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Beijing has agreed to work with Washington to improve governance of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and to enhance cooperation as Chinese President Xi Jinping and United States President Donald Trump met face-to-face at the White House on Thursday. Xi made...

Oil is increasingly getting more expensive before it even reaches a refinery. Freight now accounts for roughly a fifth of the cost of a crude cargo, turning the tanker market into a major driver of the price buyers pay. At...

With the current geopolitical shifts and the emergence of a multipolar world, political, economic, and diplomatic relations between countries are changing. Through BRICS and the Global South, China seeks to challenge the perceived Western hegemony of the global political and...

As the national average diesel price soared to a record $6.52 per gallon, the Trump Administration sent mixed signals this week about restricting U.S. diesel exports. The White House has denied that an export ban is in the works, even...

US ambassador Leo Brent Bozell III has denied suggesting that former president Thabo Mbeki should intervene in South Africa's dispute with Washington, insisting he never called for Mbeki to mediate the strained relationship. Bozell's clarification comes as Pretoria pushes back against...

👉 This is Part 2 of an editorial series on the evolving economics of AI inference. If you missed Part 1, where I broke down the shift toward full-system integration, the lessons from the AI Infra Summit, and the “no...

The energy crisis caused by the United States and Israel’s war in Iran could be just what the world needed to achieve 35 percent electrification by 2035. This goal, “35 by ‘35” has emerged as a key platform of the...

Global biofuels production is projected to surge by nearly 70% by 2030 as major producing countries raise their fuel-blending mandates in response to the energy crisis triggered by the Middle East conflict, a study co-authored by British think tank Chatham...

For the first time in nearly four decades, Italy is considering nuclear power as part of its energy calculus. The Italian Senate on Wednesday gave final approval to a government plan to restart nuclear power generation, Reuters said, almost 40...

Saudi Arabia’s workaround for the Strait of Hormuz now carries a war-risk insurance bill nearly as expensive as sending tankers through Hormuz itself. Quoted premiums for Saudi-linked tankers calling at the Red Sea port of Yanbu have tripled to around...

Sudan and Saudi Arabia are moving to revive talks on delimiting their maritime border, even as war continues to devastate Sudan. Sudan has been at war since April 2023, when fighting broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), led...

Modern system-on-chip (SoC) and application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) designs are extraordinarily complex. They may combine processors, accelerators, memory controllers, high-speed interfaces, security functions, and millions—or even billions—of logic gates. Verifying these systems entirely through … Read More The post S2C Prodigy...

It was just this month that saw the Iran conflict spill over into a renewed fight between the Saudi coalition and Yemen's Houthi rebels. Now Iran is threatening to expand the fight further, even into the Indian Ocean. Yahya Rahim...

The main news of the day is the Chinese leader's first state visit to the United States in 11 years, a meeting that directly affects Russia's interests. Trump Welcomes Communist Xi on the Red Carpet Chinese President Xi Jinping has arrived in...

Russia has begun commercial crude exports from Rosneft’s Vostok Oil project, putting barrels on the water from its new Arctic terminal after years of sanctions, investor exits, and construction delays. Three ice-class tankers loaded about 250,000 metric tons of crude...

Global debt has passed US$365 trillion, and the cost of carrying it is now rising faster than any government can control. For investors with money anywhere in the world, few risks matter more over at least the next two years....

Fighting escalates after Tigrayan rebels form new coalition aimed at overthrowing Abiy Ahmed government There are growing fears of a return to civil war in Ethiopia after an offensive by fighters from Tigray into the neighbouring states of Afar and Amhara...

China could lower its fuel exports again in October, potentially tightening the global fuel market further, as domestic gasoline and diesel inventories have slumped to multi-year lows. China’s fuel exports recovered in August as refiners exported 6.01 million tons of...

Record-high gasoline and diesel prices in many European markets did what European policymakers couldn’t do in years - shift consumer choice to low-emission vehicles. Battery electric vehicle sales in Europe, including the UK, Switzerland, and Norway, surged by 52.2% in...

TODAY’S NUMBERS 36 months (the EU’s new Russia asset-freeze renewal cycle, up from six) · 100% (top US tariff on Russia’s five biggest buyers) · 2.96m bpd (India’s Russian crude imports in July). Sanctions are getting harder to unwind, and...

Ten months, one tariff threat and several "sleepless nights" later, South Korea has finally found somewhere to put the first piece of the $350 billion it promised to invest in America. The winner is a gas-fired power complex in Encinal,...

Allies are hedging against the US: why Brussels, Madrid and Paris no longer see Washington as their most reliable partner Belgium no longer regards the United States as an unequivocally reliable ally. In its new foreign policy strategy, developments in Washington...

When I interviewed with Silicon Creations 15 years ago, I met directly with the company’s two founders, Jeff Galloway and Randy Caplan. I joined in 2011 as a circuit designer, and the three of us were the entire company. Today,...

Saudi Arabia has sold almost 100 million barrels of crude to Asian buyers via the Strait of Hormuz since the middle of last week, when it pivoted to the chokepoint it wanted to avoid with the East-West pipeline to the...

Throughout the 20th century and into the 21st century, Brazilian governments of all ideological persuasions have consistently resisted perceived subordination to the US. Regardless of who wins the presidency, we should expect Brazil to continue prioritizing national sovereignty. The post Structural...

Europe’s benchmark natural gas prices jumped by 4% at trade open in Amsterdam on Thursday, as the United States and Iran remain distant on how to end the war and put an end to the blocked LNG shipments at the...

A tarmac welcome, a paused Taiwan arms package and a trade truce that conveniently outlasts the midterms. Trump’s White House summit with Xi Jinping will produce few agreements, but it reveals exactly who is setting the terms. On a blustery...

More than a year after a peace deal was signed, those fleeing fighting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are finding refuge in camps that are already home to hundreds of thousands living in dire conditions A cry of panic...

The number of commodity vessels observed to have moved in and out of the Strait of Hormuz remained stubbornly low on Wednesday and below the 10-day moving average as the United States and Iran remain distant on how to end...

Artificial intelligence is emerging as one of the defining concerns of Pope Leo XIV’s papacy, with the Vatican warning that the technology could reshape society in ways that governments and institutions may struggle to control. The Vatican’s concerns predate the...

The U.S. government is ready to support Argentina’s key LNG project by lending up to $6 billion to the project led by Argentina’s energy group YPF in partnership with Italy’s Eni and Emirati energy firm XRG. As part of a...

Prediction market platforms allow people to bet on real-world events like politics, culture, economics, war, and sports. Their defining feature is the buying and selling of contracts. They operate on a peer-to-peer model in which participants buy and sell contracts...