Didi posts Q2 loss of US$350 million on lawsuit provision
Revenue rose 10.9%, partly fuelled by growth in overseas business. Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Global reported on Thursday (Aug 28) a second-quarter net loss of US$350…
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Transcript: Trump Erupts in Rage as Dem Gov’s Harsh Takedown Hits Home
Sargent: Well, to that point, we have this new Quinnipiac poll. It finds that Trump’s approval among U.S. voters is 37 percent. But notably, 56 percent disapprove of his sending of the…
Emerging drone tech firms are powering the defense industry’s next chapter
An executive order unveiled by the White House in late July aims to “unleash” the U.S. drone industry. The initiative includes billions in federal investments to accelerate the deployment…
This drug that lights up cancer cells under infrared light is making tumor removal more precise for surgeons
“Our goal is really to get out all the cancer,” says Dr. Arvind Bakhru. In the operating room, the gynecologic oncologist relies on sight and feel to help identify the cancerous lesions…
Creating a qubit fit for a quantum future
For the team at Nokia Bell Labs, the solution lies in better qubits rather than bigger machines. Specifically, rather than information encoded in individual elementary particles, the team…
Aster Chemicals declares force majeure at Singapore naphtha cracker: sources
Singapore’s Aster Chemicals and Energy has declared force majeure on petrochemical supplies from its naphtha cracker on Bukom island, according to a letter seen by Reuters and…
Teachers’ Unions Are Still Singing the Same Song
Politics and pop music keep recycling old hits. Source link
Long Story Short Shortchanges the American Jewish Experience
The Netflix show is being praised for its authenticity. But it portrays Judaism as a ‘tradition’ for immigrants to overcome. Source link
The Green Economy Is Rife with Fraud
A multimillionaire Democratic donor’s guilty plea raises broader questions about corruption in environmentalist schemes like carbon-offset trading. Source link
A Better Prescription for Affordable Medicine
President Trump’s threat to strong-arm drugmakers will drive up costs, stall cures, and blunt America’s medical edge. Source link
High on Caillebotte, Impressionist Master
A painter once thought peculiar, he’s now the deserving subject of Gustave Caillebotte: Painting His World at the Art Institute of Chicago. Source link
Video: How Trump Could Gain Control of the Fed
new video loaded: How Trump Could Gain Control of the Fed By Ben Casselman, Melanie Bencosme, June Kim, Gabriel Blanco and Jon Hazell•August 28, 2025 President Trump’s attempt to fire Lisa…
From pilot to scale: Making agentic AI work in health care
Overcoming LLM limitations LLMs excel at understanding nuanced context, performing instinctive reasoning, and generating human-like interactions, making them ideal for agentic tools to…
The White House or Theranos HQ? Trump’s purges put him in league with these disgraced CEOs
Spin has its limitations. Lots of people can easily detect the stink of bad news lingering just beneath the potpourri of spin that suggests the news is actually not so bad. What works even…
AI Doesn’t Spout MAGA Propaganda. No Wonder Donald Trump Hates It.
First, the Trump administration grossly misunderstands Large Language Models. LLMs don’t use the truth-finding tools of liberal society: scientific, academic, legal, or journalistic…
Trump’s War on Wind Power Is a War on His Working-Class Voters
Remember how Trump campaigned against “Bidenflation”? With good reason, Americans were tired of paying high prices for everything, including their energy bills. Now, his tariffs and attack…
Patricia Lockwood’s Completely Singular Covid Novel
Some experiences, some books, are not meant to be picked apart. They are watercolor gouaches that wash over us as we delight in a palimpsest of colorful impressions. Patricia Lockwood’s…
Like It or Not, We Are All D.C. Now
January 6, 2021, was the end of Washington, D.C., as a capital city. There was no going back after the political perpetrators of a violent attempt to overthrow the government were never…
Google’s still not giving us the full picture on AI energy use
“We’re not comfortable revealing that for various reasons,” Dean told me on our call. The total number is an abstract measure that changes over time, he says, adding that the company wants…
Temasek shakes up leadership as it prepares for renewal
Temasek Holdings will divide its operations into three entities, in one of the biggest overhauls in its 51-year history, as it prepares for a new generation of leaders. The company on…
In Finland, this giant battery is helping heat apartments and offices—using sand
A small town in Finland is experimenting with a new type of infrastructure: the world’s largest sand battery. The battery—a 42-foot-tall, nearly 50-foot-wide silo filled with 2,000 tons of…
Trump Explodes in Rage as Dem Governor’s Harsh Takedown Draws Blood
This week, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker delivered an extraordinary takedown of President Trump over his deployment of the military in U.S. cities. Trump then exploded about Pritzker’s…
Buffett’s Berkshire lifts stakes in Japan trading houses, buoys shares
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has raised its stakes in Mitsubishi and Mitsui & Co, according to the Japanese trading houses, prompting a jump in shares across the sector. A unit of…
How to simplify fancy workflows and get real work done
Nelson Repenning is a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and director of MIT’s Leadership Center. Donald Kieffer is a senior lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management,…