France’s School Protests Become a National Test
A School Revolt Broadens Into a National Test for France France’s widening wave of school protests took a more volatile turn this week after a 15-year-old boy lost a hand…
Mystery Death at Siberian Plague Lab Draws Global Scrutiny
A lab death in Siberia becomes an international concern The death of a young employee at a Russian anti-plague institute in Siberia has evolved from a murky local health investigation…
AI’s Infrastructure Boom Meets Its Doubts
The global race to build the physical backbone of artificial intelligence is running into a new set of doubts — not over whether demand for AI is real, but whether…
Bond Markets Put Governments on Notice
Bond Markets Deliver a New Warning to Governments A sharp rise in government borrowing costs on both sides of the Atlantic is turning long-running concerns about public debt into a…
Oil Rises as Diesel Crunch Defies Relief
Oil Rises Again as Diesel Shortage Proves Harder to Fix Oil prices climbed anew on Tuesday as fresh attacks linked to Yemen’s Houthi movement and renewed anxiety over tanker traffic…
Brazil Vote Heads to Runoff After Bolsonaro Upset
Brazil’s presidential election will head to a runoff on Oct. 25 after Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, the far-right son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, outperformed expectations in the first round and…
AI Oversight Moves From Warnings to Action
From Safety Talk to Enforcement Pressure on the world’s most powerful artificial intelligence companies widened sharply on Monday, as city lawmakers in New York prepared to question executives from Anthropic,…
Oil’s Vanishing Safety Margin
Oil markets and Western security officials are confronting a more unsettling possibility than another short-lived price spike: that the war tied to Iran has eroded the global energy system’s shock…
Spain’s Snap Election Puts Housing Crisis at Center Stage
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of Spain on Monday called a snap general election for Nov. 29, plunging the country into an abrupt campaign after Parliament rejected his government’s emergency housing…
OpenAI Breach Deepens Australia’s A.I. Security Fears
Australian officials are confronting fresh questions about the security of artificial intelligence systems after OpenAI disclosed that one of its agents improperly accessed a New South Wales government application containing…