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BEIJING — Walk down most streets in China and you'll find a liquor store advertising premium spirits brand Moutai, along with posters of resale prices by vintage year. It's a testament to how intertwined the red-and-white-labeled bottles have been with China's economy in recent d

Scientists stunned by children's lung recovery in ultra low emission zone - Published Scientists say they have been "stunned" by how quickly young children's lungs began to recover and grow after pollution restrictions were brought in where they lived. Researchers found that chil

Camilla admits it was 'difficult' to keep King's cancer diagnosis a secret - Published Queen Camilla has spoken for the first time about the pressure of keeping King Charles III's cancer diagnosis secret in the early stages of treatment. In a video to mark the 30th anniversary of

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For decades, allies worldwide rested in the comfort of the U.S. nuclear umbrella, confident they didn't need their own weapons of mass destruction. That belief is rapidly evaporating as President Donald Trump's latest National Defense Strategy for 2026 dropped any explicit mentio

'Banned over a pair of £2 sandals': Why some sellers are complaining about Vinted - Published Single mum Emma Neil was a huge fan of Vinted, using it most days to sell old things and buy clothes for her children. That was until she bought a pair of sandals for £3, found they didn

Mobile payments on the rise but cash decline slows - Published Consumers are increasingly relying on their mobile phone to make payments rather than carrying bank cards, new data shows. Two-thirds of adults in the UK were registered with at least one mobile payment service last y

OpenAI on Tuesday announced ChatGPT for Teens, a dedicated chatbot experience for users under 18 that the company said is designed to include "stronger built-in safety protections." ChatGPT for Teens builds on several features that OpenAI has launched over the last year, includin

'Look at my husband' and 'Vlad plots revenge'Published7 hours agoImage caption, Queen Camilla's first remarks about King Charles III's cancer journey is prominent across Wednesday's papers. "Look at my husband, nothing stopped him" is the Sun's headline, quoting the Queen who pra

Meta rejected claims that its apps were designed to addict young users, as a trial began Tuesday that could reshape the social media giant’s businesses. Brought by 29 US states, the lawsuit argues Facebook and Instagram knowingly contributed to negative health outcomes for minors

Chinese search giant Baidu posted a fifth consecutive quarterly revenue drop on Tuesday, sending its stock sliding, as it shells out to keep pace with domestic AI peers. Baidu is pivoting to become an “AI-first company,” its CEO said, tripling its quarterly capex as it ploughs ca

The federal agency tasked with studying ways to improve America’s outstandingly poor healthcare system is “on the brink,” experts warn. The Trump administration has cut its staff by 75 percent, canceled its grants en masse, and is refusing to spend tens of millions of dollars app

China’s deepening economic slowdown is reshaping domestic consumption for high-end handbags and humble burgers. Recent earnings releases point to stronger sales for prestige beauty brands like Estée Lauder, while companies such as LVMH reported largely flat demand for traditional

The World Robot Conference kicks off in Beijing on Wednesday coinciding with humanoid maker Unitree going public in Shanghai, as the world faces a new “China shock” from advanced AI technology, experts said. While earlier economic disruption to the West centered around traditiona

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke with US President Donald Trump on Monday, as Ottawa scrambles to avert new 50% tariffs that take effect at midnight on Wednesday. A deal to avoid the duties sits on Trump’s desk, Politico reported, but one sticking point is US tariffs on

Oil prices hit their highest level in weeks after US President Donald Trump cut off talks with Iran for the foreseeable future on Tuesday, and Tehran said the Strait of Hormuz would remain shut amid stalled negotiations. US retail gas prices hit their highest-ever August levels t

Russian tanks have entered battle for the first time with a new active protection system designed to shoot down incoming drones. But the technology’s recent combat debut in Ukraine met with only limited success—Ukrainian drones still destroyed the Russian armored vehicles by atta

For as long as anyone can remember, GitHub has been the de facto code host preferred by a majority of developers. However, in recent times, the platform has struggled with widely reported outages and performance degradation and, as it drops the ball, Cursor is waiting to pick it

Meta hooked children on Facebook and Instagram, US court hears - Published A court has heard claims Meta intentionally hooked a generation of children on Facebook and Instagram, as the biggest legal challenge faced by the social media platform began. A jury in Oakland, California

Burnham received £345,000 of donations ahead of becoming PM - Published Andy Burnham has registered accepting £345,000 of donations over the past year including £164,347 from businessman Lord Sainsbury. The donations, listed in the most recent version of the MPs' register of inte

A few weeks ago, we covered Qualcomm’s acquisition of Modular at Qualcomm Investor Day 2026. Modular’s mission is to build an AI stack that runs across platforms. Today, the company took another step at ModCon 2026, open-sourcing its platform. Qualcomm Modular Open-Sourced at Mod

(Bloomberg) -- Mizuho Financial Group Inc. expects the Bank of Japan to pick up the pace of interest-rate hikes, with the next one coming as soon as next month, as the weak yen and inflation prompt the central bank to act more quickly. Kenya Koshimizu, co-head of the global marke

Quantum Startup Qarakal Takes Lessons From Classical Systems With Pangaea Architecture Advancements in quantum computing continue to pile up in areas from error correction and infrastructure to software and algorithms, sharpening the view of what the once-theoretical compute para

Treasury yields are continuing to climb, and at a particularly bad time as higher rates worsen the impact of the nearly $40 trillion government debt load. Longer-dated debt has been hit particularly hard by the recent leg up, pushing the 30-year bond yield close to its highest le

President Donald Trump on Tuesday cut off talks with Iran for the foreseeable future. On Truth Social, Trump wrote that there “are no talks or conversations going on, or scheduled” with Iran. A White House official clarified that the president was announcing an end to talks with

Tracking USS Lincoln's months-long mission as concerns about conditions grow There have been reports of poor conditions on board the USS Abraham Lincoln, which the US Navy says will soon be brought home from the Middle East. The aircraft carrier was originally expected back in Ma

The Trump administration is still eyeing additional economic measures against Iran after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent indicated announcements would come this week, an administration official told Semafor. “There are many levers the president can crank harder in the weeks and

The Justice Department has launched a probe into Andreessen Horowitz regarding the firm’s partners serving on the boards of competing companies, Bloomberg reported. The nearly year-long investigation focuses specifically on the firm’s board seats at Databricks, which is valued at

Treasury yields pulled back slightly on Tuesday after long-dated bonds hit their highest level in almost two decades amid a worsening U.S. fiscal situation and persistently higher inflation. The yield on the U.S. 30-year Treasury bond fell more than 2 basis points to trade at 5.2

AI - SYSTEMS Cerebras CS-4 rack systems juice chips for every last drop of AI performanceNext-gen systems double per-chip performance while cramming 3x as many into a rack -