By Thang Tran, CEO of Simplex Micro and Umesh Sisodia, CEO of CircuitSutra Performance models have a reputation problem. They’re often treated as a long-lead, high-effort undertaking — something a design team commits to early and then waits on for months...
The current semiconductor memory boom is mainly an AI-driven capacity-allocation problem, not simply a lack of factories. AI accelerators require enormous quantities of high-bandwidth memory, or HBM. HBM is used alongside GPUs and custom AI chips because it can move data...
Oil prices gave up earlier gains on Friday after reports that Pakistan is trying to broker a return to U.S.-Iran nuclear negotiations. China is strongly backing the effort as the conflict and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz continue...
As renewed tensions between Iran and the United States unsettle the Middle East, Pakistan’s quiet diplomacy offers a reminder that sustainable regional security depends not on coercion, but on dialogue, strategic restraint and political compromise. The Middle East has become...
Ohad Agami is the co-founder and CEO of Hiveware , a semiconductor verification company he started in Tel Aviv in 2023 with CTO Yaniv Pascal. He has a systems-focused engineering background with deep experience in semiconductor architectures and complex verification...
U.S. airlines are grappling with soaring jet fuel costs again after the return of hostilities in the Middle East shattered the three-week-long U.S.-Iran ‘deal to make a deal’ and sent Brent crude oil prices soaring past $100 per barrel again....
I fully expected that Trump would deliver on his vow to open the Gates of Hell on Iran. All the warning indicators were flashing red: i.e., Europeans were closing their embassies in Tehran and evacuating staff, major surge in US...
Argentina’s massive shale oil and gas boom is going from strength to strength. The economically crisis-prone South American country yet again reported record monthly oil and natural gas production for May 2026. This couldn’t come at a better time for...
AI would produce socially extremely unequal and politically much more unstable societies than the current proponents of abundance created by the artificial intelligence want us to believe. Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His latest book The...
Gaza /PNN / The death toll from the Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip has risen to 73,326, with 173,997 Palestinians injured, since October 7, 2023, according to medical sources in Gaza. Local health authorities said hospitals across the Strip received nine...
MADRID /PNN / Spain on Sunday strongly condemned settler violence in the occupied West Bank, saying attacks against Palestinian civilians are being carried out with impunity. In a statement, the Spanish government said a recent wave of escalating violence included an indiscriminate...
domestic nuclear energy sector is set to bounce back as the technology finds favor among the public and policymakers alike for its ability to provide round-the-clock clean energy. At a time when data center hyperscalers are driving up energy insecurity...
Less than a month ago, analysts were warning of a looming glut of crude oil as tanker traffic via the Strait of Hormuz began to recover amid a U.S.-Iran ceasefire. Within days of these warnings, the ceasefire was a painful...
Michael Hudson and Radhika Desai examine the gap between Trump’s promised economic boom and the reality of an economy sustained by asset bubbles rather than production. They show that the stock market’s rise reflects cheap credit, buybacks, and speculation rather...
For much of the modern era, terrorist organizations have been understood through the prism of ideology. Ethno nationalist insurgencies have pursued territorial autonomy, while jihadist organizations have sought transnational religious objectives. This distinction has long shaped intelligence assessments, military strategies...
Australia has big renewable energy ambitions and is well on its way to shifting dependence away from coal to cleaner alternatives. Having long depended on coal, the government now aims to establish a more diverse energy mix to ensure that...
For three-quarters of a century, the Middle East operated inside an American frame. Washington was not the only actor, but it was the reference point — the guarantor whose fleets, bases, and diplomatic weight set the outer boundaries of what...
AMMAN / PNN / Jordan's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities and the Jordan Tourism Board, in cooperation with the country's tourism associations, have launched the integrated digital platform "Ahlan Bel Urdun" ( Welcome to Jordan ), targeting Arab markets with a...
“As to [nuclear war] dangers arising from an American president, the best protection is not to elect one.”-General Maxwell D. Taylor (ret.), 14 March 1976.[1] More than fifty years ago, retired USA four-star general Maxwell D. Taylor sent me a...
HEBRON, Occupied West Bank /PNN / Like many communities across the occupied West Bank, residents of the town of Idhna, west of Hebron, are struggling with a worsening water crisis that has become part of their daily lives amid continued Israeli...
From July 17 to 20, the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) was held in Shanghai, China. In this context, China was trying to promote international cooperation in AI governance; developing countries generally face shortcomings such as a weak foundation...
BETHLEHEM, Occupied West Bank (PNN) Israeli forces carried out widespread military raids across the occupied West Bank for a third consecutive day on Sunday, as Israeli settlers launched coordinated attacks on Palestinian communities and property in several governorates, according to Palestinian...
The caravan is plagued by thievery, and Darius discovers Arslan’s dark secret. Read Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part...
Al Udeid Combined Air Operations Center (CAOC I spoke with Scott Horton on Friday (I’ll post the video when its available) and told him I fully expected that Trump would deliver on his vow to open the Gates of Hell on...
Much of the Western debate about artificial intelligence centers on the machine itself. Will AI become conscious? Will it surpass human intelligence? Could it acquire goals of its own and escape human control? Japan’s Society 5.0 begins from a different...
One of the outcomes of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to the DPRK was the decision to hold celebratory events to mark the 65th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty on Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance between the DPRK...
Last Friday, in Berlin, Algerian president Abdelmadjid Tebboune signed an expanded gas agreement with Germany — the second Algerian-German gas deal in three years, and the first since Sonatrach’s inaugural LNG cargo docked at the Wilhelmshaven terminal on 2 July....
Thousands have fled amid months of anti-immigration protests as campaigners demand undocumented people leave the country In Thembelihle, an informal settlement south of Johannesburg where thousands of breeze-block houses and metal shacks line dirt streets flooded with filthy water, Malawians had...
Southern Lebanon has been devastated by the Israeli assault; ruins dot the county of Nabatieh. A significant aspect in the ongoing war and negotiations between the United States and Iran has been the related Israeli attack on Lebanon, whose Shia community...
In July 2026, OpenAI models undergoing an internal cyber evaluation escaped the intended boundaries of the test and compromised parts of Hugging Face’s production infrastructure. The models chained vulnerabilities across both organizations to obtain answers from Hugging Face’s production database....
Russia and Sudan established diplomatic relations after the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991. Prior to that, the Soviet Union had closely knit ties with the country. Until today, historical evidence clearly shows Russia’s rising interest in Sudan. Looking beyond at...
China has unveiled a daring new plan to integrate artificial intelligence throughout the nuclear energy life cycle. This week, at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) revealed a new plan...
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology grew in popularity during the Covid-19 pandemic as several governments and private companies pledged to support a green transition. The use of CCS was expected to help decarbonise hard-to-abate industries until a long-term transition...
Green hydrogen was supposed to be a silver bullet solution for decarbonizing hard-to-abate sectors like shipping and steelmaking. It was the buzziest technology out there – and then it fizzled out completely. But after years of languishing in labs without...
Photo by Hannah Olinger on Unsplash These days, if we find an interesting bit of information we want to refer to later, we bookmark it in our browser or tag it in the book we’re reading, digital or otherwise. But in 1390,...
The European Commission (EC) has informed EU governments that they should waive penalties for oil and gas companies that breach its methane emissions law for the next three years, owing to pressure from the United States government to scrap the...
In celebration of the 99th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA), established in August 1927, the PLA commemorates its founding on August 1st each year (remembering the Nanchang Uprising of 1927). This anniversary is marked...
By: Salman Rafi Sheikh The US-Saudi nuclear agreement is not really about reactors. It’s about rules and Washington deciding its own rules are negotiable. That decision will ripple through the region soon after the first Saudi reactor breaks ground. Riyadh is calling...
Subscribe to our Lens on Sudan newsletter here . With Washington’s revised ceasefire initiative drawing cautious engagement from Khartoum and diplomatic activity around Sudan intensifying, much of the week’s political maneuvering both abroad and at home revolved around preparing for a...
GENEVA / PNN/ UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory Francesca Albanese said that “armed Israeli groups are escalating their deadly attacks against unarmed Palestinians in the West Bank,” referring to attacks carried out...
NABLUS, occupied West Bank / PNN / Nablus Governor Ghassan Daghlas said Israeli military operations and attacks by Israeli settlers across the governorate have killed six Palestinians and left dozens injured or detained over the past two days, describing the developments...
Throughout the history of international relations, major crises have often produced a predictable outcome: they force states to make choices. When rivalry between two powers intensifies, smaller actors move closer to one side in an effort to reduce their vulnerability....
‘I can’t tolerate this life,’ said the 24-year-old in his last voice message to his relatives. Attacked by the military, a rebel army and criminal gangs, Siraz Ullah risked all for a better future The fear was audible as he spoke,...
From September 1 to 4, 2026, Vladivostok, Russia, will host the 11th Eastern Economic Forum, organized by the Roscongress Foundation, the largest organizer of international public and business events. Traditionally, this event is attended by Russian President V. Putin, representatives...
The West Africa Religious Affairs Symposium, held in Accra last week, was easy to overlook if one expected a conventional military conference. It was not about weapons systems, battlefield tactics, or counterterrorism operations in the narrow sense. Yet the gathering...
US President Donald Trump on Thursday unveiled a new package of tariffs targeting 60 countries that account for over 99% of US imports, a move that—if upheld in court—would cost Americans an estimated US$100 billion per year in the form of higher costs. The duties, ranging from...
Few restaurants in Türkiye enjoy the reputation of 7 Mehmet. For many people, it is reason enough to travel to Antalya for a meal. Despite its popularity, the restaurant has always avoided expansion. It never considered opening a second location,...
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, has dismissed the country’s commander-in-chief, Oleksandr Syrskyi, after a turbulent week in which he also removed his defense minister, Mykhailo Fedorov. The dismissal of the popular defense minister, who is credited by many as the...
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