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Tesla and Twitter boss said to be bringing together team, weeks after co-signing letter demanding pause in AI research

A furore over the French president’s remarks on Taiwan has left him isolated on the world stage as well as at home

The UK will test its new mobile phone “emergency alerts” system this month, despite concerns that it could endanger those at risk of domestic abuse by revealing hidden phones. 

His various tax reforms made under Thatcher helped move economic policy from Keynesianism to monetarism

The US is pushing back against efforts by some European allies to offer Ukraine a “road map” to NATO membership at the Western alliance’s next summit in July, according to a British media report quoting unnamed diplomatic sources.

It took both ingenuity and courage for African Americans to become artists in the Jim Crow-era Deep South, said Maya Jaggi in the FT. The region’s black inhabitants typically received no education beyond primary level and were limited to low-paid jobs, making materials like oil paint all but unaffordable. Since…

THG said it 'will take steps to minimise the number of redundancies'

A growing controversy is swirling around deep-sea mining, which aims to extract valuable minerals from the ocean floor. 

The world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, has been hit with a lawsuit by US regulator the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). This is not the first time a cryptocurrency exchange has been charged by a regulator. But this particular case involves a regulator that does not directly oversee cryptocurrencies. This…