World Bank Urges Developing Nations to Embrace AI

The World Bank has urged developing countries to accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI), warning that those failing to embrace the technology risk falling further behind economically while missing opportunities to improve public services and productivity.

A frame obtained from a rendered design shows the planned headquarters of Uruk Company in Kirkuk, Iraq.

Iraq Launches Uruk Car Factory With Tesla and SpaceX Partnership

Iraq marked a milestone in its industrial history with the groundbreaking ceremony for the Uruk automobile manufacturing plant, the country’s first national car factory.

27/10/2025
Elon Musk's AI company is releasing a new version of its chatbot, Grok © Lionel BONAVENTURE / AFP

Elon Musk: Grok to Detect AI-Generated Videos and Trace Their Sources

Elon Musk announced that his artificial intelligence company, xAI, is developing a new feature for its chatbot Grok that will enable it to analyze online videos for AI-generated content and trace their origins across the web.

11/10/2025
Google took its next leap in artificial intelligence Wednesday with the launch of a project called Gemini that’s trained to think more like humans and behave in ways likely to intensify the debate about the technology’s potential promise and perils. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Iraq Partners with Google to Offer Free AI Tools to University Students

Iraq’s Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research has signed a strategic agreement with Google to provide its advanced Gemini Pro artificial intelligence suite free of charge to all university students across the country for one year.

09/10/2025
The TikTok logo is displayed outside the offices of the social media app's company offices in Culver City, California, on March 16, 2023. The US Supreme Court is to hear TikTok's appeal on January 10, 2025 of a law that would force its Chinese owner to sell the wildly popular online video-sharing platform or shut it down. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP)

ByteDance Expected to Hold Minority Stake as TikTok’s US Restructuring Advances

ByteDance will retain a larger-than-expected role in TikTok’s new US entity, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday, raising questions about whether the deal meets legal requirements to separate the Chinese parent company from the app’s US operations.

26/09/2025
The Oracle logo is displayed on a building at an Oracle campus on September 10, 2025 in Redwood Shores, California.    Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/AFP

Oracle Shares Surge on Reported $300B Cloud Deal With OpenAI

Oracle shares surged in after-hours trading on Wednesday following reports that the company has secured several multibillion-dollar contracts, including what could become one of the largest cloud computing deals in history.

11/09/2025

Apple Unveils iPhone 17 Lineup, Including Ultra-Thin ‘Air’ Model

Apple on Tuesday unveiled its latest flagship smartphones, the iPhone 17 family, headlined by the all-new iPhone Air, which the company says is the thinnest iPhone ever made.

09/09/2025