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H-1B to Plan B: India’s top tech talent looks beyond the U.S.

1 December 2025 at 06:00
In recent months, there has been frenzied debate about whether the U.S. government’s unfavorable outlook toward immigration would curtail foreign student enrollments in U.S. universities and scale back overseas talent...

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A welcome signage at the Google Ananta campus in Bengaluru, India, 2025.

ChatGPT turns 3

26 November 2025 at 06:00
Three years ago, on November 30, 2022, OpenAI launched ChatGPT. Hot on the heels of its viral image generator DALL-E, the Sam Altman-helmed company’s chatbot quickly attracted millions of visitors...

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The UAE’s AI strategy winds through Silicon Valley

24 November 2025 at 06:00
The United Arab Emirates aims to become a global artificial intelligence powerhouse, and its latest investment is a new research lab in Silicon Valley. The state-run Mohamed bin Zayed University...

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Rupesh Srivastava, Hector Liu, and John Maggs at the Sunnyvale, California, lab.

U.S. gains in AI race as Gulf nations ditch China for chips

21 November 2025 at 09:34
The Middle East just became the newest battlefield in the U.S.-China artificial intelligence war. The Commerce Department’s approval of 70,000 advanced AI chips to the United Arab Emirates and Saudi...

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President Donald Trump and Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia at the White House on November 18, 2025.

China starts a food fight over Western EV tariffs

18 November 2025 at 06:00
China is fighting import tariffs on its electric vehicles by making Western farmers pay the price. Beijing has levied billions of dollars of agricultural sanctions against the U.S., the European...

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XINGHUA, CHINA - FEBRUARY 23: Aerial view of farmers harvesting scallions in a field on February 23, 2022 in Xinghua, Taizhou City, Jiangsu Province of China. (Photo by Tang Dehong/VCG via Getty Images)

Why BYD can’t do for China what Ford did for America

11 November 2025 at 06:00
In the first few decades of automotive history, the motor car was arguably the most visible, most visceral expression of national character a country could export. A car conferred more...

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A sign outside a BYD Co. electric vehicle showroom, operated by Schiller Auto, in Budapest, Hungary, on Monday, May 27, 2024. Chinese EV giant BYD plans to set up its first European car plant in Hungary. Photographer: Akos Stiller/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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