The AI boom was sold as the next industrial revolution, but the numbers never made sense. Trillions flowed into companies ...

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The reality of pollution during England’s Industrial Revolution was far more widespread than the classic image of soot-choked ...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Wednesday that AI is "probably part of" what's going on with the weakening labor market, but it doesn't explain everything.

Experts believe that some time within the next 20 years, AI will become much smarter than humans at almost everything ...

South Korea's industrial output fell at the sharpest pace in over five years last month, government data showed Friday, largely due to a base effect in semiconductor production despite the industry's ...

Chinese solar equipment has been flooding African markets, partly as a ripple effect of the US-China trade war. It's one of several factors helping the continent gain traction with electrification.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is professor of physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, co-founder of Qolab and ...

As America's 250th birthday approaches (with the grim reaper looming large), the distinguished documentarian's 12-hour series on our country's first — and, he argues, ongoing — revolution aims to ...

In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the war for independence was also a civil war. Amid a bitter fight over history, its timing feels urgent. Critic’s Notebook In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Back in 1990, Ken Burns made his reputation with “The Civil War,” a sprawling, multipart documentary that caused a ...

President Donald Trump’s 2025 administration has engineered the most dramatic pro-Bitcoin transformation in U.S. government history. Bitcoin reached an all-time high of $126,296 on October 5, 2025, up ...