Inter Miami attended a White House reception on Thursday to celebrate winning MLS Cup for the first time in club history, with captain Lionel Messi presenting a gift to President Donald Trump. Messi entered the East Room alongside Trump and Inter Miami co-owner Jorge Mas and later handed the president a signature Miami pink soccer…
Reports that Washington could redirect some US military assets from South Korea to the Middle East have stirred unease in Seoul, reviving concerns that a crisis elsewhere could thin deterrence on the Korean peninsula. Analysts said a redeployment of missile-defence systems could leave South Korea feeling vulnerable to North Korean “adventurism” and signal Washington’s “shifting…
While most of the venture world has been chasing AI deals, Max Hodak — the co-founder and former president of Neuralink — has been working on a startup that claims to be on the verge of being the first brain-computer interface company to get a product to market. Those claims haven’t gone unnoticed. Hodak’s startup,…
The American people are bitterly divided over the conflict in Iran. The US president, Donald Trump, won office in 2024 after campaigning on a message of “no new wars.” So the conflict that began with airstrikes conducted with the Israeli military in the early hours of February 28, and which has quickly spread to the…
After Israel’s unprecedented use ofartificial intelligenceto select bombing targets inGaza, experts are now sounding the alarm regarding what one analyst on Thursday called a lack of human supervision over Israeli AI targeting in Iran. “Similarities between Israel’s bombing ofGazaandTehranare growing stronger,” Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft executive vice president Trita ParsisaidThursday on X. “In both…
Chinese Vice-Premier Ding Xuexiang has acknowledged it is no “easy task” to truly implement Hong Kong’s executive-led governance system, stressing that it must be a “shared responsibility” of the legislative and judicial branches and society as a whole. But Ding, the head of the Central Leading Group on Hong Kong and Macau Affairs, said an…
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK banks myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Lloyds Banking Group will sell more customer data and automate governance checks in a bid to slash technology costs and reinvent itself as “the UK’s biggest fintech”. The high street lender, which has 28mn customers,…
On February 16, a fortnight before the outbreak of the Iran war, US President Donald Trump publicly acknowledged having a “good conversation” with Chinese President Xi Jinping about a forthcoming US arms package for Taiwan. This statement came a few weeks after the Chinese president condemned a previous package, demanding that Washington act with “extreme…
