Day: November 6, 2026

Labour is weakening Margaret Thatcher’s landmark housing policy. Will it really fix Britain’s social housing woes? ...

A Democratic romp in US midterm elections could change Russia’s strategic calculus toward the West, analysts suggested, as Ukraine hailed the prospect of a more sympathetic Washington. Ukraine’s leader said this week that Kyiv hoped for a “balance of power, and that we will be supported more.” Meanwhile, the Kremlin ...

Roughly 600,000 advanced Nvidia chips are stuck in Hong Kong en route to China, Reuters reported, as Beijing — concerned its firms are too reliant on Western tech — bars their entry. Despite China’s efforts to boost semiconductor self-sufficiency, domestic tech firms’ immense demand for compute has led to a ...

, by Elif Shafak. When French novelist Gustave Flaubert sits down to write the fate of his famous character Emma Bovary, she suddenly speaks to him, opening the floodgates of memory and interspersing Flaubert’s perspective with that of 30 women from his life. This “audacious” novel “is the ideal vehicle ...

Israel’s largest Arab party grouping declared its support Thursday for Gadi Eisenkot to form the next government, potentially clearing the path for a coalition that excludes Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The announcement came after Netanyahu — who campaigned partly on his unique relationship with US President Donald Trump — lost ...

OpenAI said Thursday it would avoid nondisclosure agreements in data center deals and ensure facilities don’t raise energy costs for residents, as tech scrambles to render the AI buildout more palatable to the public. The policies are part of OpenAI’s attempts to set a new tone for AI policy discourse, ...

Following widespread backlash, Meta announced earlier this week it’s putting a planned update of its commercial terms of use on pause. The terms would have required business accounts to allow Meta to “use any content from such domains, web pages, or URLs to provide, develop, improve, research, train, and maintain ...

Archaeologists have discovered the oldest direct evidence of psychoactive cannabis use in a Siberian tomb that dates back 2,800 years and was the site of human and horse sacrifices, according to a study published on Thursday in Science.  During excavations of the tomb, a team found more than 1,400 cannabis ...

The market has been reacting to possible tougher scrutiny of data centre construction and the AI industry following the US midterms ...