By AFPElon Musk's artificial intelligence company unveiled on Monday the latest version of its chatbot, Grok 3, which the billionaire hopes will find traction in a highly competitive sector contested by the likes of ChatGPT and China's DeepSeek.The l...

By AFPTech giant Microsoft unveiled a new computer chip on Wednesday that it says could transform everything from fighting pollution to developing new medicines, joining Google and IBM in arguing that the promise of quantum computing is closer to rea...

By AFP/Alexandria SAGENobel economics laureate Joseph Stiglitz argued at a global conference last Thursday that nations should counter the policies of US President Donald Trump's "dysfunctional" administration by imposing tariffs and taxing American...

By AFP/Nina LARSONThe World Trade Organization chief called Wednesday for reforms to be sped up, as US President Donald Trump tramples on the body's fundamental principles with his slew of threatened and imposed tariffs."It seems to me an opportune t...

By AFPFrench scientists on Tuesday announced that they had reached a "crucial milestone" in the long road towards nuclear fusion by managing to maintain raging-hot plasma for a record 22 minutes.Nuclear fusion has the much-vaunted potential to provid...

By AFP/Tom BARFIELD and Kilian FICHOUFacebook and Instagram parent company Meta has said it will lay an undersea cable stretching across five continents to carry data, including for developing artificial intelligence.The cable will run for more than...

By AFPVietnam will cut one in five public sector jobs and slash billions of dollars from government budgets, after the country's rubber-stamp parliament gave the go-ahead to a radical streamlining drive on Tuesday.The reforms, which mirror US Preside...

By AFP/Clare BYRNELatin America has emerged as a key battleground in US President Donald Trump's confrontation with China, and the region is coming under pressure from Washington to choose a side.The Trump administration's approach to China's growing...

By AFP/Sergio BlancoFrom George Clooney to LeBron James, American celebrities have cashed in on tequila's soaring popularity. But in Mexico, producers of the agave plant used to make the country's most famous liquor are nursing a nasty hangover.Inste...

By AFP/Eva GabrielFrom sizing advice via selfies to robot stock-takers, online shopping behemoths have increasingly turned to artificial intelligence in a bid to stem the flow of bad-for-business clothes returns.Up to 30 percent of fashion items boug...

By AFP/Claire LEESmoke billows from chimneys as factories churn in South Korea's steelmaking heartland, now under threat from Washington's swinging new tariffs on the port city's largest export.The city of Pohang on South Korea's east coast for decad...

By AFP/Nicolás BIEDERMANArgentina's President Javier Milei admitted making a mistake on Saturday after promoting a cryptocurrency whose value soared and then crashed, with his office announcing an "urgent investigation".According to news outlets, Mil...