By UN NewsThe imperative for global regulation of the booming artificial intelligence field, or AI, is “irrefutable”, a new report from a UN expert group said on Thursday, adding that development and use of such a technology “cannot be left to the wh...

By AFP/Glenn ChapmanA years-long analysis shows that social media titans engaged in "vast surveillance" to make money from people's personal information, according to the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC).A report based on queries launched nearly fou...

By AFP/Daniel AvisThe US Federal Reserve cut its key lending rate by half a percentage-point Wednesday in its first reduction for more than four years, sharply lowering borrowing costs shortly before November's presidential election.The Fed's decisio...

By AFP/Chloé FarandGreen Climate Fund chief Mafalda Duarte is on a mission to help vulnerable nations that have yet to receive a penny from the world's largest dedicated source of climate finance.The United Nations' flagship organisation for chanelli...

By AFP/Umberto Bacchi and Matthieu DemeestereThousands of people demonstrated in Brussels on Monday in solidarity with the workers of a nearby Audi factory making electric vehicles that the German carmaker is considering shutting down amid slumping i...

By AFP/Irakli MetreveliFlames soar into the air from a sandstone outcrop on a hillside of the Absheron peninsula near Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, as it prepares to host the COP29 climate conference.The "burning mountain" -- Yanardag in Azerbaija...

By AFPDominated by China, orders for wind turbines increased 23 percent worldwide in the first half of the year, with investment reaching $42 billion, an energy research firm said on Monday.Out of a global total of 91.2 gigawatts (GW), Chinese domest...

By AFP/Pierre-Henry DESHAYESHot on the heels of still-dominant diesel cars, electric vehicles now outnumber petrol models for the first time in oil-rich Norway, a world first that puts the country on track to taking fossil fuel vehicles off the road....

By UN NewsSome of the world’s poorest countries spend more on debt repayments than health, education and infrastructure combined, severely hampering their chances of developing their economies. The UN is calling for an overhaul of the entire internat...

By AFP/Daniel AvisPennsylvanians working in the controversial fracking industry are confident that the sector will endure, whoever wins the White House in November's presidential election.With an eye firmly on winning over voters in the gas-rich batt...

By AFPChatGPT creator OpenAI on Thursday released a new series of artificial intelligence models designed to spend more time thinking -- in hopes that generative AI chatbots provide more accurate and beneficial responses.The new models, known as Open...

By AFPEuropean consumer groups on Thursday accused the world's biggest video game companies of "purposefully tricking" consumers, including children, to push them to spend more on in-game purchases.Video games are wildly popular in Europe where more...