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A Divided $377 Billion Tech Giant Reveals the Perils of AI

2026-02-25 15:00:18

Imagine that Siemens AG and Siemens Energy AG were still one company. On paper it would be Europe’s third-most valuable firm with a combined market value of €320 billion ($377 Billion) or so. Only Dutch semiconductor equipment maker ASML Holding NV and pharmaceuticals giant Roche Holding AG are worth more.

Net Zero is Dead. Long Live Renewable Energy

2026-02-25 12:00:02

In diplomacy, words matter. When the world’s richest nations got together in 2022 for their biennial energy meeting, their communique mentioned “net zero” 13 times; in 2024, the references went up to 15. After last week’s gathering? Just one occurrence — and that was to underline the lack of universal support. The word-count collapse is illustrative of the direction of global energy policy: Net zero is, effectively, dead.

If Trump’s State of the Union Address Was Actually Backed by Facts

2026-02-25 06:24:19

An honest look at the country without all the unnecessary flourishes and false bravado.

To Trade Coders for Legos, India Needs a Better Deal

2026-02-25 05:00:02

For a quarter-century, software services have been India’s calling card. No longer. The next 25 years belong to tokens — the Lego bricks of the artificial-intelligence era. As AI agents require quintillions of them to supplant human effort, India is pitching its tent there. But is that wise?

Who Can Break the AI Safety Deadlock?

2026-02-25 04:00:02

Last week’s AI Impact Summit ended the way these gatherings now routinely do. This time with a “New Delhi Declaration,” a non-binding hymn to cooperation and the hope that “AI could be made to serve humanity.” It’s the sort of empty language that dozens of countries and international organizations can sign up to without changing a thing.

China’s Gold Rush Comes to Xi's Tariff-Free Paradise

2026-02-25 03:00:02

Three months after China declared Hainan the world’s largest “free-trade port,” the tropical island off the country’s southeastern coast has become a shopping paradise for those who believe in the beauty of gold.