Month: October 2026

The Scene A capital crunch is coming to the AI buildout that’s already plagued by shortages of chips, power and materials. “Soon, there will be shortages of capital” and lenders are starting to demand real returns, Tan Su Shan, who runs Southeast Asia’s largest bank said at a Semafor World ...

Medicine is moving toward a future in which a person’s DNA can help to predict disease risk, guide personalized treatment and inform therapies for genetic disorders. But as precision medicine and genetic therapies become more mainstream, the science behind these advances has a major gap: they do not work equally ...

The Scoop Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund is tapping its portfolio companies to pay off 800 million riyals ($213 million) of debt held by the soccer club Al Nassr — where star Portuguese striker Cristiano Ronaldo plays — according to people familiar with the matter. Public Investment Fund (PIF) is ...

The News The leading contenders in Nigeria’s presidential election face a defining question: should the fuel subsidy be restored to ease the burden of rising energy costs? President Bola Tinubu, who is seeking a second term in January, has repeatedly defended his decision to scrap a years-long subsidy program in ...

Anthropic said it would commit 5% of its shares — potentially more if it hits unspecified revenue targets — to a public-benefit fund, the latest effort by frontier AI labs to head off political backlash over the technology’s impact on jobs and society. Its rival OpenAI has similarly discussed handing ...

After Houthis escalated their attacks on Saudi Arabia, the US turned down calls from MBS for help For years, Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, cultivated a close relationship with Donald Trump and his son-in-law and former top adviser, Jared Kushner. The prince understood the president’s transactional approach to ...

Two-thirds of population face crisis levels of food insecurity and 200,000 people are in danger of famine This winter is likely to deepen hunger for Palestinians in Gaza, after sweeping aid cuts forced the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) to end support for more than half a million people each ...

Will California stand with the working class or the oligarchs in the vote this November? The Democratic party has a choice to make. Are we going to be New Deal Democrats or corporate Democrats? Are we standing with the working class or the tech oligarchs? Proposition 40, California’s billionaire tax, ...

Anthony Constantino wants to fill Elise Stefanik’s seat in New York. But his lead in the formerly Trump-loving district is narrowing The boss of a New York-based sticker company, whose staunch support for Donald Trump prompted him to record a Maga-themed rap album and call for an extension of Mount ...

Backlash against content creators includes restricted hours for filming and even outright bans Stand in any vaguely photogenic spot these days on holiday and the chances are you will come across people posing with raised phones and even ring lights. Some may be influencers with huge audiences on social media, ...