On May 5, several weeks before a major flu outbreak at an Air Force basic training in Texas, the leaders of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force asked the secretary of defense’s office for permission to vaccinate trainees for the flu, military officials said. The services were reacting to an April 21 order…
Congress has failed to address the work force disruption that artificial intelligence could generate. The White House, excited about the upside for stocks and investment, has downplayed the potential for widespread job losses. Now, amid growing public anger over A.I. and a debate over how to regulate it, a group of employers, state governors and…
At a factory in southeastern China, robot arms spin balletically, winding long strips of metal into rolls and shaping them into bricks that are destined to become batteries. As workers in white coveralls watch, the nascent batteries are packaged into aluminum cases and, as workers put it, “given life” — endowed with an electrical charge…
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Alibaba has asked a US court to order the Pentagon to remove it from a list of groups it says have Chinese military ties, days after Beijing took retaliatory action against the defence department’s decision….
It was one of the easiest ways to make a diesel truck faster, more powerful and more reliable: Pay a local shop to quietly gut the emissions controls with an illegal “defeat device.” Now the federal government has largely stopped prosecuting the people who sell and install them. The devices, which often include both hardware…
By Isaac Hammouch The signing of the “Islamabad Memorandum” on June 17 does not merely constitute a tactical pause in the turmoil that has shaken the Middle East for the past four months; in many respects, it marks the end of a period of military blitz to inaugurate a phase of great diplomatic complexity. While…
A foul odor permeated the early morning heat as city workers in Tempe, Ariz., unlocked a sewage monitoring shed and opened the tap of a collection jug that had been siphoning from the city’s wastewater over the previous day. They filled a jar, packed it in a blue cooler and hurried to the next shed,…
In an unusually aggressive move, the Justice Department told a federal court in Mississippi that Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, has the right to run dozens of polluting gas-burning turbines in the state despite not having permits for them. The Justice Department late on Monday said that the court should throw out a lawsuit…
The United States and Israel went to war in Iran seeking regime change. Nearly four months later, there has been regime change, but not the kind they wanted. The Islamic Republic 3.0, as some call it, is now less a theocracy and more a military junta dominated by the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. Washington…
