Foxconn chairman Young Liu says a new collaboration with OpenAI is in the works after meeting Sam Altman, and insists the AI boom is no bubble as the contract manufacturer leans further into AI servers and factory robots.
A small boat attached two limpet mines to the Panama-flagged tanker Louise 1 in the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, sparking an engine-room fire in the first successful attack of its kind since the war between the United States and Iran began in February.
A preliminary investigation into Spain’s deadliest train crash since 2013 has found the Renfe train was travelling at between 160 and 200 kph when it struck a stationary Iryo train near Urda, after a signalling failure and a controller error.
The global financial crime watchdog has removed Bulgaria, Côte d’Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Monaco from its increased-monitoring list, while warning Vietnam over slow progress and keeping Myanmar on its blacklist.
Tens of thousands of Italians marched in more than 50 cities on Friday in a nationwide general strike, demanding action on soaring living costs, stronger public services and an end to rising military spending.
Britain and Rolls-Royce have agreed a 10-year, £2.5 billion programme to develop engines for future narrowbody jets, aiming to restore a UK foothold in the world’s largest civil aircraft market after a 14-year absence.
The euro zone economy grew 0.4% in the third quarter, twice the pace forecast by economists, as investment and household spending held up despite expensive energy — though France contracted and the European Central Bank warns tougher months may lie ahead.
Dockworkers across 113 ports in 22 countries walked out on Friday, disrupting shipping and ferries in protest at ports being used for arms shipments and at the deaths of seafarers in wars from the Gulf to the Black Sea.
More than $2 trillion in market value is set to be wiped from the Nasdaq 100 in October, as Big Tech earnings intensify doubts over whether huge artificial intelligence spending can pay off quickly enough.
Astronomers have found a large, bright world orbiting beyond Neptune that could become the Solar System’s sixth recognised dwarf planet. The candidate, named 2026 ED138, may be up to 1,500 kilometres across — yet it went unnoticed for years in existing telescope data.
