The World Economic Forum is now dominated by global technology companies whose interests shunt aside most others.
We would like to hear from people who have used chatbots for companionship or mental health support AI Chatbots are now a part of everyday life. ChatGPT surpassed 800 million weekly active users in late 2025. Some people are forming relationships with these chatbots, using them for companionship, mental health support, and even as therapists.…
While tariffs have been ‘all show and no substance’, economists fear an AI investment bubble and tensions in the South China Sea, along with Trump’s attacks on the Federal Reserve’s independence Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast One year into Donald Trump’s presidency and experts in Australia and around the…
A number of startups and universities that are building AI scientists to design and run experiments in the lab, including robot biologists and chemists, have just won extra funding from the UK government agency that funds moonshot R&D. The competition, set up by ARIA (Advanced Research and Invention Agency), gives a clear sense of how…
Greenland, tariffs and wobbling markets are the talk of the town at the World Economic Forum ahead of the president’s arrival on Wednesday.
Founded by researchers from Anthropic, Google and xAI, the new company, Humans&, is already valued at $4.48 billion.
Gen Z women in China are all in on digital companionship—even setting up dates with real-world versions of their AI boyfriends.
Explosive acceleration, limited dexterity, eyes in the back of its head. What could possibly go wrong?
How the Cyberspace Administration of China inadvertently made a guide to the country’s homegrown AI revolution.
Emojis explode all over the screen in this hyperactive adaptation of a Japanese folk tale about a princess who has run away from the moon Never has a film been more deserving of an exclamation mark at the end of the title than this animation from Japan. Cosmic Princess Kaguya! is an adaptation of a…