A new skyline of data centres is rising from the rolling plains of rural China
Potato farmers rub shoulders with rows of gleaming new data centres as Trump and Xi meet to discuss AI safety.
Read moreAlibaba Cloud set to open new data centres in Europe next year as overseas push speeds up
Sep 23, 2026
Alibaba Cloud, Alibaba Group Holding’s cloud business unit, is set to launch data centres in Turkey, Finland and the Netherlands over the next 12 months, speeding up an overseas push as it seeks to win enterprise customers through its “full stack AI capabilities” spanning chips, cloud infrastructure and multimodal models. The first of these new data centres will open in the Netherlands in October. The cloud unit will also add to existing data centre capacity in Malaysia, Germany, the United Arab...
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Rare look at the remote engine rooms powering China's AI ambitions
The BBC is in Inner Mongolia where dozen of Chinese data centres are being constructed, as the country aims to lead the world in artificial intelligence.
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French government scales up targeted fuel price relief
Under pressure to help businesses and workers cope with soaring fuel prices, the French government has announced it will expand targeted energy relief for those most affected. The new measures will cost €450 million, bringing the total so far to €1.4 billion. Meanwhile, as French president Emmanuel Macron calls for allowing more biofuels to be added to diesel, we speak with an expert on the potential environmental impact of a rapid ramp-up in biofuel use.
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The A.I. Party House Where Networking Has a Dark Side
Group tech houses have proliferated across the San Francisco Bay Area in the artificial intelligence boom. One of the most prominent has also racked up an extensive police record.
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Microsoft to give DARPA hands-on access to quantum system at new Maryland site
MICROSOFT-QUANTUM/ (PIX):Microsoft to give DARPA hands-on access to quantum system at new Maryland site
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The telltale sign that exposes a narcissistic woman, according to new study
A narcissistic woman may be harder to spot than many people realize. But a new study has found that how a woman handles betrayal can reveal hidden personality traits.
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I Gave My Life Over to Meta’s A.I. Agent and Was Blown Away
Muse, Meta’s A.I. agent, helped handle my dental insurance, booked dinner reservations and created a podcast for me. It also required my most personal data, and trust.
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An A.I. Image of Trump Kissing a Woman Was Fake. It Spread Anyway.
Advances in artificial intelligence and the myriad ways content is shared online have made establishing authenticity even more difficult for users of social media.
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Check Point Warns of Management Server Zero-Day Exploited in Targeted Attacks
Attackers exploited a previously unknown flaw in Check Point's Security Management Server in a handful of targeted attacks on July 23, the company said. The flaw, CVE-2026-93616, allows an attacker who can access the server's web service to run scripts on it without logging in. Check Point released a fix on September 22 for the server that controls firewall policies for the Check Point
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$345 Million Verdict Against Greenpeace Should Be Overturned, Lawyers Say
A group of civil-rights and free-speech lawyers accused the judge of bias and “general incompetence.”
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Anthropic Releases a New A.I. Model, Opus 5.5, Amid Safety Debate
The company released a cheaper, faster model that it said was the strongest performer on its most rigorous internal safety tests to date.
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