Category: Semafor

, directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. Ignore the myriad stories about the film being a box-office flop (though it is looking to be one of historic proportions). Go watch it anyway, because, The Guardian’s Sian Cain writes, “it is a misunderstood masterpiece.” The film’s producers have implored audiences not to ...

The Houthis firing missiles at Riyadh are not just Iranian proxies — they’re heirs to a 1,000-year-old Zaydi imamate that ruled northern Yemen on and off until the modern state was established in 1962. Zaydism holds that power belongs to the Prophet’s descendants, not elected officials. In an explainer video, ...

It took 58 years for a pioneering Jeddah schoolhouse show to reach Frieze Masters in London. In 1968, two female artists hung their paintings at a school in Jeddah called Dar Al-Tarbia Al-Hadetha, in one of the first exhibitions women had ever held in Saudi Arabia. One of them, Mounirah ...

Key watchdogs indicated they would step up regulation of AI, though the technology’s superpowers — the US and China — showed little indication of increasing their own scrutiny. Banking regulators on both sides of the Atlantic were increasingly asking questions of institutions’ use of AI models, fearful the technology could ...

Powerful hurricanes killed several people and left thousands without power in the US and Mexico, as experts warned that this year’s supercharged El Niño risked making storms longer and more destructive. The climate phenomenon, which originates in the Pacific and leads to warmer global temperatures, has upended weather across the ...

The global economy will grow more this year than previously expected, the International Monetary Fund said, with booming investment in AI outweighing a fast-growing debt pile — for now. The marginal upgrade in the IMF’s outlook nevertheless represents a slowing in the pace of overall expansion, while the fund also ...

Tech stocks fell on concerns that a historic surge in AI-related shares may be turning, as investors questioned the financing of the huge buildout underway. South Korea’s market — heavily exposed to chip giants Samsung and SK Hynix — sold off sharply, leading a decline in Asian tech shares. Investors ...

US home sales plunged to a 12-year low after mortgage rates topped 7%, driven by soaring global borrowing costs. Increasing energy prices and higher-for-longer inflation expectations have sent debt costs to recent records, with US bond yields touching a 24-year high and European debt climbing to levels not seen in ...

US President Donald Trump defended his deal with Moscow to suspend export sanctions on Russian fuel, calling it “the right choice” and accusing Europe of hypocrisy for continuing to import Russian energy. Both Republicans and Democrats have criticized the agreement, which could direct some $4 billion in US funds to ...

A cyberattack, affecting at least 400 French supermarkets overnight, raised refrigerator temperatures to more than 122°F (50°C) in some cases, forcing millions of dollars’ worth of food to be discarded Monday. “The weaponization of food has become a reality,” the EU commissioner for agriculture said. The scale of the hack ...