old passenger …