U.S. cloud giants are facing steep prices to secure backup internet routes around the Red Sea as fighting rages over the Red Sea strait that carries most data cables between...
Fishermen motor past a commercial vessel anchored off Yemen's coast at Bab al-Mandeb, in the straits connecting the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean on September 12, 2026. Yemen's Houthis took over on September 11, 2026, a Red Sea island of Mayyun that is located in the middle of the Bab al-Mandeb shipping lane, completing their push to control the area, a local government official and eyewitnesses told AFP. Hundreds of people have died since the Iran-backed Houthis launched an offensive around Bab al-Mandab, a vital artery for Saudi oil exports. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images) /
Saudi Arabia’s first homegrown electric-vehicle maker is set to take on a U.S. rival the kingdom already controls. Ceer Motors, majority-owned by the sovereign Public Investment Fund, revealed two electric...
Nvidia’s chips are driving the United Arab Emirates’ rise as an artificial-intelligence power. Next on offer is free software, a model built to rival China’s best. Last month, Nvidia spent...
China’s used car dealers have set an expiry date for electric cars. About four out of five used car dealers in China refuse to accept a fully electric vehicle older...
Chinese electric-vehicle makers have lost buyers at home and found new ones in Brazil, Thailand, and the Gulf. Some 540,000 EVs left China in July, a monthly record, while about...
The best artificial intelligence technology any country can own is now available for free. On July 27, China’s Moonshot AI put its most powerful chatbot on the internet for anyone...
Kylian Mbappé of France entered the World Cup semifinals with Argentina’s Lionel Messi in the race for the Golden Boot. Pundits, punters, and chatbots are divided on who finishes as...
The Gulf’s oil-rich states, betting billions on reinventing themselves as centers of artificial intelligence, are discovering that money can buy almost everything, except a way out of Nvidia. Saudi Arabia...
China’s EV makers, squeezed at home, are moving into Europe’s idle car factories. Chery will start building EVs later this year at a former Nissan plant in Barcelona, Spain. It...
The first wave of electric-vehicle batteries is reaching the end of the road, and China and the West are taking very different paths on what to do with them. An...
Poring over the SpaceX IPO prospectus, a recurring theme surfaces: the massive, quiet influence of Middle Eastern finance in the most ambitious IPO in history. Sovereign wealth funds of Saudi...
Chinese upstart Spacesail is trying to steal SpaceX’s thunder. State-backed Spacesail launched two satellites on a reusable rocket on June 1, just days before SpaceX’s $1.8 trillion listing on June...
Electric cars swept the world last year, everywhere except the U.S. Global EV sales grew 20% in 2025 to exceed 20 million, with one in four new cars sold worldwide...
India is partnering with the United Arab Emirates to ease the grip of Amazon, Microsoft, and Google on artificial intelligence computing. G42, backed by Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund Mubadala,...
The United Arab Emirates quit the world’s most powerful oil cartel on May 1, freeing billions in oil revenue while placing its biggest bet yet on artificial intelligence. The Organization...
Much of the world is adopting the electric-vehicle technology the U.S. just banned. On March 17, the U.S.banned any vehicle with Chinese software from its roads. Beginning with cars arriving...
A person demonstrates a video game on the touch screen in an Xpeng P7 electric vehicle outside the New York Stock Exchange in New York, U.S., on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020. Chinese electric-car startup Xpeng Inc. is set to raise $1.28 billion after guiding its U.S. initial public offering above a marketed range, people familiar with the matter said, showing strong investor interest in the sector is not abating. Photographer: Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg via Getty Images
When I took my son to Mirza Ghalib Street in Kolkata to find Bollywood soundtracks for his new turntable, I was struck by the economics of our mission. Why trade...
Major U.S. hyperscalers running data centers in the Gulf to power apps and online services for millions of users are channeling data out of the war zone through fiber-optic cables...
Netflix’s latest acquisition is threatening thousands of livelihoods from Los Angeles to Mumbai. On March 5, Netflix acquired InterPositive, an artificial intelligence company built by Hollywood actor Ben Affleck, for...
Iran’s near-total communications blackout has entered its 16th day, but that’s just a live test. Following a repressive crackdown on protests, the government is now building a system that grants...
An Iranian flag hangs on a wall of the Aqsa Mosque, which burns during anti-government protests in eastern Tehran, Iran, on January 21, 2026. (Photo by Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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