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US President Donald Trump imposed up to 100% tariffs on drones, targeting Chinese-made models in particular over national security concerns. China’s DJI alone accounts for more than 70% of the global market, and US law enforcement uses its devices to track wildfires and find missing persons. But drones are also ...

The Scoop Saudi Arabia’s leading AI firm HUMAIN will launch a large venture capital fund — potentially even bigger than a planned $10 billion vehicle — this year, the company’s chief executive told Semafor, as it looks to position the kingdom at the forefront of the technology. Buoyed by its ...

Wael’s view Saudi Arabia’s deepest crude discount since the pandemic points to deeper divisions within the world’s most important oil group, and potentially to Riyadh’s mounting anxiety about losing market share. Saudi Aramco has priced its flagship Arab Light crude for Asian buyers at its widest discount since June 2020: ...

Tech firms are scrambling to reduce the threat of AI-driven bioterrorism, the Financial Times reported. AI models are increasingly powerful bioscience tools, already speeding up drug discovery. But as with cybersecurity, those capabilities are dual-use: Information used to make a vaccine can also “create a bioweapon,” one Google DeepMind researcher ...

People online are distressed at men butchering words such as ‘hyperbole’ and ‘hors d’oeuvres’ – highlighting a gender reversal in ‘intelligence gaps’ There are common non-negotiables we look for in a prospective partner. They should be kind, caring and thoughtful. Having a shared interest helps. So does remembering important dates ...

As the Trump administration refuses to end its war in Iran, it is steering into the storm, not out of it Russia hasn’t yet killed large numbers of Europeans outside Ukraine, but it’s getting closer. The night of 4-5 August, an airport bus driver discovered an armed drone lying near ...

The founder of The Ringer and Grantland was famous for discovering and developing writers. Now he is promoting a technology eroding the creative industries Bill Simmons may have stopped writing with any regularity in the mid-2010s – he claims his fingers don’t work – but that won’t stop him from ...

The pair are discussing small boats, defence and Ukraine in Burnham’s first bilateral talks in Downing Street. ...

He grew up in the ghetto, became a global superstar – then gave it all up. Why did he step away from the spotlight? Mr T explains why he’s late, but he wants to make one thing clear – this is not an apology. “You caught me in my devotion, ...

Instagrammers have upended the British restaurant scene, and amassed followings in the millions. But has their moment already passed? In 2017, two aspiring YouTubers going by the name Topjaw published a video posing the London foodie’s most important question: what to eat in Chinatown? They enlisted the help of longtime ...