The hyperscalers appear to find it more lucrative to sell AI infrastructure to their cloud customers than splurge valuable ...

Vladimir Putin will not end his war on Ukraine until he believes the costs of fighting on exceed the costs of stopping. The ...

As our correspondent reports this week, after a 1,000km road trip inside the country, the Taliban are firmly in charge and the place is largely calm, bar intermittent sparring with its neighbour, ...

Gaping rich-world budget deficits show little sign of narrowing meaningfully, raising the possibility that governments eventually force central banks to inflate their debts away. Geopolitical ructions ...

China has a lower share of white-collar workers than America, so AI is likely to have the greatest effect in consumer markets ...

Football can’t rely on a revolt every time its governing body goes too far, argues Lorin Parys, the head of a European league.

The connection between deadlines and journalism is obvious: this column would never have been written without one. But ...

Why does the United Nations still exist? The question is timely because the contest is now under way to choose the UN’s next secretary-general, before the two-term incumbent, António Guterres, steps ...

Can French swagger keep Europe safe? A growing number of European governments seem anxious to find out. This is a lonely ...

Many of America’s new businesses are one-man bands, categorised by the government as unlikely to hire within their first few ...

These fires may end up being the worst that Europe sees this summer. But do not bank on it. A series of heatwaves has left lots of places desiccated and flammable—and more hot weather is to come. Last ...

Outsiders have shown callous indifference to the suffering, by paying to keep the fighting going or neglecting it. Yet by ...