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China achieved manufacturing dominance thanks to its weaker protections for workers, communities, and the environment. Now it’s exporting that model. China today produces nearly a third of the world’s ...

Google's DeepMind just released WeatherNext 2, a new version of its AI weather prediction model. The company promises that it "delivers more efficient, more accurate and higher-resolution global ...

Moonshot released its new Kimi K2 Thinking model on Thursday. It claims to outperform GPT-5 and Sonnet 4.5 on some benchmarks. Open-source AI poses a challenge to proprietary US models. The global AI ...

Japanese automaker Nissan has announced the establishment of Nissan Import & Export (Guangzhou) Co., Ltd. at the China International Import Expo, marking the first joint-venture vehicle import-export ...

In both cases, we observe the construction of an identity consolidated over decades — or even centuries — supported by a set of factors that inscribe them into history. Not only because of the ...

All new vehicles came with spare tires not too long ago, but the automotive landscape has changed rapidly. You'd be lucky if your jalopy has a spare tire from the factory, but automakers like Subaru ...

India plans to send its vast work force abroad to countries with labor shortages, like Germany and Japan. Students studying Japanese in New Delhi. Schools like Furusawa Academy and Learnet Institute ...

Poisoning and manipulating the large language models (LLMs) that power AI agents and chatbots was previously considered a high-level hacking task and one that took a good amount of horsepower and ...

These three GM models were discontinued for various reasons, and only one is getting a replacement. GM discontinued the Cadillac CT6, Chevy Bolt, and GM EV1 for business reasons. Only the Chevy Bolt ...

The new Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model can click, scroll, and type in a browser window to access data that’s not available via an API. The new Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model can click, scroll, and type ...