
China’s DeepSeek warns of social upheaval from AI
Chinese AI developer DeepSeek made its first public appearance in almost a year after it became a global sensation.
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Chinese AI developer DeepSeek made its first public appearance in almost a year after it became a global sensation.

TechCentral is ending 2025 on a high note: the publication notched up record monthly readership in October.

New partnership empowers global enterprises with cloud-native control, scalability and localised mobile connectivity.

1Stream’s AI platform combines automation and human empathy to deliver faster, smarter and more personal CX.

A roundtable with Crayon and SoftwareOne explored visibility, governance and FinOps 2.0 to end cloud chaos.

The Foschini Group on Friday said online sales neared 15% of total retail sales in the half-year ended 30 September 2025.

Global environment editor Jon Watts goes in search of answers to the question the journalist Dom Phillips was investigating when he was murdered: how to save the Amazon?
In the final episode of this three-part series from June 2025, Jon encounters a radical new view of the Amazon’s history being uncovered by archaeologists. Far from an uninhabited wilderness, the rainforest has been shaped by...

The most anticipated video game of all time receives a second official delay from makers Rockstar Games.

History tells us that polite incrementalism and political kowtowing will prevail at Cop30 – even as catastrophe unfolds around us
As world leaders gather in Brazil this year for Cop30 – the first Amazonian Cop – it’s worth doing a quick reality check on how we are collectively tracking to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.
Despite 30 years of UN climate summits, about half of the carbon...
Shareholders approved a plan to grant Mr. Musk shares worth nearly $1 trillion if he meets ambitious goals, including vastly expanding the company’s stock market valuation.
The A.I. company faced pushback after a top executive raised the idea of government aid, amid concerns that the A.I. industry is headed toward a dangerous bubble.

Country’s top court declines to block controversial cull of hundreds of birds amid fears of an avian flu outbreak
Canada’s food inspection agency says it plans to begin a “complete depopulation” of hundreds of ostriches at a farm after the country’s top court declined to block the controversial cull.
On Thursday, the supreme court said it would not take up a case that has catalyzed a fierce...

Droughts and heatwaves causing water in some areas to reach 41C, killing fish and endangered dolphins, say researchers
Amazonian lakes are being transformed into simmering basins hotter than spa baths as severe heatwaves and drought grip the region, research shows.
The temperature of one lake exceeded 40C (104F) as water levels plummeted under intense sunlight and cloudless skies. The extreme...
A blame game has played out on the internet and on television. President Trump has pulled out the stops.
Psychologists and technologists see them as the future of therapy. The Food and Drug Administration is exploring whether to regulate them as medical devices.

UN body’s recommendations driven by AI advances and proliferation of consumer-oriented neurotech devices
It is the latest move in a growing international effort to put guardrails around a burgeoning frontier – technologies that harness data from the brain and nervous system.
Unesco has adopted a set of global standards on the ethics of neurotechnology, a field that has been described as “a...
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative said its restructured organization, Biohub, would lead its focus on artificial intelligence and scientific research.

A union representing people in the gaming sector said 31 people were fired at Rockstar’s UK studios.

Tech billionaire relying on ‘false binary’ with call to focus less on emissions and more on aid for poor, experts say
A new memo on the climate crisis from Bill Gates relies on “straw man” arguments about the threat to humanity and “false dichotomies” between spending on climate or aid for the poor, some climate scientists say.
Published last week, the tech billionaire’s 17-page missive...
Using a new computer model, scientists simulated the stripes, spots and hexagons on a species of boxfish, imperfections and all.

AI-inspired word joins ‘biohacking’, ‘Henry’ and ‘broligarchy’ on tech-heavy 2025 list
“Vibe coding”, an emerging software development that turns natural language into computer code using artificial intelligence, has been named Collins dictionary’s word of the year for 2025.
Lexicographers at Collins monitor the 24bn-word Collins Corpus, which draws from a range of media sources, including...