Global growth is projected at 3.0 percent for 2025 and 3.1 percent in 2026, an upward revision from the April 2025 World Economic Outlook. This reflects front-loading ahead of tariffs, lower effective ...

The world’s top artificial intelligence groups are stepping up their focus on so-called world models that can better understand human environments, in the search for new ways to achieve machine ...

While the near-term forecast is revised up modestly, global growth remains subdued, as the newly introduced policies slowly come into focus The global economy is adjusting to a landscape reshaped by ...

Mondo Duplantis broke the men’s pole vault world record for a 14th time to win a third consecutive World Outdoor Championship, extending a two-plus-year win streak. Duplantis, a Swede born and raised ...

Christians on TikTok are weighing in on the rapture. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: Kingdom Wealth/TikTok, Tilahun Desalegn/TikTok, romans.ten.9through11/TikTok) The rapture is here — that ...

Google is turning its vast public data trove into a goldmine for AI with the debut of the Data Commons Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server — enabling developers, data scientists, and AI agents to ...

The biggest workforce in the world has undergone an extraordinary transformation. China’s farm labourers and industrial proletariat have been joined by an army of gig workers. Tens of millions now use ...

The Trump Administration is advocating for the World Bank to increase its financing for oil and gas projects, a reversal of its previous policy to cease funding new fossil fuel ventures after 2019.

How do we think about the climate future, now that the era marked by the Paris Agreement has so utterly disappeared? Credit...Photo illustration by Lola Dupre Supported by By David Wallace-Wells Ten ...

President Donald Trump suggested he could move World Cup matches away from host cities he deems unsafe, while speaking from the oval office on Thursday, Sept. 25. Trump was asked by a reporter about ...

Pope Leo XIV is sounding the alarm over the growing wealth inequality between CEOs and workers. Pope Leo XIV is sounding the alarm over the growing wealth inequality between CEOs and workers—and he’s ...

Today’s AIs are book smart. Everything they know they learned from available language, images and videos. To evolve further, they have to get street smart. That requires “world models.” The key is ...