


Joanna Andreasson/DALL-E4 I’m an AI developer and consultant, and when OpenAI released a preview in February of its text-to-video model Sora—an AI capable of generating cinema-quality videos—I started getting urgent requests from the entertainment industry and from investment firms. You could divide the calls into two groups. Group A was concerned about how quickly AI […]

The Philippines will halt in-person classes at public schools on Monday and Tuesday amid rising temperatures that reached a record in the capital Manila over the weekend.

China Vanke Co. made a rare response to Moody’s downgrade last week, citing support from financial institutions and its biggest shareholder.

Thailand’s power usage surged to a record on Saturday as temperatures soared across the country, prompting authorities to repeatedly issue health warnings amid a rising heat-related death toll.

Support for the far-right Alternative for Germany slipped two percentage points in a new poll for the European Parliament elections, suggesting allegations of links to Chinese intelligence are damaging the party.

Marco Rodrigues will be a playable character in Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves, SNK announced.

Sanctioned Russian billionaire Andrey Guryev’s fallout with a friend over a stake in one of the world’s largest fertilizer producers has been laid bare in a London dispute that rakes over alleged deals struck after the fall of the Soviet Union and promises made over a beer.

Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk is traveling to meet senior Chinese officials in Beijing and discuss the roll-out of its full self-driving software in China, Reuters reported, citing two unidentified people with knowledge of the matter.

The UK prime minister refused to pin down a date for a general election ahead of key regional votes this week that are viewed as a bellwether for the Conservative Party’s success.

A strong tornado wreaked havoc through the city of Guangzhou, one of China’s biggest economic hubs, on Saturday, killing five people and injuring 33, according to a report by the official Xinhua News Agency.