Fly Baghdad plans comeback after US sanctions lifted

“I’m working in a hated environment. People think that I am now a traitor.” This is not the reaction you would expect from the CEO of an airline that has just been removed from a US sanctions list. But this is Fly Baghdad. And this is Iraq. “We are using social media incorrectly,” Alaulddin Abdulhrahman […]

China’s central bank targets global yuan in first solo 5-year plan in at least a decade

China’s central bank has set out its strategic priorities for the coming five years in a stand-alone plan, placing yuan internationalisation high on the agenda as Beijing seeks to build the country into a major “financial powerhouse”. The People’s Bank of China outlined its broad goals for the 15th five-year plan period under a new reform and development blueprint, which would be accompanied by nine specific action plans, in a statement released on Monday. According to the document, one of the..

Could we eliminate any particles from the standard model of physics?

The standard model of physics is one of the most successful scientific theories in existence, but do we need it all? Columnist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein explores whether it’s carrying any excess baggage

The young disruptors making their mark in African business

Africa's Young Disruptors: Part One

Flipkart expands Tamil Nadu footprint with focus on digital commerce, tech and supply chain

The company said nearly 70,000 sellers from Tamil Nadu are using its platform to access customers nationwide, with businesses ranging from Tiruppur's knitwear cluster and textile hubs in Erode and Salem to Kancheepuram's silk weavers and artisan communities in Thanjavur.

Meta to challenge China’s open-weight AI dominance amid US regulatory fears

China’s dominance in open-weight artificial intelligence faces a fresh challenge from Meta Platforms, whose renewed push into open-source models could lure away American customers anxious about looming regulatory restrictions in Washington, analysts say. The US tech giant on Monday launched Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter open-weight model light enough to run locally on personal computers, while also announcing plans to release the weights of its latest flagship Muse Spark 1.2 model. In a..

“Awfully suspicious”: Australian employee claims co-worker was using smart glasses at work

The use of smart glasses in Aussie workplaces is sparking debate online, as legal professionals urge employers to establish policies around the wearable technology. The post “Awfully suspicious”: Australian employee claims co-worker was using smart glasses at work appeared first on SmartCompany.

AI is changing cyber threats. Recovery is becoming just as important as prevention

At a Rubrik and YourStory roundtable in Bengaluru, engineering and cybersecurity leaders discussed how AI is expanding the attack surface, creating new security challenges, and shifting the focus from preventing breaches to recovering from them quickly.

Claims state subsidies caused China’s industrial overcapacity a deliberate smear: scholar

Western narratives alleging state subsidies caused China’s industrial overcapacity are a deliberate attempt to smear the country and not tenable in the face of solid data and facts, a Chinese scholar said. Writing in a commentary published on Tuesday in the Communist Party mouthpiece People’s Daily, Cui Fan, an international trade professor at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing, argued that “industrial subsidies do not inherently lead to excess...