China’s economy picks up in June on rebounding U.S. exports: analysts
A container ship is berthed at the container terminal in Qingdao, China’s eastern Shandong province on June 25,…
Open Questions | Economist Richard Koo on China and Japan’s shared ‘battle against time’
Nomura Research Institute chief economist Richard Koo is well-known for his “balance sheet recession” interpretation of Japan’s economic…
Iran launches attacks on US bases in Gulf as Trump warns of further military action – The Irish Times
Iran and the US continued their attacks in the Gulf as each accused the other of violating an…
Laurie Anderson on Lou Reed: ‘He said, I’ll get on a plane right now. We got married the next day’ – The Irish Times
The day before we talk, on the anniversary of her wedding to the late Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson…
Vanilla Ice’s show at Donald Trump’s troubled Freedom 250 fair rained off at last minute
Vanilla Ice’s headline set at Donald Trump’s Freedom 250 State Fair was cancelled less than two hours before he…
Trump rekindles his global trade war with 100% tariff threat on European countries – The Irish Times
Donald Trump has threatened to place a 100 per cent import tariff on any European country that imposes…
The AI trade cooled and oil sank. A closer look at Wall Street’s volatile week
Wall Street spent the week debating who the biggest winners and losers of the artificial intelligence boom will…
Bill Maher Gets Played by JD Vance on HBO’s ‘Real Time,’ Admits He May Vote Republican in 2028
On Thursday, Vice President JD Vance paid a visit to the Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in California…
Trump Administration Allows Anthropic to Release Mythos to Select US Organizations
The US government has eased the restrictions it imposed on Anthropic’s most advanced AI model, Claude Mythos 5,…
Europe Is Fed Up and Wants Its Own AI
Earlier this month I attended Vivatech, a huge tech conference in Paris. One fear dominated the discussions: the…
Why Amazon Dropped Its OpenAI Movie, Data Center Workers Fight Back, and Meta Leaks Employee Data
Leah Feiger: Yeah. Senator Bernie Sanders and representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, AOC, they introduced the Data Center Moratorium Act,…
The American Experiment on Netflix: Tom Hanks doc explores the US’s rocky road to ‘greatness’ – The Irish Times
It takes a lot to puncture the self-congratulatory bubble that inevitably materialises around Americans looking back on their…